A Day with Baby : Activity book

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194401395

Collation

18p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers level Starter

Call Number

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Mr. Popper's Penguin

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Holes

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The Dragon of Lonely Island

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The Best School Year Ever

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The Westing Game

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The Secret Speech

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. It leaves behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. The two young girls he and hi…

The Infidel

When Islamic militants infiltrate an elite British counter-narcotics programme, disaster is averted thanks to SAS veterans John Patterson and Dusty Miller. But when fallout from the affair threatens to topple the West's fragile Afghan alliance and expose failings inside the UK's new crime fighting agency, John and Dusty suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Alone and on the ru…

The Snake

It took Mike Hammer seven years to find out that Velda, the girl he loved, was still alive. They came together in passion, but it wasn't long before Mike discovered that being with Velda still meant danger. Velda had offered protection to a girl who was convinced she was to be killed. Mike Hammer had to shoot and fight his way out of many desperate situations before he was able to solve the …

Red Leech

Only Sherlock 14 can identify thugs who kidnapped his pal Matthew Arnatt and guard John Wilkes Booth, crazy after face half burned off. Duke Balthassar wants Lincoln assassin for figurehead to rally Confederation troops against Union. Somehow his tutor is involved. What is the truth?