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29801) Future Friend
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From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead, to be precise… The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can't even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside. Until the day...
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Greetings to all with a penchant for the darker things in life. Settle down and prepare yourself for a twisty, tricksy, cautionary tale of troublesome terror as we follow a dastardly dozen of trick-or-treaters on a night of Halloween hell! Be warned: this nuisance bunch of roustabouts (including a rusty robot, a kooky clown, and a malodorous merman) is armed with an arsenal of devious tricks such as flour bombs, rotten eggs, water pistols, and more....
29803) The Rescue of Timmy Trial
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This is the first book in the Aletheia Adventure series. In this series, Bible truth comes alive through imagery and allegory - in fantastic, exciting adventures.
Jack Merryweather goes to the same school as Timmy Trial, but they aren't exactly friends. Timmy is a bully, and Jack only wants to escape from him. But instead, Timmy and Jack find themselves on an adventure together in the extraordinary city of Aletheia in the mysterious land of Err....
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For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the...
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For anyone in need of a pithy one-liner, a harrowing phrase, or a jaunty quip for their next story or role-playing game, this collection of fantasy artwork and phrases will be the ultimate resource for fun and creativity.
When attacked by a dragon, some might say, "My shield is strong and my sword is sharp. Stand behind me if you want to live." Others might say, "Dead or alive, that thing is going in my lunch-pack." Even more players, however, might...
29806) Beauty Is a Beast
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The year...3025. The location...Spring Mountain, Nevada. The problem...humans are fast becoming extinct! Welcome...to the post-apocalyptic future.
She bit him. OMG she bit him! Nizhoni of Mojave Earth Clan hoped her spirit guide would offer protection. She would need it to flee the man she had bitten out of fear! Hiding in the darkness she shifted. No longer human, she was now a wolf and her destination... as far away from Michael as possible.
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An unlucky girl. A secret society. Can her mother be rescued? Mallory Stone is odd. After four years of living on the road, the young travel blogger is frustrated that her mom still won't let her show their faces on the internet. But Mallory discovers there is more to her bad luck with computers than she thought when she accidentally uploads the wrong photo and her mother goes missing. Struggling to figure out who she can trust, Mallory runs from...
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Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords.
Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created in a lab in the year 3112, then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan.
Cade's quest to locate Xan joins her with an array of outlaws-her first friends-on a galaxy-spanning...
29809) The Purple Storm
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This second book in the Aletheia Adventure series returns to the city of Bible Truth - Aletheia - and goes deep into the mysterious fortress that is the Academy of Soldiers-of-the-Cross.
Four children are granted the privilege of spending a week with the Rescuers of Aletheia at the Academy. But during that week, something unexpected happens: An unprecedented storm appears on the horizon, and suddenly the children are in the middle of an emergency...
29810) Brutal: The Art of Samwise
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The �rst monograph by the art director for leading video game company Blizzard Entertainment
Brütal: The Art of Samwise is a career-spanning art book that assembles the many artistic creations of world renowned artist Samwise Didier into one volume. For nearly thirty years, Samwise's unique art style, which combines the use of bold colors, visual storytelling, and a touch of humor, has been featured in numerous art books, illustrated novels,...
29811) 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces
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It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice-but how do you argue with a boulder, which neither sees nor hears?
29812) Middle Ground
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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In this provocative cautionary tale for teens, the sequel to Awaken, seventeen-year-old Maddie's rebellion against the digital-only life grows dangerous. Maddie is in Los Angeles, trying to stay out of trouble. But one night, a seemingly small act of defiance lands her in the place she fears the most: a detention center. Here, patients are reprogrammed to accept a digital existence. Maddie is now fighting for her mind, her soul, and her very life....
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In Westworld and Philosophy, philosophers of diverse orientations and backgrounds offer their penetrating insights into the questions raised by the popular TV show, Westworld. ● Is it wrong for Dr. Robert Ford (played by Anthony Hopkins) to "play God" in controlling the lives of the hosts, and if so, is it always wrong for anyone to "play God"? ● Is the rebellion by the robot "hosts" against Delos Inc. a just war? If not, what would make it just?...
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After a chance encounter at a Kabuki theater, Zach Johnson has reluctantly agreed to lend a hand to Sexy Sprockets, 2060's most fabulously famous pop singer. Sexy has received a slew of death threats from an obsessive fan intent on making sure her ascendant career is cut short. In the guise of Sexy's bodyguard, Zach enters the dizzying world of showbiz to uncover Sexy's stalker before he can make good on his threats.
Together with his sentient super-computer,...
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Une fiche de référence sur 2001 : l'Odyssée de l'espace, un chef-d'oeuvre de Stanley Kubrick.
Dans les années 1960, marquées par la guerre froide, deux grands thèmes hantent le monde occidental : le risque d'une apocalypse nucléaire, objet d'innombrables films, et la conquête spatiale, sous la forme d'une compétition entre Russes et Américains.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur 2001 : l'Odyssée de...
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On a Friday afternoon in early spring, Glory Eleanor Loomis, 13, of Sackatucket, Long Island makes a shocking discovery in a second-hand bookstore. She finds a novel called Invasion Earth set in Roswell, New Mexico (her parents' birthplace) containing a picture of her brother Michael, captioned "George Edward Livermore," and another of her space-suited mother and father, identified as George's parents. Glory is further, shaken, when the main character's...
29818) The Demon and the Dog
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Even weird things can happen to demons.
Ask Damon, a powerful demon in the underworld. He was just doing his normal job for the Demonic Defense when he uncovers a plot that is out of this world. It changed his world. Why, because someone makes contact with Damon and a chase begins. What will Damon do with this? What does this person want? Damon is so scared and he does not know where to turn. However, an unlikely friendship grows from his mysterious...
29819) All That Glitters
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When EZ was given the assignment of slaying demons, he never thought he'd be snatched up and dragged into their realm!Things are starting to look better for EZ. He's not only managed to survive a face-to-face meeting with an actual demon prince, but he was even able to pull that demon right out of his foster mother. Of course, that exorcism only lasted a few minutes before seven new demons moved into Mrs. Easton. It seems the demons won that battle.Demons:...
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The entire Silver Foxes series is now in one place! Join Xena, Hunter, Kathra, J.R., Max, Celeste, and a host of other characters as they discover the truth about the mystical Silver Foxes. Among the ruins of a devastated city Master Thief, J.R. Dunsworth, finds a young fox named Xena and her sister, Kathra, sitting among the ruins. He picks them up, intending to dump them on someone else as soon as possible but soon learns Xena holds a mysterious...
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