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Discworld volume 26
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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"Philosophical humor of the highest order." — Kirkus Reviews
Time itself is threatened—and it's up to the History Monks to save it in this hilarious installment in Sir Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series.
Everybody wants more time. Which is why, on Discworld, only the experts can manage it—the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where
...2) Time thief
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 28
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A mystery for the history books! River Heights Elementary School has been waiting a generation for this day to come. All the kids in Mrs. Ramirez's class, including Nancy Drew and her friends Bess and George, have gathered to watch Principal Newman dig up the time capsule that was buried over 30 years ago. But, when it's unearthed, a very important vintage doll is missing from the capsule. How is that possible? It's been buried this whole time. Did...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police investigate a series of murders when an anthropologist working at an Anasazi ruin goes missing and two corpses are found on an ancient burial ground.
4) Time Thief
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Outcast due to their ability to manipulate time, shunned by the mortal and immortal worlds alike, a Traveller's life is anything but easy.
Traveller Peter Faa is a member of the Otherworld's Watch tracking down a murderer, and unfortunately, the clues all seem to point toward his own estranged family. Any of his cousins could be guilty, but finding which one is tricky when they're all experts in the art of stealing time.
After surviving a lightning...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
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When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
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"You have Parkinson's Disease, Mr Preshevski"
The Time Thief is the remarkable story of Marco Preshevski who one day in March 2001 just after his 30th birthday was diagnosed with Adult Early Onset Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease. In the minutes, hours and days following his diagnosis many questions raced through his mind, but they all came back to one central challenge: would it be possible to finance his way through life, in the face of a relentless,...
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EMU club adventures volume 2
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"The EMU Club is called into action again when they realize that the school janitor is an evil ghost trying to disrupt the flow of time!"--Amazon.com.
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How did he get himself into this mess? Kidnapped with a hood over his head? Micahel Daivdson finds that the worst place to be is in the middle of the 2016 US elections. A retired thief has no business with politicians until he has no choice. Keep turning the pages until the special prosecutor removes the book from your hands!
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Delphi takes a Time Expansion workshop and finds he has a gift for out-of-body experiences. Soon, he is remotely spying and engaged in a psychic war against powerful forces. He allies with Detinna, a defector who becomes his dream partner, and together they navigate the hazards of having a dream body. The main dangers are Time Thieves who pirate time and Watchers who track your movements. Read this story to imagine how a new generation with psychic...
11) A Thief in Time
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Halley, who covers house-sitting jobs for her self-absorbed mom, has Hollywood dreams but no real life. Until the day a job for her mom leads to a tumble back to London, 1598, where Halley meets a hot, rich earl named Edmund. And accidentally brings him to the 21st century.
Her dull summer just got a whole lot more interesting as she tells Edmund to keep his hands off tech he doesn't understand and a deadly sword he can't use in public. All while...
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Small adventures? Check. Heroic guinea pigs? Check. Quirky and fun time travel fantasy from the cavy perspective. If you want stories about what guinea pigs do when their owner isn't around, be sure to read the short stories from the Time Traveling Guinea Pigs series. Angel the guinea pig wants to hide. From the awful smell of pot roast in the kitchen. From her cage-mates. For a little bit. At least with the Human's girlfriend over, the cage would...
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A Study Guide for John Milton's "How Soon Hath Time, the Subtle Thief of Youth (Sonnet VII)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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Batman the brave and the bold volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Batman and Aquaman travel back in time to stop Dr. Cyber, whose tinkering with time will result in the destruction of Atlantis.
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Gwenhwyfar Byron Owens learned everything she knows about potions and spells from her two Wiccan moms, who are forbidden by Otherworld laws to teach magic to mortals. But when their latest transgression results in the kidnapping of a mortal woman, Gwen figures the only place to hide them all is in Summerland, the Wiccan afterlife. But Gregory Faa, a member of the Watch, is hot on their heels. A Traveller who has stolen time, he is eager to prove himself...
18) Fire and ice
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The daughter of notorious, high-profile thief Bobby Rose, journalist Sophie Rose leaves her job at a major Chicago newspaper for a small local paper, but when she stumbles into the middle of a bizarre story, she follows the trail of the mystery north to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, accompanied by a bodyguard, Jack Prescott, a sexy FBI agent.
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Good thief's guide volume 3
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Chris Ewan's The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas is the next caper in a series that's being called "impressive... comic...fresh" (Publishers Weekly-starred review).
Charlie Howard isn't only a part-time crime writer and part-time thief; he's also a magician. For his next trick, he'll relieve Josh Masters, the famous illusionist vying for the affections of Charlie's friend Victoria, of $60,000 in casino chips stashed in his hotel safe.
Revenge would...
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"Novelist Henry "Coop" Cooper is contemplating a new book between sipping rum and lounging on a Baja beach with hotel owner Grady Doyle. When Grady tries to save a drunk from two thugs, Coop tags along for the sake of a good story. The drunk is Ebbie Milch, a small-time thief on the run in Mexico because he has stolen the never-before-seen first draft of Ernest Hemingway¿́¿s A Moveable Feast from a wealthy rare book dealer. The stolen manuscript...