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Everything’s about to change. Charlie navigates between working for The Defiance and preventing them from accessing dangerous research. Rochelle struggles to adjust to life in New York while helping the TCI defeat the Defiance. (Book 4)
Big, stately great horned owls with their hooting call and big orange eyes are the owls of scary stories. Learn more about these tufted hunters with full-color photos, range maps, and carefully leveled text.Mostra libro
An encyclopedia of mind-bogglingly random history facts that will lodge in your brain and refuse to leave. Heard about King Henry II's polar bear that was allowed to swim in the River Thames? Or the Japanese soldier who refused to believe that WWII was over and continued to fight until the 1970s? Do you know which US president was a champion wrestler before taking office? In this compendium of obscure facts, readers will be treated to baffling history knowledge they would never learn at school. Broken into chapters including royals and leaders, sports, and food, a team of experts has scoured the margins to find the silliest and most pointless history facts that the world has to offer. Accompanied by hilarious illustrations, kids will meet characters like Wojtek the orphaned bear cub who was enlisted in the Polish army, discover which famous explorer used his own poop to help him escape during a blizzard, and learn why hot cross buns were believed to keep away evil spirits. They will also unearth completely useless information, including which US city held a funeral for 30,000 pizzas. (SPOILER: the information in this book isn’t really useless. It will inspire, shock, and amuse the reader—and maybe spark an interest that will last a lifetime. It just won’t help you with any exams!)Mostra libro
Karl Barstac has one destination left in the solar system. Mars is closed to him, Earth is locked behind the New System’s laws, and deep space is strangled by patrol nets. Only Deimos remains — a barren rock where the mist-like Martians are said to grant dreams to the lost, and where no one returns unchanged. He fights his way to freedom with a weapon he spent ten years building in secret, determined never to be taken alive again. But his escape is interrupted by Marian Sayers, the reckless daughter of one of the system’s richest industrialists. She saves him from certain capture and insists on joining his flight to Deimos. Her fascination with the infamous Barstac seems romantic, almost reckless. He sees her as a convenience, perhaps even a shield. Yet on the lonely approach to the moon, as the red planet falls away behind them, it becomes clear she has her own purpose. Deimos is not a refuge in any simple sense. The Martians who dwell there do not govern with weapons or laws. They work on memory itself. In their drifting cities of vapor and music, old wounds surface, buried childhoods return, and long-forgotten moments take on new weight. For a man who has defined himself by violence, the recovery of happiness may be more dangerous than any prison sentence. Moon of Memory presses its characters into a confrontation neither expected. Barstac believes he has nothing left to lose. Marian believes she understands exactly what she is doing. On Deimos, both are forced to face what cannot be outrun. Bryce Walton published widely in the American science fiction magazine market from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Walton often brought psychological intensity into planetary settings, favoring damaged protagonists placed in morally charged situations. In stories such as The Ultimate World and others, he explored the inner fracture beneath outward adventure.Mostra libro
The Animorphs have to make the most important decision they've ever faced: Do they continue to fight the Yeerks in secret, or is it time to let everyone know there's a resistance? That the Animorphs exist and Earth does stand a small chance against the invasion.Jake knows that either choice is a major one, not something that a kid should be responsible for. But he's getting tired of the pressure. Even though he realizes his friends need him to be strong, he doesn't feel that way. In fact, he feels just the opposite. And Jake knows if he starts to lose it, the Animorphs are done...Mostra libro
With missing body parts, extra legs, and eyes growing inside mouths, something unusual is happening to frogs. As their environment changes, frogs have become animals on the edge. Discover how scientists are trying to answer the questions behind deformed frogs.Mostra libro
“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thinking only of Emma Lee, to whom he turned, and went on—“Well, when Colonel Jones had scaled the first wall—” “Come, sir,” said Blunt, entering the carriage, and laying his hand on Edwin’s shoulder, “it’s not all right. This is another man’s property.” The youth turned round indignantly, and, with a flushed countenance, said, “What do you mean?” “I mean that you are travelling with another man’s property,” said Blunt, quietly pointing to the strapped rug. “That is not my property,” said Edwin, looking at it with a perplexed air, “I never said it was.” “Didn’t you though?” exclaimed Blunt, with an appealing look to the captain. “Didn’t you say, when I asked you, ‘Yes, it’s all right.’ Moreover, young man, if it’s not yours, why did you bring it into the carriage with you?” “I did not bring it into the carriage,” said Edwin, firmly, and with increasing indignation. “I came down to this train with a lady, who is now in it, and who can vouch for it that I brought no luggage of any kind with me. I—” (Summary by Author)Mostra libro
