Books with author Fleming

In the first James Bond novel, 007 takes on Le Chiffre, a French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH, as the suave agent becomes involved in a high-stakes game of baccarat, enjoys a fiery love affair with a sexy female spy, and endures torture at the hands of a master sadist. Reissue. (A Sony Pictures film, written by Neal Purvis, directed by Martin Campbell, releasing November 2006, starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green, & Giancarlo Giannini) (Suspense)

This Level B little reader is designed to support children at the emergent stage of literacy, and features the following characteristics:• One to two lines of text per page• High-support illustrations with close text-to-picture match• Repeated and recognizable high-frequency words• Punctuation conventions such as quotation marks in dialogue• Consistent text placement on the page, with slight variations such as speech bubbles• Familiar story themes that build on children’s experience

When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building.Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both strange and fascinating. In the penthouse lives Joff Vanderlinden, the famous skateboarding fantasy writer, who happens to be blind. On the ninth floor are Doris and Jonathan, a retired couple trying to adapt to a new lifestyle after Jonathan’s stroke. Kenneth P. Gill, on the tenth, loves opera and tends to burble on nervously about his two hamsters ― or are they guinea pigs? Then there’s Kid’s own high-maintenance mother, Lisa, who is rehearsing for an Off Broadway play and is sure it will be the world’s biggest flop.Then Kid meets Will, whose parents died in the Twin Towers. And when she learns that the goat will bring good luck to whoever sees it, suddenly it becomes very important to know whether the goat on the roof is real.

This Level C little reader is designed to support children at the emergent stage of literacy, and features the following characteristics:• One to two lines of text per page• High-support illustrations with close text-to-picture match• Repeated and recognizable high-frequency words• Punctuation conventions such as quotation marks in dialogue• Consistent text placement on the page, with slight variations such as speech bubbles• Familiar story themes that build on children’s experience

[Read by David Tennant] [*This audiobook includes an exclusive bonus interview with David Tennant.] Pulled back into the game by a thrilling lead, Bond must go undercover to stop a sinister plot. In his Alpine base, Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger, James Bond is about to marry Teresa di Vicenzo, the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerland. Bond's marriage and Blofeld's schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire and high-explosives from which neither man emerges the victor.

Go buggy with adjectives! This zany assortment of sticky, icky, speedy, greedy, outrageous, and contagious insects is sure to help everyone understand this all-important part of speech!This super-funny Grammar Tales story focuses on adjectives, and is designed to help kids grasp the essential rules of usage and mechanics. Who says grammar is no laughing manner?

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call “cutlets”, and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion." Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …

James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.