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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters, with the words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only just begun . . . With exclusive...
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Hitchhiker series volume 3
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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go...
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Hitchhiker series volume 5
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Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams' much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.This edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Dirk Maggs.Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up.
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"Collum, a brilliantly gifted young knight from the provinces, arrives at Camelot two weeks after the Battle of Camlann, hoping to compete for a spot on the Round Table. But he finds the city empty, King Arthur dead, and the Table destroyed. The remaining six knights aren't the mighty heroes, the legends, like Lancelot and Gawain and Tristram and Galahad. These are the survivors, a grab-bag of minor oddball knights from the margins--Sir Palomides,...
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Hitchhiker series volume 2
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The crew of the Heart of Gold plan to go for breakfast at Milliways - the restaurant at the end of the Universe. There is just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most evil world in the galaxy and teaching a spaceship how to make a proper cup of tea. This edition includes bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Terry Jones
8) King Arthur
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Mitchell Lane Publishers
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[2018].
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"King Arthur may be the best-known British king in history. People from all over the world know the name of this honorable ruler. Historians debate whether a real King Arthur ever actually lived. Hundreds of years after the first story of the famous monarch was written, his legend is still told in books, movies, and plays. Read about Arthur's rise to power, his relationship with the crafty magician Merlin, and the love triangle between Arthur, his...
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Alfred Kropp adventures volume 1
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Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
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Warlord chronicles volume 1
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The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic...
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[2017]
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Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. Once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy, whether he likes it or not.
Sequences of violence and action, some suggestive content and brief strong language.
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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 1
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1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar-VR cattle spread, they're not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around which they can enjoy their favorite pastime: scouring Harper's Weekly for stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes.
When another ranch hand turns up in an outhouse with a bullet in...
When another ranch hand turns up in an outhouse with a bullet in...
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Hitchhiker series volume 6
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And Another Thing ... will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children's writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, 'I suspect at some point in the...
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Warlord chronicles volume 3
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Excalibur is a monumental story of love and war. Betrayed by his true love, Guinevere, Arthur must face his enemies -- who were once his friends -- in final, mortal combat. He must also face his most daunting challenge of all. Merlin has made a terrible pact with Mordred, Arthur's sworn enemy, to summon the gods and the power the gods possess. Arthur's success at stopping them, even his survival, is anything but certain. But winning when all seems...
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Enslow Publishing
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2018.
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The quirky sleuth Sherlock Holmes has been a popular character on the page and stage, as well as on television and in movies. Made famous by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes became a model for many future detectives. Readers will learn whether this character came from the brilliant mind of his writer or if Sherlock's sometimes outrageous means of solving cases were actually those of a real-life detective. Fast facts add entertaining...