Jason Heller
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Get inside the twisted but hilarious brain of Slappy, the genius dummy who is undoubtedly R. L. Stine's most nefarious creation. This is Slappy's exclusive tell-all on how to wreak havoc and make mayhem. Kids will learn all his sinister and spooky secrets -- plus Slappy's favorite jokes, quizzes, top-ten lists, and much more.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can't get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he's an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There's just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . . and he was already president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing...
4) Frozen heat
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Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 4
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NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat investigates the death of an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed in a suitcase. During the investigation, she discovers that the murder is connected to the unsolved murder of her own mother. This will unearth painful family truths, expose a startling hidden life, and cause Nikki to reexamine her own past.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnolgy. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hope, dreams, and desires as Homo sapiens evolve -- or not -- into their next incarnation. This book presents twenty diverse tales of humanity's tomorrow as told by some of today's most gripping science fiction visionaries....
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A speculative fiction safari that riffs on the traditional ideals of automata to explore our strange and competitive relationship with the natural world. Biomimicry is no stranger to literature, with canonical authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Anderson, and Jules Verne setting the tone for a trope that has expounded and expanded upon what exactly separates humans from the animal kingdom as well as the boundary between machines and living...