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  The Maltese Mummy - Book 2

  Trina Robbins

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  A friend has vanished, a mummy's amulet is missing, and there's a weirdo out there looking for human brains and hearts. The Chicagoland Detective Agency—run by Megan, Raf, and his talking dog Bradley—have more than enough cases on their hands (and paws). But where to start? Megan's too busy for private-detecting. Her haikus won her tickets to meet the drop-dead gorgeous rock star Sun D'Arc. Raf is sure that Sun is too good not to be really bad. He must be involved in one of their cases. And what about Sun's suspiciously familiar manager? Or the pushy new girl at school? Can Bradley, dog genius, pull his team together and sniff out what suspect goes with which case?

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  Spider-Man - Requiem

  Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Marvel

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  A previously unknown translation of an ancient grimoire, the Darkhold, has been unearthed by archaeologists in South America. But this chilling discovery will have far-reaching effects. Halfway across the globe, the Darkhold is relentlessly pursued by the Cabal of Scrier, an organization devoted to achieving ultimate power through whatever means necessary. And it is through their actions that a darkness from beyond the grave will return to haunt the Spectacular Spider-Man in the form of one of the most frightening and dangerous foes he's ever encountered...

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  Why Superman Doesn't Take Over...

  J. Brian O'Roark

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  Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? 
  Economics and comic books seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic hero aficionado J. Brian O'Roark, the two form a powerful alliance. With brilliant deadpan enthusiasm he shows how the travails of superheroes can explain the building blocks of economics, and how the laws of economics explain the mysteries of superhero behavior. 
  Superman has a day job because of elastic demand; Spiderman's existential doubts are all about opportunity cost; game theory sheds light on the battle between Captain America and Iron Man; the Peltzmann effect makes sense of why heroes can go to the bad; sunk cost fallacy explains The Flash's tragic dilemmas; the utility curve helps us decide who is the greatest superhero of all. 
  Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics probes the motivations of our favorite heroes, and considers what it would look like if their stories played out in reality.

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  Sink or Swim - Catholicism in...

  Alan Harris, Isabel Ryan

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  The Sixties was an iconic decade, conjuring images of marked generational conflict and “sex, drugs and rock-n-roll”, but also of the Second Vatican Council (1962–5), the “permissive” legislation and Britain’s counter-culture, as well as the social transformations of the period encompassing ecumenism, the advent of the women’s movement and the beginning of the Troubles.
  
   
  Better known as the creator of the BBC television series Captain Pugwash, John Ryan (1921–2009), through his weekly illustrations in the Catholic Herald, offered a topical interrogation of the British Catholic Church’s sometimes adaptive, though often inflexible responses to the changes and challenges of the period. This collection of Ryan’s cartoons provides a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties—encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.

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  Levi Strauss and Blue Jeans

  Nathan Olson

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  Tells the story Levi Strauss and the evolution of blue jeans. Written in graphic-novel format.

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  Diary Of A Zombie Steve Book 3 -...

  MC Steve

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  *All is going well for Zombie Steve – until the tides change* 
  Young, adventurous Zombie Steve has everything going for him. He adores his lovely girlfriend Viv, and his construction business is booming. In fact, he has just won a bid to build a new colony on the Isle of Mists. 
  Everything seems to be going his way – until he mysteriously winds up on what he thought was an uninhabited island on his boat that was originally headed for the Isle of Mists. The key word here is thought: to his surprise, there is a legion of rabbit guardians *protecting a dangerous secret*. Trouble ensues when the rabbits and Steve realize they have a visitor: a zombie pigman with unusual strength. Steve knows what he has to do: help the rabbits and find a way out of the island. 
  Will Steve find his way home? Or will the ocean put a damper on his plans? The only way to know is to read Shipwrecked! 
  Shipwrecked is an imaginative, colorful tale that your child will adore, just in time for the holiday season!

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