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Mr Midshipman Hornblower - Bookworms 4
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Mr Midshipman Hornblower - Bookworms 4Mr Midshipman Hornblower - Bookworms 4

Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself.
 
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Tags: Hornblower, sailing, dangerous, France, Britain, Midshipman, Bookworms
Who was Joan of Arc?
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Who was Joan of Arc?Who was Joan of Arc?

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years’ War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her beliefs, Joan of Arc became a Catholic saint and has since captured the world’s imagination.
 
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Fanny in France
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Fanny in FranceFanny in France

Fanny is a girl who knows a lot about food and cooking since she’s grown up in and around the famous restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.
 
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Tags: Fanny, restaurant, Panisse, Berkeley, France, famous
Les Miserables - Bookworms Level 1
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Les Miserables - Bookworms Level 1France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy, Inspector Javert? This story for Bookworms is loosely based on the famous novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, one of France's greatest writers. The novel was written in 1862, and the story has been retold many times - in a musical, in plays for radio and theatre, and in more than fifty films for television and cinema.
 
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Tags: Bookworms, France, novel, story, times
The Hideout
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The HideoutThe Hideout

 A powerful and moving novel about one man's final, fatal, heroic act of resistance in Nazi France.
 
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Tags: heroic, resistance, France, Hideout, fatal