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RESÚMENES LIBROS BIBLIOTECA DE ALUMNOS

DEPARTAMENTO INGLÉS SECCIÓN READINGS (Libros de lectura) NIVEL ADVANCED (Original versions)

Nº ORDEN TÍTULO (AUTOR) RESUMEN

1RG – 2408 DI – 1814

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and other plays(Oscar Wilde)

Five of Oscar Wilde’s wittiest and best-known plays, including Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first great stage success, and Lord Alfred Douglas’s translation of Salomé, which Wilde originally wrote in French. Of The Importance of Being Earnest, his most famous play, Wilde wrote: “It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality”.

2RG – 2409 DI – 1815

ON THE ROAD(Jack Kerouac)

On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

3RG – 2410 DI – 1816

4RG – 2411 DI – 1817

OF MICE AND MEN(John Steinbeck)

In this parable of commitment, loneliness, hope and loss John Steinbeck has created a powerful and moving portrayal of two men striving to understand their own unique place in the world. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley. Yet their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength.

5RG – 2412 DI – 1818

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE(Edith Wharton)

When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, “that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything.” As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton’s sharp ironic wit and Jamesian mastery of form create a disturbingly accurate picture of men and women caught in a society that denies humanity while desperately defending “civilization”.

6RG – 2413 DI – 1819

THE SECRET GARDEN(Frances Hodgson Burnett)

After the death of her parents, Mary is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle’s great lonely house on the moors. Then one day she discovers the key to a secret garden and, like magic, her life begins to brighten in so many ways..

7RG – 2414 DI – 1820

DRACULA(Bram Stoker)

Told in journal fragments that cannot provide any single reliable perspective, Dracula (1897) is at the same time intensely Romantic and very modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic vampire Count Dracula who preys on desirous damsels, and of the mission launched to destroy him from the perplexingly appropriate setting of a lunatic asylum.

8RG – 2415 DI – 1821

MIDDLEMARCH(George Eliot)

George Eliot was recognized as England’s finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community – tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry – in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, middlemarch is richer still in character, in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community, and in the great art that enlarges the reader’s sympathy and imagination. It is truly, as Virginia Woolf famously remarked, “one of the few English

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novels written for grown-up people”.

RESÚMENES LIBROS BIBLIOTECA DE ALUMNOS

DEPARTAMENTO INGLÉS SECCIÓN READINGS (Libros de lectura) NIVEL ADVANCED (Original versions)

Nº ORDEN TÍTULO (AUTOR) RESUMEN

9RG – 2601 DI – 1956

THE NARROW CORNER(W. Somerset Maugham)

From a distant island in the Malay Archipelago, Dr, Saunders – the best eye doctor in the East – sets sail with two intriguing characters. Money has talked the shifty Captain Nichols into whisking a young Australian, Fred Blake, over the horizon for a discreet period. But it is love – when their pearl lugger touches a remote East Indian island – that lures the luckless Fred into disaster.

10RG – 2699 DI – 2054

AN IDEAL HUSBAND(THE ORIGINAL CLASSICS)(Oscar Wilde)

This play is set in the dazzling social world of 1890´s London. It is the world of the aristocrat and the dandy – and it is also the world of shabby political and financial intrigue. Sir Robert Chiltern is a man who seems to have everything – money, power, an important position, and a wife who idealises him. Sir Robert finds his world threatened with collapse by the arrival of the sinister Mrs Cheveley in London. Mrs Cheveley knows that Sir Robert has a shameful secret in his past and she will destroy him if he doesn’t do what she wants.

11RG – 2700 DI – 2055

YAKIWE’EN PARTY (A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY)(Agatha Christie)

The guests included ghoulies, and long-leggedy beasties. But the scariest ingredient of the party was the little girl who claimed to have witnessed a murder. Of course, no one believed the child… until she was drowned that very night. Now the great detective, Hercule Poirot, must unmask the murderer amongst the things that go bump in the night…

12RG – 2701 DI – 2056

SELECTED TALES(WORLD´S CLASSICS)(Edgar Alan Poe)

At the time of their publication in the late 1830s and the 1840s critics called these stories “Germanic”, to which Poe memorably replied: “I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul”. But he was ingenious as well as imaginative, and his ingenuity is nowhere better displayed than in his superlative detective stories such as “The murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter”. He can justifiably be called the father of detective fiction, having anticipated almost every later development of the genre, from the locked room mystery to the creation of the omniscient detective and his less intelligent companion.

13RG – 2998 DI – 2300

OF MICE AND MEN(John Steinbeck)

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream – a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength.

14RG – 3049 DI – 2351

AN IDEAL HUSBAND(THE ORIGINAL CLASSICS)(Oscar Wilde)

This play is set in the dazzling social world of 1890´s London. It is the world of the aristocrat and the dandy – and it is also the world of shabby political and financial intrigue. Sir Robert Chiltern is a man who seems to have everything – money, power, an important position, and a wife who idealises him. Sir Robert finds his world threatened with collapse by the arrival of the sinister Mrs Cheveley in London. Mrs Cheveley knows that Sir Robert has a shameful secret in his past and she will destroy him if he doesn’t do what she wants.

