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  The 39 Clues: Book 2

  One False Note

  by Gordon Korman

  THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the trail of one of 39 Clues hidden around the world. BUT WAIT! Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects ALSO sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. UPDATE! Amy and Dan have been seen in a car . . . no, in a speedboat chase . . . and HOLD EVERYTHING! They're being chased by an angry mob?!? When there's a Clue on the line,... (more)
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  Hidden Stairs And The Magic Carpet (Secrets Of Droon)

  by Tony Abbott

  When Neal and Julie agree to help Eric straighten up his basement, they never imagine that they're in for more than getting a little dusty. But as the three kids follow a soccer ball into the small room under the basement stairs, the floor suddenly evaporates to reveal a rainbow staircase to another world! Before they have a chance to look around, they are caught in the midst of a battle. Shiny red men riding... (more)
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  Race to the Tower of Power (Backyardigans (8x8))

  by Catherine Lukas

  Supervillains Pablo and Tyrone plan to use their powers to take over the world! To do that, they have to capture the Key to the World in Tower of Power. Will the superheroes -- Uniqua and Austin -- be able to stop them?
• Mystery at Fire IslandHope Campbell

  

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  Mystery at Fire Island

  by Hope Campbell

  While spending the summer on Fire Island, a promising eleven-year-old cartoonist and her brother observe the mysterious activities of their neighbor.
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  A history of the old Icelandic commonwealth -: Islendinga saga (University of Manitoba Icelandic studies)

  by Jo?n Jo?hannesson

  The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. This pioneering work of historiography provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth in 1262.
• The Volsunga Saga Translates from the Icelandic... Supplemented with legends of the Wagner Trilogy and Old Norse Sagas Kindred to the Volsung and Niblung TaleEirikr; Morris, William, Translators Magnusson

  

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  The Volsunga Saga Translates from the Icelandic... Supplemented with legends of the Wagner Trilogy and Old Norse Sagas Kindred to the Volsung and Niblung Tale

  by Eirikr; Morris, William, Translators Magnusson

• Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

  

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  Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

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  Grettir the Strong Icelandic Saga

  by Traditional

  They stayed there for the winter and spent the succeeding three summers harrying the coasts of Ireland and Scotland after which they returned to Norway.
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  The Secret of the Crocodiles (Lady Violet's Casebook series)

  by Karen Wallace

  Lady Violet Winters is resourceful, independent, and fearless. Her father's American ward, Garth, is her trusty companion and together they are constantly on the lookout for adventure, finding social conventions restrictive. Visiting Egypt with Violet's parents in the spring, they are soon drawn into intrigue. Arriving in Cairo, they visit the bazaar, packed with richly woven cloth, mounds of spices, and endless... (more)
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  Njal's Saga

  by Anonymous

  Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion... (more)
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  Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories (Penguin Classics)

  by Anonymous

  Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by his powerful... (more)
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  Dreadful Skin

  by Cherie Priest

  I ducked into a niche between a cabin and the pilot house and hiked my skirt up enough to reach down into my garter holster. I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman. * * * * * Jack Gabert went to India to serve his Queen. He returned to London a violently changed man, infected with an unnatural sickness that altered his... (more)
• Egil's Saga Translated from the Old IcelandicGwyn Jones

  

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  Egil's Saga Translated from the Old Icelandic

  by Gwyn Jones

• Egil's Saga, Done into English out of the IcelandicEgils saga Skallagrimssonar

  

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  Egil's Saga, Done into English out of the Icelandic

  by E. R. Eddison

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  Black Jack

  by Leon Garfield

  A swarthy villain, nearly seven foot tall and presumed hanged, seems to wake from the dead in the presence of young Bartholomew Dorking. Having outwitted the noose, Black Jack enlists the unwilling boy to be his companion. Together they weave their way through the seamiest parts of old London, a traveling circus, and a private madhouse where forgotten lunatics are chained in empty rooms, and from which Bartholomew... (more)
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  Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel

  by Austin Grossman

  Doctor Impossible—evil genius, diabolical scientist, wannabe world dominator—languishes in a federal detention facility. He's lost his freedom, his girlfriend, and his hidden island fortress. Over the years he's tried to take over the world in every way imaginable: doomsday devices of all varieties (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological) and mass mind control. He's traveled backwards in time to change... (more)
• The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: A Discourse on Method (Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature)Gísli Sigurdsson

  

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  The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: A Discourse on Method (Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature)

  by Gi?sli Sigur\c3\b0sson

  This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigurðsson... (more)
• Three Icelandic Sagas: Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu : Bandamanna Saga : Droplaugarsona Saga

  

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  Three Icelandic Sagas: Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu : Bandamanna Saga : Droplaugarsona Saga

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  The Icelandic Saga

  by Peter Hallberg

  In this stimulating and reliable introduction to the Icelandic saga, Peter Hallberg correctly designates the genre as "Scandinavia's sole, collective original contribution to world literature." These prose narratives dating from the thirteenth century are characterized by a psychological realism which sets them apart from all other contemporary forms of European literature. Mr. Hallberg's emphasis is on the... (more)