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<p><em>"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" </em><br /><br />Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.</p>
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<p><em>"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."</em><br /><br />Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!</p><p><em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer鈥檚 Stone is also available as an Illustrated Kindle-in-Motion edition.</em></p><p></p>
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All seven eBooks in the multi-award winning, internationally bestselling Harry Potter series, available as one download with stunning cover art by Olly Moss. Enjoy the stories that have captured the imagination of millions worldwide.
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<p><em>"'You are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.'"</em><br /><br />Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time...</p>
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<p><em>"There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building鈥?wherever they had murdered鈥?quot;</em><br /><br />When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny...</p>
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.<br /><br />Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.<br /><br />With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike. <br />
Hoot
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Carl Hiaasen
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English
Pages
304
Publication Date
September 10, 2002
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<b>This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b>!<br /><br />Everybody loves Mother Paula鈥檚 pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls鈥?fate cemented in pancake batter?<br /><br />鈥淎 wonderful tour de-force.鈥?鈥?lt;i>The Boston Globe</i><br /> 聽<br /> 鈥淎 rollicking, righteous story.鈥?鈥?lt;i>The Miami Herald</i><br /> 聽<br /> 鈥淵es, it <i>is</i> a hoot.鈥濃€?lt;i>The Washington Post</i>
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<h3>Ever work for something your <u>whole life</u> just to have it ripped away from you?<br /></h3><p><br /></p><p> I thought I was headed to the <strong>Olympics</strong>. Instead, I ended up at some institution in the desert, searching for a cure to a disease they normally don't see after age six. I'm 14.<br /><p> There's lots of us here, from all over.聽 And we're all dying. That's what they told us, anyway. Thing is though, they lied to聽us--our own families AND these research people.聽 We're fine.聽 In fact, we're more than fine, we're supernatural.</p><p>I'm <s>an alien</s> something different. We all are.聽 You might be too. Just in case, here's some things you should look out for:</p><ul><li>Things moving around you as if by magic.聽 (I mean ANYTHING moving in ways it shouldn't.)</li><li>Life looks more like science fiction than reality. (Is your computer talking to you?)</li><li>People around you are acting funny. (Reasonable one day, almost paranormal the next.)</li></ul><hr><p>There's more than I can list here, but keep an eye open, anyway. These beings running this place have been here for hundreds of years, scattered all over the world. Now, they've got ways to track us. They bring us out here with a promise of a cure. I don't know if I'm cured or not, but there are much stranger things ahead of us than behind. <br />I don't want you to get caught in the cross-fire, but if for some reason you aren't paying attention and manage to get caught up in this, you can join us. There are more of us every day.<br /></p><p>These kids are my fam, now. You can be, too...so long as you survive.</p><br /><br />This is the first book in the Prime Derivatives Series of Young Adult science-fiction/fantasy. <br />
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<b>Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp justice in the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller<i> Skink鈥擭o Surrender</i>.</b><br /> 聽<br /> A National Book Award Longlist Selection<br /> <i>聽</i><br /> When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There鈥檚 only one man for the job: a half-crazed, half-feral, one-eyed ex-governor named Skink. Skink joins 14-year-old Richard on a breakneck chase across Florida, undaunted by lightning storms, poisonous snakes, flying bullets, and giant gators. There are a million places cousin Malley could be, a million unpleasant fates that might have befallen her, but one thing is certain: in the Florida swamp, justice is best served wild.<br /><br />SUNSHINE STATE AWARD FINALIST!
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<strong>8 books * 8 adventures * 1,400 pages</strong><br /><br />A collection of 8 books:<br /><br />Peter & Emily<br />Snow White and the Power of Light<br />Teenage Monster Hunters <br />The Journals of Kara and Jason<br />Strike: The Hero from the Sky<br />Strike: Dawn of the Daybreaker<br />Strike: The Returning Sunrise<br />Strike: The Plague of Stars<br /><br /><strong>Peter & Emily</strong><br />Emily Beckett is exactly where she doesn't want to be: stuck at home while her friends are out celebrating the end of the summer.<br /><br />But then, a boy appears outside Emily's room. He's dressed in green, and says his name is Peter Pan. He's there for one reason: he's looking for someone to have an adventure with.<br /><br /><strong>Snow White and the Power of Light</strong><br />When 18-year-old Snow White moves into the kingdom of Elsentree, she finds herself a target of the Queen. After all, the Queen has forbidden all magic from Elsentree, and Snow White has the most amazing ability of all: the power to make the images in a painting move and come alive as if they are a window into another time.<br /><br /><strong>Teenage Monster Hunters</strong><br />Sarah, Mike, and Paige were never sure if they should believe their uncle鈥檚 wild stories about being a monster hunter. But all that changes when their hometown is invaded by a squadron of bloodthirsty vampires, howling spirits, and powerful witches鈥?lt;br /><br /><strong>The Journals of Kara and Jason</strong><br />During her last year of middle school, Kara Bridges forms a friendship with foreign exchange student Jason Andrus, bonding over what it feels like to be an outsider who doesn鈥檛 belong. However, when Jason suddenly returns four years later when Kara is a senior in high school, Kara discovers Jason has a secret鈥nd it's a secret that will change her life forever. <br /><br /><strong>The Strike Series, Books 1 - 4</strong><br />During his senior year of high school, Tobin Lloyd is whisked away to a world where superheroes are real and attacks by super-villains are just another hassle of living in the city. Far from home and pretty sure he's gone insane, Tobin must join a strange group of companions (including a beer-drinking dog and a genius, three-foot-tall robot) as he embarks on a quest to discover who he really is.