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Since there was not to be a journey to Trilleah for this Winter's Solstice, Bella and the Twins made marvelous plans to instead, spend that time visiting the other Travelers at Matt's lake house. It seems Bella enjoyed spending time with Matt more than the others knew. However, when Kaija Mae shows up unannounced and tells of the goings-on in the Dark Land-of the King's instructions to destroy Trilleah before the Travelers could find the last of...
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With startling ease, a dangerous and aggressive secret organization called Leviathan has systematically wiped out all its competition. Now Leviathan is turning its sights to molding the world into its own radical vision of order. Can this new threat be stopped? Join Lois Lane as she leads Batman, Green Arrow, Plastic Man, Manhunter, and the Question-along with a couple of surprise sleuths-in search of the man who sits behind the cloak of Leviathan....
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Make choices to defeat a mysterious sea monster in the first of a new series of innovative, interactive graphic novels from the award-winning creator of Meanwhile
Adventuregame Comics is a new series of interactive graphic novels in the vein of Jason Shiga's hit graphic novel Meanwhile. Readers follow the story from panel to panel using tubes that connect them, and sometimes the path will split, giving readers the chance to choose how the story unfolds.
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The New York Times best-selling author of Uglies discusses his latest series - which takes readers on a fantastical adventure around the world, set in an alternate-history World War I, complete with living airships - with Matthew Cody (Powerless) and middle graders and teens ages 12 and up. The event includes a conversation with the audience. Performance playlist: reading by Scott Westerfeld; conversation between Scott Westerfeld and Matthew Cody:...
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Moloch and Baal have put multiple plans into action, and when they finally find where the humans are manufacturing the special weapons, they have a new plan to use them against the Damned. Will this plan be the one that puts an end to Katie and Pandora? But Katie has other things to worry about when a large creature awakens-and knows how to speak demon. This time, the Navy gets involved. The challenge? Their missiles aren't all that helpful.
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A thrilling space opera short story from Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, "The Dominion of Leviathan," a Tor.com Original.
Lord Ajax! First and greatest Ascendant; conqueror of the Martian machine-minds; mighty Steward of Leviathan's Dominion! For a thousand years, Ajax has ruled the solar system's worlds and moons with an iron fist. But history catches up with everyone-even an immortal tyrant. On the frozen dwarf planet Ceres, a scribe composes...
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In Wrath of Leviathan, the second book of the BetterWorld trilogy, Waylee faces life in prison for daring to expose MediaCorp's schemes to control the world. Exiled in Sao Paulo, her sister, Kiyoko, and their hacker friends continue the fight, seeking to end the conglomerate's stranglehold on virtual reality, information, and politics. But MediaCorp and their government allies may quash the rebellion before it takes off. And unknown to Kiyoko and...
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The success of the Trump presidency will be judged in large part on his ability to reduce the size and scope of the deep state. The unelected, unaccountable permanent bureaucratic leviathan that winds itself around the body and squeezes its life out must be dismantled if Trump's legacy is to be a permanent restoration of republican government. Fortunately, his administration is doing that. Quietly and without fanfare he is reducing oppressive regulation...
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Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 4
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Book twelve in the Inspector Lestrade series.'You're promising me a peaceful one, eh? This Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ten? Let's hope you're right.'Unfortunately, his men can't fulfil Superintendent Lestrade's wish. Nor can his daughter Emma, who moments later brings him news of a tragic boating accident involving members of her family. In fact, Lestrade's lot is definitely not a happy one. He has a number of vicious murders to solve, including...
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A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets... The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself... Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas-each distinctly different, yet uniquely...
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The megalodon, the prehistoric ancestor of the great white shark was the most ferocious predator of the seas, an 80 foot killing machine extinct for millions of years… But when divers drilling in an underwater cave are attacked by this living fossil, oceanographer Kim Melville discovers that this creature may not only have survived, but thrived, and is reclaiming its place at the top of the food chain.
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L'aventure et le surnaturel cèdent le pas dans Carême à la fantaisie, la tendresse et la poésie.
Deux êtres solitaires se rencontrent par hasard dans une auberge, un soir d'hiver: Martinien Fidèle, frêle représentant en aspirateurs perdu dans la montagne et Aimé Carême, esprit subtil en butte aux moqueries, à cause de son extraordinaire obésité. Une amitié se noue, et désormais, la route sera commune. Mais pas de tout repos: des avaries...
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"The child must be named."
A name can contain enormous power. But for Persie Merlin-Crowley, the powerless daughter of famed magicals Harley Merlin and Wade Crowley, her name hasn't given her much in terms of abilities. That is, until her eighteenth birthday comes around and she Purges a gigantic Hydra that terrorizes the coven.
How could that be possible, if she's never cast a spell in her life?
Then her mother reveals the deal she...
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Realising that she has trapped herself in a purgatory of her own imagining - one peopled with tentacled demons and fiery-eyed angels - young Alex resolves to break free from her self-destructive loop. But that will mean going further into the darkness than she ever has before and lead her to a confrontation with the ultimate manifestation of her pain...Leviathan.
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"Many Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats-the "deep state." Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to calm those fears by proposing a moral regime to ensure that government rulemakers behave transparently and don't abuse their authority. The administrative state may be a Leviathan, but it can be a principled one"--
78) Leviathan
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[2003]
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The texts are extracts from Milton, Hobbes, and Bacon in the introductory "Leviathanology" and, for epigrams to prologue, chapters, and epilogue, from Genesis (1:21, KJV) and Moby Dick, Harder's model for such presentation of quotations as well as for his subject. Like Melville's whale, Harder's is a destructive force, perhaps amoral.
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In the vein of Tom Clancy's gripping military thrillers, Submerged Fury: The Leviathan War plunges readers into a high-stakes undersea battleground where the fate of civilization teeters on the edge.It's 2098, and the world is reeling from the shockwaves of a groundbreaking discovery: vast energy reserves hidden in the ocean's abyss. This revelation sparks a ferocious conflict among submerged factions, catapulting the Atlantic Coalition's thirst for...
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A revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for these creatures' salvation.
The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this...
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