Matt James
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With his cart full of treasures and big green hat, Charlie is a neighborhood fixture. When he finds a pie, he sets off to find the owner - and helps some friends along the way.
Poignant and funny, this story is an ode to resourcefulness and the compassion that turns neighbors into friends. Charlie and his friends might not have much - but they have each other.
2) Dark Island
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Like the "Dark Continent" of Africa, the dark island of Madagascar holds many chilling secrets. One of them is a long-thought extinct species of dinosaurs living at the country's core. A massive earthquake rocks the mountain range within the Andringitra National Park. The splitting earth reveals a network of tunnels, hidden away for millennia. Responding to the series of violent upheavals, a pack of hypersensitive predators flee their subterranean...
3) Sub Zero
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The only thing colder than the Antarctic air is the icy chill of death . . .
Off the coast of McMurdo Station, in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean, a new species of Antarctic octopus is unintentionally discovered. Specialists aboard a state-of-the-art DARPA research vessel aim to apply the animal's 'sub-zero venom' to one of their projects: An experimental painkiller designed for soldiers on the front lines.
All is going according to plan...
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Mitchell Beazley
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Confused by the bewildering range of plants on offer at your local garden centre? How do you choose, use and create beautiful planting schemes like the professionals? The book takes you on a structured journey through the design process, from the initial assessment of your existing space, through choosing a theme or style, to putting it all together. Learn what various plant groups can provide and how to problem-solve by selecting the right species....
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Jack Reilly volume 2
Publisher
Severed Press
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Twenty miles east of Devils Tower, in the sleepy town of Cascade, Wyoming, a cryptic letter is found. It mentions a "wealth of a nation," and reads as nothing more than fanciful fiction, except that its author was one of the most influential men in American history, famed explorer and former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The letter also references the Seven Sisters of Native American folklore. The correlation between the two...
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The Semids are a peaceful people and staunch friends and trade partners of the League since the formation of their Federation of Worlds. When a group of interstellar terrorists detonates a nuclear bomb at the dedication of their Peace Spire the Semids call on the League for help tracking them down. Micah Stone and his team embark on a journey of action, intrigue and interstellar trade to track down the ones responsible and bring them to justice. The...
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For once school is going well for Jason Taggart and the students of Lincoln High. Two years ago fourteen-year-old Jason and a handful of his classmates discovered the awful truth about themselves and their town. Since before civilization mankind has been fighting monsters. Vampires, blood elves, space aliens and worse have plagued humanity since before civilization. With every generation heroes rise to the occasion but even as they defeat their monsters...
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Illegal drug smuggling is a huge and persistent problem between the League and the Metazan Republic, especially in the Lost Angels sector which borders it. Matters reach a head when the niece of the sector chairperson and her fiancee die from it the night of her graduation. The Sector Senator, at the behest of the Chair of the Lost Angels Governance Board, demands a full investigation of why such a tragedy should occur with special attention to the...
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Failing a mission can cost Micah Stone his life, nothing new about that, but this time success might cost him his best friend! Of late, the League Navy has suffered a suspicious increase in the number of defective starship parts they receive. These parts fail only during combat, when they're needed most, and often with fatal consequences. Micah, his teammate Vera Kidwell and his old friend John Thompson are sent on an unsanctioned and very under-the-garble...
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Jason Taggart is a junior high student in the small town of Wisdom, Arizona. His life is full of study, friends and the lovely Darla Jansen on whom he has a major crush. Follow along as he works to gain her eye and obtain her favor. Things change on a trip to a shooting competition outside Wisdom. Jason learns the kids outside are different from himself and his friends. Never is this more obvious than when he, Darla and two others are mugged. With...
12) Planter's Moon
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The end has come! The world of Epigaea, once ravaged by the Great Storm that nearly destroyed her, now faces one even stronger. A festering, pustulent evil from a past remembered only by the Elves has returned with an appetite only sharpened by the centuries of its delay. Goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, trolls and worse swarm from the Wild Lands into the Seven Kingdoms of Man bringing death and destruction in their wake. Even more chilling, the spirits...
13) Reaper's Moon
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Dirk d'Argent is a man of many talents, swordsmanship chief among them. Upon reaching manhood he wandered the Seven Kingdoms of Epigaea plying his sabre in the service of merchants and generals eager to hire him. Then, over a nice meal in the city of Velport, he pauses for an evening of reflection. Up until now Dirk drifted before the wind, traveling as he would wherever fortune nudged him. Though rich with experience, his life begins to feel empty....
14) Stone Blade
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When Micah Stone left work late one night he had no idea he started down a path that would change the fates of more worlds than his.Micah Stone is a poor man working on the toxic world of Caustik, a world whose society is sharply divided between highcarders who have everything they want and lowcarders, like Micah, who do not. After working late Micah finds himself on an impromptu date with his lovely coworker Jenn. Their evening is rudely interrupted...
15) Sage's Moon
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The world of Epigaea is old and filled with promise and peril. In their pride and arrogance the magic-wielders of old unleashed a storm so powerful that Epigaea herself rebelled and rose against them. The Great Storm decimated those who would conquer her then set loose creatures of shadow, twisted caricatures of those wanton spell-weavers, to devour any who dared survive. Now, over two thousand years later, Mankind has again grown but this time in...
16) Double Bait
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Robin Macy is a data technician more comfortable in the virtual world than in the real one. Shy and mild-mannered, she shows her true skill when her online boyfriend desperately sends her a file then vanishes. When she shows her skill trying to track him she attracts attention and ends up kidnapped by a charismatic sociopath with expensive tastes who forces her to commit data-theft. She is rescued by two people almost as scary as her kidnapper and...
17) The Blatant Prey
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When an innocent girl dies trying to get an autograph from her favorite movie stars it is a tragedy and a crime. When sensitive League military data is discovered in her possession it is a call to action for Micah Stone and his team. Their mission leads them from a glamorous gala full of movie stars and other celebrities to the shadowy worlds known as the Kensie Free Systems. There they discover a conspiracy fraught with illegal drugs, stolen weapons,...
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The Coalition of Grakis Major has a long-standing custom of inviting League volunteers to help monitor and collect data for its elections. Now, though, its economy is near-disaster and only getting worse. Micah Stone and his team are assigned to assist a candidate who may just be able to change things. Young, charismatic and full of hope, he's also an advocate of increased League trade and is willing to ask for help. After a few suspicious incidents,...
19) Lethal Max
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It's a royal wedding to lift the heaviest of hearts! When newlyweds Micah and Jenn Stone depart on their honeymoon cruise it is with expectation of many wonderful surprises and delicious desserts. They find those and more! To their great delight, the League-famous stars of the Lethal Max movie series are traveling with them: Arn Ironhand ('Lethal' Max Mayhem himself), Melinda Willis (Trixie Slick, Max's hard-fighting sidekick) and Johan Klaus von...
20) Hallow's Moon
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The world of Epigaea sleeps uneasy, troubled by nightmares of disaster past. The rumblings of that catastrophe foreshadow the future as darkness looms, from whence she knows not. A few of the creatures dwelling on her surface perceive some measure of the shadow and struggle to forestall it. Tigerthorn the Sly along with his friends Mysteria and Sven Hammerfist now live as slaves in the ancient, corrupt city of Quod Solamen. Forced to fight for the...