15RG – 3706 DI – 2933

As a young woman, Amelia Evans marries Marvin Macy, a man with a bad reputation. Ten days later she throws him out and he leaves town, angry and hurt. Amelia’s own life returns to normal. She runs the town store and spends most of her spare time alone.One evening, a small man with a hunchback arrives on her doorstep, claiming to be her cousin. To everyone’s amazement, Amelia invites him to live with her and together they transform the store into a warm and welcoming café. Her cousin’s

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friendship gives Amelia much happiness. But then one day Marvin Macy returns to town …

16RG – 3707 DI – 2934

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master’s dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead.

RESÚMENES LIBROS BIBLIOTECA DE ALUMNOS

DEPARTAMENTO INGLÉS SECCIÓN READINGS (Libros de lectura) NIVEL ADVANCED (Original versions)

Nº ORDEN TÍTULO (AUTOR) RESUMEN

17RG – 3708 DI – 2935

JULIUS CAESAR(William Shakespeare)

Julius Caesar is a highly successful but ambitious political leader of Rome and his goal is to become an unassailable dictator. Caesar is warned that he must "beware the Ides of March" . The prophecy comes true and Caesar is assassinated. Marcus Brutus is a well respected Roman senator who helps plan and carry out Caesar's assassination which he believes will rid Rome of a tyrant. Caesar's friend Mark Antony provides the famous funeral oration ("Friends, Romans, and countrymen…") Brutus and Cassius meet their inevitable defeat. Brutus, the noble Roman, whose decision to take part in the conspiracy for the sake of freedom, plunges his country into civil war.

18RG – 4337 DI – 3456

THE MOON IS DOWN(John Steinbeck)

A small town in Northern Europe is overwhelmed by a superior and highly organised force from another country which is in need of coal and other mineral resources. For some time prior to the invasion, a local man (George Corell, the shopkeeper) has been preparing for this invasion by gaining the confidence and friendship of the local people and by secretly stockpiling equipment for the invading forces. In a lightning action, the invaders destroy any opposition and take over the town and the local coal mine. The commander of the invaders, Colonel Lanser, a veteran of a previous war, moves his headquarters into the mayor’s palace and demands the cooperation of Mayor Orden and his close friend, Doctor winter, in maintaining order. After an initial period of shock, the unarmed townspeople begin to fight back, using any means at their disposal. AS acts of sabotage increase, Colonel Lanser retaliates by taking and executing hostages. Eventually, even Mayor Orden and Doctor Winter are held as hostages in exchange for the townspeople’s good behaviour. This leads to inevitable and tragic results.

19RG – 4338 DI – 3457

THE PEARL(John Steinbeck)

The Pearl tells the story of Kino, a young pearl fisherman who lives in a native village on the outskirts of the town of La Paz on the shores of the Gulf of California. Kino has a wife and a newborn baby, both of whom he adores. One day, Kino finds an immense pearl of superb quality. Immediately, he sees a bright future for his family. As the news of Kino’s luck spreads, others try to benefit from it: a greedy doctor, pretending to save the life of the baby who has been bitten by a scorpion, tries to bargain for the pearl; thieves try to steal it at night; crooked dealers try to cheat him of its true value. Even the beggars hope to benefit “for they know that there is no alms-giver in the world as a poor man who is suddenly lucky”. One night Kino kills a man who tries to rob him. Later, Kino’s hut is burned down and in fear for their lives, Kino and his wife, Juana, decide to run away to another town in the north. However, they are followed, and in a desperate attempt to save himself and his family, Kino kills the three pursuers. In the struggle, the baby is killed. Kino and Juana return to their village and throw the pearl into the sea.

20RG – 4339 DI – 3458

THE PEARL(John Steinbeck) Same as above

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21RG – 4358 DI – 3477

THE GOOD SOLDIER(Ford Madox Ford)

The story of the Good Soldier – a novel notable for is use of an unreliable narrator – is told by a world-weary American millionaire, John Dowell. While on holiday at a fashionable German spa, he and his wife meet the “perfect” English gentleman – soldier Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora. All seems calm as their friendship develops; but destructive undercurrents of passion and deception carry the protagonists inexorably forward to a powerful climax, revealing.

22RG – 4763 DI – 3856

RESÚMENES LIBROS BIBLIOTECA DE ALUMNOS

DEPARTAMENTO INGLÉS SECCIÓN READINGS (Libros de lectura) NIVEL ADVANCED (Original versions)

Nº ORDEN TÍTULO (AUTOR) RESUMEN

23RG – 4764 DI – 3857

THE TURN OF THE SCREW(Henry James)

A chilling story of a lone governess’s struggle to protect her two small changes from the ghosts of two former servants, is a masterpiece of narrative ambiguity.As the horror and claustrophobia increase, the symbolic and psychological intertwine in a vision of the world in which sin and evil can be found lurking also behind virtuousness and selflessness, and twisting the lip of childish innocence.

