The Wizard of Oz - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Wizard of Oz - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 019463230X

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. 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 Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz . . .

The Monkey's Paw - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Monkey's Paw - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: W. W. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194630951

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.

The President's Murderer

The President's Murderer
Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Oxford University
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194229531

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose? Long live the President!

The Withered Arm

The Withered Arm
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241251613

'She bared her poor curst arm' A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Mr. Wizard

Mr. Wizard
Author: Jeff Wallach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948598309

"The writing is knowing and engaging, wise about its cultural orientations, and driven to discoveries both reassuring and life-enhancing."-Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor Emeritus, The Atlantic "Jeff Wallach is a prodigiously gifted writer-insightful, funny, and always surprising. Mr. Wizard twists and turns like a double helix. When you finish, you'll want to go back to the very first page and experience it all over again, just to see how Wallach pulled it off." Two brothers. One mother. One big question. Two days before her death, Jenny Elliot suggests to her fifty-year-old son Phillip that, being half Irish, he should be more careful about his drinking. Phillip, along with his brother Spencer, has grown up believing they were the fully Jewish-American offspring of Jenny and her late husband who died in the Vietnam War. Was his mother uttering some dementia-inspired fantasy, or was her true character shining through in her last moments to leave the brothers a clue to their real heritage? After her death, Phillip decides to take a DNA test. The brothers set off on a genetic treasure hunt in search of who they really are-and what that might mean. Are they purely products of their genetics; or were they formed more completely by their social interactions and upbringing? Are they merely victims of randomness; or are they some combination of those factors? And who, exactly, is Mr. Wizard?

White Death

White Death
Author: Tim Vicary
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1989
Genre: Drug traffic
ISBN: 9780194216463

Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they find the real criminal before it's too late?

Five Short Plays - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Five Short Plays - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Martyn Ford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194630862

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Martyn Ford. What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous? Perhaps you hear that someone has bought the last bag of salt in town. Do you buy a bag from him at a high price? Or try to make him give you a bag? Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. These five short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected or difficult situations.

Drive into Danger - With Audio Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library

Drive into Danger - With Audio Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Rosemary Border
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194631567

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. 'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous.