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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6 American Crime Stories Audio CD Pack
Retold John Escott
STAGE 6 - Crime & Mystery
'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 seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Starter New York Café
Michael Dean
STARTER - Fantasy & Horror
It is the year 2030, and an email message arrives at New York Café: 'I want to help people and make them happy!'
But not everybody is happy about the email, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Café.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Goodbye, Mr Hollywood Audio CD Pack
John Escott
STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure
Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café 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.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Ned Kelly: A True Story
Christine Lindop
STAGE 1 - True Stories
When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor.
Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Anne of Green Gables Audio CD Pack
L.M. Montgomery
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 2 - Human Interest
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.
They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.
But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Tales of Mystery and Imagination Audio CD Pack
Edgar Allan Poe
Retold by Margaret Naudi
STAGE 3 - Fantasy & Horror
The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round?
These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6 American Crime Stories
Retold by John Escott
STAGE 6 - Crime & Mystery
'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 seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Starter Give us the Money
Maeve Clarke
STARTER - Crime & Mystery
'Every day is the same. Nothing exciting ever happens to me,' thinks Adam one boring Monday morning.
But today is not the same. When he helps a beautiful young woman because some men want to take her bag, life gets exciting and very, very dangerous.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Goodbye, Mr Hollywood
John Escott
STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure
Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café 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.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 2 - Human Interest
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.
They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.
But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . .
Useful and free
