Mr Midshipman Hornblower

from the back cover: People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to lose. Why? And what is the mystery about the photographer, George Millace, who has just died in a car crash? Philip Nore knows the answer to the first question, and he wants to find…

The Moonspinners

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194791786

Collation

88p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 4

Call Number

STE

Doors to a Wider Place : Stories from Australia

from the back cover: 'When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets about the river, and the people of his blood . . .' But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of his blood are strong indeed . .…

Gulliver's Travels

from the back cover: 'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past an…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Graphic Revolve)

This series presents some of the best-known stories, retold in graphic novel format. Well-known villains and heroes take on new shape while staying true to their original authors.

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Graphic Revolve)

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the only defense against the forces of evil that threaten the kingdom of Camelot.

The Robber Bride

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780385491037

Collation

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Series Title

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Call Number

823 ATW T

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell's epic saga of love and war has long been heralded as The Great American Novel. Gone With the Wind explores the depths of human passions with indelible depictions of the burning fields and cities of Civil War and Reconstruction America. In the two main characters, the irresistible, tenacious Scarlett O'Hara and the formidable, debonair Rhett Butler, Margaret Mitchell gives us …

The Handmaid's Tale

Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but…

My Big, New Bed

Dad bought a new bed for me and Ted. "Let's see how many fit on," I said ...