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.<...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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