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Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure packed with mystery and friendship!
While the Thea Sisters are on a tropical vacation in the Bahamas, they stumble upon an old pirate map! It's related to a local legend. Could it lead to treasure?! The five mice venture onto the sparkling Caribbean Sea to follow the map... but someone else is trying to find the treasure first. It's a dazzling adventure! Praise for Geronimo Stilton...
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The world's most famous sleuth is back for new adventures. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 7
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Alexander Holder catches his own son Arthur stealing the top secret computer chip that the famous Payne computer dynasty family had entrusted him to safeguard. Why would Holder's son betray him? Did Holder's son betray him? In order to save the situation, Holmes must sift through the motives, secrets and misunderstandings of two families: not only those of Arthur, but those of the 10-year-old genius son, Helfand Payne III, and his father, Helfand...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 17
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Victor Fatherly is a bio-engineer whose work on a new blood regenerator could revolutionize organ transplant work - if his competitor Michael Wooten doesn't beat him to it. Now, someone has stolen both men's inventions. But how? The safe housing Victor's invention is protected by a biometric security system; only Victor's thumbprint and DNA signature can open it. Similarly, Michael's system uses his eye's unique retinal scan as the key. Holmes...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 15
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Global Intelligence goes to Level Five Global Alert when Mark Trenton discovers that the top secret haloids containing the master security code is missing! The code is so secret that New Scotland Yard cannot be told of the theft. Sherlock Holmes is put on the case and, by noticing the most minute details, soon recovers the disk – then sets a trap to catch the thief. But the case doesn't end with the capture of the thief, because the thief herself...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 24
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At the Pomiero Touring Club, there's been an attempted theft of a Napoleon Excelsior. Though the craft wasn't stolen, it was vandalized: the expensive gems that adorn the side were pried off, but not taken. Why not? Holmes investigates to find out that the late inventor, Philippe Napoleon, had manufactured the vehicles to further his quest to discover an unlimited power source, but was driven to an early grave by the pressures of his business and...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 11
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After draining the Sussex County Holocomputer System of every drop of data, a cackling vampire-like creature locks himself inside the vault at London First Bank. Beth corners it and blasts open the vault with ionic canon…only to find nothing there! Byte-sucking fiend or computer generated count? Holmes must call on the Irregulars to help track the alleged vampire to its lair…where Moriarty appears, trapping Holmes and the gang. But Beth foils...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 26
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Spending a weekend in the country to attend the wedding of kindly old Professor Presbury might have been relaxing for Lestrade…if it weren't for the strange goings on and screams in the night! On the eve of the nuptials, the bride is awakened by a monstrous gorilla with a face like that of the Professor's, and suspicious hairs are found outside her window. Is the Professor's daughter trying to frighten the bride into confessing she's after the...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 14
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At their underground farm, the Cubbitts have had a monumental breakthrough. They have perfected a way to grow vegetables in any temperature and in a nearly airless vacuum – a discovery which should prove a great benefit to the world. But someone wants to use the discovery to further his own agenda and tries to take it using force, leaving the Cubbitts unconscious. With the help of the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes deduces that the stick figure...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 10
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At the insistence of a memo from Lestrade, the Prime Minister contacts Sherlock Holmes when the top secret virtual reality chip, called the Mazarin Chip, is stolen. But the memo is a forgery: a trap to get the Prime Minister and Holmes to Baker Street where Moriarty then descends upon them, trapping Holmes in a virtual prison and kidnapping the Prime Minister. Holmes must escape his virtual prison and discover where Moriarty really is before he...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 20
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Holmes and Watson arrive at Lestrade's apartment to find it ablaze and Beth out of control! She attacks them both, leaps off of her balcony, and escapes into the night. What has caused her to go crazy? Holmes receives a mysterious Chinese puzzle box while retracing the path of Beth's most recent investigation into an amateur burglary and, shortly thereafter, he too appears to go mad. But in this case, Holmes is cleverly faking insanity to ferret...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 8
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The blinding flashes of disintegration haunt Watson after he witnesses Holmes and Moriarty fall from their rooftop battle into New London's laser wave sanitation grid. Despite his devastation at losing his friend, crime doesn't stop and Lestrade brings Watson to the room of a young hotshot laser tag tournament star who has been frozen solid by a freeze ray. Why? Was it because the hotshot was cheating? Or, did an opponent merely want to take him...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 12
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Christmas in New London finds the whole city gone mad for the hot toy to have: the Blue Carbuncle, a troll-like doll that can mimic a real person and appear to communicate. Holmes inadvertently hurts Watson's feelings when he expresses his disgust at the modern world's obsession for machines. But when Beth brings him one of the coveted dolls after recovering it from a mugging, Holmes quickly realizes that this doll is much more sophisticated than...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
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"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer volume n/a
Airmont classic volume Cl-4
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Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
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The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe endures twenty-seven years of solitude and deprivation on a remote Caribbean island, his only companion an escaped prisoner who he names "Friday." Together, Crusoe and Friday encounter cannibals, captives and mutineers, before being rescued by pirates and returning home.
Written by Daniel Defoe in 1719, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is thought to be inspired by the true story of Scottish...
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Regarded by Charles Dickens as his best novel upon publication, "Martin Chuzzlewit" relates a tale of familial selfishness and eventual moral redemption. First published serially from 1842 to 1844, it is the story of young Martin Chuzzlewit, who has been raised by his grandfather. He has fallen in love with his grandfather's ward and caretaker, the young orphan Mary Graham. Martin's grandfather does not approve and young Martin alienates himself from...
20) Treasure Island
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When young Jim Hawkins finds a mysterious map in a dead sailor's sea trunk, it marks the start of a thrilling treasure hunt and a very dangerous adventure. Accompanied by the local doctor and squire, he sets off on the high seas as a cabin-boy, determined to find the buried hoard. But they are not alone in their quest, a band of pirates -- led by the enigmatic, one-legged Long John Silver -- will stop at nothing to take back what they believe is theirs....