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The moonstone
A fabulous gem is looted from a sacred Hindu shrine furing the siege of an Indian city. With his dying breath one of the shrine's guardians tells colonel John Herncastle that the Moonstone will have its revenge. Fifty years later, Herncastle bewuaths the diamond to his niece, Rachel Verinder, as an eighteenth-birthday gift. An act of generosity? or merely trying stansfer the curse ? Racher rece…
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- 978-1-908533-83-8
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- 602 hal.; 18 cm.
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- 823 Col m
Silas Marner
After being wrongly branded a thief, Silas Marner loses both his fiancee and his faith. Driven from religious community where his reputation is so besmirched, the embittered Silas settles in Raveloe, where he leads a reclusive life as a weaver. For fifteen years he contents himself with toiling tirelessly at his loom. His deadlings with the folk of Raveloe are purely mercantile; his sole ple…
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- 978-1-908533-72-2
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- 224 hal.; 18 cm.
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- 823 Eli s
The ambassadors
Lambert Strether undertakes a seemingly straightfoward ambassadorial task on behalf of his wealthy fiancee and benefactress Mrs. Newsome : to go to Europe and exhort her long-absent son Chad to return home to Woollett, Massachisetts, where he is neede in the damily business. It is a mission of salvation, for Chad appears to have fallen prey to a "Wicked Women". Stether's own fortunes are inextr…
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- 978-1-908533-69-2
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- 482 hal.: 18 cm.
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- 823 Jam a
Captain Underpants and The : Big, Bad Battle of The Bionic Booger Boy Part 2
Just when they thought they were out, it pulls them back in! Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy, but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that will take them into the deepest regions of outer space and back through time to the mysterious and uncharted world of the day before yesterday! It's …
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- cet. 1
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- 0-439-37612-2
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- 170 hal.; ilus.; 19 cm.
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- 823 Pil b
LIttle Men & Jo's Boys
Two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequel to Little Women, one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives. In Little Men, Louisa May Alcoot takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable…
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- 978-1-84022-176-3
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- 511 hal.; 19.7 cm.
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- Wordsworth Classic
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- 823 Alc l
The secret garden
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and beffiends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children …
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- 978-1-85326-104-6
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- 221 hal.; 19.7 cm.
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- Wordsworth classic
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- 823 Bur s
Pinocchio
Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away to join a puppet show, he teams up with a rascally fox and wily cat, and plays truant from school which has dreadful consequences. Eventually the consequences of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy res…
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- 978-1-85326-160-2
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- 192 hal.; 20 cm.
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- Wordsworth Classics
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- 823 Col p
What Katy did at school & what Katy did next
What Katy did at school and what Katy did next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in what Katy did. What Katy did at school is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the new England girls' boarding school which Katy Attends. Her trials, adventures and scrapes are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gen…
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- 978-1-84022-437-5
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- 341 hal.; 19.7 cm.
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- Wordsworth Classics
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- 823 Coo w
Captain Underpants and The : Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman
George and Harold have really done it this time... they've created a MONSTER! She's faster, smarter, and more evil than anything the world has seen before - she's Welgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her horrendous hairdo, Wedgie Woman is on a mission to take over the world, and she'll give a whopping wedgie to anyone who stands in her way - including Captain Underpants. Will …
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- cet. 1
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- 0-439-05000-6
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- 165 hal.; ilus.; 19 cm.
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- 823 Pil w
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas, three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham's superb line drawings.
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- 978-1-85326-121-3
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- 95 hal.; 20 cm.
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- Wordsworth Classics
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- 823 Dic c
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