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Cambridge English readers. Level 3 volume 11
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Six stories about a world we cannot explain -- a film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger, a man comes face to face with his father's past, an Irish-American family cannot escape someone from the past, a woman doesn't listen when she is told not to destroy a very old tree, an English writer slowly becomes more and more Japanese, and a killer "sees" himself die in a hospital.
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A hurricane is tearing across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa towards the USA. As the hurricane passes through the Caribbean, it destroys everything it it's path. In Florida, a man is out in a fishing boat, unaware of the approaching disaster. His daughter, Ikemi, and her boyfriend must confront the hurricane in a desperate attempt to reach her father before it is too late.
3) Murder maker
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"Congratulations, you created a murderer. But even though I've killed three people, I'm not to blame. You are." After her boyfriend leaves her, Carla wants revenge. She meets three women who have also been abandoned by their partners. Carla decides to practise her revenge on these men and starts by buying a ticket to Cuba.
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"Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin. By mistake, Hiro reads the man's text messages. What do they mean? Is the man really a businessman or is he a killer? Hiro thinks he knows, but in Berlin no-one listens to his warnings." -- back cover.
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Each of these highly entertaining stories centres around one of the five senses. We meet a well-known broadcaster whose blindness is her power, a war hero who hates noise and wants silence, a wine-taster who has an accident, a university lecturer who learns Tai Chi, and a magazine journalist who smell scandal and will do anything for a good story. From p. 4 of cover.
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Whe the wife of a well-known surgeon dies suddenly in the emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. The police agree, but they suspect her! Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust.
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An English executive in India, Dick Sterling, is dismissed after he tries to uncover corruption within his company. He returns to England where his life falls apart and his marriage breaks up. He then sets out on a one-man search for the truth behind his dismissal. He returns to the rich mystery and beauty of India and is finally forced to choose between love and revenge.
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Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group pf friends. But now he is dead and Detective Inspector Rod Eliot wants the answers to two simple questions. Was it murder? And if so, who was the murderer? From p. 4 of cover.
11) Dead cold
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"A dead girl in a swimming pool in Pine Crest, USA. She's Janine, a 23-year-old student who wanted to write for a newspaper. Detective Flick Laine has to find the killer. But first she must find out the big story Janine was working on before her death"--Cover.
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George Keegan, a Dublin lawyer, wakes to find himself lying in a pool of blood. He can't remember what happened the night before. He soon has a clue when he sees the body of his girlfriend and colleague, Orla, on the TV news. But who killed Orla? And why? George wants to know. And so does Inspector Sean Murphy of the Dublin police.
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Grand Central Station, New York in mid-July. It's early morning, but everyone is suffering in the heat. Private investigator Nathan Marley is on his way to another wasted day at the office. But a chance meeting with a homeless woman at the station and a surprise letter changes all of that. Marley starts a journey through parts of the burning summer city he has never visited.
14) The sugar glider
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Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to Australia hoping to rescue a failed marriage and to spend more time with his daughter, Judy. But a routine cargo flight in an old DC4 airplane turns into tragedy when the plane crashes in the Australian Outback, killing the co-pilot. Don and Judy's chances of survival seem slim as they struggle against sabotage, unscrupulous businessmen, and the inhospitable landscape.
15) No place to hide
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One day in the fall a woman calls at the New York office of Nat Marley, licensed private investigator, to ask him to find Patrick, her missing husband. Marley's enquiries take him to the financial district of Wall Street and an investment company whose returns are too good to be true. Then the police find a body in the trunk of a car Patrick's car. Whose is the body and where is Patrick?
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John is a successful TV producer with a happy family life. He wants to make a programme about the strange story of a hitch-hiker. Then he finds out that the story and things that have happened in his own life are very similar. He begins to worry about his wife and young child and that he may be going mad.
17) Blood diamonds
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Diamonds smuggled from the bloody civil-war zones of Africa and traded illegally for weapons are known as "blood diamonds." London journalists Harley Kirkpatrick and Annie Shepherd sense the scoop of a lifetime when they try to trap a smuggler.
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Violent crime suddenly becomes personal for New York private investigator, Nathan Marley. A relative of Stella Delgado, Marley's assistant, is arrested for a brutal murder, and unidentified bodies are washed up on a beach. Marley's search for the truth takes him to the Russian American community where he finds a wall of silence. Behind the wall, there is trade in illegal immigration and a lot of dirty money.
19) Nelson's dream
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"Nelson Mbizi returns to southern Africa after studying in Britain. He is going to work in his father's hotel. In a different part of the city a poor mother dies, leaving her children alone. Nelson's desire to help them coincides with the arrival of Viki, a TV presenter. The story unfolds against a background of HIV/AIDS and government corruption on the one hand, and great humour and wonderful music on the other. A life-affirming story dealing with...
20) Different worlds
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"In my world there are no birds singing. There are no noisy men working on the roads. No people leaving bars late at night shouting at each other. No babies crying." Sam is like any other teenage girl except that she was born deaf. Now she is in love with Jim, but are their worlds too different?
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