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Brave New World by: ALDOUS HUXLEY                   0582 27522 9 
It is the year AF 632 and the breeding and conditioning of humans by scientific methods have created worldwide stability and happiness. Or have they? John brings passion to the New World  and the value of the New World are thrown into perspective. 
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Cry,  the Beloved Country by: ALAN PATON                      0 582 27521 0 
When Reverend Kumalo sets off for Johannesburg, he hopes to find his son and his brother. What he finds is that in their struggle to survive city life under apartheid, his relatives have lost sight of honesty, love and respect, with terrible consequences. 
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Great Expectations by: CHARLES DICKENS            0582 27520 2 
Pip’s life changes when he is provided with money by a secret benefactor and he goes to London to live as a gentleman. He thinks he will now be able to marry the woman he loves. But Pip’s ‘Great expectations’ do not turn out as he hoped. 
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Kolymsky Heights   by: LIONEL  DAVIDSON             0 582 27847 3          New 
An Oxford professor receives an envelope, which contains two blank pieces of paper. Two coded message on them reads: 
“Send me the man that speaks the tongues of the north”.  The message, the professor realizes, is from the director of a secret research station in Siberia.  Johnny Porter, brilliant linguist and Native Canadian, is the man the director wants. We follow Porter on his dangerous mission to Siberia. But how does he get into such a secret place, why is he needed there, and how will he get out again ? 
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Snow Falling On Cedars  by: DAVID  GUTERSON        0 582 27845 7         New 
It is 1954 and a young man is on a trial for murder. He is Kabuo Miyamoto, one of many Japanese Americans living on the small island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. Is he responsible for the mysterious death of the fisherman, Carl Heine ? 
Some islanders are happy to think so. 
As we follow the trial through the eyes of Ishmael Chambers, the local reporter, we see how the Second World War has affected this small community.  In the atmosphere of anger and suspicion, that exists on the island, will Kabuo receive a fair trial, and will the true cause of Carl Heine’s death be discovered ? 
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Animal Farm by:  GEORGE ORWELL                       0 582 27524 5 
“All animals are equal” “Down with the Dogs” 
When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But soon the pigs take control, and one of them, Napoleon, becomes leader of all the animals. One by one the principles of the revolution are abandoned, until the animals have even less freedom than before. The Pigs promise a better society and work for all the animals,  saying that all animals are equal, but as it appears, some animals are more equal than others. The Pigs turn out to be even more cruel than their old masters. This classic story of modern English fiction is a powerful study of the use and abuse of political power. 
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Bleak House  by: CHARLES DICKENS              0 582 08900 X 
‘Your mother, Esther, was your disgrace and you are hers.’ 
These words were Esther’s earliest memory. But who was Esther’s mother? What was the disgrace? And why did the ghost walk at Chesney Wold? 
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The Call of the Wild by: JACK LONDON             0 582 08896 8 
Set at the time of the gold rush in North America, a dog called Buck is stolen and sold for work as a sledge dog. 
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON           0 58208902 6 
 The battle of good and evil within the personality of one man.. 
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Kidnapped by: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON              0 582 08899 2 
David Balfour’s account of the sufferings inflicted upon him by his evil uncle, and his perilous journey in the Highlands of eighteenth-century Scotland.  
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The Prince and the Pauper by: MARK TWAIN               0 582 08894 1    
Young Prince Edward changes places with a  beggar, Tom Canty. 
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Robinson Crusoe by: DANIEL DEFOE            0 582 08886 0 
World-famous story of survival on a desert island. 
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Silas Marner by: GEORGE ELIOT               0 582 08888 7 
Silas Marner leads a very simple life: all he does is work. Silas loves only one thing: his money, which he counts every night. Then one day his money is stolen and a little girl comes to live with him. Soon Silas Marner starts to change. 
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