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Author
Series
Jack of Fables volume 9
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jack Frost has just set upon the greatest quest in a long and distinguished career of great quests, to kill a dragon. Of course, he is not aware that the dragon in question is in fact his own father. Meanwhile, the Page Sisters find a new purpose in life, restoring the Great Library. This volume includes Jack of fables #50, a special issue that includes appearances by everyone who has ever shown up in the series.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follow alice as she chases the White Rabbit on a magical journey into the fantastical world of Wonderland. It's a topsy-turvy place that gets "curiouser and curiouser" as Alice's madcap adventures introduce her to some truly unforgettable characters -- the Mad Hatter, March Hare, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts and more.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment's shadowy underside. Known as a serial seducer, he was also an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, and a spy. The first to tell his own story, in his massive autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and correspondent with figures such as Voltaire, Louis XV, and Catherine the Great in decadent 18th-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.
46) Zom-B fugitive
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"B is on the run following her wedding to the murderous fiend Mr. Dowling. She escapes his clutches, only to find that he has laid siege to the Angels' base in London's County Hall. And when B learns of the history between Mr. Dowling and someone she trusted, she decides that she is the only one who can save humanity"--
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the...
Author
Series
Pokemon Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire volume 5
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald face a new crisis of epic proportions: a giant meteor hurtling toward the planet! Ruby and his absentee father search for Rayquaza in hopes of teaching the Legendary Poǩmon the move Dragon Ascent and saving the world. Emerald passes through Legendary Poǩmon Hoopa s ring to join Sapphire but accidentally brings along three squabbling Pokemon and a whole lot of trouble! Will Sapphire ever forgive Ruby for withholding the...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has...
53) Bible town
Publisher
Wownow Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Join best friends Jimmy, Sarah and Tammy as they travel to the most incredible place on earth: Bible Town where all the inhabitants tell inspirational bible stories.
54) Thor: Ragnarok
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
55) The book of life
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the son of Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica's remote Pacific Coast. He carried a light backpack and machete. Cody emailed his father that he would do 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. He was never seen again. The authorities suspected murder. Dial was forced to confront the question: Was...
59) Missing link
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Mr. Link only wants to find the missing branch of his sasquatch family, the yeti of Tibet, and hires Sir Frost to help him search. Unfortunately, Adelina Fortnight -- a fierce woman who has crossed paths with Sir Frost before -- holds the only map, and they are pursued by a villain hired by the Adventuring Society who would like Mr. Link's...
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