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Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: New Fantasy & Science Fiction | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Deighton Len
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Category: New Military History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain Summer, 1940- western Europe has been conquered, and Hitler turns his attention to the invasion of England. Fighter is Len Deighton's thrilling history of the ensuing Battle of Britain - the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe tha ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Don't use | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
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Category: Don't use | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In "I, Claudius", he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from ...Show more
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck; Warren French (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence that maps the frontier where the masses become a mobAt once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young manâe(tm)s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3: The Guermantes Way
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salut ...Show more
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the co ...Show more
Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville
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Category: Don't use | Series: UQP Modern Classics Ser.
This is Australia's past as you won't read it in any history book. Joan pops up in all over famous moments and gives her irreverent female version of them. She remakes history in her own image and asks: who gets written into history, who gets written out, and why?
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger ste ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
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Category: New Children's Novels | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the rec ...Show more