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1) Standoff
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An ambitious female television reporter is driving through New Mexico when she hears that a Texas millionaire's teenage daughter has been kidnapped. Knowing the girl's father lives nearby, she quickly lines up an interview.
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Riddle in Ruby volume 1
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"In an era called The Chemystral Age, magically augmented alchemy and chemistry have thrust an alternate version of eighteenth-century colonial America forward into industrialization. Thirteen-year-old Ruby is a smuggler's daughter and picklock prodigy, and she and her mostly faithful servant, Cram, navigate a world filled with cobalt gearbeasts, alchemical automatons, and devilish secret societies"--
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Hopeless heroes volume 3
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550L
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"How do you bring a statue to life? Tim and Zoe think they know. If only Jason would help and someone didn't keep looking at them like flies in a web. Juicy, wriggly, yummy-- enough, Arachne! Oh well, at least the time-traveling vase is in good hands. Well, god hands. The god of thieves and liars' hands. Uh oh..."--
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The First English Edition of This Classic Verne Adventure -- with a Unique Feminist Twist. This Wesleyan edition features notes and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller, as well as reproductions of all the illustrations from the original French edition. Written in 1898 and part of Jules Verne's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the...
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A freak plane crash sets off a madcap chase for a little girl with strange powers Amanda is playing in the backyard when the plane explodes overhead. As metal, fire, and bodies rain down on her small town, the little girl wanders off. Houses on either side explode as she toddles away from the carnage, across the park, and into the woods. When her mother finds her, Amanda is asleep in the arms of a mysterious man. Carol takes her daughter and flees...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 5
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When the newly nuclear capable Iran begins threatening the peace in the Persian Gulf, the President of the United States, faced with a weakened military force, calls upon Future Flight, a secret team of the CIA's Intelligence Support Agency, to try and avert a catastrophe.
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A female computer expert at the world's largest bank plans the perfect heist in this New York Times Notable Book from the #1 international bestselling author of The Eight Verity Banks is the one of the most powerful women in finance, but she still reports to a man. Her boss not only refuses to implement her security plan to safeguard customers' deposits, he also sabotages her shot at becoming director of security at the Federal Reserve. Outraged,...
11) The bog beast
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Big Foot and Little Foot volume 4
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On Bimbling Day, when young Sasquatches hope to earn the right to explore the North Woods on their own, Hugo, Boone, and Gigi become stranded and encounter strange and mysterious creatures.
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Qwikpick papers volume 3
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"Local legend has it that a slave master was buried standing up in the plantation's family tomb. Why? So that he could continue overseeing his slaves--even in death! When the Qwikpickers hear about this, they decide it's high time to administer some 200-year-overdue justice and knock him down. Mission Kick a Corpse is on"--
13) The evening news
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Long-time rivals, news figures Sloane and Partridge, once in love with the same woman, become involved in the crisis of drug-financed terrorism imported to America from Peru.
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"Ever since Jack Blank learned that he came from the amazing country of the Imagine Nation, he's known that his fate could go down two very different paths--he could either be the greatest hero the world has ever known, or its greatest villain. Now the final battle is here, and it's time for Jack to discover the direction of his destiny"--Publisher.
16) Podkin One-Ear
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Longburrow volume 1
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"In a fantasy world of anthropomorphic rabbits, Podkin and his siblings must go on the run when the villainous Gorm invade their home and enslave their clan. Facing pursuit and treachery at every turn, they must find allies and refuge if they are to survive-and fight to reclaim their world from the Gorm scourge"--
17) Dinosaur summer
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Peter Belzoni is dreading summer in Manhattan. Then his father, photojournalist Anthony Belzoni, offers the youth a job, a byline in National Geographic...and a trip to South America. For the Lothar Gluck Circus, once the world's foremost dinosaur attraction, has gone bankrupt. Left behind is a menagerie of avisaurs, centrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, as well as one large predatory raptor named Dagger. And now two filmmakers and the circus trainer plan...
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Blood Hunt volume 7
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"It is the year 2111 and 1st Lieutenant Kele-De (Kai) McMahon of the FAC (Free America Civil Militia) is called in by the FAM (Free America Military) to help solve the mystery of why a high-security, top-secret, bunker has fallen silent.
Civilian hunters and the best recon Air Force Squadron can't get close without eerie noises causing them physical harm. Heeding the summons, Kai brings in a legendary FAC platoon known to relish a good fight."--
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The bestselling saga of crime and international intrigue that lifted the gangster novel to astonishing new heights Dragged from the dank, rat-infested prison cell where he has spent the past few months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a choice: Join the French Resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The adopted son of a Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a capacity for violence and a knack for subterfuge-valuable tools in the fight...
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