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The Fly and Other Horror Series
from the back cover: Flies are a nuisance. They are annoying when they buzz around you, but you can brush them away with your hand. After all, a fly is only about half the size of your fingernail. But suppose it wasn't. Catch a fly and look at it closely - look at its head, its eyes, its legs. Now imagine that this thing was the size of a human being . . . These eight stories offer horror in m…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792615
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms: stage 6
- Call Number
- ESC
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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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194226936
- Collation
- 144p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Collection
- Call Number
- CHR
Star Reporter
from the back cover: 'There's a new girl in town,' says Joe, and soon Steve is out looking for her. Marietta is easy to find in a small town, but every time he sees her something goes wrong . . . and his day goes from bad to worse.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194234177
- Collation
- 40p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Starter
- Call Number
- ESC
A Morbid Taste for Bones
from the back cover: Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer. When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And ther…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791793
- Collation
- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
- Call Number
- PET
The Silver Sword
from the back cover: Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. 'This will bring me luck,' he said to Mr Balicki. 'And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me.' The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold, and afraid, the four children try to stay alive among the ruins of bombed cities in war-torn Europe. Soon they will be…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791854
- Collation
- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
- Call Number
- SER
The Songs from Distant Earth
from the back cover: 'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa ...' And with the starship comes knowle…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791861
- Collation
- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
- Call Number
- CLA
The Thirty-Nine Steps
from the back cover: 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerou…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791885
- Collation
- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
- Call Number
- BUC
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
from the back cover: The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else's boat, drifting out to sea in a thick fog. When the fog lifts, they can turn round and sail back to the harbour. But then comes the wind and the storm, driving them out even further a…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791939
- Collation
- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
- Call Number
- RAN
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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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791748
- Collation
- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- DOY
The 39 Steps
Richard Hannay’s boredom with London society is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer from South Africa is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. When a neighbor is killed in his flat, Richard, suspected, decodes the journal, runs to the wilds of his native Scotland in disguises and local dialects, evades Germans and officials.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780099528395
- Collation
- 253p; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 BUC T
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