Andrew Watts
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DAS GLEICHGEWICHT DER GLOBALEN MACHT HAT SICH VERSCHOBEN
DER NÄCHSTE WELTKRIEG STEHT VOR DER TÜR
„Erschreckend real"
Die Architekten des Krieges ist das erste Buch aus einer USA Today Besteller-Serie:
Von einer geheimen, von Dschungel überwucherten Insel im Pazifik bis zum Wüstensand des Nahen Ostens. Von den smoggefüllten Gassen Chinas bis zu den Gängen eines Zerstörers der US Navy. Die Architekten des Krieges folgt einer Elitegruppe...
2) Firewall
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When a scientist at the world's top AI company is murdered, a covert CIA operative must recruit a former love interest to help uncover the killer. Nations and corporations alike are racing to dominate the world's artificial intelligence industry... by whatever means necessary. With its genius CEO and breakthrough technology, the Silicon Valley-based Pax AI Corporation is one of the hottest companies in the sector. But when one of Pax AI's top scientists...
3) Glidepath
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Charles Fend, the billionaire CEO of Fend Aerospace, is only days away from launching the world's first autonomous commercial airliner when a mysterious cyber attack threatens to cripple the project. But who is responsible?
Is it the wealthy ex-KGB agent, Pavel Morozov, who has shown up from a past Charles had long-forgotten?
Or was it Charles' own son Max-now on the run from the FBI after he was accused of sending corporate secrets to a criminal...
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A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US Senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is. The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air show in the world - Oshkosh. Beneath the drone of old...
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When a techno-terrorist group threatens to break encryptions on a global scale, a CIA officer must take matters into his own hands to save a world held hostage.
A massive security breach in China. CIA operations compromised in Turkey. Undercover ops breaking down the world over. A techno-terrorist group dubbed "Archon" has unleashed a terrifying new technology that can break any encryption. Humanity's secrets are about to be laid bare, and global...
8) Rrralph
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The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."
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Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but fashioned from the adapted voices of a host of earlier artists, moments and media. The text analyses re-workings...
10) Wolf pie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Wilfong the wolf fails to blow down the house of the Pygg brothers, he stays outside their door all winter learning their games and listening to their jokes and stories, but although he claims to be reformed, the pigs are reluctant to offer friendship.
11) Barbarians!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The ancient Romans used the word barbarian to describe people who were coarse, rude, or even just foreign. Over time the word has also come to connote bloodthirsty cruelty. But were the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols as barbaric as we’ve been led to believe? In dynamic, detailed spreads that young readers will pore over, bestselling author Steven Kroll and illustrator Robert Byrd explore how these nomadic warriors lived, worshipped,...
12) The Butt Book
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Popular children's author Artie Bennett penned this loving tribute to the rear end to shed some light on an oft-neglected body part. From human butts, to giraffe butts, to dog butts and more, The Butt Book celebrates them all with zany rhymes that will keep young listeners giggling for hours.
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Dean Hale won widespread acclaim as coauthor of the award-winning graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack. In his first beginning-reader book, Hale delivers a delightful, rhyme-packed tale sure to become a bedtime favorite. Being a goat isn't easy-especially in the Choat household. Petunia P. Oat (the goat) gets blamed for everything. If something goes missing, the members of family Choat invariably blame (you guessed it) the goat. But...
14) The Circus Ship
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English
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Recipient of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award, Chris Van Dusen has made a name for himself as an acclaimed author and illustrator. In The Circus Ship, a very special craft is carrying all manner of circus animals. But when it nearly sinks, out spill all the animals. Luckily, they make it to a nearby island. And there they happily settle in-- until the mean old circus owner tries to round them up.
15) A Home for Bird
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Children's author and illustrator Philip C. Stead counts a Caldecott Medal among his many literary accomplishments. A Home for Bird is a touching tale of friendship and determination. Out one day, Vernon the toad happens upon a tiny blue bird who is oddly silent. Vernon introduces Bird to his friends and tours him around to many of his favorite places, but Bird still won’t talk. Thinking that Bird is quiet because he is homesick, Vernon takes his...
16) Max's Words
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Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
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English
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Benjamin collects all kinds of stamps, and Karl has a huge collection of shiny coins. Neither of them, however, will let their younger brother Max touch any of their neat stuff. So since his brothers won't share, Max decides to start collecting on his own. But what should he collect? How about. words! Using scissors, he begins snipping words out of periodicals.
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Peter Bently's unique mix of rhyming verse, storytelling, and humor is a surefire hit with young readers. In King Jack and the Dragon, Jack, his toddler brother Caspar, and his friend Zack build a make-believe fort capable of stopping the attacks of fire-breathing dragons and all sorts of other beasties. But as playtime draws to a close and his knights get carried away by marauding parents, Jack discovers that defending a magical fort is more fun...