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Plants vs. zombies (Graphic novels) volume 3
Language
English
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The New York Times best selling series is back! Every year as Halloween draws near, strange creatures and weird contraptions start appearing in everyone's lawns in Neighborville. A Neighborville Halloween is weird enough, but Zomboss and his zombie army want to turn the holiday into their own scarier Lawn of Doom celebration! With Zomboss filling everyone's yards with traps and special zombies, Crazy Dave, young genius Patrice, neighborhood daredevil...
2) Caught
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Series
The missing volume 5
Language
English
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Frank Einstein volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.
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Ignite the stars volume 1
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English
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"When the notorious I.A. Ccha is captured by the Olympus Commonwealth and revealed to be a sixteen-year-old girl, she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force where she forms unlikely alliances"--
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 1
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English
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When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
7) 11.22.63
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When teacher Jake Epping discovers a time portal that leads to October 21, 1960, he travels to the past in an attempt to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
8) Iron widow
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English
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"The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare...
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Finniverse volume 2
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English
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After sixty years of trying to stop Paradox and set the universe right again, Finn time-travels to get help from his nine-year-old self.
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Series
Pendragon series volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the territories, Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and battling--their way through different worlds as they try to save all of Halla.
11) Raven rise
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Series
Pendragon series volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperback ed.
Language
English
Description
While Pendragon is trapped on Ibara, Alder returns to Denduron and reluctantly goes into battle again, and other Travelers face obstacles of various sorts as Saint Dane gains the power he seeks on Second Earth and makes his push to destroy and rebuild Halla.
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Series
Dark Tower volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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In the first book of this brilliant series, now expanded and revised by the author, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues the man in black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New...
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Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A picture book that introduces young readers to the power of civil debate via a story about some upper-elementary-aged Chilean students who are divided on the issue of whether a much-loved old monkey puzzle tree should be cut down to make room for new science classrooms and computer labs at their school. Includes monkey puzzle tree facts.
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English
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, and centers on the design, production and dispatch...
16) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
17) Fools crow
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow.
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Series
Pendragon series volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. Hosted by a strange pair of game masters, Veego and LaBerge, the games are a mix of sport and combat. They use the people of Quillan as pawns for their amusement as they force them to enter competitions that range from physical battles,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked, and eventually stolen by her German...
20) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...
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