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20183) To Spoil the Sun
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You cannot imagine what it [smallpox] is like. It falls on everyone and soon there is no one who can stand. It is like a fire that sweeps through the town, an invisible fire. People begin to fall with fever, and blisters rise on their skin and turn to running sores, and there is no way to give them comfort. I reeled at the force of it, horror-struck, unable to imagine it.
It is the sixteenth-century and Rain Dove, a young Cherokee girl, lives in...
20184) Foul Lady Fortune
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In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.
20185) Munchkin: Issue #23
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Spyke and Flower head down the rabbit hole for a Wonderland-themed adventure!
20186) Monster
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A stunning black-and-white graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers's Michael L. Printz Award winner and New York Times bestseller Monster, adapted by Guy Sims and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story about Steve Harmon, a teenager awaiting trial for a murder and robbery. As Steve acclimates to juvenile detention and goes to trial, he envisions how his ordeal would play out on the big...
20187) Munchkin: Issue #14
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Ever wonder what happens to munchkins when they die? In 'Spyke's Inferno,' the world's least repentant munchkin goes to gamer hell and meets up with all of the adventurers he has betrayed. Find out what Spyke regrets the most about his misspent life. (Hint: it's not the greed and backstabbing.) Then, find out what it takes to get hired by the biggest munchkin of them all in 'Help Wanted.'
20188) Munchkin: Issue #16
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Spyke and Flower are on a dungeon crawl - roaming dungeons and crypts throughout the land to see how many dungeons they can loot in a single night.
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Adapted from the Philippine National Book Award-winning novel, Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon takes the reader on a journey of discovery as Janus learns the truth about the supernatural realm of mythical creatures that surround us and how he and his family is connected to this magical world.
Monsters live in the darkest corners of our dreams, existing only as nightmares, but sometimes they find a way out. When dreams and the waking world...
20190) Munchkin: Issue #17
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Spyke and Flower are on a dungeon crawl to see how many dungeons they can loot in a single night.
20191) Munchkin: Issue #18
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In this issue, follow an intrepid FBI agent and his team as they raid a cult of Cthulhu. Everyone gets more than they bargained for when, in addition to a horror from beyond time, they summon Spyke and Flower. Even the Consulting Occultist doesn't know what to make of them. Also, Flower provides a hard lesson on the ecology of the Plutonium Dragon, and Spyke gives some tips on saving the environment in a special one-page story written by Steve Jackson...
20192) Munchkin: Issue #20
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Feeling glum, chum? Turn that frown upside down with some dungeon-dwelling fun! This issue ties into the Munchkin Gloom and Moop's Monster Mashup game releases.
20193) Munchkin: Issue #15
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When Spyke dies on a dungeon run, he is sent to the deepest level of the lower planes reserved for pedants, whiners, and Munchkins.
20194) Munchkin: Issue #21
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Seeking fame and honor, Spyke enters a tournament of honorable knights. It doesn't end well.
20195) Munchkin: Issue #13
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A munchkin has to visit an expert for help after she's hit with an unknown curse that's making her lose everything.
20196) Munchkin: Issue #24
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Love is in the air! Oh, wait. Oh, no. That's not love. THAT SMELLS AWFUL, WHO DID THAT? Snuggle up with this Valentine's-themed issue of Munchkin!
20197) Munchkin: Issue #25
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Spyke & Flower's Final Adventure! All good things come to an end, and so, Spyke and Flower ride off into the sunset to find their final bag of loot in the land of Munchkin. Final oversized issue!
20198) Going bovine
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In an attempt to find a cure after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob (aka mad cow) disease, Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old boy, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital.
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Age: from 8 years old Reading Level: from 3rd Grade
Thanks to these short bilingual stories, children will learn to master both French and English.
In these hot days, reptiles readily bask in the warm sand, storing up all they can of the heat of the burning sun to warm up their cold blood. Madam crocodile, named Odile, keeps a particularly watchful eye on her offspring.
On the other bank, but not too far away, a pelican enjoys...
Thanks to these short bilingual stories, children will learn to master both French and English.
In these hot days, reptiles readily bask in the warm sand, storing up all they can of the heat of the burning sun to warm up their cold blood. Madam crocodile, named Odile, keeps a particularly watchful eye on her offspring.
On the other bank, but not too far away, a pelican enjoys...
20200) Tabula Rasa
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2014
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The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this action-packed debut thriller with a Katniss-esque heroine fighting to regain her memories and stay alive, set against a dystopian hospital background. Sarah finds herself in a battle for her life within the walls of her hospital-turned-prison. A procedure to eliminate her memory goes awry, and she starts to remember snatches of her past. Was she an urban terrorist or vigilante? Has the procedure been her...
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