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Oxford: Dead Man’s Island (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90Mr. Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens – and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.
ISBN: 9780194232753
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Oxford: Robinson Crusoe (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90‘I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully…It was a footprint the footprint of a man!’ In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend or an enemy?
ISBN: 9780194232876
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Oxford: New Yorkers – Short Stories (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry’s famous short stories sensitive, funny, sympathetic give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.
ISBN: 9780194232838
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Oxford: Goodbye Mr Hollywood (Special Audio CD) Level 1
$17.90Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She’s young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick ‘Mr Hollywood’? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table the man with short white hair? Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later in a police station on Vancouver Island.
ISBN: 9780194232579
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Oxford: Huckleberry Finn (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that’s for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there’s 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim…
ISBN: 9780194232814
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Oxford: The Death of Karen Silkwood (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn’t she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but there are no answers. This is a true story. It happened in Oklahoma, USA, where Karen Silkwood lived and worked…and died.
ISBN: 9780194232777
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Oxford: Love or Money? (Special Audio CD) Level 1
$17.90It is Molly Clarkson’s fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can’t wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.
ISBN: 9780194232616
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Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
$28.00The dialectic of Top Girls is wide-ranging, covering universal dilemmas facing women, but focuses on major themes of contemporary life. The critique of feminist ambitions is a clear central theme and Churchill’s selection of women from the past and modern world shows sympathy for the feminist cause and disdain for the male oppressor, but there is no sentimentality an no comfortable solution is offered for their problems.
ISBN: 9780413554802
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Oxford: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Level 3
$6.90It was midnight. Tom and his friend Huck Finn were hiding in a dark graveyard, near the grave of the wicked Horse Williams. They were waiting to see if devils would come to take his body away. It was awfully quiet. Suddenly Tom pulled Huck’s arm. He had heard voices, and through the trees they saw a light. Someone was coming towards them …The three men were not devils, but what Tom and Huck saw that night filled them with horror, and led to many more adventures. These, plus running away from home; camping out as pirates on an island in the Mississippi; going to their own funeral; looking for treasure; and getting lost in a deep, dark cave, are all part of the exciting and amusing story of Tom Sawyer and his friends.
ISBN: 9780195971422
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Oxford: David Copperfield Level 3
$6.90Young David Copperfield’s life starts to go wrong when his mother marries the cruel Mr Murdstone. David is sent to school, where the headmaster, Mr Creakle, hits him whenever he can. Poor David is only happy when he is visiting the strange boat-house home of his nurse, Peggotty, and her family. When he runs away from school to find his aunt Betsy Trotwood, however, things begin to get better. Find out what happens to David as he grows up, and how the friends – and enemies – of his unhappy childhood affect his fortunes in later life.
ISBN: 9780195971408
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Oxford: Gulliver’s Travels A Voyage to Lilliput
$6.90Gulliver’s ship is lost in a storm, and he has to swim to save his life. After many hours, he reaches land. He lies down on the shore, and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he can’t get up. He is tied to the ground. His hair is tied down too, so he can’t move his head. He feels something walking along his body. There, standing on his chest, is a man. He is no more than six inches tall! This is how Gulliver begins his life in Lilliput – a country where everything is one tenth of its normal size. To the people who live there, Gulliver looks like a dangerous giant, but the Emperor bravely decides to speak to him.
ISBN: 9780195971361
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298s: Rules Rule
$10.90I thought being a rule monitor would be great. But you have no idea how much trouble it got me into. Jason Hooper
ISBN: 9780170113489
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