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2501) The mercenary: a novel
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"Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world - and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer - code name GAMBIT - has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who...
2503) El cáliz de los dioses
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Vuelve Percy Jackson, el protagonista estrella de Rick Riordan Por una vez, Percy Jackson no debe preocuparse por salvar el mundo. En esta ocasión tiene una tarea mucho más difícil: entrar en la universidad. La Universidad de Nueva Roma pide cartas de recomendación de tres dioses para acceder, así que... sí: Percy tendrá que llevar a cabo nuevas misiones para conseguirlas. Primera misión: el copero de los dioses, Ganimedes, ha perdido...
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For Tycho Hashoone and his family, space privateering on their ship Shadow Comet is a way of life -- that just got a lot more complicated. Earth is mounting an arms race, and has started recruiting privateers of their own. Meanwhile, the Ice Wolves of Saturn are on the offensive, using ruthless tactics reminscent of pirates of old. The Jovian Union, trapped between the two, asks the Hashoones for help, and the stage is set for a showdown on the Cybele...
2505) Forest of the ancients
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As Elio lies stricken under a powerful curse, the only way his friends Thanis, Alish, Kiri and Kaspar can cure him is to venture into the Forest of the Ancients. Rumour tells of a race of healers who dwell there, the mysterious tree-folk known as the Sylvaneth, but are they allies or enemies?
2506) Freya & Zoose
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Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andreé's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole.
2507) Secrets of stone and sea
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When twelve-year-old identical twins Peter and Kai accidentally raise an ancient sea god, they must delve into a world of hidden magic and dangerous puzzles to uncover the secrets of lost Atlantis and save their family and home.
2508) Kingdom of the wicked
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Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are need now more than ever. And then there's the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends,...
2509) A heart divided
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"A Heart Divided is the next in the high stakes, tension-filled epic Legends of the Condor Heroes series, where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds. China: 1200 A.D. In the fourth and final volume of Legends of the Condor Heroes, Guo Jing is at last forced to make a choice between loyalty to the land of his birth and keeping faith with Genghis Khan, who has been like a father to him....
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"Sumérgete en el mundo de los exploradores secretos y aprende sobre la vida oceánica en esta trepidante primera entrega de una nueva serie de ficción. ¡Conoce a los exploradores secretos! Son un grupo de niños brillantes de alrededor del mundo dispuestos a solucionar problemas, resolver misterios y reunir conocimiento por todo el planeta... y más allá. Siempre que se necesite su ayuda, aparecerá un letrero especial en una puerta. Atraviesan...
2511) Don Quijote de la Mancha
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An illustrated version of the exploits of an idealistic Spanish country gentleman and his shrewd squire who set out, as knights of old, to search for adventure, right wrongs, and punish evil.