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Series of unfortunate events volume 10
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1150L
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English
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In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
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Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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"I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt Empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it won't be restored by a lone assassin. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. This is my brotherhood. Rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering and degradation, her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless Borgia family. Only one man can free the people from the Borgia tyranny - Ezio Auditore, the Master Assassin. Ezio's...
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Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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**Spoilers of the ending of book 2 below!**I don't have my memories, but I know in my heart, I seek revenge.I awoke in a demon's house with no recollection of who I am. I'm certain I belong to someone… although who, I'm unsure.While waiting to remember my past, I train in demon magic, preparing for a fight I'm not sure I should be involved in.I'm sent on a mission to steal the magic of the most powerful supernatural alive, but on the way, I run...
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Chronicles of the Stone Veil volume 5
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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It's time to meet my destiny. Kymaris has everything she needs to bring down the veil between Earth and the Underworld. If she's successful in completing the ritual, Earth will be darkened by evil. Demons will swarm our lands and the human race will be decimated. It's up to me to stop her. My fate is to thwart the prophecy, but I'm not sure what to do. While I may have some gifts, I am still merely a human facing the queen of the Dark Fae who holds...
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"Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler--author of the National Book Award-finalist The Abridged History of Rainfall--got to work. The result of that labor is Still Life, a collection of poems that are heartbreaking, terrifying, and deeply, darkly hilarious. In an attempt to find meaning in a life ending right before his eyes, Hopler squares off against monsters real and imagined, personal and historical, and tries not to flinch....
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Denver Mountain Lions volume 1
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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He's my best friend. He's a pro football player. He's famous. I'm just the girl next door. And I've been in love with him since I was thirteen. He doesn't know. He can never know. But will I be able to hide my feelings when I move in with him? Jackson Fields. Denver's star kicker. My best friend since ninth grade. When an injury sidelines him, I step up. Living with him will be easy. I can hide my feelings long enough to take care of him. Piece of...
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Hollis Doherty
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Long before Everywhere met Here, Here met There. But this is the story of how Here met Everywhere, which is the same story as the goblin who was made nice by lemon chiffon "Here, There, and Everywhere" is the story of an elfin girl named Here, an elfin boy named There, and a fairy mermaid named Everywhere. Actually, let's hear what There has to say about the book: "As you can guess the book is about me, There, the elfin rascal that I am, Here, an...
11. Never Again!
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Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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"The LORD says, 'I will give you back what you lost to the striping locusts, the cutting locusts, the swarming locusts, and the hopping locusts Never again will my people be disgraced like this. Then you will know that I am here among my people of Israel and that I alone am the LORD your God. My People will never again be disgraced like this." Joel 2: 25-27 It is time to stop those things that want to stop you. It is God's will to stop everything...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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"'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his artistic soul over the course of the decade and comes into...
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Zoltan Bago
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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The mysterious domes of Yakutia in Siberia are called cauldrons by local folklore. But what is the Yakut "Death Valley" and what does the taiga hide in Siberia? What could be the facility called "Installation" hidden in the realm of permafrost? Maybe it has something to do with the Tunguska event of 1908? In 1947, the first UFO research program was established in the United States of America. What happened at Roswell and what caused the Mantell incident?...
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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David J. T. Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at Uppsala University in Sweden. How and why animals produce group behaviors Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution across...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
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It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He tells the intriguing story in 26 chapters, each linked to a particular usage. We meet circumstantial 'be' ('how are you?'), numerical 'be' ('two and two is four'), quotative...