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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
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- 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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- 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
- Call Number
- 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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- 9780194792530
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- ESC
Cold Comfort Farm
from the back cover: The farm lies in the shadow of a hill, and the farmyard rarely sees the sun, even in summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy in the branches. Here live the Starkadders - Aunt Ada Doom, Judith, Amos, Seth, Reuben, Elfine... They lead messy, untidy lives, full of dark thoughts, moody silences, and sudden noisy quarrels. That is, until their attractive young cousin arrives from…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792554
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 6
- Call Number
- GIB
Night Without End
from the back cover: On the Polar ice-cap, 640 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky - they are rescued by three scientists from a nearby weather station. But why did the airliner crash in the first place? Who smashed the radio to pieces? And why does the dead pilot have a bullet ho…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792653
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- MAC
Oxford Bookworms 6: Gazing at Stars : Stories from Asia
from the back cover: Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories from China, Malaysia, Singapore, and India, are by writers Liu Hong, Attia Hosain, Preeta Samarasan, Hwee Hwee Tan, Ridjal Noor, Shashi Deshpande, Ovidia Yu, Nora Adam, Nirupama Subramanian, and Catherine Lim. [word count 28,539]
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- 9780194794206
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 6
- Call Number
- WES
The Joy Luck Club
from the back cover: There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutio…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792639
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Boookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- TAN
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