24RG – 5645 DI – 4576

OF MICE AND MEN(John Steinbeck)

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream – a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength.Of Mice & Men is a poignant tale of the extraordinary friendship between two itinerant workers in the harsh depression years of 1930s America.

25RG – 5646 DI – 4577

POINT BLANC(Anthony Horowitz)

When the powerful parents of pupils at Point Blanc Academy start dying in suspicious circumstances, 14-year-old Alex Rider is sent to investigate. Set on an isolated mountain top and presided over by the sinister Dr Grief, Point Blanc is no ordinary school. Operating undercover and armed with a set of cunningly disguised gadgets, Alex must unravel the deadly mystery.

26RG – 5647 DI – 4578

THE PEARL(John Steinbeck)

The Pearl tells the story of Kino, a young pearl fisherman who lives in a native village on the outskirts of the town of La Paz on the shores of the Gulf of California. Kino has a wife and a newborn baby, both of whom he adores. One day, Kino finds an immense pearl of superb quality. Immediately, he sees a bright future for his family. As the news of Kino’s luck spreads, others try to benefit from it: a greedy doctor, pretending to save the life of the baby who has been bitten by a scorpion, tries to bargain for the pearl; thieves try to steal it at night; crooked dealers try to cheat him of its true value... One night Kino kills a man who tries to rob him. Later, Kino’s hut is burned down and in fear for their lives, Kino and his wife, Juana, decide to run away to another town in the north... But the story does not end there.

27RG – 5648 DI – 4579

OLIVIA JOULESand the overactive imagination(Helen Fielding)

From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror, armed with a hatpin, razor-sharp wits and a very special underwired bra.How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo – he of the hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic international homes and dubious French accent? Could Ferramo really be a major terrorist bent on the Western world’s destruction, hiding behind a smokescreen of fine wines, yachts and actresses slash models? Or is it all just a product of Olivia’s overactive imagination?

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28RG – 5649 DI – 4580

FINAL FRAME(Jane Adams)

For over six months Detective Inspector Mike Croft’s life has been dominated by one man, filmmaker and killer Jake Bowen and the nationwide hunt for him codenamed “Final Frame”. With three murders and a series of rapes to his name, Bowen has quickly become the most feared man in Britain.Now his latest victim – art student Julia Norman – has been found in a Dorset woodland, her body laid out in a macabre scene which chillingly recreates one of Julia’s own self-portraits...

29RG – 5650 DI – 4581

DANGEROUS KISS(Jackie Collins)

Dangerous Kiss is story of raw anger, love, lust, murder and revenge, and its white-hot centre is Lucky Santangelo, strong exciting woman, who dares to take chances –and always wins.When a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random car-jacking, her fury knows no bounds. While tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband is put severely to the test. And suddenly into her life comes a man from the past. A man with a dangerous kiss...

RESÚMENES LIBROS BIBLIOTECA DE ALUMNOS

DEPARTAMENTO INGLÉS SECCIÓN READINGS (Libros de lectura) NIVEL ADVANCED (Original versions)

Nº ORDEN TÍTULO (AUTOR) RESUMEN

30RG – 5651 DI – 4582

Q IS FOR QUARRY(Sue Grafton)

18 years ago an unidentified white female’s decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California’s Highway. The murder remains unsolved so two detectives, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, decide to bring light to the case.But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of the woman’s real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.

31RG – 5652 DI – 4583

O IS FOR OUTLAW(Sue Grafton)

Monfay Morning: a call comes from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last weekend he bought a stack. They had stuff in them – Kinsey stuff. For $30, he’ll sell her the lot. Kinsley’s never been one for personal possessions, but curiosity wins out and she hands over a twenty. What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter...

32RG – 5653 DI – 4584

JACKDAWS(Ken Follett)

It is May 1944 – a time of international tension when nothing is certain... After a frustrated attack by the French Resistance, Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the “Jackdaws” and they will penetrate a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications. But Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick’s trail...

33RG – 5654 DI – 4585

CODE TO ZERO(Ken Follett)

A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his memory gone...The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. Ans as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself...

34RG – 5655 DI – 4586

THE HANGING VALLEY(Peter Robinson)

A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainhead. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no one is willing to talk. Bank’s frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that his latest case may be connected with an unsolved murder in the same area five years ago.Among the silent suspects are the Collier brothers, the wealthiest and most powerful family in the area. When they start

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using their influence to slow down the investigation, Banks finds himself in a race against time...

35RG – 5656 DI – 4587

WRITTEN ON GLASS(Judith Lennox)

It is 1946 and the Terperleys and Chancellors have been neighbours for many years. Reserved and cool-headed, Marius Temperley has left the army and is struggling to fit into civilian life. His sister, Julia, quick-tempered, proud and passionate, has been running the family business since the death of her father. Both the Chancellor brothers, Jack and Will, are in love with her. As the years go by, family secrets are revealed, and the Terperleys and the Chancellors learn that passion can be both destructive and redemptive.

