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Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings. Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of ...

Dorothy Lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the ...

William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty ...

Pinewood Academy is an expensive school in the most fashionable part of town - and scholarship kids like Liza and her friends Marco and Suki aren't always welcome there. There's a ...

'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to ...

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a ...

What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, ...

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they ...

They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace7 They said revolution; so why did he talkof friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body ...

Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place... a place wiht a csholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again ...

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night...isitadoorbanginginthewin$1, $2r a murdered man knocking ...

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and ...

COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED: A burning curiosity draws Rudolf Rassendyll, a young Englishman, to Ruritania to see the coronation of the new King. His distinctive red hair and long ...

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are ...

"The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES."The ...

So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilfu$1, $2nd fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, ...

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine ...

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts ...

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier ...

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of ...