American Crime Stories


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'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedlybeen done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat.







Dead Man's Island


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Grade level: 3, 4, 5, e, p, i.







Enormous Changes at the Last Minute


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In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).




Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: Japan


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Word count: 5,354 Suitable for young readers




One-way Ticket


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Reading level: 1 [green].




Oxford Bookworms Factfiles


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Supplementary teaching material for the Oxford Bookworms Factfiles.




Penguin Readers


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