36RG – 5657 DI – 4588

AN ENGLISHMAN ABROADMY AUTOBIOGRAPHY(Bobby Robson with Bob Harris)

Bobby Robson, one of the most successful managers in the history of the game, has always battled against odds – in football and in life- and come through triumphant.The popular Robson –winner of trophies and titles in three different countries- is still in demand all over the world and his passion for the beautiful game remains undiminished, enlivening every page of this compelling autobiography.

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37RG – 5658 DI – 4589

SECOND WIND(Dick Francis)

From the twisting, spiralling centre of a full-blown tropical storm to deadly threat and danger on the world’s greatest racecourses, Dick Francis’s thriller is a hurricane-force masterpiece.

38RG – 5659 DI – 4590

THE REMORSEFUL DAY(Colin Dexter)

The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they are still no nearer to making an arrest. But one man has yet to tackle the case – and it is just the sort of puzzle at which Chief Inspector Morse excels...

39RG – 5660 DI – 4591

ROYAL FLUSH(Lynda LaPlante)

Edward de Jersay, an immensely wealthy man, owns a successful racing yard and sets high hopes on his magnificent colt Royal Flush winning the Derby. But de Jersey’s luck runs out when his trusted adviser invests his fortune in a fledgling Internet company that crashes, leaving him with mounting debts. In danger of losing everything, de Jersey resurrects his criminal past and attempts to pull off the most audacious heist in history. Using the Internet and every available technology to draw together a team from both past and present, the preparations for the daring robbery begin – the target the most valuable jewel in the world...

40RG – 5661 DI – 4592

THE RED TENT(Anita Diamant)

The Red Tent reveals the traditions of ancient womanhood and family honour. It opens with the story of Dinah’s mothers – Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah - the four wives of Jacob, each of whom embodies unique feminine traits, and concludes with Dinah’s own startling story of betrayal, grief and love.

41RG – 5662 DI – 4593

SHOCK(Robin Cook)

The protagonists (two students) have spotted a newspaper ad that may solve their financial problems. An exclusive and highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore is looking for female donors, so they reckon they can do a bit of good by helping infertile couples while earning some money for themselves.

42RG – 5663 DI – 4594

ALEXANDERThe Ends of the EarthBook Three(Valerio Massimo Manfredi)

“Only destiny denies me now the final frontier –The waves of the motionless OceanIt would have been better to pursue

The dream that fires the soulAs the sun illuminates the forests at sunset

The dream, the infinite shadow of the Real...”A breathtaking conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy.

43RG – 5664 DI – 4595

HOT SIX(Janet Evanovich)

Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back.Sexual temptation, homicidal maniacs, car crashes and doughnut addiction are all part of S. Plum’s daily routine. But they pale into insignificance when Grandma Mazur moves in...

44RG – 5665 DI – 4596

ACQUA ALTA(Donna Leon)

Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that Brett Lynch, a friend since a murder case at La Fenice, has suffered a savage heating.The attack had come with a message: “Don’t keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato.”Then, with the storm clouds gathering fast over the city, a man’s body is found...

45RG – 5666 DI – 4597

THE LOVELY BONES(Alice Sebold)

“My name was Susie Salmon. I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighbourhood...”This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. From there, she watches. She sees her happy suburban family implode after her death, as each member tries to come to terms with the terrible loss. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet...

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46RG – 5667 DI – 4598

ACROSS THENINGHTINGALE FLOOR(Lian Hearn)

Raised in a remote mountain village, Takeo is one of the Hidden, a reclusive and peaceful people who know nothing of war. But the tribe’s tranquil existence is shattered by a brutal and bloody massacre, which Takeo alone survives – rescued by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru.Takeo’s subsequent quest for revenge takes him to places he has never envisioned. His voyage is one of treachery, of honour and loyalty, of beauty and magic. It is also a journey of self-discovery, as he learns of talents he did not know he had: preternatural hearing, invisibility and the ability to be in two places at once. Ultimately, though, it is a journey that will lead Takeo to his hidden destiny within the walls of Inuyama.

47RG – 5668 DI – 4599

THE ICE HARVEST(Scott Phillips)

It is Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas. Most people have returned home for the start of the Festivities. But family festivities are the last thing on Charlie Arglist’s mind, and home is the last place he needs to be, for Charlie has to get out of town for good in nine and a half hours, to be precise. But first there are just a few things he has to do...

48RG – 5669 DI – 4600

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SNOW(Sarah Emily Miano)

Interspersed with these myths and legends of the snowfall is a series of funny and tender love stories that are warm enough to melt even the frostiest of hearts.

