Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.\nTitles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.\nThe eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers'' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.\nThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.\nHarold Fry lives a quiet, ordinary life in England. But when he gets a phone call and learns that his old friend Queenie Hennessey is dying, he decides to post her a letter to her home 500 miles away. As he walks to the post box, Harold begins to think about his past and his family. He decides on walking until he reaches Queenie.\nVisit the Penguin Readers website 
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Penguin Readers Level 5: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition

Children's Books

Rachel Joyce

Education & Reference

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Homemade God

Random House]

Bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Rachel Joyce presents her latest novel, exquisite and perfectly pitched, about a love story and a journey through music.\nIt's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across England. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. 
Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann--practical, brave, well-heeled. Frank falls for this curious woman who always dresses in green. But Ilse's reasons for visiting the shop are not what they seem. 
Frank's passion for Ilse seems as misguided as his determination to save vinyl. How can a man so in tune with other people's needs be so incapable of helping himself? And what will it take to show he loves her? 
The Music Shop is a story about good, ordinary people who take on forces too big for them. It's about falling in love and how hard it can be. And it's about music--how it can bring us together when we are divided and save us when all seems lost.

The Music Shop

Literature & Fiction

Literary

MISS BENSON'S BEETLE

Doubleday, Canada

Perfect A Novel

Random House Publishing Group

The Music Shop A Novel

Pub Date: 2014-03-27 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: Random House Publishing Group A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon. Louise Erdrich. and John Irving. Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky. difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences.Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that looks like any other: his school uniform draped over his wooden desk chair. his sister arguing over the breakfast cereal. the click of his mother &amp; rsquo;.. s heels as she crosses the kitchen But when the three of them leave home. driving into a dense summer fog. the morning takes an unmistakable turn In one terrible moment. something happens. something completely unexpected and at odds with life as . Byron understands it While his mother seems not to have noticed. eleven-year-old Byron understands that from no...

Perfect

When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.

Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Doubleday Books

BANTAM. TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS

Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of November 2020: Miss Benson’s Beetle finds two unlikely explorers forging a profound friendship while on the hunt for a rare insect. Joyce’s delightful blend of madcap and moving, with a little mystery thrown in for good measure, is another reminder that the journey is often more life-changing than the destination. —Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review

Miss Bensons Beetle

DOUBLEDAY

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