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When a personal tragedy drives him to leave NYC and accept an invitation to an artists' colony on a tropical island, a disillusioned young Jewish journalist-turned-advertising hack finds himself questioning his past, convictions and sanity when the colony's mysterious patron turns into everything he despises.
8) Earth to Dad
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After Astra Primm arrives at Minnesota's Base Ripley, eleven-year-old Jameson O'Malley begins to discover that people are hiding plenty from him about his father and the Mars colony where he lives, and about the strain between Jameson's parents.
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When aspiring screenwriter Andrew Bloomfield moved into a bungalow in Southern California he soon discovered that he shared the property with a large colony of feral cats - untamed, uninterested in human touch, not purring pets in waiting. But after a midnight attack by predators that decimated yet another litter of kittens, Bloomfield decided to intervene. He began to name and nurse, feed and house, rescue and neuter. Drawing on his time living in...
10) The dark side
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viii, 390 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon." --
Upon arriving in Purgatory, a lawless moon colony, exiled cop Damian Justus begins investigating a series of assassinations linked to the colony's creator, while an adroid programmed to conquer the colony begins his rampage across the moon.
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Shadow saga volume 5
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Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
13) Revelations
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Isolated in a strange new society on the Surface, sixteen-year-old Evie's ever-elusive memories begin to collide with reality, as people and images from her past appear in the most unlikely places, haunting her, provoking her, and making her seem not only strange but dangerous.
15) Sabotaged
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377 pages ; 22 cm.
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Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
17) Gertrude Bell
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504 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Magic tree house volume 27
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73 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.
19) The colony
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"A series of gruesome attacks have been sweeping New York City. A teacher in Harlem and two sanitation workers on Wall Street are found dead, their swollen bodies nearly dissolved from the inside out. The predator is a deadly supercolony of ants--an army of one trillion soldiers with razor-sharp claws that pierce skin like paper and stinging venom that liquefies its prey. The desperate mayor turns to the greatest ant expert in the world, Paul O'Keefe,...
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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