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Crime Never Pays
from the back cover: Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the ch…
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- 9780194226936
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- 144p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Collection
- Call Number
- CHR
Deadlock
from the back cover: V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792219
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- PAR
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
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- DIC
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
- Collation
- 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
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- FIT
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
- Call Number
- AUS
Wuthering Heights
from the back cover: The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792349
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- BRO
The White Stones
from the back cover: 'The people on this island don't like archaeologists,' the woman on the ferry says. You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic stones but very soon strange things begin to happen to you. Can you solve the mystery in time?
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194234313
- Collation
- 40p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Starter
- Call Number
- VAU
Survive!
from the back cover: You are in a small plane, going across the Rocky Mountains. Suddenly, the engine starts to make strange noises . . . Soon you are alone, in the snow, at the top of a mountain, and it is very, very cold. Can you find your way out of the mountain?
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- ISBN/ISSN
- SBY02068B
- Collation
- 40p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- -
Last Chance
from the back cover: 'How can Mr Frank be angry now?' thinks Mike happily. His film is good and he is the only cameraman on the volcano. Now he can go home. But then he finds Jenny and she is dying. Rocks start to move and Mike is afraid. Can they get off the volcano alive? And what happens to Mike's camera and film?
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194234368
- Collation
- 40p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Starter
- Call Number
- BUR
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