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Levine Querido
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2024
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Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "UPPERCUT to the senses." We couldn't agree more. We have never encountered an author with prose of this sensitivity and fire.
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into...
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into...
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There are many ways to die at the Circus of the Dead.
You're invited to witness them all.
Mom sent me all the way across the country to the Louisiana bayou to join the circus and help my uncle for the summer.
Except there is something not quite right on this swampy cursed island, and after having my fortune told, I can't leave.
I try to escape, but Benny, an all too charming ghost gangster tries to kill me by feeding me to a tiger.
Thankfully...
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This didactic collection presented by the character Professor Elibius, will show for the children colorful and fun themes such as: numbers, letters, hours, the solar system the table and more 15 subjects. An educational collection, very useful to present to the small themes important to your learning, in a playful way. In this volume: The five senses - Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste and Smell. More: tips and curiosities.
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"The Neighborhood Bully" transports readers to the bustling community of 1985, where eleven-year-old Katie grapples with the complexities of friendship and bullying. Alongside her gang of friends, Katie encounters a mix of personalities, from genuinely kind souls to those harboring hidden darkness. Despite warnings, Katie remains loyal to Saddy, a friend who turns out to be two-faced and manipulative, spreading lies and sowing discord within their...
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Aidan Argent is a privileged child born to wealthy nobility in 1940s Wales. While playing with the Manor's resident ghost, he falls from the rooftop to land on the spears of his mother's wrought iron fence, dying in his father's arms. Only for Aidan, death isn't permanent. He wakes up in the 1400s in England to meet the young princes of the Tower, in the 18002 with the Bolshevik Revolution and Anastasia. Finally forty years later to re-unite with...
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Europe Comics
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2023
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The team's quest to find more young people with masks faces new challenges when one of their masks is stolen and two more pop up in Australia—including a powerful Eclipse Mask, which threatens to swallow everything up. Meanwhile, some of the members of the masked team attempt to deal with more personal issues while another needs to figure out how his mask works in time to save the world... Nothing like a little pressure!
7) The Battle
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Having done his best to fulfill the commission given him by a supernatural messenger, yet apparently having failed to do so, Jeco and his friends, Dalian and Lord Farizel, find themselves running for their lives from the wrath of King Alvard III.The Battle is Book 3 of The Adventures of Jecosan Tarres trilogy. It is approximately 103,000 words (370 pages in the printed edition).
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His father murdered, his mother abandoning him to the winners, Merwin is the half-blood grandson of the Lord of the Elves. Raised not as a Prince but as a stable boy, he must learn to hide his anger and pride lest he suffer the same fate as his father. As he nearly reaches his manhood, his liege lord and wizard send him on a quest to retrieve a special mare, a Fae mare of unsurpassed beauty, speed and magic. But she is more than mare, more than magic...
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In a European city where men rule the vampire underworld, a large, new female clan enters St. Viktersburg, a gothic metropolis. They are led by Lynette Borlandavic, a young, bold and arrogant queen who immediately challenges all rival factions for supremacy. However, a bitter and unexpected conflict with an old adversary erupts when a new generation of secret vampire hunters headed by Thomas Dikane, target them for extinction. The worlds of the living...
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Daniel Chai only ever wanted to be an Adventurer. Born with a Gift of Healing that steals his memories and past experiences as its fuel source, Daniel must weigh his heart's desire with his gift as he attempts to clear his first ever dungeon. Along the way, he'll meet true friends like the Catkin Asin and the Northerner Omrak as he learns what it truly takes to be a professional Adventurer in Brad.
The Adventures on Brad is a light fantasy novel...
12) Rim Rock
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I was 16 years old and alone on the rim rock, coming home for the yearly family reunion on the Box S called Boxes in the soon to be new state of Colorado. Coming down from the Mogollon Rim, I took the trail to one of the old line cabins. It should have been empty but someone had been there before me. I didn't think anything about it, my dad was always hiring new hands. They came and went as the seasons changed. I put up my horse and went fishing in...
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Mandy has just started in a new high school for her final year of school, and is utterly miserable. As she is the new girl in school, she feels like a fish out of water, and consequently has to endure bouts of teasing from the school's students, who do not understand her at all.Mandy's only consolation comes every Friday, when her grade visits the local skating rink. This is also the only chance she gets to see Daniel Parsons from afar, the apple...
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The Adventures of Jecosan Tarres trilogy tells a story of a young blacksmith's apprentice visited by a supernatural messenger and called to prevent a war between two powerful kingdoms.This Omnibus Edition contains all 3 books of the trilogy.THE JOURNEY - His warrior father killed and his mother dead by the time he was eight, Jecosan Tarres is young and poor. Yet he has things many men do not: a faithful heart, a strong spirit, and the knowledge of...
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How far would a villain go to help a friend? Lord Arkus of Blackriver Castle thinks doing three heroic deeds is a bit too far. Not only it's plain detestable, it can ruin his reputation and get him in trouble with the Villains League. On the other hand, it's not like he's got friends to spare. And losing the League's membership isn't the end of the world, one can always work independently.
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Guardians of the Shimmer: DreamTime is a young adult novel featuring Cole and Lily Fletcher, a couple of Kiwi kids who are on their way home from a camping trip with their parents when an accident catapults them into DreamTime, the place where people's dreams exist. As if that isn't enough of a shock, they then discover that their parents are part of the Blue Ghost, long time Guardians of the shimmery barrier that separates reality from dreams. The...
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After a tragic set of circumstances alters her life forever, Willow Flynn, named after the shady, weeping tree, finds herself transplanted, moving far away from the small Massachusetts town she grew up in. Willow loses her beloved father in an accident and she and her family have no choice but to accept her uncle's charity by relocating to his summerhouse, off the coast of Maine, on an island, in the middle of nowhere.Fifteen-year-old Willow leaves...
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While adjusting to her new life on a tiny island, off the coast of Maine, sixteen-year-old Willow Flynn begins to enjoy the hot and carefree summer days most teenagers dream about.Willow has only two priorities before the start of her junior year of high school: making money at her first real job and spending the rest of her free time with her boyfriend, Michael.But dreams have a way of crashing, especially when a serious illness threatens the very...
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I never saw anything wrong with my upbringing. My mother was a writer who liked to live on the places she was writing about. Therefore, we moved a lot, only spending no more than two years in each location. Thus, I grew up pretty much alone: homeschooled, no friends, no pets, no real home. The only constant in my life was my mother. As for my father, he died when I was very young and I didn't have a chance to know him. Besides, my mother believed...
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"Challenges and Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence" delves into the complex landscape of AI, exploring the numerous challenges and ethical dilemmas arising from its rapid advancement. In this comprehensive guide, readers will gain a deep understanding of the multifaceted issues surrounding AI, from its current state to future implications. The book begins by defining AI and examining its basic concepts, before delving into its evolution and...
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