Michael Gallagher
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This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland's mould-breaking 2020 election. For the first time ever, Sinn Féin won the most votes, the previously dominant parties shrank to a fraction of their former strengths, and the government to emerge was a coalition between previously irreconcilable enemies. For these reasons, the election marks the end of an era in Irish politics. This...
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Concluding the adventures of the original Guardians of the Galaxy, heroes of the 31st century! When Charlie-27 is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Major Victory and the team stage a breakout with the aid of Cuchulain, the Irish Wolfhound - but Drax the Destroyer stands in the warrior's way! But if Charlie is innocent, who's guilty? Enter Ripjak: the interplanetary serial killer with a surprising connection to Spider-Man! Where will the Guardians...
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Continue exploring the Marvel Universe of the 31st century with the original Guardians of the Galaxy! But will the team survive a Major blow when Vance Astro walks out? Meanwhile, Charlie-27 fights for his life against a Captain Universe-powered Badoon, and Starhawk makes her dramatic return - as do the heavyweight Galactic Guardians! Even with the cosmic power of Firelord, a Phoenix, a Spirit of Vengeance and the thousand-year-old former Wonder Man,...
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Guarding the Galaxy of the 31st century are Major Victory, Charlie-27, Starhawk, Nikki, Yellowjacket and Talon! But can even this formidable team handle Composite, the deadliest Inhuman of all? A thousand years down the line, it's reassuring to know that some things in the Marvel Universe remain familiar - like the God of Mischief, Loki, vying to rule Asgard! But who wields Mjolnir in the far future? Vance gets a new look, and Yondu returns - as does...
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Archie and Friends All-Stars volume 13
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Join Sabrina as she faces a flurry of new foes, meets new friends and tries to deal with the trials and tribulations of high school - with the added burden of being a teenage witch!
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Skyborn volume 1
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"In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, with tight-knit communities formed around bird types: Jay, Falcon, Crow. Ellie Meadows dreams of growing up to join the Goldwings--the famed knights who defend all the people of the Clandoms. It was a Goldwing, after all, who saved her life on that terrible day her parents were killed. There's just one problem: Ellie is a Sparrow, and the Goldwings are almost invariably picked from the higher clans like...
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Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, took control of the farms in the Ukraine like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food...
10) Call of the Crow
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Skyborn volume 2
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"In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, though not all the clans are treated equally. Ellie Meadows longed to become a Goldwing--the knights who protect the people--but because she came from the humble Sparrow Clan, her dream faced almost insurmountable resistance. Nox Hatcher has it even worse. Nox is a Crow, a shattered clan. They can't own businesses or run organizations, all due to a mysterious betrayal made hundreds of years ago. Nox has...
11) Phoenix flight
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Skyborn volume 3
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"An aspiring knight turned wanted fugitive, Ellie Meadows discovers why gargols punish those who soar too high and must convince Nox Hatcher that he is the key to the skies--and the one who can return the Clandoms back where they belong"--
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I survived volume 21
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Relates the story of a boy who survives the deadliest disaster in American history--the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killing eight thousand people--and heads back into the treacherous waters to help save his neighbors.
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Mason Brady loves comics! He knows every hero, villain, and sidekick. He even draws his own characters. On a trip to his favorite place, the Comic Book Characters Hall of Fame Museum, Mason explores every exhibit. He even comes across the very real Night Howler. But when villains start terrorizing the town, Mason realizes that his whole life is about to change. Will Mason be a superhero or will he just be a superzero?
14) Three
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2021.
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Three, a homeless three-legged dog, skips and hops about the city until he befriends a little girl who accepts him as he is.
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"Hart Ralston is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the wasteland of Tanria, hunting for drudges. It's an unforgiving job, and Hart's got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Mercy Birdsall never has a moment to herself. She's been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat - despite definitely not being a son - in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart Ralston, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest....
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"Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Boström recreates...
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Last Finestra volume 1
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When eighteen-year-old Alessa's power to slay demons mysteriously disappears, she hires Dante, a cynical outcast marked as a killer, to become her bodyguard, and soon discovers he is either the one person who can help her master her gift or the one who destroys her.
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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In this fourth in the series of Minecraft-inspired adventure books, it's time for our 12-year-old hero to choose his future vocation to study at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than tantalizing: farmer, butcher, crafter, miner. What this noob really wants is to be a warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he learns that the five best students in school that year will get the chance to start warrior training, it's ON!
With fun text...
With fun text...
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Diary of an 8-bit warrior volume 1
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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2024.
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English
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"Everyone's favorite villager-turned-warrior, Runt and his friends have had loads of adventures already. They have worked hard (at least some of them) as students, undergone intensive training in Villagetown, battled monsters sent by Herobrine, and even successfully completed their very first quest at Owl's Reach! But their greatest adventure begins now: making their way to the capital Aetheria City! What will Runt and his friends face at the Greater...