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(0)Matthew Taylor
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Gap years are supposed to be fun! Yet when three friends, who have a knack of ending up in sticky situations, travel from a 1,000,000 acre sheep station in Outback Australia to The Surf Coast on the Great Ocean Road, to Prague and Việt Nam---they need all their unconventional skills to find a way out.
Ever had someone stand up for you, or wanted to stand up for someone else? These three very good friends stand up for those who are unable to...
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Goat Lips delivers a thought-provoking romp through a lapsed Englishman's life, who-after a quarter century of living in the United States-realized he'd neglected to renew his subscription to England.
Matthew's relentless wit and insight is front and center as we bounce between England and the United States, experiencing one hilarious, and sometimes poignant, tale after another-from escaping the clutches of the law to the pain and joy of parenthood,...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer volume 1
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BOOM! Studios
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2019.
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"Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy The Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon! This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil...only this time around, her world looks...
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In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them.
At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance of his own physical being; the "sun and steel" of the title are themselves symbols respectively of the cult of...
11) Limitless
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Gazing outside his window, at the streets he passed by, he realised life continued just as he had left it. And suddenly, a consuming thought, one of those that he had forbidden himself from having, ripped his mind apart. What would happen if he just made a turn and vanished forever, to rid himself of the responsibility? Yet, perhaps for the first time, this option and not its opposite seemed the most insane. How could someone change this much in such...
12) Glorious
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It was midmorning when he frantically waved to her, to warn her he had heard movement in the trees just before he dived for cover. She was fearful of orcs and had been jumping at every unexpected sound she heard all morning. She flung herself behind a tree further back so she could watch his reactions without revealing herself.
She glanced around for the origin of the voice then saw him grinning at her and ran forward with tears in her eyes as she...
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Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball is the story of an 11-year Major League pitcher, who after winning two world championships (with the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals and the 1969 Miracle Mets) embarked on a USO tour through Vietnam that would change his life. After visiting field hospitals, Ron devoted the rest of his life to medicine, enrolling in medical school at 35 and eventually becoming the team physician for the Toronto Blue Jays. Through interviews with...