Market Arcanum (Bookburners Season 1 Episode 5)

Market Arcanum (Bookburners Season 1 Episode 5)
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Publisher : Serial Box
Total Pages : 38
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ISBN-10 : 9781682100042
ISBN-13 : 1682100049
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Market Arcanum (Bookburners Season 1 Episode 5) by : Margaret Dunlap

The first rule of the Market is you do not talk about the Market. When a mysterious invite arrives in the mail and Father Menchu responds by whisking Sal off to Lichtenstein, the former cop is left on very new ground as she gets more than a glimpse at the broader world of magic users. Unfortunately, they are immediately confronted by a wealthy business man who is less upset about them blowing up his boat two episodes ago, as he is about them stealing his (sludge-demon releasing) book. When the three remaining Team members back in Rome suddenly find themselves under attack, Sal and Menchu are left scrambling for how to help and have to turn to the peculiar techno-cultists whose computers run on seahorses and have a pointed interest in the cop sister of their acquaintance Perry. Welcome to the Market Arcanum. This episode is brought to you by team-writer Margaret Dunlap who shows us that the Society is far from the only fish in the magic-hunting sea—and certainly isn’t the biggest.

A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners Season 1 Episode 4)

A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners Season 1 Episode 4)
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Publisher : Serial Box
Total Pages : 42
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ISBN-10 : 9781682100035
ISBN-13 : 1682100030
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners Season 1 Episode 4) by : Mur Lafferty

Good intentions in Glasgow lead to disastrous results. Sal and Asanti leave the rest of the Team in the lurch when they jet off to Scotland to attend the funeral of the archivists’ mentor. Something is amiss in the Dear Green Place, however, as the pair land to discover the entire city has become obsessed with a restaurant (which just happens to be owned by the deceased mentor’s only living relative). They beat the crowds to get a table, only to find the fight has just begun and they left their muscle at home. This episode is brought to you by team-writer Mur Lafferty and explores how magic, like food, is rarely cut and dry.

Debtor's Prison (Bookburners Season 2 Episode 5

Debtor's Prison (Bookburners Season 2 Episode 5
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Publisher : Serial Box
Total Pages : 46
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ISBN-10 : 9781682100851
ISBN-13 : 1682100855
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Debtor's Prison (Bookburners Season 2 Episode 5 by : Mur Lafferty

Asanti’s murky past gets a bit clearer when an old friend visits her to reminisce...and collect on a debt. No one likes the idea of helping the mysterious magical madam, but after all, one does not simply say no to the Maitresse. This episode is brought to you by Mur Lafferty who warns you not to touch anything when exploring new gardens. Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad: Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum. Together they stand between humanity and magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like the label. Bookburners Season 2, presented by Serial Box Publishing. This serial will unfold in 13 episodes.

The Story of Science

The Story of Science
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Publisher : Smithsonian Inst Press
Total Pages : 463
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ISBN-10 : 1588341615
ISBN-13 : 9781588341617
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Story of Science by : Joy Hakim

A second volume of a three-part series for all ages traces the period between Copernicus's theory about the sun's location at the center of the universe through the early days of atomic theory, offering introductory portraits of such contributors as Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and Isaac Newton.

Legends of Zita the Spacegirl

Legends of Zita the Spacegirl
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Publisher : First Second
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781466858732
ISBN-13 : 1466858737
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by : Ben Hatke

Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure. Zita is determined to find her way home to earth, following the events of the first book. But things are never simple, and certainly never easy, in space. Zita's exploits from her first adventure have made her an intergalactic megastar! But she's about to find out that fame doesn't come without a price. And who can you trust when your true self is being eclipsed by your public persona, and you've got a robot doppelganger wreaking havoc . . . while wearing your face? Still, if anyone can find their way through this intractible mess of mistaken identity and alien invaders, it's the indomitable Zita, in Legends of Zita the Spacegirl. Legends of Zita the Spacegirl is one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Children's Books of 2012.

Full Dark House

Full Dark House
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Publisher : Bantam
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9780553900415
ISBN-13 : 0553900412
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Full Dark House by : Christopher Fowler

Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last case—and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection. A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer’s identity, May finds his old friend’s notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned . . . with a killing vengeance. It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits—and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant’s unorthodox techniques and John May’s dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural—a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them . . . and is ready to claim the other. Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781596438767
ISBN-13 : 1596438762
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Return of Zita the Spacegirl by : Ben Hatke

The final adventure! Zita the Spacegirl is back and the odds are stacked high against her. Will everyone's favorite spacegirl prevail?

The Extraordinary & Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle

The Extraordinary & Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle
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Publisher : Atom
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780748111121
ISBN-13 : 0748111123
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Extraordinary & Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle by : Catherine Webb

In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. The truth is that he'd rather be in his lab tinkering with dangerous chemicals and odd machinery than running around the cobbled streets of London trying to track down stolen goods. But when Her Majesty's Government calls, Horatio swaps his microscope for a magnifying glass, fills his pockets with things that explode and sallies forth to unravel a mystery of a singularly extraordinary nature. Thrown together with a reformed (i.e. 'caught') pickpocket called Tess, and a rebellious (within reason) young gentleman called Thomas, Lyle and his faithful hound, Tate, find themselves pursuing an ancient Chinese plate, a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of polite society and a dangerous enemy who may not even be human. Solving the crime will be hard enough - surviving would be a bonus...

The Water Room

The Water Room
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9781407083629
ISBN-13 : 1407083627
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Water Room by : Christopher Fowler

Originally built to house the workers of Victorian London, Balaklava Street is now an oasis in the heart of Kentish Town and ripe for gentrification. But then the body of an elderly woman is found at Number 5. Her death would appear to have been peaceful but for the fact that her throat is full of river water. It falls to the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London's longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, to search for something resembling a logical solution. Their initial investigations draw a blank and Bryant's attention is diverted into strange and arcane new territory, while May finds himself in hot water when he attempts to save the reputation of an academic whose knowledge of the city's forgotten underground rivers looks set to ruin his career. In the meantime, the new owner of Number 5 is increasingly unsettled by the damp in the basement of her home, the particularly resilient spiders and the ghostly sound of rushing water . . . Pooling their information to investigate hitherto undiscovered secrets of the city, Bryant and May make some sinister connections and realize that, in a London filled with the rich, the poor and the dispossessed, there's still something a desperate individual is willing to kill for - and kill again to protect. With the PCU facing an uncertain future, the death toll mounts and two of British fiction's most enigmatic detectives must face madness, greed and revenge, armed only with their wits, their own idiosyncratic practices and a plentiful supply of boiled sweets, in a wickedly sinuous mystery that goes to the heart of every London home.

Mirror Dreams

Mirror Dreams
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Publisher : Little Brown Uk
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1904233007
ISBN-13 : 9781904233008
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Mirror Dreams by : Catherine Webb

Deep in the Void, the lords of Nightkeep plot to ensnare our dreaming souls. Only Leanan Kite can stand up against them; unfortunately, Haven's top-rated, kick-ass mage is kind of tied up, overthrowing false monarchs, wresting back control of the Secret Service and dealing with demonic troops.