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  Alex Rider: Book 7

  Snakehead

  by Anthony Horowitz

  What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be--in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part for the chance to work with his... (more)
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  Lunch Lady

  Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute

  by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Serving justice . . . and lunch! Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn’t dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn’t just serve sloppy joes—she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it’s no match for LUNCH LADY!
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  Lunch Lady

  Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians

  by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Serving justice . . . and lunch! Lunch Lady can sniff out something rotten like no one else—and there’s definitely something rotten going on in the library. The usually friendly librarians have become cold and secretive. Even Dee can’t seem to crack a smile out of them. What darkness may lurk in the hearts of librarians? Lunch Lady is on the case! And Hector, Terrence, and Dee are along for a wild ride!
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  Zac Powers: Book 1

  Zac Power #1: Poison Island (Zac Power)

  by H. I. Larry

  Mission: Find Formula for Solution X Enemy: Dr. Drastic Featured Gadget: SpyPad Turbo Deluxe Danger Rating: 6.7   Zac Power is on a mission to the world's most dangerous island. He has to track down Dr. Drastic, an evil mad scientist, in a jungle is full of quicksand, piranhas, and poison frogs. No sweat! When you come from a family of spies, you do this sort of thing millions of times before the age of twelve.  ... (more)
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  Zac Powers: Book 2

  Zac Power #2: Deep Waters (Zac Power)

  by H. I. Larry

  Mission: Locate Secret Enemy SubmarineEnemy: Captain StewartFeatured Gadget: Amphibious SubmersibleDanger Rating: 3.7 Zac Power is about to embark on his first solo mission—finally! And it’s almost as cool as playing a guitar solo for millions of screaming fans. For years, top-secret government info has been stored at the bottom of the deepest ocean in the world. And it’s been totally safe…until now. The enemy is... (more)
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  Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen

  by Alton Brown

  Dedicated viewers of Alton Brown's acclaimed Food Network show Good Eats know of his penchant for using unusual equipment. He has smoked a salmon in a cardboard box, roasted prime rib in a flowerpot, and used a C-clamp as a nutcracker. Brown isn't interested in novelty, he's just devoted to using the best-and simplest-tool for the job. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen offers honest, practical advice on... (more)
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  Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things

  How to turn a penny into a radio, make a flood alarm with an aspirin, change milk into plastic, extract water and electricity from thin air, turn on a TV with your ring, and other amazing feats

  by Cy Tymony

  Do you know how to make something that can tell whether the $20 bill in your wallet is a fake? Or how to generate battery power with simple household items? Or how to create your own home security system? Science-savvy author cy Tymony does. And now you can learn how to create these things - and more than 40 other handy gadgets and gizmos - in Sneaky Uses For Everyday Things. More than a simple do-it-yourself... (more)
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  I'm Just Here for the Food

  Food + Heat = Cooking

  by Alton Brown

  As host of Food Network's Good Eats , Alton Brown entertains and informs viewers with a lively mix of wit blended with wisdom, history with pop culture, and science with the kind of common cooking sense that our grandmothers took for granted. In this, his first cookbook, Brown presents readers with an instruction manual for the kitchen, combining 60 wide-ranging recipes with a wealth of culinary information that... (more)
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  Zac Powers: Book 3

  Zac Power #3: Mind Games (Zac Power)

  by H. I. Larry

  Emerging chapter book readers will love this easy-to-read spy series with action, adventure, and edge-of-your-seat danger.
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  Alex Rider

  The Alex Rider Collection

  Stormbreaker / Point Blank / Skeleton Key

  by Anthony Horowitz

  The first three thrilling Alex Rider adventures, packaged together in a deluxe box set! Anthony Horowitz’s New York Times bestselling series is the gold standard for modern action-adventure novels, and these first three edge-of-your-seat novels— Stormbreaker, Point Blank, and Skeleton Key —are must-haves for every Alex Rider fan!
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  Alex Rider: Graphic Novels: Book 1

  Stormbreaker

  The Graphic Novel

  by Anthony Horowitz, Antony Johnston, Kanako, Yuzuru

  They have become a phenomenon. The Alex Rider adventures are now bestsellers the world over, and the book that started it all, Stormbreaker, is soon to be a major motion picture. Now is your chance to see this book visualized in a brand-new format, with bold, edgy, manga-like illustrations that bring Alex Rider to life in a way not seen before. For existing fans of the series, this graphic novel will be a... (more)
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  S.T.O.R.M.: Book 1

  The Infinity Code

  by E. L. Young

  STORM is a gadget-packed, high-adrenaline adventure—a middlegrade spy novel sure to leave readers white-knuckled and breathless. It’s also the name of the ambitious organization formed by the story’s three brainiac kids: Will, the loner, inventive genius, and creator of cutting-edge gadgets. Andrew, the software whiz-kid, millionaire, and fashion disaster. Gaia, the brilliant and mysterious teen chemist, fluent... (more)
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  Gallagher Girls: Book 1

  I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

  by Ally Carter

  The Gallagher Academy for exceptional young women is fairly typical all-girls school--that is, it would be if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies.Cammie Morgan is a... (more)
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  James Bond

  James Bond: The Secret World of 007

  by Alastair Dougall

  From its foreword, written by M16's very own chief, M, James Bond: the Secret World of 007 takes readers on a thrill-packed journey through the life and career of the world's most famous secret agent. Every major mission Bond has ever undertaken in the interests of world security, from Dr. No to The World Is Not Enough, is investigated and explained. Spectacular illustrations and photographs reveal, for the... (more)
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  Memoirs of an Antihero

  by Drew Blank

  Memoirs of an Antihero tells the violent, emotional & darkly comedic tale of a single father fighting to keep his daughter alive at any cost. When Drew Blank learns his daughter, Moxie, may be dying from a terminal illness, he is overwhelmed by the enormity of the situation and the hospital bills to follow. Living in the forgotten city of Cross, Drew's desperation drives him to get the money from the only... (more)
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  Alex Rider: Book 8

  Crocodile Tears

  by Anthony Horowitz

  Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror... (more)
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  Doraemon - Gadget Cat From the Future (Volume 3)

  by Fujiko F. Fujio

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  Zac Powers: Book 8

  Zac Power: Sudden Drop

  by H. I. Larry

  When BIG hijacks a secret water supply, Zac Power faces yet another dangerous mission. But to rescue the water, Zac has to find it - in the middle of the harsh outback and protected by some of BIG's deadliest defence systems yet.
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  S.T.O.R.M.: Book 3

  The Black Sphere

  by E. L. Young

  Six of the world’s leading scientists were at work on a top-secret assignment—Project FIREball. Now fi ve of them are dead, and one is on the run. He carries with him plans for a world-changing technology—one the CIA, MI6, and a ruthless megalomaniac will stop at nothing to obtain. Will, Andrew, and Gaia, the teen geniuses of STORM, join the high-stakes manhunt, racing to the Swiss Alps and into mortal danger, as... (more)
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  Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 3

  The Mystery of the Mona Lisa

  by Elizabeth Singer Hunt

  In this action-packed series, nine-year old secret agent Jack Stalwart travels the globe in search of his missing older brother Max while solving international crimes for the Global Protection Force. In The Mystery of the Mona Lisa, Jack is sent to the Louvre Museum in Paris to track down the theft of the world's most be-loved painting. He has to match wits with a seemingly invisible mastermind equipped... (more)