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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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- 9780194792547
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- 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
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- 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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- 9780194792554
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 6
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- 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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- 9780194792653
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- 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
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- Oxford Bookworms 6
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- 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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- 9780194792639
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Boookworms stage 6
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- TAN
A Passage to India
from the back cover: A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forsters great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is about something wid…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792714
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- FOR
Tess of the d'Ubervilles
from the back cover: A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stai…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792684
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- HAR
Vanity Fair
from the back cover: When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortu…
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- 9780194792691
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- THA
Oliver Twist
from the back cover: London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792660
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
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- DIC
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