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Mark of the thief trilogy volume 2
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NYT and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen brings a new dose of adventure and thrills to ancient Rome in the second book of her magical Mark of the Thief trilogy!
Nic may have escaped enslavement in the mines outside of Rome, but his troubles are far from over. The Praetor War -- the battle to destroy Rome from within -- is in full force, and Nic is caught in the crossfire. The secretive Praetors are determined to unlock a powerful...
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Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
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NYT and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen delivers the action-packed conclusion to her magical Mark of the Thief trilogy!
Trouble has a way of seeking out Nicolas Calva, and it's not likely to leave him alone any time soon. With Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and the possibility of a Jupiter Stone in play, all the powers of Rome are circling Nic. He'll have to maneuver his way through scheming government officials and reawakened...
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The first book in the New York Times best-selling saga with a cover image and an 8-page photo insert from the Disney+ series!
Read the book that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere before the Disney+ series comes out!
Lately, mythological monsters and the Olympian gods seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy Jackson's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the...
4) Underdogs
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From the bestselling author of The Book Thief
Before The Book Thief, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: The Underdog, Fighting Rueben Wolfe, and Getting the Girl. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, and generally disappointing girls, their parents, and their much more motivated older siblings. They're intensely loyal to each other, brothers at their best and...
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Hitler seduces Germany-an angel who hates him falls in love with a fool who worships him.
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In 1930s Germany, the fate of two young lovers hangs on the growing power of Hitler's regime. In Fools, Angels and the Devil, Juliette and Peter, aspiring opera singers bound together by their addiction to singing, are divided by conflicting political beliefs. Juliette's hatred for Hitler threatens to overwhelm her love for Peter, and he must make...
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A schoolgirl steps between a soldier and a ravening monster…1943. Soviet Union is under attack as WW2 is raging. Fighting in the doomed battle of Kursk, Andrei finds himself in a strange city where Svetlana, a girl he has never seen but who looks eerily familiar, saves him from a fist-faced creature. When Svetlana's family is lost, the two embark on a harrowing odyssey across the snow-covered plain, battling deformed former humans and taken prisoners...
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(The authors will donate100% of the proceeds from sales of this book and ebook to the Ukrainian Foundation in April and May)
Who Stole the Dog Books? Can Dog-tention Save the Day?
Someone has been stealing Bash's favorite dog books from the library, books that help calm him when the world is too loud, too bright, or too busy.
Bash enlists the aid of Grandma Vera, a feisty immigrant from Ukraine and the town's assistant mayor, to help identify...
8) Uprising
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Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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A once respected shoemaker becomes the object of scorn and ridicule when he suddenly starts to make only left foot, size seven shoes...his former friends shun him and people in the street mock him as 'a fool and a lunatic'.But is the shoemaker really a fool and a lunatic - or does he knows something no-one else knows? THE 'TALES OF ANYWHERE' SERIES CAN BE READ IN ANY ORDER WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT 'TALES OF ANYWHERE'"Brilliant comic technique, and...
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Workman Publishing
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[2023]
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English
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"A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in...
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"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...
13) Banned books for kids: reading lists and activities for teaching kids to read censored literature
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American Library Association, Sourcebooks
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[2023]
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English
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"In our polarized environment, the censorship and outright banning of children's books that some people deem to be controversial or objectionable remains a major concern for schools, libraries, and communities across the United States. Intellectual freedom champion, the American Library Association, created Teaching Banned Books to Kids, a guide that includes both contemporary books that have been banned and classic literature that continues to be...
14) Thieves' gambit
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[Thieves' gambit] volume 1
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.
At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans. Until her plan to run away from her legendary family of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother's life hanging in the balance. In a desperate bid, she enters the Thieves'...
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FilmRise
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In 1985, Willem de Kooning's oil painting Woman-Ochre vanished from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. The $160 million work of art remained missing until 2017, when it was found hanging in the former home of Jerry and Rita Alter, a deceased New Mexico married couple. The film features interviews with the Alters' family members and those involved in the painting's disappearance and recovery. The film also utilizes actors to stage reenactments...
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Electra McDonnell novels volume 4
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English
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"Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn't seen Major Ramsey--her handsome but aloof handler in the British government--since their tumultuous mission together three months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought to London by a mysterious...
17) The thief hunt
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"Tensions are running high in the scout hut this evening. Things have started to go missing. Who is the thief?"--
19) The Gold Thief
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Ned and the magical Circus of Marvels are back in a second rip-roaring, page-turning adventure! Ned and his family are trying to be ordinary except for the small fact that they AREN'T. AT ALL. Because on the run up to Christmas everything is ruined when all the world's gold goes missing, along with its leading scientists. Which doesn't really have anything to do with Ned... until it does. When an oily thief and his pet monster turn up at Ned's door,...
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Martin Alcott, an out of work IT Engineer, can't shake his recurring nightmares of skyscrapers and cathedrals. This morning's dream was different, though: he's now certain he's being watched. Halfway up London's newest high-rise, Martin arrives promptly for his first job interview in weeks, only to find the office empty in more ways than one.
Meanwhile, The Duchess, a powerful and enigmatic woman, sits at her desk high in her tower mansion. A panicked...
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