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  The Madness of Lancelot Biggs -...

  Nelson S. Bond

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  The Madness of Lancelot Biggs by Nelson S. Bond - There was more at stake than just a football game for Lancelot Biggs and the crew of the Saturn. So Biggs made a bargain; his rocket emblem in exchange for a new uranium condenser—and how it worked! 
  We had barely cleared Lunar Three and I was taking final instructions from Joe Marlowe, the port Sparks, when my plates dulled out and there I was staring at a blank expanse of metal. So I said, "Merdejo!" which is Universal for a naughty word, and started looking for the trouble. I was on my hands and knees under the audio bank when Cap Hanson came into my control turret. 
  He said, "You lose somethin', Sparks?" 
  "Two minutes ago," I told him. "Take a look around. If you see something bright red and covered with hairy spikes, don't step on it. It's my temper." 
  The Skipper sighed. "If my troubles," he declaimed, "was as mild as your'n, I'd do cartwheels from here to Venus. Sparks, you got a copy of the Space Manual here, ain't you?" 
  I nodded toward my bookcase; he found the reg book and leafed through it carefully. Finally he shook his head. 
  "It ain't here," he gloomed. "Are you sure this is the latest edition?" 
  "Just what are you looking for?" I asked him. 
  "I was kinda thinkin'," he said hopefully, "there might be a paragraph givin' a space commander permission to boil his First Mate in oil, or cut him into small cubes an' feed him to the octopussies. But the waffle-fannies what wrote that book--" 
  I knew, then. It was the same old complaint. Our lanky and incredibly omniscient friend, Lancelot Biggs, whose genius for getting ye goode shippe Saturn out of tight spots was surpassed only by his ability to fester Cap Hanson's epidermis, was back in the soup. 
  I said, "But, sweet comets, Cap, what's he done now? He hasn't had time to do much. We've just pulled our Ampie out of Earth's H-layer."

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  Battle for Sky Kingdom (Future...

  Remi Blackwood

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  Jarell's adventures continue in this exciting fourth installment of Future Hero!Unlikely hero Jarell has proven himself a warrior -- defender of the Kingdom of Ulfrika. He's gathered three of the four iron animals of the staff of Kundi which will unlock the powers he needs to defeat the evil wizard Ikala. But now Ikala is closing in on the Iron Eagle, which could spell the end of Ulfrika forever.There's only one way to save the legendary kingdom -- beat Ikala in the god Oufula's deadly competition and win the prized Iron Eagle, defeating the wizard once and for all. Can Jarell rise to the greatest challenge yet to rescue his friends and the magical land he loves from certain doom?

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  Blades of Eternity and the...

  Zach Fox

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  A search for the Keeper of Peace becomes a frantic race to control the fate of the Realm. Four kingdoms collide in this faith-filled fantasy novel for middle-grade readers.One hundred years have passed since the Keeper of Peace vanished. In hopes of restoring the missing governor to his rightful place atop the Keeper’s Plateau, the king of Summer forms a secret search party led by his son, Prince Mel. 
   
  As the group encounters many dangers, Eva, the princess of Winter, shares a secret with Mel about a mysterious, masked prisoner known as “inmate thirty-six.” Could this be the man the king sent them to find? And if so, how can the prince’s party rescue this curious convict and escape under the evil eye of Eva’s father, the king of Winter? 
   
  Blades of Eternity and the Keeper of Peace is the first book in the Blades of Eternity series. Readers will encounter page-turning adventure as they explore the values of friendship, loyalty, and courage.

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  Lucille Ball Had No Eyebrows? -...

  Dan Gutman

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  From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. 
   
  Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn’t know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and Mission: Impossible! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most  
  unusual and surprising facts about the beloved actress, from her impoverished childhood and her first forays into the film industry to her marriage with Desi Arnaz and her rise to become both the most prominent actress in television and one of its most successful executives. 
   
  Narrated by the two spirited siblings and animated by Allison Steinfeld’s upbeat illustrations, Wait! What? Lucille Ball Had No Eyebrows? is an authoritative, accessible, and one-of-a-kind biography infused with Dan Gutman’s signature zany sense of humor.

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  The Adventures of Scuff and...

  Shonna Wells

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  Scruff and Molly decide to look for little Benny. Despite their sharp noses and powerful sense of direction they get lost and can not find their way home. In the distance they see a familiar figure who not only helps them home but introduces them to fishing along the way. 

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  Bob Fosse: The Life and Legacy...

  Editors Charles River

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  “The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.” – Bob Fosse 
  	By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style operetta, as embodied in the works of cellist-composer Victor Herbert. Traditional dance forms moved from European stories to the American prairie in Oklahoma by the late 1940s, and what was once the property of Bavarian princes became the singing standards of cowboys riding through the corn fields in Oh What a Beautiful Morning and Out of My Dreams.  
  	In terms of original choreography, it was the age of Jerome Robbins that marked the first real departure from traditional dance on stage and in film. Robbins, born in 1918, became a five-time Tony winner and twice winner of an Academy Award. It was into this environment, featuring his West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, and countless other productions, that an intriguing new choreographer made his entry riding the advent of American jazz. Only 10 years Robbin’s junior, Robert Louis Fosse, better known as Bob Fosse, followed his colleague’s example by mixing daring new jazz forms with virtually every traditional and popular genre to produce previously unseen modes of dance expression on Broadway and in film. 
  In the 1960s, Fosse emerged as one of the leading dancers, actors, choreographers, directors, screenwriters and film directors on Broadway and in Hollywood. He became famous for conquering several fields on the musical stage and film simultaneously in a way that no one has before or since. It is said that “only Busby Berkeley compares” to Fosse despite the fact that Berkeley was never a dancer, and that Fosse enjoyed eight Broadway hits to Berkeley’s one.

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