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20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Bookworms 4
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Bookworms 420,000 Leagues under the Sea - Bookworms 4

It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Dr Aronnax joins the search for the 'monster', hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too...
 
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Tags: adventure, there, extraordinary, world, Captain, Leagues, under
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (annotated & illustrated)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (annotated & illustrated)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (annotated & illustrated)

Since its first publication in 1900, L. Frank Baum’s story of a little girl carried away by a tornado to the strange and beautiful Land of Oz has had an extraordinary emotional impact on wide-eyed readers young and old...

 
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-BurglarThe Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world.

This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself.

In an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Sherlock Holmes and Lupin actually meet, briefly in this first volume, and more substantially in the next.

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Tags: Lupin, egrave, Sherlock, first, Leblanc, Extraordinary, Holmes
PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy

Drawing on original interviews with the last living links to the events, previously untapped Japanese wartime archives, and a wealth of archival documents from the Kennedy Library, including a lost first-hand account by JFK himself, bestselling author William Doyle has crafted a thrilling and definitive account of the sinking of PT 109 and its shipwrecked crew's heroics. Equally fascinating is the story's second act, in which Doyle explores in new detail how this extraordinary episode shaped Kennedy's character and fate, proving instrumental to achieving his presidential ambitions: "Without PT 109, there never would have been a President John F. Kennedy," declared JFK aide David Powers.
 
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions.
 
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Tags: extra, dimensions, bosons, Higgs, extraordinary