What Did You Do Yesterday?

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194401005

Collation

26p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers level 3

Call Number

MAR

Down and Out in Paris and London

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinary echelon as dishwasher, or plongeur. In London…

Lost!

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780194400930

Collation

26p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Dolphin Readers level 2

Call Number

MAR

A Corner of The Universe

Hattie Owen has never really thought about the world outside her small town. Her family's boarding house is where she feels most at home, with its eccentric tenants and predictable routines. But there are secrets in Hattie's family, and the biggest one is her young uncle Adam. Hattie doesn't even know he exists until he shows up in her town, right when she's about to turn twelve. Suddenly the p…

Cogan's Trade

Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the “best” from “the Balzac of the Boston underworld.” Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston’s precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction h…

Horrible Histories : Smashing Saxons

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781407104188

Collation

139p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Horrible Histories

Call Number

900 DEA H

Horrible Histories : Incredible Incas

The book is started by making a justification on their cruel journey to the Incas people

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…

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!

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. …