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Alpha Library

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▪ Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass ▪ A Midsummer Nights Dream ▪ Animal Farm ▪ Animals Of The World ▪ Arabian Nights ▪ Batman/Superman Vol. 1 ▪ Catch a Thief  ▪ Don Quixote ▪ Eleven short stories ▪ Frankenstein ▪ Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life ▪ Grimms’ Fairy Tales ▪ Harley Quinn – Hot in the city Vol.1 ▪ Heatcliff – Olympic champ ▪ Les…

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Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley Genre: Horror, Gothich Literature, Cientific Fiction, Romance. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18,…

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Grimms’ Fairy Tales

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Author: Brothers Grimm Genre: Fairy Tale, Foklore. Collected by the German Grimm brothers, these folk tales have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since they were first published in 1812. The best-known stories such as The Golden Goose, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, and Snow-White and Rose-Red remain as popular today as…

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The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame

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Author: Victor Hugo Genre: Gothic Literature, Romantism, Fiction. ‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’ Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the…

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The Best of Sherlock Holmes

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Genre: Detective fiction. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s…

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A Midsummer Nights Dream

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Author: William Shakespeare Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Fiction. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled…

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Genre: Detective fiction The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and…

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Les Misérables

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Author: Victor Hugo Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance. Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including…

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Cultural Immersion: Sydney (Australia)

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▪ The country (Australia) Australia Australia is a country, and continent, surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its major cities – Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide – are coastal, but its capital, Canberra, is inland and nicknamed the “Bush Capital.” Sydney ▪ Tourist spots ▪ Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts…

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Cultural Immersion: Tokyo (Japan)

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▪ The country (Japan) Flag of Japan – Read more Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks and thousands of shrines and temples. Tokyo Tokyo, Japan’s busy capital, mixes the ultramodern and the traditional, from neon-lit skyscrapers to historic temples. Read more ▪ Tourist spots ▪ Sensō-ji Sensō-ji…