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The Lottery Winner
from the back cover: Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buy…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194789073
- Collation
- 56p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms level 1
- Call Number
- BOR
The Bride Price
from the back cover: When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. Th…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792189
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- EME
Ghost Stories
from the back cover: After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the hou…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792257
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- BOR
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
from the back cover: You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791700
- Collation
- 88p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
- Call Number
- STE
The Fifteenth Character
from the back cover: 'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- SBY01926B
- Collation
- 72p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- BOR
Go, Lovely Rose and other stories
from the back cover: A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting . . . In these three short stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791182
- Collation
- 72p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 3
- Call Number
- BAT
Oxford Bookworms 1 (5440 words) The Wizard of Oz
from the back cover: Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald city,…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194789264
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 1
- Call Number
- BAU
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