The Beach Alex Garland Contemporary / British English Brave New World Aldous Huxley Contemporary / British English ‘Close your eyes … imagine idyllic white sands and coral gardens.’ Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears about ‘the beach’, a secret island. It is paradise on earth. He goes there, but paradise soon turns into hell… Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8257 6 / 112 pages 978 1 4058 8026 8 Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods. There is worldwide happiness and order. Then John comes from the Savage Reservation to the New World and with him he brings strong emotions – love, hate, anger, fear. Suddenly, danger threatens the New World. Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8258 3 / 136 pages 978 1 4058 8027 5 NOT AVAILABLE IN USA, CANADA OR SOUTH AMERICA NOT AVAILABLE IN USA AND PHILIPPINES Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières Contemporary / British English The Chamber John Grisham Contemporary / American English This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army… Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicolas Cage. Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8260 6 / 120 pages 978 1 4058 8029 9 The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi’s death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help? Book 978 1 4058 8261 3 / 120 pages NOT AVAILABLE IN USA, CANADA AND PHILIPPINES Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8030 5 NOT AVAILABLE IN USA Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Contemporary / British English The Double Helix James D. Watson Contemporary / British English ‘When people go to Johannesburg, they do not come back.’ Cry, the Beloved Country is the moving story of two families in South Africa – one black and one white – who are brought into violent contact. From a remote valley in Natal, Reverend Kumalo sets off for the city of Johannesburg in search of his younger sister and his son. Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8263 7 / 112 pages 978 1 4058 8032 9 James D. Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery of the double helix, the structure of DNA. In this book, James D. Watson tells the exciting story of this discovery. Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8264 4 / 120 pages 978 1 4058 8033 6 NOT AVAILABLE IN USA AND CANADA NOT AVAILABLE IN USA AND CANADA Great Expectations Charles Dickens Classic / British English I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Contemporary / American English Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings – one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. And who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune? Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 6528 9 / 128 pages 978 1 4058 8035 0 Today Maya Angelou is one of the world’s most respected writers and poets. In the 1930s and 1940s she was a poor Black girl growing up in the segregated American South. She suffered prejudice and cruelty from people she trusted as well as at the hands of an unjust society. Above all, Maya learned about the power of love and hope. This is Maya’s true story. Book Audio Pack 978 1 4058 8265 1 / 120 pages 978 1 4058 8036 7 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA, USA, MEXICO AND PHILIPPINES LEVEL 6 CONTINUED > 51 Pagina 43

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