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| | Prince Caspian | Add Package + |
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The year is 1941. The four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are waiting for connecting trains at a railway station in the course of their journey back to their respective boarding schools when they feel the pull of the magic and are drawn into Narnia and find that more than a thousand years have passed since they reigned there as kings and queens (in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).
| | The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans | Add Package + |
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The monotony of pea-soup-fog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages, three are still missing, were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Woolwich Arsenal whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near Aldgate, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theatre tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain's enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine.
| | The Adventure of the Cardboard Box | Add Package + |
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Quite a stir is caused in Croydon when a 50-year-old spinster, Miss Susan Cushing, receives a parcel in the post which turns out to contain two severed human ears packed in coarse salt. The indefatigable though unimaginative Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard suspects a prank by three medical students whom Miss Cushing was forced to evict, owing to their unruly behaviour. The parcel was sent from Belfast, after all, and that was from where one of the former boarders had travelled. Holmes, however, upon examining the parcel himself, is convinced that they are dealing with a serious crime. A medical student with access to a dissection laboratory, Holmes points out, would likely use something other than plain salt to preserve human remains, and would be able to make a neater incision than the rough hack used on these ears. Also, the address itself, roughly written and with a spelling correction, suggests a certain unlearnedness about the sender, and that he is not familiar with Croydon. Even the knot in the string suggests to Holmes that they are looking for a sailing man.
| | The Adventure of the Devils Foot | Add Package + |
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Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in Cornwall one spring for the former's health, but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Mr. Mortimer Tregennis, a local gentleman, and Mr. Roundhay, the local vicar, come to Holmes to report that Tregennis's two brothers have gone mad, and his sister has died. Tregennis had gone to visit them in their village (Tredannick Wollas), played whist with them, and then left. When he came back this morning, he found them still sitting in their places at the table, the brothers, George and Owen, laughing and singing, and the sister, Brenda, dead. The housekeeper had discovered them in this state, and fainted. The vicar has not been to see yet. Tregennis says that he remembers one brother looking through the window, and then he himself turned to see some "movement" outside.
| | The Adventure of the Dying Detective | Add Package + |
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Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend's illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk in three days.
| | The Adventure of the Red Circle | Add Package + |
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Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good English although with a foreign accent, came to her ten days ago and offered her double the rent that she had asked on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed. Since then, Mrs. Warren has not seen him, nor has her husband or their servant girl. The lodger insisted on having the Daily Gazette every morning, and sometimes requested other things. All requests were printed, in single words, on a slip of paper left on a chair outside the room, where meals were also left.
| | The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge | Add Package + |
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Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque". No sooner has he arrived at 221B Baker Street than Inspector Gregson also shows up, along with Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. They wish a statement from Eccles about the murder near Esher last night. A note in the dead man's pocket indicates that Eccles said that he would be at the victim's house that night.
| | The Bourne Identity | Add Package + |
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The protagonist is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with several bullet wounds, including a head wound which has given him amnesia. The doctor treating him finds a message surgically embedded in his hip that contains details of a Swiss bank account, presumably anonymous.
| | The Bourne Supremacy | Add Package + |
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In the first book, The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne had suffered amnesia. Over the course of the book he regained his memory with the help of a Canadian economist, Marie St. Jacques, and later found that he was previously a special operative for the United States Government in an elite project in Southeast Asia and Vietnam codenamed Medusa. After a tragic accident involving the death of his family, he joined Project Treadstone Seventy-One, where he was given the code name of Cain and used as bait for the infamous European assassin, Carlos. Bourne took credit for various kills in China and the rest of Asia, acting as a rival to Carlos, in order to draw him out of hiding and into the hands of the U.S. Government. In a climactic scene at the end of the book, Carlos escaped and Bourne was almost killed as he was believed to be a traitor by his uninformed employers.
| | The Bourne Ultimatum | Add Package + |
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The novel follows David Webb, alias Jason Bourne, as he works to find his old enemy, Carlos the Jackal, who is trying to kill him. As the Jackal enters old age and his infamy fades, he decides that he will do two things before he dies: kill Webb/Bourne, and destroy the KGB facility of Novgorod, where the Jackal was trained and later turned away. Carlos the Jackal uses a diverse collective of aged men devoted to his handiwork and known as "The Old Men of Paris." Webb sends his wife and children to live with his wife's brother, John St. Jacques, in the Caribbean for protection while Webb himself works with old friend and CIA agent Alexander Conklin, and to a limited degree, the CIA, to hunt down and kill the Jackal first. Webb poses as an important member of Medusa (a newer version than the original he was associated with during the Vietnam era), now a nearly omnipotent economic force that controls the head of NATO, leading figures in the Defense Department, portions of the American and Sicilian mafia, and large NYSE firms. The plan is to use Medusa's resources to contact the Jackal. Webb just misses the Jackal several times, including when the Jackal locates Webb's family in the Caribbean, before Webb stages his own death and convinces the Jackal that he has succeeded. In a final confrontation, the Jackal is finally killed and Webb returns to his family.
