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"The Time Paradox" by Eoin Colfer
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"The Time Paradox" by Eoin ColferArtemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of  African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.

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Red Wolves And Then There Were (Almost) None
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Red Wolves And Then There Were (Almost) None

Describes how red wolves were captured, bred, and released back into the wild to increase their number after coming dangerously close to becoming extinct.
 
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Midnight Runner
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Midnight Runner by Jack Higgins

Jack Higgins's previous novel, Edge of Danger, was "hugely entertaining," said the Los Angeles Times. "The publisher describes it as a powerful thriller, and it's no lie." At its end, the murderous Arab-English Rashid family lies decimated—but not extinct. And that may be Sean Dillon's fatal error.

 
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Beowulf
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Because once upon a time, well over a thousand years ago, people told the story of Beowulf. And then time passed and it was forgotten. It was like an animal that no one had noticed had gone extinct, or almost extinct.
Forgotten in oral lore, it was preserved by only one manuscript. Manuscripts are fragile and easily destroyed by time or by fi re. The Beowulf manuscript has scorch marks on it.
But it survived . . .
 
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Tags: Beowulf, manuscript, extinct, fragile, Manuscripts
Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared during Human History
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Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared during Human HistoryExtinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared during Human History

Everyone is familiar with the dodo and the wooly mammoth, but how many people have heard of the scimitar cat and the Falkland Island fox? Extinct Animals portrays over 60 remarkable animals that have been lost forever during the relatively recent geological past. Each entry provides a concise discussion of the history of the animal – how and where it lived, and how it became extinct – as well as the scientific discovery and analysis of the creature.
 
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