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"Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, her beloveds, the rat Queen Orvilia and the marmot diva Loquolchi, lead soprano of the Theatre Rat-oyal, her loyal cabin kit, Benj the chinchilla, and Agnes, last of the great krakens, as they hunt for treasures of all kinds and find adventures beyond their wildest dreams. Let Sir Julius...
82) The silver rings
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Twin sisters Celia and Alice leave their evil stepmother and go on a fantastic journey where they meet a sarcastic fairy godmother, giants, and an overly dramatic fox.
87) Captain Sindbad
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Sindbad takes on an evil wizard to save the princess he loves and the downtrodden people of Baristan.
88) Rite of passage
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One hundred and fifty years after the wars that destroyed Earth, humankind continues to live on colony worlds and the seven Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero's Ship is a small closed society, that tests it's children by casting them out to live or die in a month long Trial in the hostile wilds of one of the colony worlds. As her Trial approachs Mia has to learn the skills that will keep her alive and the deeper courage to face herself...
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Gulliver's Travels: After his ship sinks on a stormy night, Gulliver finds himself washed onto shore in a land called Lilliput, a mysterious place where all the inhabitants are miniature. Lilliputians enlist his help to fight against their rival neighbor. Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon: Gulliver travels through space to find an undiscovered star, but learns that it has more dangers than what he encountered on his previous adventures.
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Children of the Red King volume 2
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Back at Bloor's Academy after Christmas vacation, Charlie finds himself confronted with a new problem when young Henry Yewbeam, who vanished during a game of marbles in 1916, suddenly appears and needs help to find his family.
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To your eternity volume 14
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In a new age, Fushi befriends a teenager named Yuki. In the comforting safety of Yuki's home, Fushi gathers his comrades one last time. As the days pass, Fushi also meets a descendent of Hayase named Mizuha. He laughs, feasts, and ponders what new emotions and encounters await. Before long, however, a troubling encounter sends ripples of doubt through his quiet life.
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Gulliver has an itch to travel around the world, but whenever he steps on a ship, bad luck seems to find him. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned, and mutinied against, and each time lands in a strange and curious place. First he discovers the kingdom of the six-inch-tall Lilliputians, then the country of the giant Brobdingnagians, then the island of the academic Laputans, which floats in the sky, and finally the noble realm of the horselike Houyhnhnms....
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"BUILD STARSHIPS NOW! Some humans may be content staying in one place, but many of us are curious about what's beyond the next village, the next ocean, the next horizon. Are there others like us out there? How will we reach them? Others are concerned with the survival of the species. It may be that we have to get out of Dodge before the lights go out on Earth. How can we accomplish this? Wonderful questions. Now get ready for some answers. Here is...
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"El gran clásico de la literatura en una nueva edición adaptada e ilustrada. Gulliver es un apasionado de los viajes. En su afán por descubrir mundo, vivirá grandes aventuras que lo llevarán a lugares extraordinarios donde conocerá a los seres más insólitos: los minúsculos liliputienses, los gigantes de Brobdingnag, unos sabios insensatos que viven en una isla voladora y unos seres que, sin serlo, son de lo más humanos"--
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"Monika to trzydziestoletnia doktor egiptologii, która z pasją oddaje się swojej pracy. Jest pewną siebie młodą kobietą, która myśli racjonalnie i ufa tylko nauce. Wszystko zmienia się, gdy na czele ekipy polskich archeologów wyjeżdża do Egiptu, by uczestniczyć w niezwykłych wykopaliskach. Pośród pustyni budzi się w całkiem innej rzeczywistości, a dzięki pewnemu Egipcjaninowi imieniem Nadir poznaje miłość i namiętność…...
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"In this delightful illustrated book written in rhyme, the children gaze at a face-shaped cloud, and Aiden asks if it is real. To answer, our favorite feathered-dinosaur, the Skeptisaurus, guides the children to use their critical thinking skills when determining myth from fact. He takes the kids on an amazing journey through legends of old times, from witches to oracles, explaining how we evolved to see things that aren't always there. But when those...
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Center of the earth volume 3
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'Help me, it's Ally. Please help me.' A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia's Kola super deep borehole - 9 miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman. But how did she get there? And how is she still alive? Meanwhile, the Americans prepare their own expedition after a new rift leading to the Center of the Earth has been discovered at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Western...
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