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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 5
The Last Olympian
by Rick Riordan
All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school ... again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.Now Percy and his... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 3
The Titan's Curse
by Rick Riordan
When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he'll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and ... a ride from his mom.The demigods race to the rescue, to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. But... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 2
The Sea of Monsters
by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson's seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get . . . well, ugly. And the unexpected arrival of Percy's friend Annabeth brings more bad news: the magical borders that protect Camp... (more)
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The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 4
The Battle of the Labyrinth
by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.In this book, time is running out and war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more impatient by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Books 1-3
The Lightening Thief / The Sea of Monsters / The Titan's Curse
by Rick Riordan
The gods of Olympus are alive and well in this 21st century novel! Their ways are still the same and there are many demi gods alive and well today; could you be one of them? Percy Jackson finds out that hes not just some weird boy who always gets kicked out of skill. He finds out he's a demmi god. Join Percy and his friends as they go on a quest. A quest to save mankind.
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The Heroes of Olympus: Book 1
The Lost Hero
by Rick Riordan
Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, and his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing... (more)
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The Heroes of Olympus: Book 2
The Son of Neptune
by Rick Riordan
Percy is confused. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only... (more)
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Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.
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Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Self-Help Book
by Walker Percy
Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world.
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The Second Coming
by Walker Percy
Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman ) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse. The Second Coming is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will sets out in search of God's existence and winds up finding much more. (more)
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The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy
by Shelby Foote
In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Walker Percy, the highly regarded author of The Moviegoer, wrote six novels, two volumes of philosophical writings, and numerous essays. Shelby Foote met with early success as a novelist, but his reputation today rests more upon his... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy Jackson & The Olympians
The Ultimate Guide
by Rick Riordan, Mary-Jane Knight
It's the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy, "manual-size" POB with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure.
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Billi SanGreal: Book 1
Devil's Kiss
by Sarwat Chadda
As the youngest and only female member of the Knights Templar, Bilquis SanGreal grew up knowing she wasn't normal. Instead of hanging out at the mall or going on dates, she spends her time training as a soldier in her order's ancient battle against the Unholy. Billi's cloistered life is blasted apart when her childhood friend, Kay, returns from Jerusalem, gorgeous and with a dangerous chip on his... (more)
Cat's Companion AnthologyJill Leman, Martin Leman
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Cat's Companion Anthology
by Martin Leman, Jill Leman
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Shadow Children: Book 3
Among the Betrayed
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
What does it mean to save yourself? Nina Idi--a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children--has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the charges. But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life: Get three other... (more)
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Cupid's Academy: The Miseducation of Mergatroyd, Love god in Training
by Tai Odunsi
Troyd isn't like most teenage gods. He's not extraordinary — he's extra ordinary. He lives on Mount Olympus, where the gods have day jobs working for major gods like Zeus. But rather than being a delivery boy for Mercury, a firefighter for Prometheus, or a wine steward for Dionysus, Troyd dreams of becoming the kind of god people will remember: a Love god like his idol, Cupid. Long ago, Cupid used his bow and... (more)
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Cupid's Academy: Book 2
Cupid's Academy: Argus' Big Fat Greek Wedding Ring
by Tai Odunsi
Cupid is a minor god with a major problem.Argus the giant is getting hitched and Cupid's his best man. But minutes before the I do's, the senior headmaster can't find the wedding ring. Is it missing? Was it stolen?Who better to help Cupid search for clues than a teenage Love-god-in-training named Troyd. But as Troyd begins piecing together the events of last night's bachelor party, he finds his... (more)
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Personal finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences - his two fathers. One father (Robert's real father) was a highly educated man but fiscally poor. The other father was the father of Robert's best friend - that Dad was an eighth-grade drop-out who became a self-made multi-millionaire. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by... (more)

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