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📗 The Curse of the Black Pearl
👤 Irene Trimble
📊#Elementary
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One little rich girl stood on the big ship owned her father and sang a song which called the pirates. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Swann dreamt to meet them. In that day the Dauntless ship got out from the dark water a boy. His name was Will Turner. Elizabeth had taken from his shirt a gold medallion. She understood that boy was a pirate. Elizabeth was very afraid, but she hide the medallion under her dress and kept this secret for eight years.
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📗 King Arthur and His Knights
👤 George Gibson
📊#Intermediate
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King Arthur today is the most recognizable book hero not only in British folklore, but also in the world literature.The young knight Arthur proved his right to be the king, when he pulled out the legendary sword Excalibur from the rock. This book is a must-read for classical literature and modern phantasy lovers. Even Sir John Tolkien took much from the Arthurian legends for his "Lord of the Rings".
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📗 This Rough Magic
👤 Mary Stewart
📊#UpperIntermediate
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Lucy is a young girl who works as an actress. She has an elder sister named Phil, who married a rich man from Italy. Lucy went to the sea to rest and to visit her sister. Lucy has problems with work. She did not become famous and being an actress is not very easy. A young actress gets into a criminal situation, where acting talent helps her to remain safe and sound.
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📗 Fugu
👤 Brennan Frank
📊#Elementary
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Taro is very good at cooking fugu. Fugu is a poisonous fish. If it is not prepared carefully enough, it can be deadly. One night two men come and demand to talk to Taro. They are dangerous gangsters from a famousf Japanese society of criminals called Yakuza. Unexpectedly the men want Taro to try the dish first
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📗 Rain Man
👤 Barry Morrow
📊#Elementary
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Charlie Babbitt thinks he will get a lot of money when his father dies. However the money goes to someone he doesn't know - a man who lives in hospital and is the brother Charlie never knew he had. The two meet and so starts a surprising new life for both of them.
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📗 Cinderella Man
👤 Marc Cerasini
📊#Intermediate
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It is the legendary biography, which can inspire you for achievements and give you a confidence in yourself. This book is about a unique man - James Braddock. His life costs not only a film, but also a book. Braddock dreamt about his returning to sport and regaining his glory and his dignity. Finally, he took the great opportunity and mounted the ring for obtaining the world title.
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📗 Moby Dick
👤 Herman Melville
📊#Intermediate
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American sailor Ishmael goes on a voyage on a whaling ship 'Pequod', whose captain, Ahab, obsessed with revenge giant white whale, killer whale hunters known as Moby Dick. In a previous voyage, Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and since then the captain uses a prosthesis. Ahab orders watch the sea constantly and promises gold coin to the one who first noticed Moby Dick.
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📗 The Ransom of Red Chief
👤 O. Henry
📊#Elementary
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Two men kidnap the son of a wealthy man. They keep him so they can ask for ransom. At first, they are worried the boy will run away. However, the boy has too much fun “playing” with his kidnappers. In time, the two kidnappers wish the boy would run away!
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📗 The Birthmark
👤 Nathaniel Hawthorne
📊#Elementary
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Aylmer sincerely loved his spouse, but still science remained the main passion of the young man. One day, he looked at his wife and asked if she knew that he could remove the birthmark from her cheek. This mole looked like a small handprint. Her parents said that the fairy stroked her cheek in the childhood. Even after this Aylmer did not calm down. He became obsessed with the birthmark.
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📗 The Doll (Gallico Paul)
👤 Gallico Paul
📊#PreIntermediate
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There is a doctor in the centre of the novel. It was a usual day, when he saw an incredible doll in the shop not far from his house. It impressed the doctor and he bought this doll for his niece. Later he got a call. One woman asked him to come and examine her ill niece. Her niece turned out to be the creator of these wonderful dolls.
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📗 The Story of the Internet
👤 Stephen Bryant
📊#UpperIntermediate
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As we know the Internet appeared only a few decades ago. This book shows a wonderful journey in time. The readers can follow the history of the Internet from the idea of its creation to the present days. They can even speculate what kind of future might wait for this undoubtedly great invention.
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📗 The Model Millionaire
👤 Oscar Wilde
📊#PreIntermediate
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The Irish philosopher, esthete, writer and poet Oscar Wild wrote this masterpiece in 1887. Wilde's name is connected with the rebellion against Victorian morality with its substitution of bad for good and vice versa. His prose intended to offend the socially accepted tastes and conventions. In this story, the author expressed a kind of a protest against the dominance of practicality and the absolute common sense.
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📗 The Blue Cross
👤 John Escott
📊#Elementary
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Valentine was one of the most famous detectives on the planet. He was also a French policeman. This man arrived in London to arrest an elusive villain. The police officers from three countries chased Flambeau, but no one could catch him.
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📗 The Valley of Fear
👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Intermediate
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Once Sherlock received an unusual letter with a cipher. It turned out that it was sent by one of the henchmen of the worst enemy of the detective - Professor Moriarty. This letter said that an assassination attempt was being prepared on a Mr. Douglas. Immediately after this, the policeman came to Sherlock's house. He said Mr. Douglas was murdered.
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📗 Jack the Ripper
👤 Foreman Peter
📊#Intermediate
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In 1888 the whole England was shocked by a series of brutal terrifying killings. The victims he chose were poor women with bad reputation. The criminal killed them with inhuman violence and severely mutilated their bodies. For the years there have been many suspects, but even nowadays the real identity of the killer still remains unknown.
