Elementary

Tom is given a lift in a car by a middle-aged man and an attractive young girl. The man says he needs someone small and strong to recover his property from a sunken ship. Tom is attracted to the girl and the glamour of the job - diving for lost diamonds. But one man has already died trying to get the small plastic bags out of the cramped hold of the sunken ship.

Larry applies for a job as a cook on an expedition to search the mountains of northern Afghanistan for the legendary and fearsom Toruk. At the interview, Larry has nagging doubts. But he loves mountains and he needs a job.

A dashing romantic story set in California in the previous century. This classic adventure comedy founded a whole genre of its own. Short stories, feature films, highly popular television series and animated cartoons have resulted, all featuring the people's hero with the flashing sword Zorro! Don Diego Vega is pressed by his father Don Alejandro Vega, to court the eligible daughter of one of the oldest noble families in California. Once rich and powerful, Don Carlos Pulido has become impoverished; unjustly accused of dishonesty by the tyrannical provincial governor who is oppressing the people of the region.

White Fang is a wolf from the mountains of Canada. His life is hard but he is happy in his world. Then he is taken to the world of men. There he learns to fight and to kill. White Fang knows nothing about love. But one day he meets Scott… Classic American English

One day, Farmer Hogget wins a young pig. He likes the pig, but he is a sheep farmer not a pig farmer. Mrs Hogget wants the pig for the dinner table. The little pig has other ideas, and he’s a very clever pig ...

Young Eric Kirby is in Jurassic Park with live, dangerous dinosaurs. His parents want to get him out—but how? Dr. Alan Grant knows about dinosaurs. He also knows that he doesn’t want to visit Jurassic Park again!

The stories in this book are exciting and sometimes very strange. Some are sad and some are happy. We meet many interesting people – a young man in love, a lonely customer in a shop, a shy soldier. Strange things happen to all these people. But life is strange sometimes.