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Land of My Childhood
from the back cover: My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri L…
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- 9780194792356
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- WES
Lorna Doone
from the back cover: One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years t…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791779
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- BLA
Oxford Bookworms level 4: Three Men in Boat
from the back cover: 'I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791892
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms level 4
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- JER
A Dubious Legacy
from the back cover: In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791717
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- WES
Reflex
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…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791823
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- FRA
The Price of Peace : Stories from Africa
from the back cover: Careful, Connie, please. Your little sister's eyes are looking angry. Look at the sudden lines around her mouth, Connie, a sister is a good thing. Even a younger sister. 'Mercy, who are you going out with?' Connie gets an answer to her question, but it is not the answer she wants to hear. And what is the price of peace between sisters?
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- 9780194791984
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- LIN
Great Expectations
from the back cover: In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792264
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- WES
Heat and Dust
from the back cover: Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years,…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792271
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- JHA
Oxford Bookworms 5 : The Riddle of the Sands
When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret - a secret that could m…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792318
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- 104p; ill; col; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 5
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- CHI
David Copperfield
from the back cover: 'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up, he lear…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792196
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 3
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- DIC
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