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Five children and it
Five Children and It tells the story of five siblings who discover a mysterious sand fairy—known as the Psammead—while exploring the countryside during their summer holiday. The creature has the power to grant one wish each day, but the wishes often lead to unexpected and troublesome consequences. Through humorous and imaginative episodes, the novel explores themes of responsibility, conseq…
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- 9786020683218
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- 224 p. ; 18 cm.
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- The Psammead Trilogy ; 1
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- SS F NES f
Much ado about nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that explores the themes of love, deception, and misunderstandings. The story centers around two pairs of lovers: Claudio and Hero, whose relationship is marred by a villainous plot to ruin their marriage, and Beatrice and Benedick, who engage in witty banter and resist falling in love with each other despite clear attraction. Thro…
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- 9780460875158
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- 258 p. ; 20 cm.
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- SS 822.33 SHA m
The war of the worlds
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflist between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and od…
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- 9781543034080
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- 113 p. ; 25 cm.
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- SS F WEL w
The adventures of huckleberry finn
Hiding from his drunken, tyrannical father, wild boy Huckleberry Finn escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together, they hope to escape 'sivilization' by sailing a raft down the Mississippi in a last bid for freedom.
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- 9780140620641
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- 281 p. ; 18 cm.
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- SS F TWA a
Adventures of huckleberry finn
The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. …
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- 9780143107323
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- xlvi, 345 p. : map ; 20 cm.
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- Penguin classics
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- SS F TWA a
The idiot
Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction
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- 9781847493439
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- 689 p. ; 20 cm.
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- SS F DOS i
The valley of fear
The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel, in which Holmes and his assistant Watson finally begin to understand the threat arch-nemesis Moriarty presents. When Holmes receives a tip-off from within Moriarty's circle that a man is in danger, he and Watson rush to the victim's house. They are too late. Yet certain suspicious circumstances around the death suggest that there is a greate…
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- 9780241423578
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- 230 p. ; 20 cm.
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- Sherlock holmes
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- SS F DOY v
The hound of the baskervilles: a sherlock holmes adventure
Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamois Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they inversitgae the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors. The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for ge…
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- 9780007368570
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- 176 p. ; 18 cm.
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- Collins Classics
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- SS F DOY h
A tale of two cities
It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens?s most exciting books?a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events…
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- 9780679729655
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- 400 p. ; 13 cm
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- Vintage classics
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- SS F DIC t
Oliver twist
Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.
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- 9780141439747
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- 553 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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- Penguin classics
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- SS F DIC o
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