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King's Ransom
from the back cover: 'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instea…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792301
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- MCB
I, Robot : Short Stories
from the book cover: A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792288
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- ASI
Ghost Stories
from the back cover: After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the hou…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792257
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- BOR
The Dead of Jericho
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792202
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- DEX
Deadheads
from the back cover: An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792578
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- KER
Dublin People : Short Stories
from the back cover: A young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy country girl . . . Gerry Moore is a man with a problem - alcohol. He knows he must give it up, and his family and friends watch nervously as he battles against it. But drink is a ha…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792592
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Bookworms stage 6
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- BIN
Cry Freedom
from the back cover: They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792561
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 6
- Call Number
- BRI
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
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- ESC
Barchester Towers
from the back cover: Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792547
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- TRO
American Crime Stories
from the back cover: 'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792530
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- ESC
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