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1) Heroes
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"A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee; Ground Zero; Two Degrees) is a major publishing moment. A new World War II novel from Alan Gratz? That's even bigger! Get ready for an action-packed, inventive, and powerful take on the attack on Pearl Harbor, as only Alan Gratz can tell it. December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the...
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Storm dragons volume 1
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In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby dragon--believed to be extinct--and becomes the focus of an evil pirate's vengeance. Remy spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge--one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep, and he...
3) Calypso Down
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An undersea laboratory in a violent storm, an attack imminent. Only Chris Black can save the mission gone awry.
Indomitable marine biologist Chris Black arrives in Florida intending to assist young aquanauts on an internationally funded mission to Calypso, the new undersea laboratory deployed on the edge of a coral reef. But as online trolls jeopardize the integrity of the mission and mysterious attacks suggest that someone would prefer that Calypso...
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Silvana, 14 ans, pensait subir la séparation de ses parents comme un incident normal de la vie, sans pour autant l'accepter. Elle s'inquiétait surtout de se retrouver séparée de sa demi-sœur, Hortense, avec qui elle a passé toute son enfance. Préoccupée par des pensées cartésiennes, elle était alors bien loin de s'imaginer les aventures qu'elle s'apprêtait à vivre. Tapie dans l'ombre, la menace de l'Eliminati commençait à gronder, lancinante,...
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Segundo libro infantil de una de las actrices más prometedoras del momento: Luna Fulgencio
Una casa abandonada, un rodaje muy movido, una pandilla dividida
Luna está feliz. Va a ser la protagonista de una película de miedo. ¡Con lo que le gustan! Y encima se rueda en verano, en su pueblo, ¡menuda suerte!, podrá disfrutar de sus dos diversiones favoritas: el cine y sus amigos.
Pero las cosas no salen siempre como uno desea. A veces, incluso los...
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From the bestselling masters of the Old West comes the first in a blazing new series about a young deputy sheriff's coming of age-and trial by gunfire-in a small Texas town. This is the blistering saga of a hero in training, from first blood to final showdown…
Flint Moran was fourteen years old when the Civil War ended. He was fifteen when his family bought a plot of land near Tinhorn, Texas. He was barely nineteen when he caught a pair of rustlers...
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In den Zeitungen des Königreichs taucht das verwackelte Bild eines Ungeheuers auf. Die Presse tippt auf einen Nachfahren des legendären Monsters von Loch Ness. Aber das Bündnis der Sieben Feuer weiß es besser: Für die Drachenreiter ist klar, dass es sich um einen der versteinerten Blattfingerdrachen handeln muss, der nach Jahrhunderten erwacht ist. Henry und seine Freunde dürfen keine Zeit verlieren. Sie müssen den verschwundenen Blattfinger...
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Auf Sieben Feuer ist Ruhe eingekehrt. Doch der Friede ist trügerisch, denn Lady Blackstone sinnt auf Rache, und niemand weiß, welche teuflischen Pläne sie diesmal verfolgt. Henry, Lucy und die anderen Drachenreiter müssen jetzt mehr denn je zusammenhalten. Doch unter ein paar ehemaligen Schülern werden auch feindselige Stimmen laut. Sie geben der Goldzunge Henry die Schuld daran, dass Sieben Feuer in großer Gefahr schwebt. Das Tribunal der Sieben...
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What's it like to leave the Army, get a job as a Training Development Officer for a Training Board in Northern Ireland, a beautiful, quiet, peaceful place and have to open the door of a car fifty yards from the border with the Republic which might or might not have a bomb in it triggered to go off when a door is opened?
Read and find out! Jack, our hero finds out and then moves on to 'war' with trade unions as a quite different kind of war followed...
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WHAT MAKES A HERO STRONG? THE VILLAIN.
Aaron Annwyn is determined to destroy the Secret Society that has ruled his life for the past few years. The demands placed upon him have harmed his relationships and strained his psyche. Can Diana, his co-conspirator until now, be trusted? Or should he depend on Sasha, a beautiful computer guru, with whom he begins a relationship?
Regardless, his resolve is now greater than ever to defeat the powerful adversary,...
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Camp Cory director for many years, facing a new season with additional staff, including a newly appointed business manager also acting as a senior counselor who holds differing views as to how the camp should be managed, Henry Carter finds that the changes in staff along with a significant increase in camp inhabitants from different ethnic, social, and economic background soon begin challenging his direction of the camp and ordering its program of...
13) Walmatjarri
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First of a trilogy involving Wongi tribesman Walmatjarri.Set in the harsh Central Desert Region of Western Australia in the 1890s. Follow the upbringing of an aboriginal boy, Walmatjarri, from ten years of age to adulthood. Learn of his tribal initiation from boyhood to warrior status. Absorb the pain and trauma he suffered when the receiver of a pay-back punishment ritual, by spearing, as meted out by fellow tribesmen.His contact and involvement...
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Former soldier and builder Seb Gunner is recruited by Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to hunt down Catholic recusants and their priests, as Henry VIII's Protestant Reformation and seperation from Rome gets underway. Later, Gunner is also appointed as the Tower of London torturer and learns how to use the infamous rack to break down heretical prisoners into confessing their networks. One of these prisoners is Gunners own sister. As the...
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growing up in scotland during the sixties, the main character of this novel spins the capivating tale of the formative events and escapades that snowballed into an epic struggle to make real the obsessions of that era which colonized the minds of his generation. the many characters who are drawn to him and become part of this tale are often recognizable as like ourselves or others we have known; the dilemmas and challenges he faces are some of them...
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"I want to present Cleopatra to the World," Lady Stanhope sighed and reached for her purse. Two very young and inexperienced detectives, Flinders Petrie and Thomas Pettigrew, were unexpectedly presented with the case of a lifetime. Flinders and Pettigrew, recent graduates of Oxford and rivals of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, suddenly find themselves confronted with the task of finding Cleopatra's tomb. The tomb's location, as they quickly discovered,...
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"Closures" is a story of laughter, adventure, cold cases, and life. KC is an investigator who uses her Law Enforcement background along with her life experiences to assist others in finding missing people that no one has been able to find. Her goal is to do more than just give her clients a location. She works to help them find true closure to the hardships of missing loved ones, broken relationships, or business deals gone wrong. KC is also taking...
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After an unsuccessful confrontation against a powerful new foe called, Bloodmaker, Usagi finds himself in another town getting trained by a team of people with superpowers run by his mother Kaguya Jones who he thought was dead for four years. Usagi must prepare to get a better understanding of his powers meanwhile Zone City is taking effect on the whole Bloodmaker situation. The city needs Bio-Stream more than ever now.
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He's ready to leave kid-dom behind. But can he stand tall against an army of barf-inducing beasts?
Toby Baxter can't wait to be a teenager. On the cusp of turning thirteen, the superhero-obsessed boy's jaw drops when a baffling stranger appears and begs him for help. But when he's led through a portal on a whirlwind trip to a magical land, he's terrified to be plunged mid-battle between elves and a legion of stinky trolls.
Bewildered and...
20) The Storyteller
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Fear and grief alter those who experience them. Trauma teaches lessons we never anticipated and imparts wisdoms for which we never prepared. The characters in The Storyteller embark on the most vital adventure of their lives – the one deep into their minds and most profound heartaches. They battle curses and hardships to survive, fighting fang and witch's nail to break free.
Set in the small South African town of Klerksdorp, we follow a group...