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1994. In the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Closely monitored by an all-seeing Mission Control, this New Eden is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous...
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Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar character very deliberately modeled
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A student in France, Eric unwittingly joins the French Resistance movement, printing counterpropaganda, sabotaging German vehicles, and supplying explosives to other Resistance fighters. Betrayed, Eric is arrested by the Gestapo who place him on a train bound for the infamous Himmelweg.
10) The triangle: #4
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One of Reed's closest allies has a secret, and it could destroy any chance Reed and his friends have of ever escaping the island. This person hasn't been what they've seemed since the very beginning, and will do anything they can to stop Reed and the others from leaving.
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The US Air Force sends Russ Eckhart, a reconnaissance pilot, on a mission over German-occupied Poland to verify rumors of a German death camp. After his plane crashes, Russ is discovered by partisans who recruit him to help with sabotage, demolition, and an assassination.
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Still reeling from his first fight in the island's gladiator arena, Reed must figure out who he can trust in this nightmarish place. If Reed isn't able to determine a way off the island soon, he knows he'll eventually be pitted against Odin, a physical specimen and expert fighter, who's wanted Reed dead since the moment they met.
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Four prisoners plan an escape from the Nazi death camp that the prisoners nick-named Himmelweg -- the Path to Heaven. After stealing some weapons and sabotaging the camp's electricity, the prisoners set fire to the barracks. The SS assaults a traitor, leading to the revealing that he has access to the camp's armory. He supplies the committee with weapons, and one frigid winter morning, the revolt begins.
16) Places to be
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"We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant. With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotionsand the adventures that await us each day." --
17) Ungifted
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
18) Fish in a tree
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"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--Provided by the publisher.