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1) Glass sword
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The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
4) Red queen
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"Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles,...
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Your hardworking heart started beating eight months before you were born and continues to beat about one hundred thousand times a day. "By the time you're seventy years old, it will have beaten about 2.5 billion times." Find out the story behind each beat on a journey through the body's circulatory system.
6) King's cage
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Mare Barrow has become a prisoner, powerless without her lightning and trapped in Maven Calore's web of deceit and control. But as Mare sits in the palace, her band of newbloods and Reds are organizing and training, ready for war.
8) Morbius
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Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
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"This funny and fact-filled picture book is all about blood: where it's found, what it does, how it travels, and why vampires shouldn't drink it. From the four chambers of the heart to the platelets that clot your blood when you scrape your knee, everything you want to know about the cardiovascular system is right inside these pages. Just watch out for thirsty vampires"-- Provided by publisher.
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"HP Newquist's thrilling volume explores the dark and often gruesome tales about blood. Though common among living beings, this substance is anything but ordinary. People have always feared and respected blood. It spills out at both birth and death--its bright red color like a warning sign--indicating events of the utmost significance. Ancient civilizations couldn't perform religious rituals without the revered liquid. Doctors up through the nineteenth...
12) Get the scoop on animal blood!: from great white sharks to blood-squirting lizards, 251 cool facts
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Discusses what blood is made of and its purpose, looking at how animals' blood is used in different ways, including for keeping warm, for fighting germs, and for defense.
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This fascinating film sees Michael Mosley put himself through some extreme challenges to discover how our blood protects us from infection, heals us when we're wounded, and powers our lives. He undergoes experiments including entering a low-oxygen environment to supercharge his blood and boost his physical fitness; poisoning his blood with a vial of viper venom in order to see it clot; doing a state-of-the-art body scan to chart every artery and vein...
14) Lost horizon
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Kobi's blood may be the key to curing the Waste, and that means he and his Waste-infected friends must travel to an abandoned lab in Old Seattle if they want to end the Waste and bring justice to those responsible.
16) Our blood
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Our Blood, children learn what blood is, how it travels through the body, and how it helps us.
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In this Very Short Introduction, Chris Cooper analyses the components of blood, explains blood groups, and looks at transfusions, blood tests, and blood-borne diseases. He also considers what the future may hold, including the possibility of making artificial blood, and producing blood from stem cells in the laboratory.