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1) The Extra
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Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as Michael Shea's The Extra does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, as savagely dark as Robert Altman's The Player, and more violent than Rollerball, this is the story of the ultimate, so-insane-it-could-only-happen-in-Hollywood formula for success, a brave new way to bring the ultimate in...
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Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy has brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which L.A. may be the worst.
Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras, who-with the help of a couple of very gutsy women-survived being anonymous players in a "live-action" film in which getting killed on-screen meant getting killed for real. Surviving the...
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My weird school volume 3
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Bru?o
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[2018]
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Español
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A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.
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EC Archives Extra volume 1
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Intriguing tales of Crime and Danger! Daring stories of cub reporters and grizzled newshounds, across the country and around the world! Collecting the complete run of Extra from the crack artistic talents of Johnny Craig, John Severin, Reed Crandall, and Marie Severin. Featuring a foreword by Mark Evanier.
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Felix never believed in soul mates ... until he met her.
Felix Mays has only two goals in life-to play his cello and to stay off heroin. He's only a few weeks out of rehab and accomplishing both-barely. Then Felix meets gorgeous Jenna Rollins, single mom and half of the rising pop-star duo Alec and Jenna, who've practically been voted LA's cutest couple. Jenna offers Felix a job with the band, and it's an opportunity he can't refuse, even though...
6) The Extra
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Gabby Mays wishes she had her future figured out, like her gorgeous roommate Anna-Marie, who has just landed a role on the hit soap opera Passion Medical. Gabby would give anything to find a career she's half as passionate about as Anna-Marie is about acting-and a love life that isn't comprised of nights with a party-sized bag of Doritos and her Netflix account.
When Gabby becomes a recurring extra on Passion Medical, she finds a job she's surprisingly...
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In this stand-alone sequel to The Extra, Anna-Marie has never wanted to find love-but love's about to find her.
Anna-Marie Halsey loves her job as a regular on the soap opera Southern Heat almost as much as she loves living the LA lifestyle: clubbing and partying and casually dating gorgeous men-most recently powerhouse agent Josh Rios. When Anna-Marie starts feeling more-than-casual about Josh-her signature cue to break things off-she finds a much-needed...
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It's midwinter and preparations for the biggest religious festival in the K'Barthan year are in full swing. Yes, even though, officially, religious activity has been banned, no-one's going to ignore Arnold, The Prophet's Birthday, especially not Big Merv. He orders The Pan of Hamgee to deliver the traditional Prophet's Birthday gift to his accountants and lawyers. As usual, The Pan has managed to elicit the unwanted attention of the security forces....
9) The Others
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A new Tessa adventure
Tessa's innate ability has developed beyond expectation, and her telepathic skills make her an asset for the Extra-Sensory Agents Unit. Fresh from an adventure that sharpened up her power, she embarks on a delicate operation to find a teenager telepath, who may be stealing top-secret information.
Tessa believes that her task only involves attending high school for a while and investigating an information leak there, but in...
10) Tessa
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I was only 14 when the government took me away from my family. My gift is rare and precious, I know. I can read your mind, and I can do other things to you too. Do you want to try?
They said that they would help me to improve, and they did. Now, I no longer need them. I got out of hand, so they fear me. And they should.
Tessa is a regular girl, except that she sees things that are far away. She agrees to go on a critical mission that puts to the...
11) Hunter
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Tessa and her kind are sick and tired of being the victims. Now is payback time!
"Shooting pool all by yourself can be fun for a little while, but it gets boring in the end, and I had been doing it for two days in a row now. All I knew was that this was where the recruiter was likely to show up. I hoped that my platinum blond hair and my innocent blue eyes would be enticing enough for him to hit on me; otherwise, I would have to find another way.
But...
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When trouble comes knocking, meet the one man dumb enough to answer the door.
When The Pan of Hamgee encounters some mudlarkers trying to land a box on the banks of the River Dang he is happy to help. Having accepted a share of the contents as a reward he cannot believe his luck. It contains one of the most expensive delicacies available in K'Barth, Goojan spiced sausage. If he can sell it, the sausage might spell the end of his troubles. On the...
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V. E. Schwab's ExtraOrdinary volume 1
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ExtraOrdinary, or EO: a person who has survived a near-death experience and returned with superpowers. These powers are the product not only of how the person nearly died, but their final thoughts at the moment of death. Incredibly rare, and potentially dangerous to themselves and others, few people know about the existence of ExtraOrdinaries, and an organization called EON is determined to keep it that way.
Set in the worlds of Vicious and Vengeful...
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V. E. Schwab's ExtraOrdinary volume 2
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English
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Twelve years ago, Eli Cardale and his college friend, Victor Vale, developed ExtraOrdinary abilities after experimenting with near-death experiences. When Victor accidentally killed Eli's girlfriend after his ExtraOrdinary abilities span out of control, he fled the scene and disappeared. Eli swore his revenge and for ten years he hunted for Victor before finally tracking him down and attacking him, for which he was promptly arrested.
But instead...
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Brand new series expands deeper into the world of Schwab's critically acclaimed novels Vicious and Vengeful.
Set in the years between vicious and vengeful, "ExtraOrdinary" follows a teenage girl named Charlotte Tills who survives a bus crash and becomes EO - ExtraOrdinary - gaining the ability to see people's deaths in reflective surfaces.
However, things quickly become more complicated when Tills witnesses her own death... at the hands of the...
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V. E. Schwab's ExtraOrdinary volume 4
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Welcome to the world of ExtraOrdinary.
ELI EVER identified school student CHARLOTTE TILL as a target person with EXTRAORDINARY abilities and made her his next target.
Haunted by visions of her death at the hands of Eli, Charlotte set out to kill him first.
She tracked him down to the town of Merit, unaware that Eli and EON knew she was coming and had laid a trap for her. Luckily, Charlotte was rescued by two fellow EOs, FELIX and MARSHALL,...
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V. E. Schwab's ExtraOrdinary volume 3
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Twelve years ago, Eli Ever and his college friend, Victor Vale, developed ExtraOrdinary abilities after experimenting with near-death experiences. However, Victor accidentally killed Eli's girlfriend after his abilities spun out of control. Eli swore revenge against anyone with ExtraOrdinary abilites and set out to kill as many as he could. Eventually he was arrested and conscripted by the mysterious EON organization to continue his crusade against...
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Welcome to the world of ExtraOrdinary.
When high school student Charlotte Tills is revived from a fatal bus crash, she awakens with ExtraOrdinary powers. Incredibly rare and potentially dangerous to themselves and others, few people know about the existence of ExtraOrdinaries, and an organizing called EON is determined to keep it that way, hunting and killing all they can find.
Reborn and renewed with the ExtraOrdinary ability to see how people...
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