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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
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Virginia gentleman John Carter, unexpectedly transported to the perilous red planet, Mars, finds himself captured by the loveless Green Men of Thark. As Carter struggles to win his freedom—and the affections of fellow captive Dejah Thoris, princess of the rival clan of Helium—the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance: warring Martian tribes collide and the beleaguered Atmosphere Factory grinds to a suffocating halt. Ray Bradbury,...
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George and Harold are transported to a school where the teachers are always nice, the cafeteria serves good food, and the principal laughs at their jokes. They realize something is very wrong when their pet pterodactyl and the Bionic Hamster are kidnapped by their evil look-alikes.
7) Impostors
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In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
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To capture Incredible Rockhead and bring him to the secret testing facility, the evil General creates a new mutant, the Dozer! This super high-tech and somewhat sleepy kid-creature will stop at nothing to complete his mission. Written in graphic-novel format.
10) The experiment
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Psychology professor Odin Fruder, fed up with disruptive students, designs a project to keep them busy.
11) Frost
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Sixteen-year-old Frost lives in a bombed out apartment in a post-apocalyptic world, with only her pet broot, Romes, and a robot named Bunt, who has her father's memories, for company--but now Romes is dying and her need to find help is forcing her to leave the apartment for the first time in her life, and face the streets which are a hunting ground for rogue robots and the dreaded Eaters.
12) Bugged!
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Twins Jean and Jared, dismayed about the changes taking place on their island home, decide to investigate when they come to suspect something shady is going on at the top-secret HybriGene laboratory.
17) The dark planet
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After the destruction of the planet Atherton, Edgar must journey to a dark and damaged world named Earth in order to find the secrets of his civilization's past.
20) Thaw
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When Dani's best friend Jake goes missing, she learns of how her friend's disappearance might be related to a mishap at a cryogenic experimentation facility, and the escape of an infamous cult leader and federal prisoner from cold storage.