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Dominoes Three The Moonstone Pack
Wilkie Collins
Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson
The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder's house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings bad luck with it.
How many people will the Moonstone hurt? How many must die before the diamond's revenge is complete?
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Dominoes Two A Close Shave Pack
Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit?
Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong.
Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?
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Dominoes Two Eight Great American Tales Pack
O. Henry
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think.
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Dominoes Two Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Pack
Oscar Wilde
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations.
Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar - but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman - but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street?
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Dominoes Two Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery Pack
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Jeremy Page
'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes.
'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'
Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous?
Life, for Holmes,
suddenly starts to get interesting.
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Dominoes Two The Turn of the Screw Pack
Henry James
Text adaptation by Christine Lindop
A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?
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Dominoes One Deep Trouble Pack
Lesley Thompson
Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams. They want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes.
But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.
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Dominoes One From the Heart Pack
Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that her father isn't going to like it.
Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And can they find true happiness together?
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Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond Pack
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
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Dominoes One The Curse of the Mummy Pack
Joyce Hannam
For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.
But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's
long-dead wife?
