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"The World Will Burn. Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever--but he did. A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it's a world Persephone never thought she would see. To end the chaos, she must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become--Goddess, Wife, Queen of the Underworld. Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves, now she will...
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The world will burn in the final installment of Scarlett St. Clair's bestselling Hades X Persephone saga.
The gods are at war, the Titans have been released, and Hades and Persephone must fight tooth and nail for their happy ending.
Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed that a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever-but he did. Now embroiled in a fight for humanity and battles between the gods, Persephone...
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Sasha and Connelly are entering the home stretch ... Sasha's 39+ weeks pregnant and just a tiny bit cranky. Connelly's just a tiny bit panicked.
The couple's excitement at their impending arrival is mixed with a dash of nerves, a touch of chaos, and a hint of danger. And too many surprises to count.
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"I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre."
Sara Paretsky, author of Breakdown
Sara Paretsky, author of Breakdown
Praise for The Poison Oracle:
"I have no idea if any of this talk and ac-tion is authentic, and I don't care. Either way it's marvellous."Rex Stout
"Intelligent, elegantly written . . . a thoroughly enjoyable read."Sunday Times
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"Mommy Licked Her Plate, and Daddy Left the Toilet Seat Up!"
Prepare for a hilarious and relatable journey into Mila's world, where Mommy has a peculiar habit of licking her plate clean, and Daddy constantly forgets to put the toilet seat down.
In "Mommy Licked Her Plate, and Daddy Left the Toilet Seat Up!" Mila, a curious and imaginative 6-year-old girl, takes us through the ups and downs of her family's everyday adventures. Mila invites young...
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Olympians volume 10
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First Second
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2018.
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Retells in graphic novel format the stories from Greek mythology featuring Hermes.
"Born in a cave to a self-banished mother, clever, mischievous, unrelenting Hermes is a handful from his first day in the world. From infancy, when he bewitches fifty cows and bends them to his will to play a joke on his older half-brother Apollo, to his adolescence and adulthood when he becomes father to the equally mischievous Pan, Hermes's story is wildly entertaining...
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Healer novels volume 1
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"Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos. Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture....
9) 1911
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Well Go USA
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2011.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored...
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Marketing manager Katherine "Kitty" Katt steps into the middle of a domestic dispute, but things get ugly when the man turns into a winged monster and goes on a killing spree. In the middle of the chaos, a handsome hunk named Jeff Martini appears, sent by the "agency" to perform crowd control. He's Kitty's kind of guy, no matter what planet he's from.
11) Misfit
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Prep volume 1
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"Finding out your mom is marrying some rich guy you've never met is enough to make any eighteen-year-old's head spin. And for RJ Shaw, it gets worse: he's being sent to Sandover Prep for senior year. If there's one place a misfit hacker like RJ doesn't belong, it's an ivy-covered all-boys boarding school for rich delinquents. There's no point trying to get along with anyone. That is, until he meets Sloane Tresscott in the woods on the outskirts of...
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Coyne shares his tale: of one man's journey through the first year of parenthood, told with wit, humor, and heart. It is a ferociously funny, inventively foul-mouthed, and genuinely touching account of a baby's first year. If you're looking for a reminder of what's most important in life, this combination memoir and advice book is sure to charm you.
"One evening, while his three-month-old son Charlie briefly slept, Matt Coyne staggered to his desk,...
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Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe₂s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a fierce German...
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In this gripping moment-to-moment narrative, based on groundbreaking reporting, Lynn Spencer brings the inspiring true drama of the heroic response of American pilots and controllers on the morning of 9/11 vividly to life for the first time, taking us right inside the airliner cockpits and control towers, the fighter jets and the military battle cabs. She makes vital corrections to the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and reveals many startling,...
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"One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and...
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Joe the bouncer volume 1
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"In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class...
18) Hard to be a God
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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Russian
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When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky Brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky's Stalker). Hard to be a God began percolating in German's consciousness in the mid-1960s, and would actively consume him for the last 15 years of his life. He brought the film close enough to completion for his wife and...
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"So where do I begin with my story? Introductions are difficult at best. -- This fun, heartful, and sometimes sorrowful account of growing up with anxiety, depression, and social awkwardness is a journey that might reveal secrets about ourselves The author's humor and randomness bring light to her darkest struggles in a way that's so human it resonates as you read her words. As an anxious child trying to navigate her way through the odd instance known...
20) Bathing the Lion
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2014.
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"In Jonathan Carroll's surreal masterpiece, Bathing the Lion, five people who live in the same New England town go to sleep one night and all share the same hyper-realistic dream. Some of these people know each other; some don't. When they wake the next day all of them know what has happened. All five were at one time "mechanics," a kind of cosmic repairman whose job is to keep order in the universe and clean up the messes made both by sentient beings...
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