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The Accidental Tourist
from the back cover: Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors . . . After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business peopl…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792158
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- TYL
The Bride Price
from the back cover: When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. Th…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792189
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- EME
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
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- WES
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
from the back cover: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792226
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- DIC
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
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- BOR
Far from the Madding Crowd
from the back cover: Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792233
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- HAR
The Great Gatsby
from the back cover: Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby,…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194786171
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- FIT
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
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- JHA
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
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- ASI
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
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