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  Something Special: 40th...

  Emily Rodda

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  The award-winning classic by internationally renowned author Emily Rodda celebrates forty years. 
    
  In the spare room, the second-hand clothes hang in rows, stirring in the sunlight. Sam walks through the rows, brushing velvety sleeves, touching lace, sensing memories and magic. 
  The clothes all have neat price tags. They're ready to be sold at the school fete on Saturday. Sam knows that some of them are Special. Her mother has told her so. But she is soon to find out just how Special they really are. 
  A children's fantasy favourite for forty years, Something Special was Emily Rodda's debut novel and won the prestigious Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Younger Readers Award in 1985.

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  Consignment - In a World of...

  Alan E. Nourse

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  Consignment by Alan E. Nourse - Revenge drives John Krenner to risk everything in a world ruled by relentless automation. But on the futuristic Rolling Roads, justice isn’t the only thing waiting at the end of the line. 
  The three shots ripped through the close night air of the prison, sharply, unbelievably. Three guards crumpled like puppets in the dead silence that followed. The thought flashed through Krenner's mind, incredibly, that possibly no one had heard. 
  He hurled the rope with all his might up the towering rock wall, waited a long eternity as the slim strong line swished through the darkness, and heard the dull "clank" as the hook took hold at the top. Like a cat he started up, frantically, scrambling, and climbing, the sharp heat of the rope searing his fingers. Suddenly daylight was around him, the bright unearthly glare of arc lights, the siren cutting in with its fierce scream. The shouts of alarm were far below him as he fought up the line, knot after knot, the carefully prepared knots. Twenty seconds to climb, he thought, just twenty seconds—

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  Manrattan - The Truth is Finally...

  Sir Rhymesalot

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  Anyone who has been to 'Gotham City' and wandered about a bit has most likely spotted a giant inflatable rat or two. There are many stories as to why they are there, but until now, nobody has discovered the real truth about their secret lives. Join celebrated children's author Sir Rhymesalot as he goes undercover to burrow down into the inflated rat underworld for a ride that lifts you high into the sky. As with all Sir Rhymesalot titles, rhythm, and rhyming verse lead the way, and sing you through the steps of the adventure.

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  A Christmas Mistake

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Some mistakes carve wounds. Others, however, carve paths—twisting, unexpected roads that lead straight to the heart of what truly matters. In A Christmas Mistake, Montgomery paints a holiday tale where a simple misunderstanding reshapes lives in ways neither regret nor logic could predict. The charm of this story lies in its warmth, its humanity, and the quiet wisdom that sometimes, what seems like misfortune is nothing more than fate wrapped in disguise. Witty, touching, and utterly Montgomery, this is Christmas storytelling at its finest—where mishaps become blessings and where the wrong road just might lead to the right home.

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 241 thru 250 -...

  Ray Bradbury, Murray Leinster,...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 241 thru 250 - Ten Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sCollision Orbit by Clyde BeckSpawn of Inferno by Hugh B. CaveMetamorphosis by Mike Curry Referent by Ray BradburySuper Joe Mulloy by Scott F. GrenvilleThe Seven Temporary Moons by Murray LeinsterTriggerman by J. F. Bone Short Snorter by Charles EinsteinHomecoming by Miguel HidalgoPogo Planet by Donald A. Wollheim

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  Heading to Nashville on...

  Bïa Krieger

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  It’s a lovely spring day when Mama and Papa Poss hear a special broadcast on the radio: Johnny Splash, country music’s star beaver, is launching a contest! Whoever writes the best love song by midnight tomorrow will get to record a duet with the beaver himself. Would Mama and Papa Poss be able to make it to Nashville, the birthplace of country music, in time? After ruling out trains, planes, boats, and even golden horned rhinos, they eventually hitch a ride with a mare named Lucille. 
  
  The narrated story is followed by the songs "Lucille" and "The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee."
  
  “Heading to Nashville on Horseback!” is the fourth story in the “We’re a Possum Family Band” series, which follows Mama and Papa Poss on their travels that bring them across North America to the birthplaces of Cajun, jazz, country, rock’n’roll, blues, and traditional Quebecois music.

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