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The Eyes of Montezuma
Shelley Marn is a Californian student on holiday in Europe. She meets a young English couple, Clare and Nick Herman. The Hermans ask Shelley to have lunch with them. Shelley agrees, but strangely, she never arrives. Why? What has happened?'
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- 9780194219358
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- 23p; ill; col; pbk
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- Oxford Storylines level 2
- Call Number
- 823 RAB T
Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived -- a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
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- 9780393307009
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- 347p; bw; pbk
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- 560.9 GOU W
The Hound of The Baskervilles
Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Wi…
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- 9780141034324
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- 213p; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Sherlock Holmes
- Call Number
- 823 DOY T
Christopher Columbus (Step into Reading, Step 3, Grades 1-3) Paperback
Illus. in full color. Youngsters can celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's fateful voyage with this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in American history. "
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- 9780679803690
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- 920 KRE
Crime Never Pays
from the back cover: Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the ch…
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- 9780194226936
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- 144p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Collection
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- CHR
Goose on the Loose
Usborne Phonics Readers have been created in consultation with a language expert, taking into account the latest research on the most effective ways of teaching reading. Children who have just learned to read can enjoy the lively stories with very little guidance from an adult, gaining experience and enthusiasm they need to become fully confident readers.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978074607720-7
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- 16p; col; ill; pbk
- Series Title
- Usborne Phonics Readers
- Call Number
- COX
Sam Sheep can't Sleep
Usborne Phonics Readers have been created in consultation with a language expert, taking into account the latest research on the most effective ways of teaching reading. Children who have just learned to read can enjoy the lively stories with very little guidance from an adult, gaining the experience and enthusiasm they need to become fully confident readers.
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- 9780746077269
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- 16p; coll; ill; pbk
- Series Title
- Usborne Phonic Readers
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- COX
The Hound of Baskervilles
from the back cover: Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest det…
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- 9780194791748
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- -
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- DOY
Sherlock Holmes : Two Plays
from the back cover: Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber, John Clay, says to him, 'You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You're very clever.' People come to him with problems that no one, not even the police, can solve. Holmes sits, and thinks, and smokes his pipe, and in the end he finds the answer. In these plays, bas…
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- 9780194235037
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 1
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- DOY
Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings
from the back cover: Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, and someone kills his t…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194789202
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 1
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- DOY
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