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Author
Series
Chronicles of Egg volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eggbert, a planter's son on a pirate-infested Caribbean island chain, is on the run from a wealthy and powerful villain trying to kill him for his connection to a hidden treasure.
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of Death--and help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process"--
Author
Publisher
Wynne McLauglin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the American Wild West, two friends and scientific colleagues went to war. Each scrambled to out-wit and out-discover the other in a race to unearth the skeletal remains of dozens of previously undiscovered species of dinosaurs. What began with spying, bribery, and theft, quickly exploded into a bitter feud involving hired gunfighters, secret deals, and sticks of dynamite. Scientist-adventurers Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh inadvertently...
Author
Series
Ember volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 261
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where a dreams are paid for in blood. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed...