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Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
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When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn, " they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 11
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English
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When eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, join a group of nineteenth-century explorers aboard the H.M.S. Challenger, they learn about the ocean, solve the mystery of its fabled sea monster, and gain compassion for their fellow creatures.
4) Game changer
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"All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash's life doesn't look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he's been hit into another dimension--and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own. The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he's ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past...universes...
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Magic tree house volume 33-35
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English
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Carnival at candlelight: While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy. Season of the sandstorms: Jack and Annie travel back in time to the Middle East and learn how the Bedouin tribe live. Night of the new magicians: Merlin sends Jack and Annie to Paris on a mission to find four magicians.
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Story thieves volume 4
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English
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Owen is trapped in a time travel plot-your-own-adventure book, controlled by the reader, and a bizarre fellow prisoner, Kara Dox, might be his only hope for escaping to save Bethany.
10) Star mother
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Star mother volume 1
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English
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The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family's honor and take control of her legacy. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it's not nine months later--it's seven hundred years later. Inexplicably...
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Magic tree house volume 36-37
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English
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Blizzard of the blue moon: Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will that be enough to help a city that faces so many troubles?
Dragon of the red dawn: When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows,...
13) Red Dwarf: I
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This sitcom follows the exploits of Lister, a deep-space miner who emerges from stasis 3 million years in the future to find that his only companions are Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunkmate, Cat, a humanoid who evolved from his pet cat, and Holly, the ship's computer.
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The saga of the Viking women and their voyage to the waters of the great sea serpent: Viking women search for their enslaved menfolk. After tangling with a sea serpent, they reach the land where their men have been enslaved.
War of the colossal beast: The sequel to The amazing colossal man. Lt. Col. Glenn Manning, turned into a mentally unstable giant by atomic radiation and believed dead, returns to wreak havoc.
The undead: A prostitute is transported...
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Join Dr. Sam Beckett, a time traveler lost in time, who temporarily leaps into the bodies and lives of other people to 'put right what once went wrong.' Accompanied by Al, a wise-cracking holograph that only Sam can see and hear, Sam twists the hands of fate with each heart-pounding, action-packed adventure in the hopes that he can someday complete the mission that will take him home.
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Inventor and businessman Ethan Blake, his brother Jacob, and a group of scientists find themselves on an uncharted island while testing a new power source and aircraft. While exploring, they encounter mysterious mists that depict events from the past, present, and future simultaneously. Discovering the source is a covert experiment conducted on the island, they quickly realize they must unravel the secrets of the past to save the future and prevent...