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The Hunt for Dark Infinity
What if every choice you made created an alternate reality? In The Journal of Curious Letters, Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. Tick, is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day he receives a strange letter informing him that dangerous— perhaps even deadly—events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself. Tick will be sent twelve riddles that, when sol…
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- 9781416991533
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- 520p; bw; pbk
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- The 13th Reality
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- 823 DAS T
Go Tell It on The Mountain
" Mountain, " Baldwin said, " is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicl…
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- 9780141185910
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- 256p; bw; pbk
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- 823 BAL G
Stories From England
Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there's something here for everyone. Stories from England is a lively collection that brings to life the very best English traditional fairy-tales and stories. From Johnny Gloke the giant killer and the frog prince at…
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- 9780192728593
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- 194p; bw; hc
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- Oxford Children's Myths and Legends
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- 398.2 REE S
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resol…
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- 9780140449198
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- 224p; ill; bw; pbk
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- 892.1 GEO T
Stories to Solve
Each of these delightful folktales is a short puzzle to be solved through cleverness, common sense, or careful observation of details in the text. Turn the last page of each story to find the answer!
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- 9780440843962
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- 57p; col; ill; pbk
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- 398.2 SHA
The Mystery of Manor Hall
from the back cover: The Oxford Bookworms Library offers high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience, with a world wide range of classic and modern fiction, non-fiction and plays. Bookworms include original and adapted texts in seven carefully graded language stages (Starter to Stage 6), which take learners from beginner to advanced level.
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- 9780194785990
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- 40p; ill; col; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- CAM
The Unquiet Grave : Short Stories
from the back cover: If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again. …
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- 9780194791915
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- JAM
Washington Square
from the back cover: When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Cath…
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- 9780194791922
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- JAM
Silas Marner
from the back cover: In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. …
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- 9780194791847
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- ELI
A Death in the Family
Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life but also the d…
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- 9780141187969
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- 310p; bw; pbk
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- 823 AGE A
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