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1) Sabriel
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Old Kingdom volume 1
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English
Description
Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. She soon finds companions in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter...
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A series of unfortunate events volume 2
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English
Description
" ... Like the movie, this book tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children, who despite being pleasant lead unpleasant lives. From the very beginning of this volume, when the children are driving down a bad-smelling road toward a house full of mysterious beasts, continuing on to the last page of this distressing story, disaster lurks at their heels. Unlike the movie, however, this book does not contain moving pictures"--Jacket flap.
7) The end
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Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 12
Language
English
Description
The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and others. Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his New York Times bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his New York Times bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events.
9) Abhorsen
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Series
Old Kingdom volume 3
Language
English
Description
Abhorsen-In-Waiting Lirael and Prince Sameth, a Wallmaker, must confront and bind the evil spirit Oranis before it can destroy all life.
10) Portobello
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English
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Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted...
11) Lirael
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English
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In this riveting sequel to Sabriel, master of fantasy and globally bestselling author Garth Nix returns to the fantastic world of the Old Kingdom.
Who is Lirael? And what is her destiny?
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's Glacier.
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Join Barbie as Corinne, a young country girl headed to Paris to pursue her big dream: to become a female Musketeer. Never could she imagine she would meet three other girls who secretly share the same dream. Using their special talents, the girls work together as a team to foil a plot and save the prince.
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English
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It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...
14) The cat returns
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English
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In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
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Old Kingdom volume 2
Language
English
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"When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies"--Publisher.
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"When young Jim Hawkins inherits a long lost treasure map, he hires the great ship Hispaniola to seek his fortune. With the good Captain Smollet at the helm and greedy Long John Silver at the heart of a dastardly plot, they set sail for adventure only to discover danger at every turn!"--Container.
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English
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"Distressed young heiress Norma Restarick comes to see Hercule Poirot about 'a murder she might have committed.' The detective consults an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, who lives in the same building as the young woman and her two roommates. When Norma's childhood nanny is found dead, apparently by suicide, Poirot believes he has identified the victim. Next he must deduce the killer, while Norma's family fears for her sanity"--Container....
18) The Shadow
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English
Description
In New York City in the 1930s, The Shadow takes on his nemesis Shiwan Khan, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, who tries to control the world by threatening detonation of an atomic bomb.
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English
Description
After an encounter with a mysterious shaman, Eliza Thornberry is granted the magnificent power to talk with animals. Now she, along with her eccentric and adventurous family, travels the world on a mission to communicate and help the animal kingdom in ways never before possible. Episode highlights include the Thornberrys saving pandas from poachers; Debbie thinking she may be a distant relative of Cleopatra; everyone filming dangerous tiger sharks;...
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English
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The animated series tells the story of sweet, socially inept bank teller Stanley Ipkiss, who discovers the magical mask of Loki, which transforms him into a super hero. This intriguing mix of edgy super satire and Tex Avery-style reality-smashing slapstick boldly goes further than the film and finds Stanley, and The Mask, falling into ever-more-improbable perils.