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The Story of the Internet (Penguin Graded Readers Level 5)
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The Story of the Internet (Penguin Graded Readers Level 5)
The Story of the Internet
Penguin Graded Readers Level 5
Ever wondered about how the internet began or why? This Graded Reader is part of the 'Business World' series and explains how the internet developed to what it is today. 

Audio added Thanks to asc2000

 
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Tags: Graded, Level, Story, Readers, internet
The story of the Amulet
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The story of the AmuletThe story of the Amulet

While the childrens mother and father are out of the country the children are staying with the "old nurse" in her boarding house. There is only one other boarder, an old Egyptoligist, whom the children soon befriend. They learn of an amulet that has the ability to grant their hearts desire, and soon buy it. After making the purchase, they learn that it is the only surviving half of the amulet. Though the half of the amulet cannot grant their hearts desire, it can serve as a magic portal permitting time travel.
 
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Tags: amulet, learn, hearts, children, grant, story, their, desire
An Anarchist
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An AnarchistAn Anarchist

This short story from Joseph Conrad is among his best.
The man's head and shoulders emerged above the deck, over which were scattered various tools of his trade and a few pieces of machinery. He was doing some repairs to the engines. At the sound of our footsteps he raised anxiously a grimy face with a pointed chin and a tiny fair moustache. What could be seen of his delicate features under the black smudges appeared to me wasted and livid in the greenish shade of the enormous tree spreading its foliage over the launch moored close to the bank.
 
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Tags: among, Anarchist, Conrad, Joseph, story, short, father, Russian, government, features, under, smudges, delicate
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
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It Shouldn't Happen to a VetIt Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

How on earth did James Herriot come to be sitting on a high Yorkshire moor, smelling vaguely of cows? James isn't sure, but he knows that he loves it. This second hilarious volume of memoirs contains more tales of James' unpredictable boss Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, animal mayhem galore and his first encounters with a beautiful girl called Helen. 'He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious'
 
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Tags: James, beautiful, called, story, encounters, Shouldn, Happen
Chanur's Legacy
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Chanur's LegacyChanur's Legacy

C.J. Cherryh - Chanur's Legacy

In this intrigue- and adventure-packed work, Cherryh takes readers back to Compact space, home territory of the advanced catlike race the hani. Here is the story of the next generation of hani and specifically of Hilfy, the new captain of the spaceship Chanur's Legacy.

 
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Tags: Chanur, Legacy, Cherryh, generation, story, specifically