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When Aphrodite White lost her father over the Christmas holiday, she thought it was the worst thing that could happen to her. She was wrong. Her mother sold the family home and moved her across the country to Arcadia, Texas. Nothing there is as it seems. Someone or something is out to get Aphrodite, and she doesn't know who she can trust.
74382) Beware the Violet
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Discovering supernatural creatures are real is one thing, but learning I have powers and learning to use them is quite a feat.My name is Violet Webb. I live in a small town that nearly worships Halloween, but I hate it. I can't wait until I graduate and get as far as I can from that silliness.Everything changed when I followed the white rabbit. I ended up in a realm full of vampires, fairies, witches and every creature possible.Oh, Did I mention Jacques?The...
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With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan's Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes - or maybe what they...
74384) The Rusted Blade
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Aging warrior Otchigen safeguards Vasyllia, the Jewel of the World, with his sword and his heart. Nobleman and beggar alike adore him.
But after a routine training exercise goes horribly wrong, Otchigen fears he is going mad. To make matters worse, his city crumbles in fear and corruption around him. For the first time in his life, he feels powerless to stop any of it.
But is it madness... or are there darker forces intent on destroying the city?
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74385) Beyond the Longcase Clock
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An ancient spell gone wrong.
A legacy of time travel.
The latest unsuspecting heir.
Sophia just wants to earn enough money to go climbing by helping her father in his antiques shop. But when strange visions interrupt her work, she struggles to understand their meaning. Little does she know that they depict the past.
Flung back in time with her younger brother in tow, Sophia must get to grips with life in Victorian England before they make one mistake...
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Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced...
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Meet Grant the genie, and his best friend – the puppy, Teeny… The third in a series of magical adventures from the renowned illustrator, Steven Lenton, winner of Waterstones Picture Book of the Month and the Times Children's Book of the Week. When Grant starts to miss his old life in Genie World, Teeny has a plan on how he can get the genie home for a flying visit. But as usual, where wishes are involved, nothing is quite that simple and they...
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Meet Grant the genie, and his best friend – the puppy, Teeny… The second in a series of magical adventures from the renowned illustrator, Steven Lenton, winner of Waterstones Picture Book of the Month and the Times Children's Book of the Week. Grant the Genie is happy living in the real world in a teapot with his best friend, the dog ,Teeny. But keeping a genie a secret on Earth is harder than they'd both thought – especially when Grant wants...
74389) And Then I Shall Transform
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Six magical fantasy stories of transformation.In Which Leaves Are Common Sense: No one tells you what to do when your hiking buddy has a sudden attack of lunar-cy and turns into a werewolf three days before the full moon. Annoying at any time, but on a hike with temperatures falling fast? Potentially fatal…Tims Testing Day: Lunchtime at the Tims Compound, and the test that determines the direction of Tim's life for the rest of forever happens any...
74390) The immortal game
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"Galene, daughter of Poseidon, desperately wants to earn her place among the gods. But when a violent attack leaves Mount Olympus in chaos and ruins, she finds herself accused of the crime. Banished from Olympus, Galene discovers a deadlier plot?one that threatens even the oldest of Immortals. Fortunately, she has allies who willingly join her in exile: A lifelong friend who commands the wind. A defiant warrior with deadly skill. A fire wielder with...
74391) The murder complex
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In a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate, fifteen-year-old Meadow, trained by her father to kill and survive in any situation, falls in love with Zephyr, a government assassin.
74392) The robots of Gotham
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"A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines. After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an...
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Monsters of Verity volume 1
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New York, NY
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2016.
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"As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in between"--
74394) Dragon pearl
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Thousand worlds novel volume 1
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Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
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VIZ Media, LLC
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2020.
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When Poǩmon Trainer Red goes missing, his faithful Pikachu teams up with Trainer Amarillo del Bosque Verde to find him. The quest will take smarts, skills and a lot of help from Red's friends and other Poǩmon. It will also pit Yellow and Pikachu against the Elite Four, whose headquarters on the mysterious Cerise Island will put all their battle tactics to the test!
74396) Monster hunter nemesis
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Baen
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[2014]
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Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts--parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he's animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself. Good thing he's on our side. More or less.
74397) The last wish
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Orbit
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2008
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Geralt de Rivia is a witcher; his sole purpose is to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil, and not everything fair is good, in this international hit that inspired the video game "The Witcher." Original.
74398) Smith of Wootton Major
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A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings. What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P.G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the 'Silmarillion' was...
74399) Final Blackout
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Final Blackout is a dystopic science fiction novel by American writer L. Ron Hubbard. The novel is set in the future and follows a man known as "the Lieutenant" as he restores order to England after a world war. A lieutenant (known in the book only as "The Lieutenant") becomes dictator of England after a world war. The Lieutenant leads a ragtag army fighting for survival in a Europe ravaged by 30 years of atomic, biological and conventional warfare....
74400) Undermajordomo Minor
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"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts...
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