49RG – 5670 DI – 4601

HOOT(Carl Hiaasen)

Roy never wanted to move to Florida. Like any other bullies, Dana Matherson often mashes Roy’s face into the school bus window. That’s the way he managed to spot a barefooted boy running away from the bus. Where is he going – and what does he have to do with potty-trained alligators, some cute burrowing owls and a dodgy pancake PR man? Maybe life in Florida won’t be so dull after all!

50RG – 5671 DI – 4602

GOD IS A BULLET(Bostonm Teran)

A 14-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult that calls itself the Left-Handed Path. Her father and a small-town cop embarks on a desperate mission to find his daughter but his only hope lies with Case Hardin, an ex-cult member and ex-junkie living in a halfway house in Hollywood.

51RG – 5672 DI – 4603

FIDDLEBACK(J.M. Morris)

When Ruth Gemmel’s younger brother Alex fails to return her calls, she sets off to check up on him. Unable to find him in Greenwell, the town where he has been living and teaching, she begins her tentative enquiries. She soon discovers the locals to be frustratingly unhelpful, while the eerie town holds more questions than clues...As Ruth becomes concerned that something terrible has happened to her brother, events escalate mysteriously, dangerously out of control. Too late, Ruth realizes that her worst fears haunt her still, and that she is at the centre of a far darker nightmare than she could ever have imagined...

52RG – 5673 DI – 4604

FINAL TARGET(Iris Johansen)

Dr Jessica Riley nursed her sister back from a 6-year withdrawal after the traumatic deaths of their parents, and Melissa has spent every day since living life to the full. But when Jessica takes on the treatment of Cassie, beloved daughter of US President Andreas, the lives of both sisters become more and more complicated. Cassie is suffering a nightmare-filled trauma after a foiled kidnap attempt. Her life was saved at the last minute, but the bloody affair has gone unpunished and her saviour, Michael Travis – the only man who holds any clues to the attackers’ identities- has disappear himself…

53RG – 5674 DI – 4605

SINISTER TIDE(Colin Forbes)

The wave of the future confronts Tweed – carrying death for a hundred million people. With Paula Grey and Bob Newman, Tweed tracks the creator of the supreme weapon, Dr Goslar.The pursuit of Goslar moves from London to Paris. From there, Tweed, always under threat, races to Geneva, on to Annecy.Goslar’s base is still unknown. He is close to delivering the weapon to the West’s most fanatical opponent. Is Tweed too late? A crescendo climax explodes in remote snowbound mountains.

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54RG – 2503 DI – 1871

THE MARVELLOUSAND THE STRANGE(Edgar Allan Poe & H.G. Wells)

These classic short stories reflect the interest that EA Poe and HG Wells shared in unusual cases and extreme conditions. The familiar, everyday world is inverted or torn apart to reveal the disturbing secrets that lie ‘on the other side of reality’. Ion each case, the author’s excursion into fantasy leads to insightful discoveries about human nature – from the dark night of the soul in the prisons of the Spanish Inquisition to the marvellous garden behind the door in the wall; from the Ragged Mountains and the mesmerist who literally sends the patient out of his mind to the frightening Red Room and the inevitable encounter with the ghost of fear itself.

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55RG – 6035 DI – 4966

THE SIGHT OF THE STARS(Belva Plain)

Bestselling author Belva Plain explores the bonds that sustain families – and the lies that can shatter them forever.Sweeping through the pivotal events of 20th century America, The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of the remarkable Anring family as they journey across a teeming canvas of history, through world wars and the close of a century, through years of love, loss, sacrifice and unimaginable betrayal.

56RG – 6036 DI – 4967

CHINESE WHISPERS(Peter May)

He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. His victims are young, beautiful and viciously mutilated…

57RG – 6037 DI – 4968

THE ZERO GAME(Brad Meltzer)

Set on Capitol Hill, this is the story of Sandler Harris, a young man who, over the course of the decade he has worked as a Congressional staffer, has seen his idealism and initial zeal for the job fade into a sense of disillusionment. To relieve his boredom and growing lack of enthusiasm, Sandler and another staffer who is similarly jaded, are pulled into a seemingly harmless but clandestine game that involves betting on small bills being introduced into Congress. Those who play the game are kept in the dark about those whom they are betting against. It all seems like good fun; that is until Sandler and his friend find themselves betting on a bill that they have helped draft. Suddenly, Sandler's friend is found murdered with a bulls-eye painted on his chest and as bodies begin to mount, it becomes all too clear that Sandler has been targeted as the game's next victim. On the run, with no place to hide and no one to trust, Sandler teams up with an unlikely ally, an idealistic 16-year-old page who is determined not only to help Sandler but to redeem him in the process.

58RG – 6038 DI – 4969

COSA NOSTRA(John Dickie)

A History of the Sicilian Mafia.

