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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
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- 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
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- 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
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- 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
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- 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
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- ASI
The Dead of Jericho
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792202
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- DEX
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
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- MCB
The Garden Party and Other Stories
from the back cover: oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if you are a child from the wrong social class. . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zea…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792240
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- MAN
Sense and Sensibility
from the back cover: Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792332
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- AUS
This Rough Magic
from the back cover: the Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks? But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring's holiday is far from peaceful. She meets a rude young man, who seems to have something to hide. Then there …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792325
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- STE
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