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  Mount Royal Volume N°1

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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  A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with the emphasis on romance. Christabel, a beautiful young heiress, has been brought up properly by her wealthy aunt. The aunt's greatest longing is for Christabel to marry her scoundrel son, whom the mother believes to be perfect. While her son is off traveling in America, a wonderful young man comes to stay in their home for a while, and he wins Christabel's heart. So Christabel must choose between the man she loves and the scoundrel son of the woman who brought her up and whom she loves and respects.

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  La Cucaracha

  Lalo Alcaraz

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  An anthropomorphic hipster cockroach is on the cutting-edge of American comic-strip humor. La Cucaracha (aka Cuco Rocha) and his pals voice the concerns and observations of the Latino-American community with an edgy, insightful wit.Through La Cucaracha, creator Lalo Alcaraz makes blunt social commentary both hard-hitting and hilarious. The result is not just a pleasure, but also a craving. The strong undercurrent of modern Latino themes and issues adds a sharp layer of meaning to the humor. In one strip, an immigrant bartender has listened to two customers rant, "I'm telling ya, there's too many immigrants pouring into this country." When one of the customers asks for another drink the bartender declares, "I'm an immigrant, and guess what? I'm not pouring!"This first of perceptive La Cucaracha humor will delight and gratify all audiences that appreciate intelligent, progressive, deeply amusing comics. 

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  I like sport! - The Adventures...

  Magdalena Gruca

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  Fenek has already played football, swum in the sea, run and played with a hula hoop. Today he’ll discover a new discipline. Will he like it?Thanks to this book, your child will:get to know a new sports discipline, i.e. climbing;find out what sort of equipment is necessary to do climbing; learn the meaning of the word “safeguard”; remember that sport is really important in life.The Adventures of Fenek - Books for younger children 
  Thematic series that respond to the needs of pre-school and kindergarten teachers, parents, and psychologists. 20-page brochures are published in series of four books each, and they are all thematically related.

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  Attack of the Cling-Ons

  Scott Ciencin

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  A member of the Star Bus video game club is about to go where no geek has gone before . . . the school dance. Unfortunately, the galaxy's greatest comic book convention is the same night! Will this first mate ditch his date for his crew? Or will he voyage into the final frontier?

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  Hound of Baskerville

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third novel by Arthur Conan Doyle whose main character Sherlock Holmes. It was serialized in The Strand Magazine between 1901 and 1902. 
  The book is about the tension between the otherworldly and the real, between superstition and science. 
  Holmes will seek logical explanation, which will eventually be imposed, within the canons of detective fiction, the events that occur in the wilderness west of England.

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  Werewolves

  Alice Carr

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  A teenage girl documents her transformation into a werewolf and the adventure that follows in this illustrated journal.Werewolves takes the form of an illustrated journal that plunges readers into the life of a high school girl-turned-werewolf as she makes her transformation. After Alice and her brother are bitten by what they assume are large dogs, her journal/sketchbook becomes a place for her to record the changes they start to experience her socially awkward brother falls in with some creepy new friends, and she surprises herself with new strengths and instincts and a suddenly nonvegetarian interest in raw steak. Joining the werewolf pack that bit them, they discover the pleasures and dangers that come with the cycles of the moon, including threats from “hunters” who stalk them, a researcher seeking a cure, and escalating violence within the pack itself. With a fresh take on the lore and legend, Werewolves gives fans a ripping tale to sink their teeth into.

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