59RG – 6203 DI – 5083

JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA(Eva Ibbotson)

Maia no longer needs to stay at school in the holidays. In fact she no longer needs to go to school in London at all. Her only living relatives have finally been tracked down and they’re in the middle of the Amazon. But alligators “that snap your head off in one bite” won’t stop Maia. And when she arrives, it isn’t long before she finds herself caught up in some extraordinary adventures on the shores of the River Sea …

60RG – 6251 DI – 5131

ROYAL FLUSH(Lynda LaPlante)

Edward de Jersay, an immensely wealthy man, owns a successful racing yard and sets high hopes on his magnificent colt Royal Flush winning the Derby. But de Jersey’s luck runs out when his trusted adviser invests his fortune in a fledgling Internet company that crashes, leaving him with mounting debts. In danger of losing everything, de Jersey resurrects his criminal past and attempts to pull off the most audacious heist in history. Using the Internet and every available technology to draw together a team from both past and present, the preparations for the daring robbery begin – the target the most valuable jewel in the world...

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ALEXANDERThe Ends of the EarthBook Three(Valerio Massimo Manfredi)

“Only destiny denies me now the final frontier –The waves of the motionless OceanIt would have been better to pursue

The dream that fires the soulAs the sun illuminates the forests at sunset

The dream, the infinite shadow of the Real...”A breathtaking conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy.

62RG – 6253 DI – 5133

DANGEROUS KISS(Jackie Collins)

Dangerous Kiss is story of raw anger, love, lust, murder and revenge, and its white-hot centre is Lucky Santangelo, strong exciting woman, who dares to take chances –and always wins.When a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random car-jacking, her fury knows no bounds. While tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband is put severely to the test. And suddenly into her life comes a man from the past. A man with a dangerous kiss...

63RG – 6254 DI – 5134

WRITTEN ON GLASS(Judith Lennox)

It is 1946 and the Terperleys and Chancellors have been neighbours for many years. Reserved and cool-headed, Marius Temperley has left the army and is struggling to fit into civilian life. His sister, Julia, quick-tempered, proud and passionate, has been running the family business since the death of her father. Both the Chancellor brothers, Jack and Will, are in love with her. As the years go by, family secrets are revealed, and the Terperleys and the Chancellors learn that passion can be both destructive and redemptive.

64RG – 6255 DI – 5135

THE RED TENT(Anita Diamant)

The Red Tent reveals the traditions of ancient womanhood and family honour. It opens with the story of Dinah’s mothers – Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah - the four wives of Jacob, each of whom embodies unique feminine traits, and concludes with Dinah’s own startling story of betrayal, grief and love.

65RG – 1687 DI – 1300

THE ADVENTURES OFSHERLOCK HOLMES(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the best-known of all fictional characters. From the first appearance of the short stories in the Strand Magazine chronicling his extraordinary deductive powers, Holmes became a larger-than-life figure whose devotees were stricken when it seemed that the great detective had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in The Adventure of the Final Problem.

66RG – 1688 DI – 1301

HADRIAN THE VII(Fr. Rolfe)

Hadrian VII is one of the most extraordinary and sustained novels of wish-fulfilment ever written. It is also an apologia and a self-justification of quite monstrous vanity written in a mannered and sometimes rotund style which today would be described as “high camp”. However, it is a hugely enjoyable jeu d´esprit, even though it reveals the somewhat troubled spirit of the author.

67RG – 1689 DI – 1302

TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS(Thomas Hughes)

Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding and Alec Waugh.The book describes Tom´s time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his growing maturity as a young man.

68RG – 253 DI – 181

THE GREAT GATSBY(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

See below.

69RG – 253 DI – 181

THE GREAT GATSBY(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Great Gatsby depicts an American society obsessed with the acquisition of wealth and devoid of moral structure. It is considered by many as one of most important examples of American literature of the twentieth century. The true greatness of the work, however, lies not in the subject matter but in the style of the writing, a style which has led some commentators to describe The Great Gatsby as the only perfect novel.

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS(Charles Dickens)

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71RG – 5640 DI – 4571

GREAT EXPECTATIONS(Charles Dickens)

A chance encounter with an escaped convict and an un-expected summons from the mysterious Miss Haversham change the life of orphan Pip. A large gift of money from an unknown benefactor gives him “great expectations” of becoming a gentleman and winning the hand of the beautiful Estella.Bur the past holds many strange secrets that will cloud his hopes of happiness ...

72RG – 333 DI – 255

MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE(Graham Greene)

A wonderfully picturesque and profoundly moving tale of innocence at large amidst the shrines and fleshpots of modern Spain, Graham Greene´s novel, like Cervantes´ seventeenth-century classic, is also a brilliant fable for our times.

73RG – 604 DI – 498

SHIRLEY VALENTINE(Willy Russell)

Shirley Valentine has no one to talk to but the kitchen wall. Surely there must be more to life than her husband´s egg and chips on Tuesdays, and steak on Thursdays?Suddenly, her dream of escape turns to reality when she finds herself without him on a Greek island...

