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Border Rosemary

    January 1, 1943
    The Bride Price
    Recycling
    Mr Midshipman Hornblower
    Oxford Bookworms - 2: Pollution
    Oxford Progressive English Readers - 2: The Mill on the Floss
    Under the Ground
    • 'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.

      The Fifteenth Character2016
    • How much rubbish do you throw away in a year? It could be more than atonne or less than a hundred kilograms, but it's still too much. The Earth isdisappearing under a mountain of rubbish - often poisonous - yet, as this bookshows, much of this rubbish could be recycled. Recycling can save energy,materials and money - it may also save the Earth.

      Recycling2009
      3.8
    • This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

      Oxford Bookworms Library: Starter Level: Drive Into Danger2000
      3.2
    • The Bride Price

      • 95 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 5 is 1800 words. A story from an African writer.

      The Bride Price2000
      3.8
    • Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      The Oxford Bookworms Library offers new editions of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one. The new editions build on the original series and provide enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information.

      Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories2000
      3.3
    • The Lottery Winner

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away . . .

      The Lottery Winner2000
      3.6
    • A shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy as a midshipman on board H.M.S. Justinian. In action, adventure and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.

      Mr Midshipman Hornblower2000
      4.1
    • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory, in a controlled-vocabulary adaptation of Stevenson's classic tale.

      Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde2000
      3.9
    • Oxford Bookworms - 2: Pollution

      • 24 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      This full-color series presents nonfiction topics about interesting places and subjects. Each title features color photographs and a glossary to help with vocabulary comprehension. Exercises and suggestions for project work are also included. The books are graded at 400-to 1,400-word vocabulary levels. Audio "CDs or "Cassettes are available for select titles.

      Oxford Bookworms - 2: Pollution1998
      3.8
    • Under the Ground

      • 22 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      Factfiles are a sub-series of Bookworms with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students on a wide variety of themes. Exercises at the back of each book check student's understanding of the text and provide ideas for activities and project work.

      Under the Ground1996
      4.1
    • Tooth and Claw : Short Stories

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      A collection of short stories about Conradian, a ten-year-old who hates his aunt, and who keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed.

      Tooth and Claw : Short Stories1995
      3.5
    • The Piano

      • 48 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Recorded at slower reading speed; level 5/90 wpm. Suitable for people with learning disabilities and ESL learners.

      The Piano1995
      3.8
    • Ghost Stories

      • 95 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Controlled vocab. suitable for Adult Literacy and ESL Learners.

      Ghost Stories1994
      3.2
    • Love Story

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . . Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon. One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything.

      Love Story1990
      3.7
    • The story of Mary's shopping trip.

      Sam's Ball1984
      3.5
    • Oxford Progressive English Readers

      Introductory Grade

      • 61 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

      Oxford Progressive English Readers1982
    • Emily Bronte's classic is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors, where the drama of Catherine and Heathcliff, Heathcliff's cruel revenge against Edgar and Isabella Linton, and the promise of redemption through the next generation, is enacted.

      Oxford Progressive English Readers - 3: You Only Live Twice1978