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Embark on a thrilling exploration of the captivating world of urban fantasy in this comprehensive reference guide for aspiring writers and avid readers alike. "Ian Talks Urban Fantasy Tropes A-Z" by Ian Eress unravels the intricate tapestry of urban fantasy tropes, empowering newcomers to understand and masterfully utilize these narrative devices to create immersive, spellbinding stories. You will learn: - An A-Z overview of essential urban fantasy...
30482) Boldly Go
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Teen astronaut Houston Williams is finally headed into outer space.
Houston Williams was thrilled to win a scholarship to attend a space program at NASA. What he didn't realize was that organizers were recruiting people for a cutting-edge research project aimed at studying how space travel affects people of different ages. Now, after months of intense training, Houston is blasting off into space!
He and his new friend and former rival, Ashley,...
30483) Lunar
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Stranded and alone on the moon, Luna is running out of time … Bestselling author Chris Bradford crafts The Martian for teens in this gripping outer-space survival story. Luna loves living on the moon. She enjoys helping her father – a Moon Miner – on his search for precious minerals and rocks. But when a devastating meteor strike destroys their base, Luna is left stranded alone on the moon. With no shelter and few supplies, she must find a way...
30484) Nephilim's Hex
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The Nephilim loom over Niflheim.
Gods, Dharkan and mortals fight amongst themselves in their shadow.
And Time is on no one's side.
The gods are outmatched, their talents useless against the Nephilim's technology. Desperate, they turn on each other. New alliances form and fall apart, for there can be no peace, when survival is at stake. Psyche, torn between a goddess's duty and a mortal's hate, sets off on her own to learn the truth behind her fate,...
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Zack is a little zombie who has everything a zombie could ever want to be happy, and yet he still feels empty. Zack has everything but life. This little story deals with the pursuit we all take in finding life in the only source that could ever offer it, Christ. Set with adorable monsters, a heartwarming story that will touch children and adults alike. Get it Now!
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After finding a bizarre note from their parents, siblings Zach, Piper, and Elijah take a wild cross-country trip to find them. Unfortunately, Elijah's supernatural gifts draw attention from the wrong people, and he is captured by the Shadow Man. It is up to Zach and Piper to save Elijah, but when they themselves are captured, will they be able to break free from the mesmerizing machine that promises them greatness? Or will they forever pay the cost...
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Dans un monde post-apocalyptique, l'officière Modesty Williams doit quitter l'armée et la Californie. Fraîchement arrivée à La Nouvelle-Orléans, elle se retrouve impliquée dans la recherche d'un parrain local, aussi brutal qu'impulsif, qui tente de retrouver un mystérieux arsenal capable d'assurer l'indépendance de La Nouvelle-Orléans. C'est à ce moment-là qu'elle croise le chemin de Sam, qui, ayant tout perdu depuis la destruction du...
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A story where every goodbye isn't gone and every eye closed isn't sleep, Alice must find the answer to the Looking-glass question, much to the rage of infamous book reviewer, Paige Turner who threatens to jeopardise Alice's writing career in Authorland. Hoodlemania descends, and together Alice and her predatory blonde alter-ego, Miss Penopause walk the Critical Path to set forerunning hazards and high-jinks in motion in a bid to make Paige Turner...
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Thirteen-year-old Houston Williams is smart. Very smart. So, no one is surprised, when he earns a scholarship to attend a prestigious NASA space camp. At the training facility, he immediately bonds with his new team, including a girl named Teal. He also clashes with a girl on a rival team named Ashley, who matches or beats him in every exercise. The three of them impress the directors so much they are, invited to join a top-secret research project...
30490) Bridge of Time
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden Gate Bridge gone-gone!-and meeting a young man named Sam Clemens, who is on the run from a mysterious stranger.
Lee and Joan wonder: Where...
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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. It analyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a Korean drama), the young-adult novel series The Lunar Chronicles, the Indexing serial novels, and three experimental short works of fiction by Kelly Link. Some of these texts...
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Décryptez l'univers de Guy de Maupassant en moins d'une heure!
Considéré pendant longtemps comme un auteur trop simple et trop superficiel, Maupassant figure aujourd'hui dans le panthéon de la littérature française. Auteur de six romans, il est surtout passé à la postérité pour ses contes et nouvelles. Refusant de se laisser enfermer dans une école littéraire, il ne s'inscrit pas moins dans l'esthétique réaliste qui domine son époque,...
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The entire Silver Foxes series is now in one place! Join Xena, Hunter, Kathra, J.R., Max, Celeste, and a host of other characters as they discover the truth about the mystical Silver Foxes. Among the ruins of a devastated city Master Thief, J.R. Dunsworth, finds a young fox named Xena and her sister, Kathra, sitting among the ruins. He picks them up, intending to dump them on someone else as soon as possible but soon learns Xena holds a mysterious...
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The interactive story of magical beings from another world and how one very special boy came to be, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Answer.
Once upon a time, a silly, impossible little Gem named Pink Diamond ran away from her homeworld to the planet Earth.
She transformed into Rose Quartz and gave up her existence to create a half-human child, Steven Universe.
But so long as Steven has her Gem, can they BOTH...
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"You see, Alexi. I treat and diagnose all forms of infectious diseases in humans, but my favorite has to be viruses. Viruses are perhaps God's greatest and worst creation (if you believe in that, of course). They don't pick favorites."
Dr. Lawrence is a quirky MD who has moved to Brisbane, Australia to take a research position in what he think will be a relatively mundane field: infectious diseases. Through a shocking series of events, Lawrence ends...
30496) Epilog: And Other Stories
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A volume of eleven stories from the Hugo Award–winning science fiction author that explore inner space, future worlds, and the peculiar lives of robots.
One of the twentieth century's most pioneering science fiction authors, Clifford D. Simak had a special fondness for robots. Not only did these thinking machines represent the boundless possibilities of technology, they also had the potential to bring-in his words-"the kindness and the courage...
30497) Les sorcières de Salers
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Suivez les aventures d'un trio de détectives pas comme les autres
Sorah, Miriel et Hénora, sont des triplettes un peu particulières. En effet, ce sont de puissantes sorcières, transportées du XVIIème au XXIème siècle pour échapper au bûcher par leur "oncle" Jin, lui-même génie. Depuis leur maison près de Salers, elles s'efforcent désormais de résoudre toutes sortes d'affaires mystérieuses. Ce qu'elles ignorent c'est que leur voyage...
30498) The Wizard Killer - Season 1
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A magical tech world in ruins, a hero whose memory is in tatters, and a burning need to survive.
Awakening from the dead for the third time is a man driven at first by revenge only to lose his gripe on who he was and how he died. As he fights to survive the terrifying wasteland with his mana-pistol and enchanted short-sword, the past and present start a tug of war on his psyche.
Written in first person, present tense, The Wizard Killer is a pulse-pounding...
30499) The Rescue of Timmy Trial
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This is the first book in the Aletheia Adventure series. In this series, Bible truth comes alive through imagery and allegory - in fantastic, exciting adventures.
Jack Merryweather goes to the same school as Timmy Trial, but they aren't exactly friends. Timmy is a bully, and Jack only wants to escape from him. But instead, Timmy and Jack find themselves on an adventure together in the extraordinary city of Aletheia in the mysterious land of Err....
30500) Future Friend
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From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead, to be precise… The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can't even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside. Until the day...
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