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Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible ? There must be somet[...]
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It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Professor Aronnax joins the search for th[...]
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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would neverbe cruel to a horse. But in [...]
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It is the Brave New World, 600 years in the future. Science has produced a highly ordered world of happiness and social stability. In his search for something more meaningfull, Bernard Marx takes beautiful Lenina to see the savages of the Old Wo[...]
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These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There’s the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair! And there’s the man who tries to catch a ghost.
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Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again? And if does, will she recogniz[...]
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They said Steve Biko was a man of violence ; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution ; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger ; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight[...]
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San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars-unless they have a job to do on Earth.[...]
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"When he came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly sky. No one can stop him now. He fogets about the river, and the people of his blood..." But who[...]
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"East of Eden is a novel that is explicitly biblical in its scope, centering on the patriarchal figure of Adam Trask, and his uneasy relationship with his twin sons and their scandalous mother. This epic family saga chronicles the turbulent ambi[...]
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed strange. Today more and more women are reaching the top of business life. This book tells the business success story of five very different women : Coco Chanel, Hana[...]
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Who will speak for the poor? Who will listen to slaves, and those who have no rights? Who will work for a future where everyone is equal? Who will give up his house, job, and money to fight for people who are shut out by everyone else? "I will" [...]
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After dinner we turned the lights out and played "hide-and-seek". In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, i had to hide in the dark with... with this cold person- not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly th[...]
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Today Maya Angelou is one of the world's most respected writers and poets. In the 1930's and 1940's she was a poor Black girl growing up in the segregated American South. She suffered prejudice and cruelty from people she trusted as well as the [...]
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A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water and food ; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses ele[...]
