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The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s BagThe Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads
 
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Tags: Flavia, murders, finds, solving, genius, Strings
Behind the Curtain
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Behind the CurtainBehind the Curtain

Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane. Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy and her brother, Ty, is getting buff—really buff—but his moodiness is making Ingrid start to wonder . . . Meanwhile, Ingrid's beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the postgame pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story?
 
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Tags: Ingrid, really, Falls, morning, while, Behind, Curtain, strings
Magic to the Bone
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Magic to the BoneMagic to the Bone

Devon Monk - Magic to the Bone

Using magic means it uses you back - and every spell exacts a price from the user. Some people, however, get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent, then Allison Beckstrom's job is to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune and the strings that come with it, but when she finds a boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father's signature all over it she is thrown back into the world of his black magic.

REUPLOAD NEEDED

 
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Tags: magic, Magic, strings, fortune, finds, family, dying
Strings and Geometry
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Strings and GeometryStrings and Geometry

This volume highlights some of the current interests of researchers working at the interface between string theory and algebraic geometry. The topics covered include manifolds of special holonomy, supergravity, supersymmetry, D-branes, the McKay correspondence and the Fourier-Mukai transform.
 
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Tags: supergravity, supersymmetry, holonomy, special, manifolds, Strings, Geometry, include
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's BagThe Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Alan Bradley - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood.

 
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Tags: Bradley, Hangman, Punch, Strings, Ketch