| | The Da Vinci Code | Add Package + |
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In the Louvre, a monk of Opus Dei named Silas apprehends Jacques Sauniere, the museum's curator, and demands to know where the Holy Grail is. After Sauniere tells him, Silas shoots him and leaves him to die. However, Sauniere has lied to Silas about the Grail's location. Realizing that he has only a few minutes to live and that he must pass on his important secret, Sauniere paints a pentacle on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and drags himself into the center of the circle, re-creating the position of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. He also leaves a code, a line of numbers, and two lines of text on the ground in invisible ink.
| | The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | Add Package + |
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Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance. Holmes is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance because of her sex. She does, however, carry valuable jewels with her. It is also her habit to write to her old governess, Miss Dobney, every other week, but for the past five weeks, there has not been a word from her. She has left the Hotel National for parts unknown. Her last two bank transactions were cheques, one to pay her hotel bill, and another for E50 to her maid, Miss Marie Devine.
| | The Fellowship of the Ring | Add Package + |
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The first chapter in the book begins quite lightly, following the tone of The Hobbit which is more of a children's story than The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo celebrated his 111th (or eleventy-first, as it is called here) birthday on the same day that Frodo celebrated his 33rd birthday (his 'coming of age'). At the birthday party, Bilbo disappears after his speech, to the surprise of all. The wizard Gandalf later alerts Frodo to the darker aspects of the ring which Bilbo had used to make himself invisible: it is the One Ring of Sauron, the Dark Lord.
| | The Golden Compass | Add Package + |
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The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds.
| | The Horse and His Boy | Add Package + |
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A young boy called Shasta is found as a baby and raised by Arsheesh, a Calormene fisherman. Some years later, he overhears Arsheesh agreeing to sell him to a powerful Calormene feudal noble. Shasta, who has never really loved the fisherman, is relieved to discover that he is not really his son, and awaits his new master in the donkey stable outside the fisherman's house. As he muses aloud, the noble's stallion, Bree, begins to talk to Shasta, who is astounded. Together the pair decide to escape a life of servitude in Calormen by riding north for Narnia. They meet another pair of escaping travellers, Aravis, a young Calormene aristocrat, and her talking horse, Hwin. Aravis is fleeing a forced marriage to the Tisroc's grand vizier, a hunchbacked and grovelling old man.
| | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Add Package + |
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Holmes and Watson receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer, who wishes to consult them before meeting Sir Henry Baskerville, the last of the fiery line of Baskervilles, and heir to the Baskerville estate in the moors of Devonshire. Mortimer tells them he is uneasy about letting Sir Henry go to Baskerville Hall (it was owned by Sir Charles who earned a fortune from South African gold), owing to a supposed family curse. He narrates the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a demonic dog that first killed Sir Hugo Baskerville in the 17th century because he killed one of the daughters of a neighbour, because he was fond of her but she was not fond of him. This hound was believed to have been killing most of the Baskerville males in the region of Devonshire. When Holmes dismisses it as a fairy tale, Mortimer narrates the events of the recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Henry's uncle. Although he was found dead in his garden without any trace of physical damage, his face was distorted as if he died in utter terror. His health was in a critical state so anything that scared him could cause him to go into cardiac arrest and die. Dr. Mortimer then reveals something that he had not mentioned at the official inquest. He alone had noticed footmarks at some distance from the body when it was found; the footmarks of a gigantic hound. When the last of the Baskerville arrives at London, mysterious things happen to him, for e.g he received an anonymous letter warning him to stay out of the moors, two of his boots go missing and then suddenly re-appear and finally an unknown person was following him but Holmes was unable to idenfify the character (due to his shrewdness and fast reactions). Worried about all this, Holmes tells Watson to be on high alert and report to him everything that went on, especially details about the surrounding neighbours, and just incase he also carries arms with him.
| | The Last Battle | Add Package + |
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In The Last Battle, Lewis brings The Chronicles of Narnia to an end. The book deals with the end of time in the old Narnia and sums up the series by linking the experience of the human children in Narnia with their lives in the real world.
| | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Add Package + |
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The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, only daughter of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head." Crane disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related."
| | The Odyssey | Add Package + |
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Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus's palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus's son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their dominion over the palace.
| | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Add Package + |
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A collection of 13 stories
| | The Scarlet Letter | Add Package + |
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The Scarlet Letter opens with a long preamble about how the book came to be written. The nameless narrator was the surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts. In the customhouse's attic, he discovered a number of documents, among them a manuscript that was bundled with a scarlet, gold-embroidered patch of cloth in the shape of an "A." The manuscript, the work of a past surveyor, detailed events that occurred some two hundred years before the narrator's time. When the narrator lost his customs post, he decided to write a fictional account of the events recorded in the manuscript. The Scarlet Letter is the final product.
| | The Sign of the Four | Add Package + |
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The story is set in 1887 or 1888. The Sign of Four has a complex plot involving service in Colonial India, a stolen treasure and a secret pact among four ex-convicts. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the first novel, A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
| | The Taking | Add Package + |
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In the midst of a mysteriously sudden rainstorm, author Molly Sloan awakens in the middle of the night. Unable to return to sleep, she leaves her husband Neil slumbering in bed and goes downstairs to work on a manuscript in progress.
| | Where No Man Has Gone Before, A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions | Add Package + |
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Where No Man Has Gone Before, A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions
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