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By:
Richard Wright
Black Boy
Mississippi, 1920.
The life of a black boy.
Setting fire to the family home.
Being forced to drink whisky at the age of 5.
Having an uncle shot dead.<... Read more
By:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Captain Peter Carey, called Black Peter because of his
coarseness and his looks, is found with a harpoon spear through his
body. Sherlock Holmes finds the murderer. A red-haired man comes to
visit... Read more
By:
Stephen Speight
The setting: the beautiful Scandinavian coast.
The plot: a serial killer of men on their boats.
What is the pattern which links the victims?
The police investigate in a race a... Read more
By:
R.L. Stine
Brady has met beautiful Rosha Nelson, the girl of his dreams.
She is the perfect date... until things start to go wrong.
Horribly, horribly wrong...
"You're making a big mistake," Jon said,... Read more
By:
Lois Duncan
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are
involved in a hit-and-run accident. They dispose of the body, but a
year later somebody starts sending them letters, saying: 'I ... Read more
By:
Lois Duncan
The man on the ground did not move. David turned the light away
from the man's face. "He's not asleep," he said. "He's dead!"
Susan felt so lucky to be together with David - the most p... Read more
By:
Brian Moore
For Michael Dillon it is time to get away to live peacefully in
England with the woman he loves. Unwillingly, he is caught up in
the troubled politics of Northern Ireland, facing a moral dilemma
w... Read more
By:
Pat Lowe
The Girl with No Name
Matthew had heard that there were Aboriginal rock paintings
somewhere in Goanna Georg, and he was determined to search for
them. 'It's an adventure,' he had told his p... Read more
By:
Oscar Wilde
The statue of the Happy Prince stands on the town square of a
poor town. The Happy Prince asks a swallow to take the ruby from
his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the golden leaf covering
h... Read more
By:
S.E. Hinton
The rich boys, called the Socs, are fighting the poor boys, the
greasers. As greasers, Ponyboy and his brothers always have to
watch their step. Luckily they can count on their friends Dally,
Two-... Read more
By:
Ira Levin
The authors of Rosemary's Baby tells the story of Joanna, who
moves to the small town of Stepford with her family. The men in the
town have their own club - quite soon Joanna is aware of the fact
... Read more
By:
Roald Dahl
Four of Dahl's celebrated short stories appear in this volume,
all of them extremely gripping and with the usual unexpected twist
at the end.
"Man from the South" takes us to Jamaica. Some ... Read more
By:
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome and his two friends, George and Harris, decide that a
boat trip up the River Thames would suit them perfectly. But what
does not suit them perfectly are all the troubles with tow-ropes,
unr... Read more
By:
James Herriot
The daily life of a young veterinary surgeon starting his career
among the farmers of Yorkshire in 1937.
This doctor looks with a critical eye at his animal patients, at
the humans wh... Read more
By:
Lois Duncan
From the moment Nore Robbins arrives in Louisiana, she feels
like she has just stepped into a new world. The weather in the
South is too hot, the people speak with unfamiliar accents, and
even the... Read more
By:
Colin Higgins
Harold Chasen is a teenager who lives alone with his
mother
in a comfortable house in the USA. They are well off, but while
his mother goes out a lot, Harold's life is strangely empty. Apar... Read more
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