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Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In these three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, people are not always as they seem.

American English

Clay Carter has worked in the Office of the Public Defender for years and for low pay when he has to defend another murderer. But the murders are not what they seem. Soon Clay has the opportunityto make money and a reputation as he battles with large pharmaceutical companies.Will he become the King of Torts?

American English

On a visit to the fashionable city of Bath, 17-yeras-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement that she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she also experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination?

When a Chinese politician is assassinated in Hong Kong, Jason Bourne's name is found at the scene. The killer has returned! Who is paying him and who will he kill next? But American officials know that there never was an assassian called Jason Bourne. So who is is the impostor? How can he be stopped?

American English

When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests that she needs a murder to solve.Then there is a death in the village. It is murder? Did the right person die? Suddenly, Jane Merple has a new interest in life. And then there are more deaths...

British English

While John Wood was working for Microsoft, he went on vacation to Nepal. There, in a small mountain village, he visited a school library which had very few books. The shock of this experience changed his life. Now his charity, Room to Read, has built more thgan 10,000 libraries and schools to give children in poor countries a better future.

American English

Wiiliam Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people don't like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Austrians? Or is he a man of peace?

British English

Ben has a job in Mr. Tyson´s store. Then Mr.Tyson finds money in Ben´s bag. ''Get out of my store!'' Mr Tyson says. But is Ben the thief? There is an earthquake in the city - and Mr. Tyson gets his answers.

American English

Adventure

Four true, breathtaking stories of adventure and courage which take us across the ocean, the ice of the Antarctic, the sky and the desert.
‘Lost at Sea’ tells the adventures of a family sailing round the world and their battle to survive in the ocean after a shipwreck.
In ‘The Impossible Journey’ we follow Sir Ernest Shackleton as he and his men make their way on foot towards the South Pole.
The brave young woman in ‘Amy Johnson, Woman Pioneer’ attempts a heroic solo flight from England to Australia.
In ‘David Livingstone’s Last African Expedition’ we meet the great explorer on his last expedition to find the source of Africa’s longest river, the Nile.

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Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen

Mystery and horror

Three authors reveal the obscure corners of the occult. In LeFanu's Dickon the Devil the narrator discovers that the sinister ghosts of the past have never left Barwyke Hall.
Rudyard Kipling tells the story of a man who disappears mysteriously.
In Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, the Puritan Reverend Hooper is plagued by a terrible secret sin that forces him to wear a black veil.

Dossiers:
England and Its Ghosts
New England and the Puritans

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Crime

The Chumash are American Indians who live in California. When an unscrupulous property developer starts building new homes in Coyote Canyon, the Chumash become angry – the development is located on their ancient cemetery.
During the night of the Fourth of July celebrations a mysterious American Indian warrior appears and a murder is committed. Suspicion falls immediately on the Chumash, but four young people – Michelle, Bill, Nick and Pam – investigate further and find that the truth is rather more complicated…

Dossiers:
Independence Day
American Indians

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Adventure

Ellie is mad about music: she dreams of becoming a singer and she desperately wants to go to the Glastonbury Festival, where her favourite singer, Murphy, will be playing. But with an overprotective Dad and important exams to take, it seems that Ellie’s dreams will have to remain just that, dreams. But one day she sees a competition in a music magazine…

Dossiers:
Education in England
Yorkshire
Festivals in Britain and Ireland

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Series: Reading & Tr