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"With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored -- until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Mazelike and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. And Lenora becomes its newly appointed Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian. She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces...
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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Fourteen-year-old Nick continues to follow the pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter--the last device made by the famous scientist that will, reportedly, be able to give free energy to the world. Members of the shadowy group Accelerati are after the pieces as well, but Nick knows they will not use the device for good. The race is on to find the rest of the pieces, even as a dangerous electromagnetic storm is brewing.
6) Justice
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"M Freeman thought she had finally found a place where she belonged: the Lawless School, where the children of master criminals trained to become master criminals themselves. But now that life is behind her. Faced with the existence of a weapon that could threaten all life on Earth, M Freeman is ready to fight the good fight for a change. That means joining the Fulbright Academy. In their ancient cops-and-robbers conflict against the Lawless School,...
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Macbeth and Banquo are Scottish generals returning home from a victorious war campaign. Their journey is interrupted when three strange witches come upon them and predict their futures. They claim that Macbeth will one day become King of Scotland! Macbeth is stirred by the prophesy. Written in graphic-novel format.