74RG – 608 DI – 502

PYGMALION(Bernard Shaw)

Professor of Phonetics, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can take a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle and help her to be a society lady. It turns out to be not as easy as he thought for she has a mind of her own.For a number of months, Higgins trains Eliza to speak properly. There was times when it did not go Eliza's way, and times when it would not go Higgins' way. At the end of the story Eliza is a very lady like woman.

75RG – 2094 DI – 1556

BEST DETECTIVE STORIESOF AGATHA CHRISTIE(Agatha Christie)

A shooting in a lonely country house, the theft of a million dollars´ worth of papers and the death of a woman whose husband loves another: these are some of the mysterious events investigated in these seven short crime stories.

76RG – 2095 DI – 1557

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST(Anne Tyler)

Macon does his best. He writes Armchair Tourist guidebooks that soothe the travel-hating businessmen: keep wearing the non-crushable, stain-camouflaging grey suit and stick to Salad Niçoise in France, it´s the one dish that´s safe.

77RG – 2096 DI – 1558

SAN CASTLES(Nnicolas Freeling)

Touring through northern Holland and into Germany with his wife Arlette, Van der Valk comes face to face with the sordid crimes, the corruption and the small-scale operations that fill the dark corners of provincial towns. Then he meets Jan Rijk, altogether a bigger fish.

78RG – 2097 DI – 1559

THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE(Octavio Paz)

Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for literature, Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz is one of the world´s foremost writers, whose trenchant analysis of his country´s history and psyche and of United States-Mexican relations has yet to be equalled. In its citation the Nobel Committee praised him for “his impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic energy”.

79RG – 2098 DI – 1560

MISTER JOHNSON(Joyce Cary)

Undaunted by his numerous debts, Johnson pays a small fortune to marry the voluptuous village girl, Bamu. But while he tenderly dreams of transforming her into a civilized – as befitting a man of his wisdom and taste – the self-possessed beauty in question has other ideas…

80RG – 2099 DI – 1561

WONDERFUL FOOL(Shusaku Endo)

A keen observer of the contemporary scene and a fine satirist, Endo is preoccupied in many of his novels with what he calls the “mudswamp” of Japan, the moral apathy of a people who want only an ordinary life with “an ordinary bit of happiness”.

81RG – 2100 DI – 1562

SHERLOCK HOLMES(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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82RG – 2101 DI – 1563

TOXIC SHOCK(Sara Paretsky)

Vic´s investigations lead her to the seedy South Side of Chicago and the Xerxes chemical plant where Caroline´s mother was once employed. There, even the most innocuous questions meet with a deafening silence. Something is being concealed. Something a lot more serious than a paternity suit. Can Vic expose the truth before she is removed from the case – permanently?

83RG – 2102 DI – 1564

AGE OF IRON(M. Coetzee)

“Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard, Rian Malan and Coetzee himself have all provided the reader with moving, impassioned accounts of contemporary South Africa; but this particular novel has a lean and terrible beauty that makes it quite unlike anything that has ever preceded it - James Runcie in the daily Telegraph.

84RG – 2108 DI – 1570

THE CARTOON HISTORYOF THE UNIVERSE(Larry Gonick)

85RG – 1042 DI – 829

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE(Jane Austen)

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”To the delight of Mrs Bennet, a wealthy young bachelor arrives in the neighbourhood, presenting her with the perfect opportunity to marry off the eldest of her five daughters…But what of Elizabeth, her second daughter – and the haughty Mr Darcy?

86RG – 2168 DI – 1619

ZERO HOURand other stories(Joyce Cary)

What happens when children co-operate with invaders from the stars? What does a modern little girl do when a wolf eats her grandmother? Who is the terrible “pigman”?Can marriage survive middle age?

87RG – 333 DI – 255

MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE(Graham Greene)

A wonderfully picturesque and profoundly moving tale of innocence at large amidst the shrines and fleshpots of modern Spain, Graham Greene´s novel, like Cervantes´ seventeenth-century classic, is also a brilliant fable for our times.

88RG – 2298 DI – 1717

TEN SHORT STORIES(Roald Dahl)

Roald Dahl is one of the best short-story writers in the world. His stories are popular with adults and children. The ten short stories in this book are frightening and funny at the same time.

89RG – 2401 DI – 1808

TEN SHORT STORIES(Roald Dahl)

The same as above.

90RG – 1383 DI – 1055

CRIME NEVER PAYS(Agatha Christie, Graham Greene)

Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being. A terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? Was it murder at all, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell.

91RG – 1686 DI – 1299

TOM JONES(Henry Fielding)

Tom Jones, the hero of the book is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness.

92RG – 1025 DI – 812

HEARTSTONES(Ruth Rendell)

A piece written originally for serialisation, turned into a novel by Ruth Rendell, a.k.a. Barbara Vine

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93RG – 2402 DI – 1808

BRITISHSHORT STORIES OF TODAY(Edited by Esmor Jones)

All these stories were written this century, most very recently, by talented beginners or established authors as famous as Arthur C. Clarke, Elspeth Davie, Thomas Hinde and Colin Thubron. Set in every corner of the British Isles, as well as in Kashmir, the Australian outback and a French launderette, these miniature dramas tell of a romantic, if painful, encounter at a cycle race, an obsessive tourist guide, a convent with problems and a Trotskyist bookseller.

