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  The Beachcomber - A New Eden or...

  Damon Knight

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  The Beachcomber by Damon Knight - Alice saw the Beachcomber as a glorious hunk of man; Maxwell saw him as a super being from the future. Tragically, he was both!... 
  Maxwell and the girl started their weekend on Thursday, in Venice. Friday they went to Paris, Saturday to Nice, and on Sunday they were bored. Alice pouted at him across the breakfast table. "Vernon, let's go someplace else," she said. 
  "Sure," said Maxwell, not too graciously. "Don't you want your bug eggs?" 
  Alice pushed them away. "If I ever did, I don't now. Why do you have to be so unpleasant in the morning?" 
  The eggs were insect eggs, all right, but they were on the menu as oeufs Procyon Thibault, and three of the half-inch brown spheres cost about one thousand times their value in calories. Maxwell was well paid as a script-writer for the North American Unit Ministry of Information—he bossed a gang of six gagmen on the Cosmic Cocktail show—but he was beginning to hate to think about what these five days were costing him. 
  "Where do you want to go?" asked Maxwell. Their coffee came out of the conveyer, steaming and fragrant, and he sipped his moodily. "Want to run over to Algiers? Or up to Stockholm?" 
  "No," said Alice. She leaned forward across the table and put up one long white hand to keep her honey-colored hair out of her eyes. "You don't know what I mean. I mean, let's go to some other planet." 
  Maxwell choked slightly and spilled coffee on the tabletop. "Europe is all right," Alice was saying with disdain, "but it's all getting to be just like Chicago. Let's go someplace different for once." 
  "And be back by tomorrow noon?" Maxwell demanded. "It's ten hours even to Proxima; we'd have just time to turn around and get back on the liner."

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  Leila The Perfect Witch

  Flavia Z. Drago

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  Leila Wayward is a little witch who excels at everything she does. She’s the fastest flier, the most cunning conjuror, and the most superb shape-shifter. She has won trophies for potions, herbology, and alchemy—and now she dreams of winning the Magnificent Witchy Cake-off! As the youngest in a long line of masters of the Dark Arts of Patisserie, Leila wants her entry to be perfect. But even with the most bewitching of recipes, she realizes a terrible truth: she’s a disaster in the kitchen. Luckily, Leila has three magical sisters who are happy to share their culinary secrets with her. What’s more, Leila discovers that baking with them is fun! Win or lose, she has already tasted the sweetest thing of all: acceptance—with a pinch of nightshade and a bit of mandrake. Filled with expressive and fancifully offbeat illustrations, Flavia Z. Drago’s enchanting story of trying your hardest despite your imperfections is sure to delight little witches and novice bakers alike.

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  Sylvanian Families: Ralph's...

  Macmillan Children's Books

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  Join the Sylvanian Families on their summer adventures in this sweet story, based on the animation Freya's Happy Diary, now showing on Youtube!It's summer time in Sylvania, and Freya and her friends are taking a holiday in the forest. Her best friend, Ralph Walnut, is keen to practice his ninja skills. He's always been great at sports, and he especially wants to impress his little brother, Ambrose.But when Freya challenges him to a skipping rope contest, Ralph realises he can't do everything right away . . . and that Freya is just as competitive as he is! Will Ralph be able to learn to skip rope and win the contest?This sweet story brings the classic and beloved toy range to life as never before.Also available: The World of Sylvanian Families: The Official Guide, Easter Search-and-Find and more!

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  Warning From the Stars - It...

  Ron Cocking

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  Warning From the Stars by Ron Cocking - Don't believe in flying saucers? Neither do we, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there can be no other way for Earth to get its last.... Warning From the Stars 
  It was a beautifully machined container, shaped like a two pound chocolate candy box, the color and texture of lead. The cover fitted so accurately that it was difficult to see where it met the lip on the base. 
  Yet when Forster lifted the container from the desk in the security guards' office, he almost hit himself in the face with it, so light was it. 
  He read the words clumsily etched by hand into the top surface with some sharp instrument: 
  TO BE OPENED ONLY BY: 
  Dr. Richard Forster, 
  Assistant Director, 
  Air Force Special Research Center, 
  Petersport, Md. 
  CAUTION: Open not later than 
  24 hours after receipt. 
  DO NOT OPEN in atmosphere less than equivalent of 65,000 feet above M.S.L. 
  He turned the container over and over. It bore no other markings—no express label or stamps, no file or reference number, no return address. 
  It was superbly machined, he saw. 
  Tentatively he pulled at the container cover, it was as firm as if it had been welded on. But then, if the cover had been closed in the thin atmosphere of 65,000 feet, it would be held on by the terrific pressure of a column of air twelve miles high. 
  Forster looked up at the burly guard. 
  "Who left this here?" 
  "Your guess is as good as mine, sir." The man's voice was as close to insolence as the difference in status would allow, and Forster bristled.

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  War of the Wasteland

  Tyler Whitesides

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  The trilogy concludes as Landon must harness the ultimate power of the Megalajunk in a final battle to defeat the Locksmith and save the world from being overrun by trash. 
   
  Landon Murphy and Jade Shu, stepsiblings turned wizard-like janitors, must step up after a disastrous encounter with the Locksmith—an immortal Auran who commands an army of Thingamajunks. With the Bureau of Educational Maintenance in disarray and their allies captured, Landon and Jade rally their friends from the School of Garbage and work to uncover vital clues hidden within the discarded trash of the magical landfill. 
   
  Their search leads them to the legendary Spencer Zumbro, who has been in hiding for six years. Spencer, burdened by guilt over the aging Auran boys under his care, is reluctantly drawn back into the fray when the villainous General Clean reemerges with a mysterious device that can turn Servites back into destructive Toxites. Meanwhile, Landon undertakes a dangerous mission to go undercover and infiltrate the Thingamajunk army in hopes of sabotaging the Locksmith’s plans. 
   
  Faced with traps of living toilet paper, Glopified trash, and moral dilemmas, Landon and Jade must forge unlikely alliances and confront their fears to stop a Trashpocalypse that could destroy the entire world. 
   
  Brimming with humor, heart, and high-stakes action, War of the Wasteland is a thrilling tale of teamwork, redemption, and the power of hope in the dirtiest of battles.

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  Jo Jo Makoons: The Super-Scary...

  Dawn Quigley

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  There’s no “brave” without “afraid”! Jo Jo is back to face her fears, in her own special way, in the fifth book in the beloved Jo Jo Makoons chapter book series. 
  Spunky Ojibwe first-grader Jo Jo Makoons knows a lot about bravery and boldness. Her cat, Mimi, is very brave when she tries new foods, and Teacher is very bold when he wears his ugly ties to school. 
  When Jo Jo is invited to her very first friend sleepover, it’s her turn to be courageous! Only she’s not quite sure how. Especially when scary puppets and dolls hide around every corner… 
  Full of spooky fun and after-school mischief, Jo Jo Makoons celebrates an Ojibwe girl with a big heart who finds her courage through the people she loves. 
  The first book in the acclaimed Jo Jo Makoons series was an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book; a best book of the year from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, American Indians in Children's Literature, and the Chicago Public Library; a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book; and a Cooperative Children's Book Center CCBC Choices selection. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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