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2) Reamde
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Dodge novels volume 1
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"Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling."
-Time
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations-whether he's reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose...
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The World Fantasy Award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August presents a mesmerizing tale of a gambling house whose deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets. . .
It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon -- every game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league....
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The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan... dead... murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately,...
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Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos, Ian Bledsoe is broke, humiliated, and fleeing the fallout from his father's death. His childhood friend Charlie-rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the island-could be his last hope. At first Patmos appears to be a dream-long, sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past-and Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately...
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A love letter to the 1980s and to nerds everywhere-The Impossible Fortress will make you remember what it feels like to love someone-or something-for the first time.
Billy Marvin's first love was his computer.
Then he met Mary Zelinsky.
Do you remember your first love?
It's May 1987. Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts...
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Sleeping king novels volume 2
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Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
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English
12) Hide me, Kipper!
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Hodder Children's Books
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English
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While Kipper is sitting on the first page of a book, a little squeaky mouse comes running across the page and hides himself from a cat inside the middle fold, and when the cat arrives, Kipper steps in to help the mouse.
14) Red snow
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Penguin Canada
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English
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The 2010 Winter Olympics are coming to Vancouver, and Mephisto is ready to strike. A raging winter storm and a team of mercenaries have cut Whistler Mountain off from the rest of the world. Bent on bloody revenge, Mephisto attacks the members of Special X - and that's just the start of his horrific plans. Print run 6,000.
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On a bitter cold day, in the December of his Junior Year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster,...
16) The gladiator
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Crosstime traffic volume 5
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Tor
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English
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In an alternate-world Milan in which the Soviet Union won the Cold War, teens Gianfranco and Annarita despair when their favorite gaming store is abruptly shut down, until they discover that the store was operated by a time traveler from a democratic world.
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John Chu is a "sherpa" - a paid guide to online role-playing games. Chu's new client claims to be a wealthy, famous person with powerful enemies, and he's offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour of the world of virtual-reality gaming. For Chu, he begins to suspect that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, whose interest in VR gaming has more to do with power than entertainment. Now Chu must use every trick...
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Three decades after his circle of friends is traumatized by the discovery of a murder victim while passing secret messages through a chalk-figure code of their invention, Eddie finds himself targeted by an unknown adversary who is using their former communication methods to torment and kill his friends.
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Fleet school volume 1
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Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
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English
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Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid - top of his class in every school. But he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. That he knows of. At least until the day that Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview. A new angle on Card's bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender's Shadow series.
20) The escape room
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"In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, things start to go horribly wrong. They...
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