Claire Smith
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An adventure that will take you beyond time and back…When Mimi Mockel discovers an unusual crimson tome in the public library, life suddenly becomes complicated. Attacked by two Ambassadors of Time, she barely manages to escape.Safely back at home, she and her younger brother, Albert, meet the book's author: the posh and quirky British time-traveling thief Sebastian Bas" Barkley. When Bas invites them onboard his Bas House-a universe-hopping, time-traveling...
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In 1981, eleven-year-old Agnes Hellaire lives with her troubled parents in the dark Redwood Forest. As her parents' marriage continues to crumble, Agnes is approached by a magical black cat that is more than it seems. It offers to solve all her problems, and she gladly accepts. However, as people close to Agnes begin to disappear; she realises there's something dangerous lurking in the trees. Over twenty years later, Agnes is infamous as the lone...
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Prospect comprises poems about vantage points, country and personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true. Through meticulously articulated explorations of knowledge, truth, language, and science's explanatory power, Prospect propels us toward grasping even the metaphysical. Presented in four parts-Prospect, Country, Proof, and Studies on Anatomy and Mourning-Prospect offers a vision of life scaled as small as a cell and as large as...
4) Four Tales
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This entertaining and intriguing anthology offers everything a reader could want in a short story – narrative verve, a gift for characterisation, an often dark sense of humour and more than a hint of the fantastical – while the variety of situations and approaches displayed across the four stories showcases the author's impressive versatility.
Frisbee: As innocent as he looks, Thomas already has blood on his hands by the age of seven. Who will...
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Ready for a cross-country adventure? In the second book of the Wisdom Girls series, Claire and her family will they leave everything behind to begin a new life in Kansas. Through their adventures on the trail, crossing the dangerous Mississippi River, and building deeper friendships, Claire learns that even during challenging times, God still has a good plan.
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The 50 most important structures and systems in the human body, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained using a mere two pages, 300 words, and one picture: all easily digested in only half...
11) Franklin
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A feature-length documentary retracing Australia's most significant environmental campaign to save the remote Franklin River from being dammed by a hydroelectric project in the 1980s" as told through the lens of a modern-day solo rafting adventure.
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