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A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.
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David Swain has spent two years of his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. On the night he escapes from prison, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for David, but his personal life becomes entangled in case because his ex-wife his having an affair with Katya's uncle.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.
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A famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence pointing to his son, Stephen, who was about to be disinherited from the family fortune. When Stephen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, his guilt seems undeniable--but then, the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II lends credence to Stephen's innocence.
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Oxford murders volume 2
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English
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"Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, makes a startling new discovery concerning pages torn from Caroll's diary, she hesitates to reveal to her employers a hitherto unknown chapter in his life ... it becomes clear that a murderer is stalking anyone who shows too...
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Thomas Nelson
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When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis--known as Jack--she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak...
10) Oxford exit
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Kate Ivory mysteries volume 2
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Scribner
Pub. Date
1995
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1st Scribner ed.
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184 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
12) Crampton Hodnet
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Dutton
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c1985
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216 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Inspector Morse mysteries volume 13
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
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1st American ed.
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viii, 363 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Oxford murders volume 1
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MacAdam/Cage
Pub. Date
c2005
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197 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
17) Dead as a dodo
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Viking
Pub. Date
1996
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339 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Gervase Fen mysteries volume 9
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Walker
Pub. Date
1978, c1977
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287 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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1st ed.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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344 p. ; 22 cm.
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When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy and her first kiss.
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1997
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A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking.
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