I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (I Survived, Book 2) by Lauren Tarshis

By Lauren Tarshis

In accordance with precise occasions! It's the summer season of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized through a good White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his neighbors live to tell the tale a swim within the neighborhood creek?

In the summer time of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by means of the neighborhood information: an excellent White shark has been attacking and killing humans up and down the Atlantic Coast, now not faraway from Chet's fatherland of Springfield, New Jersey.

Then at some point, swimming along with his neighbors, Chet sees anything within the water. . .

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Molecular Aspects of Anti-Cancer Drug Action by Stephen Neidle, Michael Waring

By Stephen Neidle, Michael Waring

11 essays by way of top researchers make a well timed evaluation of our realizing of the molecular bases of drug motion. They concentration totally on the motion of anti-tumor elements on DNA. The ebook additionally presents exact descriptions of different receptor structures, together with these enjoying a task within the inhibition of intermediate steps in DNA synthesis.

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The Adjacent by Christopher Priest

By Christopher Priest

The eagerly expected new novel from “one of the grasp illusionists of our time.” (Wired)

In the close to destiny, Tibor Tarent, a contract photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain while his spouse, an reduction employee, is killed—annihilated via a terrifying weapon that reduces its aim to a triangular patch of scorched earth.

A century past, Tommy Trent, a degree magician, is shipped to the Western entrance on a mystery challenge to render British reconnaissance airplane invisible to the enemy.

Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a brand new approach to diverting subject, a discovery with devastating effects that would resonate via time.

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Naruto: Kakashi's Story by Akira Higashiyama

By Akira Higashiyama

A brand new sequence of prose novels, directly from the global Naruto franchise. Naruto’s allies and enemies take heart level in those fast moving adventures, which every quantity targeting a specific clanmate, best friend, team...or villain.

A yr has handed because the Fourth nice Ninja warfare, and Kakashi’s appointment as Hokage looms. yet first he heads to the Land of Waves for a perilous undertaking rescuing hostages from a top-secret airship. There he confronts a ninja whose center is frozen by means of tragedy.

Having misplaced either his friend’s eye and his maximum skills, can Kakashi safeguard a person from his coldhearted foe? what's the actual which means of the need of fireside received within the far away heavens? Kakashi unearths those solutions and extra as he enters a brand new ninja period.

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Defiance by C. J. Redwine

By C. J. Redwine

<span>Within the partitions of Baalboden, underneath the shadow of the city's brutal chief, Rachel Adams has a mystery. whereas different ladies stitch attire, host dinner events, and obey their male Protectors, Rachel is aware tips to live on within the desert and deftly wield a sword. whilst her father, Jared, fails to come from a courier challenge and is asserted useless, the Commander assigns Rachel a brand new Protector, her father's apprentice, Logan--the similar boy Rachel declared her love for 2 years in the past, and an identical boy who passed her center correct again to her. Left with not anything yet fierce trust in her father's survival, Rachel makes a decision to flee and locate him herself. yet treason opposed to the Commander includes a heavy fee, and what awaits her within the desolate tract may perhaps break her.

At nineteen, Logan McEntire is many stuff. Orphan. Outcast. Inventor. As apprentice to the city's best courier, Logan is concentrated on studying his alternate so he can get away the tyranny of Baalboden. yet his plan by no means incorporated being liable for his mentor's impulsive daughter. Logan is set to guard her, but if his break out plan is going mistaken and Rachel can pay the fee, he realizes he has extra at stake than disappointing Jared.

As Rachel and Logan conflict their approach during the barren region, stalked by means of a monster that can't be killed and a military of assassins out for blood, they realize romance, heartbreak, and a fact that may incite a battle many years within the making.</span>

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A Falcon Flies (Ballentyne, Book 1) by Wilbur A. Smith

By Wilbur A. Smith

‘A unmarried ball got here via at deck point, It struck a burst of sparks from the metal hull, like Brocks Fireworks at Crystal palace, really good orange even within the powerful solar, and the opening it tore via Black Joke’s plating used to be fringed with naked jagged tongues of steel just like the petals of a silver sunflower.’ looking for a father they slightly have in mind, Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne board Mungo St John's fabulous clipper to hurry them to Africa. yet lengthy ahead of they sight that strong continent, Robyn is familiar with that she and Mungo will conflict with the entire fury of common enemies -- and love with all of the desperation of these not able to dodge the instructions of destiny. For if she will convey wish and therapeutic to Africa's fever-ridden seashores, he, a lawless dealer in human shipment, will own any guy -- or lady -- he chooses...

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Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

By Nick Harkaway

From the acclaimed writer of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy because the forces of fine sq. off opposed to the forces of evil, and in basic terms an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can shop the area from overall destruction.
 
Joe Spork spends his days solving old clocks. The son of notorious London legal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has became his again on his family’s mobster background and goals to reside a quiet lifestyles. That orderly lifestyles is unexpectedly upended while Joe prompts a very strange clockwork mechanism. His customer, Edie Banister, is greater than the kindly outdated girl she seems to be—she’s a retired foreign undercover agent. And the gadget? It’s a Nineteen Fifties doomsday desktop. Having caused it, Joe now faces the wrath of either the British executive and a diabolical South Asian dictator who's additionally Edie’s previous arch-nemesis. at the upside, Joe’s received a lady: a daring receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and intercourse allure might be simply what he wishes. With Joe’s once-quiet international unexpectedly overrun via mad clergymen, psychopathic serial killers, medical geniuses and threats to the way forward for awake lifestyles within the universe, he realizes that the single technique to live on is to muster the braveness to struggle, support Edie entire a project she deserted years in the past and decide up his father’s outdated gun . . .

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The Deathstalker by Gill Harvey

By Gill Harvey

The fourth in a brand new sequence of 4 books: Egyptian Chronicles

Fantastically atmospheric evocations of Egyptian lifestyles are encased in a thrilling event tale. every one tale positive aspects the boy and woman characters Hopi and Isis, and their struggles for life and event in Egypt circa 1150 BC. during this tale, The Deathstalker, Isis and Hopi try and support a Libyan woman who has been taken prisoner.

The writer has spent a lot time in Egypt and the tales are meticulously researched.

Includes authentic element and notes approximately Egyptian way of life, the significance of the gods for the Egyptians, the tombs and masses else.

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