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In Turbo Racers: Trailblazer, twelve-year-old Mace Blazer gets the chance to pilot a state-of-the-art vehicle that transforms at the touch of a button from race car to jet plane to single-person sub, in the biggest race in the world. The roar of the crowd, the glow of the spotlight, the thrill...

Filipino-American bounty hunter Domingo has made a career of catching criminal undocumented immigrants. He’s the best in the business—and it isn’t lost on him that he’s so good because of his similarities to his targets. Despite Domingo’s claims that he is unsympathetic to their plight, yet spends his spare moments on stakeouts and in between jobs writing a book of advice for aspiring immigrants. Brash, funny, and candid, he compiles the names of all the people he’s apprehended, documenting the hazards of his profession, and imparting advice to foreigners who dare to dream of life in America.

Strange things are happening in London. Red rain is flooding the streets. People are going missing. And someone's opening graves in Highgate Cemetery . . . Only Alex and his best friend, Ren, suspect the truth: a Death Walker, a powerful ancient Egyptian evil, is behind the chaos. Their quest to bring him down takes them from New York to London, and from the land of the living to the deep underground tombs of the long dead. Will they be in time to stop the Death Walker before he gets too powerful . . . or will the tombs claim them, too?

Estudio de fósiles. La vida apareció en nuestro planeta hace miles de millones de años. La mayor parte de la historia del hombre jamás fue escrita. Características del hombre de la Prehistoria. Los Primates: de dónde proceden, características, cráneo, evolución.

Jamey Barlowe has been crippled since childhood, the result of being born on the Moon. He lives his life in a wheelchair, only truly free when he is in the water. But then Jamey’s father sends him, along with five other kids, back to the Moon to escape a political coup d’etat that has occurred overnight in the United States. Moreover, one of the other five refugees is more than she appears. Their destination is the mining colony, Apollo. Jamey will have to learn a whole new way to live, one that entails walking for the first time in his life.

It’s time for animals to take fate into their own paws! The Endangereds is the first book in a thrilling new adventure series by world-renowned environmentalist and Emmy-nominated host of Xploration Awesome Planet Philippe Cousteau and award-winning TURBO Racers author Austin Aslan. Innocent...

2198. Mit Hilfe der Eldridge-Portale hat sich die Menschheit den Weltraum erschlossen. Auf der neu errichteten Transferstation Syracuse erwartet die Konstruktionscrew das Eintreffen der Belegschaft. Doch das Schiff, das diese zur Station bringen soll, wird vorher vernichtet. Nur zwei Überlebende schaffen es auf die Syracuse. Ohne es zu wissen, führen sie etwas mit sich. Etwas, das nicht aus dieser Realität stammt.

¿Qué ocurriría si en una aldea a orillas del mar donde todos sus habitantes tienen el pelo y los ojos color azabache, nace una niña de ojos azules como el mar y el pelo rubio con el brillo del trigo? Un día aparece Trix y tras el revuelo que provoca su nacimiento, la aceptan gracias a la intervención de la hechicera. Cuando Trix crece, descubre que posee un don: es capaz de curar los corazones heridos de las personas, excepto el de su madre que no logra aceptar a una niña diferente. Todo cambia cuando una ballena comienza a atacar a los pescadores del pueblo.

In this My First I Can Read!, Big Dog wants a sweater like Little Dog’s. Will they find one with the perfect fit? Created by Dav Pilkey, author of Dog Man and The Adventures of Captain Underpants. Little Dog has a sweater, but what about Big Dog? After digging through the dresser, these puppy...

Essas histórias de Graciliano Ramos têm um caráter leve e divertido. Alexandre empolga-se com a narração de suas aventuras, muitas vezes impossíveis e inacreditáveis, mas recebe sempre o apoio de sua mulher Cesária. Os vizinhos, acocorados ao seu redor, encantam-se com os “causos”, que só são interrompidos de vez em quando pelo cego Firmino, que pede esclarecimentos de um jeito muito divertido.

Magical miseducation and global adventure await in this fast-paced, humorous, and imaginative fantasy. Henry Leach the Eighth and his sister, Brianna, have survived a faulty spell, defeated a wicked spellcaster, and saved the world...but their greatest accomplishment might be convincing Grand Wand Master Coralis to take them on as official apprentices. For the first time in centuries, the reclusive Wand Master has opened the doors to his castle and invited a new generation of Wandmakers to learn the secrets of the craft.

Why are some people who suffer terribly not unhappy — while others, whose lives look perfectly comfortable, are miserable? In this groundbreaking book, Boris Kriger reveals a single mechanism that explains most human unhappiness: a mental act he calls negative self-determination — the moment when your mind takes a bounded experience of pain and converts it into an unbounded verdict about who you are. "This hurts" becomes "I am broken." "I failed" becomes "I am a failure." "She left" becomes "I am unlovable.

From the co-creator of the hit children’s show, Dora the Explorer, comes four more hilarious stories about the friendship between Freddie the purple parrot and his loyal butler, Peccary. Return to Rubberwick with this new collection of short stories, full of laugh-out-loud hijinks! These brand...

A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family. Written in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Peña, and Walter Dean Myers, After the Shot Drops now has 3 starred reviews! * "Belongs on the shelf alongside contemporary...

Unabridged, Digital Only, 14 hours Read by Ramon de Ocampo "Absolutely arresting." (S.M...

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and...

Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a...

Includes stories featured in Pantheon—now an animated series on AMC+ “I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I’m in awe.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author A...

"De Ocampo's performance is admirable. It is well paced, and he employs voices and strategic pauses to good effect. In sum, both the writing and narration are first-class." - AudioFile Magazine An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing...

A literary jigsaw puzzle of a debut novel set in Colombia during the peak of its decades-long conflict, and in New York City While her parents are away, a teenager finds herself home alone, with the household staff mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an insurgency on the...