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📗 A Case Of Identity
👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Elementary
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Mary inherited the small capital from his uncle, that she receives by small parts every year. This money she gives to family and earning for living herself by typing. Since Mary's father was a plumber, every year they receive the invitation to the plumbers' ball. Step-father does not allow Mary to go to the ball. But one year he is gone to France, she goes to the ball, where she met with Mr. Hosmer Angel and fell in love with him.
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📗 For a Horseshoe Nail
👤 Amara Bavani Dev
📊#Elementary
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This is a story about a poor Indian farmer named Raju, who has to work hard for pennies. Fifty rupees a day is his limit. But once, one man offers him to sell a kidney for thirty five thousand rupees. This is a lot of money. The Indian poor can’t earn such an incredible sum in his whole life. The life of a poor farmer has changed for the better. After all, people live with one kidney. The main thing is do not pay attention to the pain.
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📗 A Pot Full of Tears
👤 Lauri Kubuitsile
📊#Elementary
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Some women dream of children, but cannot have them. Others have many children, but do not have enough money to feed and maintain them. A lonely old man is sitting in a small room. He is looking at the old wooden floor. A woman is sitting in the next room. She does not live in this house; she looks completely different. There is a scream. And in a few minutes the woman takes out the baby wrapped in a blanket from the room.
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📗 The Black Arrow
👤 Robert Louis Stevenson
📊#Elementary
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First published in 1888, it is both an historical adventure novel and a romance. It tells the story of Richard Shelton during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487): how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton.
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📗 Fenrir's Chain
👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
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Fenrir was a huge wolf. God Tyr loved to play with him when Fenrir was a cub. But he grew and became bigger and stronger. The gods realized that Fenrir was too dangerous and could kill all of them. They decided to tie the wolf so that he could not harm anyone. But which chain on earth would be able to hold such a monster? The gods went to the dwarves who made the hammer of Thor and lots of other incredible things.
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📗 Les Miserables
👤 Victor Hugo
📊#Advanced
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Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a breathtaking realism that is unsurpassed in modern prose.
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📗 The Problem Of Cell 13
👤 Jacques Futrelle
📊#Elementary
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The public knew Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen as The Thinking Machine. Once he argued with his friends, he tried to convince that "the mind is master of everything". "Lock me in any cell of any prison where you want in any time, give me only casual clothes and I'll escape from there only in a week."
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📗 Captain Corelli's Mandolin
👤 Louis De Bernieres
📊#Advanced
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The doctor's daughter feels disappointed in her fiance. She starts doubting that he really loves her. Nothing goes unnoticed by the attentive eyes of Captain Corelli. If you are a fan of such books as "Gone with the Wind", "Cold Mountain", then this novel will undoubtedly be to your liking.
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📗 How is Your Mother
👤 Simon Brett
📊#Intermediate
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There was an ordinary town with ordinary people. They knew everything about each other or at least wanted to know. An ordinary man lived in this town with his old and sick mother. It's a common situation when a child helps his parent in old age. Everybody understood why he could not take part in life.
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📗 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Elementary
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Countess of Morcar has been stolen a precious diamond which was called Blue Carbuncle. Suspicions has fallen on John Horner he has been working at the hotel as a plumber. At the same time on one of the streets of London ruffians attacked the man. The attacked man had run away and dropped the goose. Сommissionaire Peterson took the goose home to eat the bird and his wife had pulled out of it a diamond.
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📗 Man from the South
👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
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The main character of the book wanted to buy some beer and sit near the pool in the garden. The man sat at one of the tables under a yellow umbrella and poured himself some cold beer. An old man in a suit and a hat was passing by. He asked if he could sit at this table and the man allowed it. They talked about the other guests of the hotel, and after a while young American sailor joined this company.
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📗 Madame Bovary
👤 Gustave Flaubert
📊#Advanced
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Charles Bovary graduates from the college. His mother helps him to get a doctor's job. One day Charles goes to examine another patient - a local farmer. He meets a farmer's daughter Emma, who is very pretty. Charles starts communicating with Emma and after a while decides to ask for her hand. But when the young couple begins to live together, Emma suddenly realizes her true feelings.
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📗 Hampton House
👤 Jenny Dooley
📊#Elementary
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Kathy meets Miss Emily, who tells her a story about Lord Hampton's house. This house was famous by reach and well-known parties arranging there. Miss Emily worked there many years ago when she was young. In her memories the servants of Lord Hampton were always hungry. However he didn’t take any care of them.
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📗 The Willing Ghost
👤 Robert Wellington
📊#PreIntermediate
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A young woman came to the office of a private detective. Her father died a year ago. Everything he owned he bequeathed to her, including a big old house. The client was sure there were ghosts in it. It started three months ago. The detective promised to investigate this case. The noise turned out to be not of the some supernatural origin. It was something more real and unexpected.
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📗 Missing in Sydney
👤 Andrea M. Hutchinson
📊#Elementary
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Three friends Ami, Lisa and Claire decided to have a great holiday before entering the university. They arrived in hot Australia from cold London. What could be better that a celebration of New Year on the beach in Sydney? After the party Ami and Claire didn't find Lisa. She wasn't in the room of the hostel where they stayed. She didn't come in the morning either. The girls started looking for her.
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