94RG – 2407 DI – 1813

AMERICANSHORT STORIES OF TODAY(Esmor Jones)

A wonderfully funny tall story from Kurt Vonnegut, Sam Shepard´s sharply observed account of a young boy who runs away from home and Star Light a virtuoso science fiction from Isaac Asimov, are some of the pleasures in store in this collection. It contains pieces by new young talents as well as from the already well known, and these taken together provide us with a marvellous window on contemporary America, a view into its rich and exciting variety of peoples, cities and farmlands, cultures and imaginations.

95RG – 607 DI – 501

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE(Virginia Woolf)

See below.

96RG – 607 DI – 501

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE(Virginia Woolf)

An ordinary day in the life of the Ramsay family and their friends on holiday in the Isle of Skye. There is talk of a visit to the lighthouse. As the day unfolds. Each character is caught up in a myriad of thoughts, impressions, and feelings.

97RG – 609 DI – 503

JULY´S PEOPLE(Nadine Gordimer)

South Africa is in flames. The battle against white oppression is raging. Forced to flee their comfortable middle-class home, Maureen and Bam and their children seek refuge in the village of their black man-servant, July.

98RG – 610 DI – 504

EDUCATING RITA(Willy Russell)

Hairdresser Tira feels that life has passed her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her?Willy Russell´s play gives a hilarious – and often moving – account of a young woman´s determination to change her life

99RG – 618 DI – 512

TENDER IS THE NIGHT(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Set in the 1920s, this is a disturbing story of rich Americans cast adrift in Mediterranean Europe. Dick Diver, a potentially brilliant young psychiatrist, marries a wealthy woman, and is gradually corrupted by the opulence and amorality of the society into which they are drawn.

100RG – 623 DI – 517

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE(William Shakespeare)

Antonio, a Venetian merchant, complains to his friends of a melancholy that he cannot explain. His friend Bassanio is desperately in need of money to court Portia, a wealthy heiress who lives in the city of Belmont. Bassanio asks Antonio for a loan in order to travel in style to Portia’s estate. Antonio agrees, but is unable to make the loan himself and suggests that Bassanio secure the loan from one of the city’s moneylenders and name Antonio as the loan’s guarantor. In Belmont, Portia expresses sadness over the terms of her father’s will, which stipulates that she must marry the man who correctly chooses one of three caskets. None of Portia’s current suitors are to her liking, and she and her lady-in-waiting, Nerissa, fondly remember a visit paid some time before by Bassanio.

101RG – 624 DI – 518

MACBETH(W. Shakespeare)

The themes illustrated in the play include ambition, fate, deception and treachery. Three witches  decide to confront the great Scottish general Macbeth on his victorious return from a war between Scotland and Norway. The Scottish king, Duncan, decides that he will confer the title of the traitorous Cawdor on the heroic Macbeth. Macbeth, and another General called Banquo, happen upon the three witches. The witches predict

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that he will one day become king. He decides that he will murder Duncan. Macbeth's wife agrees to his plan. He then murders Duncan assisted by his wife who smears the blood of Duncan on the daggers of the sleeping guards…

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102RG – 625 DI – 519

JULIUS CAESAR(William Shakespeare)

Julius Caesar is a highly successful but ambitious political leader of Rome and his goal is to become an unassailable dictator. Caesar is warned that he must "beware the Ides of March" . The prophecy comes true and Caesar is assassinated. Marcus Brutus is a well respected Roman senator who helps plan and carry out Caesar's assassination which he believes will rid Rome of a tyrant. Caesar's friend Mark Antony provides the famous funeral oration ("Friends, Romans, and countrymen…") Brutus and Cassius meet their inevitable defeat. Brutus, the noble Roman, whose decision to take part in the conspiracy for the sake of freedom, plunges his country into civil war.

103RG – 3191 DI – 2493

SELECTED STORIES(Edgar Allan Poe)

Ms Found in a Bottle / The Fall of the House of UsherWilliam Wilson / The Devil in the BelfryThe Man of the Crowd / The Black CatThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe System of Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether

104RG – 5352 DI – 4368

SEEDS IN THE WIND(Tim Bowley)

A bilingual (English + Spanish) collection of 24 traditional tales from all over the world (European fairytales, Celtic legends, stories from the Native Americans and from the traditions of Sufism and Zen), compiled and told by the internationally acclaimed story-teller Mr Tim Bowley.

105RG – 5644 DI – 4575

THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN(Peter Shaffer)

Pizarro leads an army of Spanish Conquistadors to Peru, to conquer the golden kingdom of the Incas. The soldiers claim to be “huntsmen of God”. But what are they really hunting? And what is the reason for the strange bond that develops between Pizarro and the Inca young king?

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