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  Gravebooks

  J. A. White

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  Return to the world of Nightbooks . . . if you dare. Dead stories—and dead witches—are back to haunt Alex and Yasmin. To find a happy ending, Alex will have to write it, in this sequel to Nightbooks from acclaimed author J. A. White.  
  Alex thought he was done with witches. But when Natacha, the witch who held him captive for scary stories, appears again one night, Alex realizes he’s trapped in a nightmare—literally. She’s found a way to enter his dreams with a new, terrifying familiar named Simeon. And they once again want Alex to write. Transported to a story graveyard with best friend Yasmin, Alex will have to complete an original scary story each night. 
  But what does Natacha plan to do with his finished stories? And what makes a story good enough? While Natacha might have control of the beginnings, only Alex has the power to write the ending. 
  Readers can delight in a spooky story while also exploring the craft of writing alongside Alex. As he writes his own scary tales, he learns about plot twists, active characters, identifying originality, and accepting feedback, as well as dealing with writer’s block—making this an ideal book to read for fun or use in classrooms.

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  Captain Barnaby's Helicopter...

  Randy Mains

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  One dark, stormy night a single bolt of lightning struck two things at the same time.  
  One was a top secret AWACS plane on its final approach to Boeing Field. The huge aircraft was bucking turbulent head winds, heavy rain, and occasional lightning. The other was a trash dumpster behind a fast food place, where a homeless woman was headed to look for any left-over hamburgers. The metal was hot and steaming when she first looked inside.  
  Suddenly, she saw movement under some newspaper and carefully lifted one corner to see what was under there...  
  It was a cardboard box full of dead—oh, no! Who would do such a thing? But wait—one of them was still alive! Its eyes were sparking and cracking like electricity and its hair was standing up all over. 
  “Don't worry little fella,” she said as she picked him up. “I'll get you outta here.”  
  Which is exactly what caused a chain of unusual events to pop—just like popcorn—from one end of that city to the other. 
  And his name was Barnaby.

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  Apologia Pro Vita Sua

  John Henry Newman

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  A highly influential figure in the Church of England, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he left his position as vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, to join the Roman Catholic church. Perhaps no one took greater offense than Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley, whose scathing attacks against Newman's faith and honor inspired this brilliant response. Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Newman's spiritual autobiography, explores the depths and nature of Christianity with flowing prose and a conversational style that has ensured its status as a classic.

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  Oathsworn Brothers Rise - R3K:...

  罗 贯中, Luo Guanzhong

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  Before Game of Thrones… Before Dynasty Warriors… 
  This was the original saga of thrones forged in blood. 
  A modern edition of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, featuring essential summaries & Hanyu Pinyin names and pronunciation 
  The mighty Hàn Dynasty crumbles. Corruption rots the court. Celestial omens blaze across the sky. China shatters, plunging into an era of unthinkable chaos where history bleeds into legend and the supernatural stalks the battlefield. 
  The The wielders of the Serpent Spear, Green Dragon Crescent Blade, Seven Star Sword, Ancient Scimitar and Sky-Piercing Halberd will fight for dominion of the Imperial throne. This is Sānguó Yǎnyì (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) – the cornerstone of Chinese culture and the ultimate historical epic. 
  Dive into the explosive opening (Chapters 1-20) and witness the dawn of chaos: 
  In a humble peach orchard, three men swear an oath that will shake empires: the righteous Liú Bèi, the godlike warrior Guān Yǔ, and the tempestuous Zhāng Fēi. Their brotherhood defies the rising darkness – the monstrous tyrant Dǒng Zhuō who puppeteers the throne, bathing streets in blood, guarded by the undefeatable demigod of war Lǚ Bù astride the mythic Red Hare.  
  Amidst the storm walks Cáo Cāo, a strategist of unmatched brilliance and ruthless ambition, dancing on the edge of damnation. And in the shadows, the young courtesan Diāo Chán (Sable Cicada) weaves a plot of beauty and wit to achieve what armies cannot: toppling a colossus of cruelty. 
  Navigate the Epic with Ease with essential faction overviews, character breakdowns, and chapter summaries illuminate the complex web of alliances. Authentic Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation (like Liú Bèi, Guān Yǔ, Cáo Cāo) deepens your immersion into this foundational tale. 
  The stage is set. Warlords clash. Kingdoms tremble. The threads of fate weave relentlessly toward the cataclysm of Red Cliffs…

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  The Treasure of the Island

  Melissa J. Roche, Ressa Draco,...

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  Is the hidden treasure of Tesoro Island legend or legit? 
  It's real, according to an old-and soggy-message in a bottle, which sends dragon prince Fuego off on a daring treasure hunt to the heart of the island itself. With his sister Oro the crow, he leads the crew of Explorers past the edges of the magic map and into the unknown.  
  But they're not the only ones on the hunt. Seven evil hedgehog wizards (hezzards) are hot on their tails, not to mention a mysterious (and really pretty) blue dragon, and a suspicious snowy owl.  
  Who will find the Treasure of Tesoro Island? Real or not, here the Explorers come... 
  Intro music credit: "Silly Intro" by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  Starry Starry Heist

  Karen Briner

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  Max Rose-Rodriguez has more important things to do than finishing sixth grade—like stopping the biggest art heist the universe has ever known. 
   
  Sixth-grader Max has it rough between tormentors at school and his sick—ever-worsening—mom at home. But then DZ, a strange, tuxedoed man with one shoe, appears to Max from the future and divulges that Max’s mother’s fate is somehow entwined with that of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. It’s suddenly clear to Max that any problems he already had on his plate have just gotten bigger. 
   
  DZ explains to Max that someone is after The Starry Night. . . and the thief is not bound by the usual laws of time and space. 
   
  “I have questions,” Max tells DZ. But DZ can’t offer too many specifics. What he can provide Max is a cryptic to-do list: 
   
  Read The Future Time Traveler’s Guide to the Past 
  Consider the puffins 
  Beware the Wretch with obsidian eyes. 
  Befriend Vincent van Gogh 
   
  Although he’s skeptical, Max tries his very best. After all, he’ll do anything to help his mom. But he soon discovers that The Future Time Traveler’s Guide to the Past has never been published. And he’s not exactly sure where he’s going to find puffins in LA, let alone consider them. He has no idea what a Wretch is. And . . . befriend Vincent van Gogh? DZ is asking the impossible. 
   
  Then, one afternoon at the library, Max spots her: Turquoise-haired Maybe Wells, dressed in blue from head to toe, spattered in paint, carrying a skateboard, and sporting a beautiful tattoo of puffins on her right shoulder. 
   
  Max considers those puffins. 
   
  And suddenly, achieving the impossible doesn’t seem so farfetched anymore. 
   
  In this quirky, clever, and arrestingly heartfelt adventure through time, readers will find themselves cheering for the underdog at every turn—whether that underdog is Max, Maybe, a picnic hippo named Thelma, or a certain post-impressionist who, in 1889, painted his most famous work under a twinkling night sky in Arles.

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