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Buckle your seatbelt for the first-ever follow up to Ian Fleming's only children's story. When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car...and it wants its bodywork back! But as the Tootings hurtle across the world rebuilding the original Chitty, a sinister baddie is on their trail—one who will stop at nothing
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From the award-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce comes the third official sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Tootings are stuck in 1966! Somebody's stolen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and left them behind. But that's not their biggest problem. Their biggest problem is that Little Harry's been kidnapped by whoever stole their magical car. There's only one solution: the Tootings must find the Potts—the family that originally built Chitty.
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Everyone's favorite flying car shifts into another dimension as the intrepid Tooting family zooms back and forth through time. When the Tootings return to Zobrowski Terrace at the end of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, they find that "home" is looking a lot like Jurassic Park. But this is no theme park—a very real and very hungry T. rex is charging them! Thanks to Dad's inadvertent yanking of Chitty's "Chronojuster" lever, the spirited
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Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
7) Bang! Tango
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Vinnie has a new life. New York, the mob and all its horrors are a distant memory...until Autumn blows into San Francisco. Autumn, the one who broke his heart, the one he left behind...begging Vinnie to pull one last job: Rob the sadistic mob boss who wants him dead...so she can afford the gender reassignment surgery that will make her the woman Vinnie always wanted. Remastering the provocative Vertigo series, this new volume presents Bang!Tango as...
8) BANG!
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""A great #$%^ed up blend of James Bond and Tintin.""--Keanu ReevesFrom New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator MATT KINDT and Quantum Age's WILFREDO TORRES comes a brand-new pulp-inspired tale of action, mystery, and altered reality.A best-of the-best secret agent with memories he couldn't possibly possess, a mystery writer in her 80s who spends her retirement solving crimes, a man of action with mysterious drugs that keep him ahead of a constant...
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A best-of the-best secret agent with memories he couldn't possibly possess, a mystery writer in her 80s who spends her retirement solving crimes, a man of action with mysterious drugs that keep him ahead of a constant string of targeted disasters, a seemingly omnipotent terrorist organization that might be behind it all . . .
And they're all connected to one man: a science-fiction author with more information than seems possible, whose books may...
11) Big Bang Saigon
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Et comme il faut bien commencer quelque part, Maxime choisit le Vietnam, car il a dans l'idée de retrouver la trace du mystérieux demi-oncle que son grand-père, ancien militaire, aurait laissé là-bas après la guerre d'Indochine.
Ce n'est pourtant pas lui qu'il va rencontrer à Saigon, mais l'amour fou, en la personne d'Akiko, une jeune Japonaise souriante qui va bouleverser son programme et sa vie. Malgré ce coup de foudre, le jeune homme...
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CYBERPUNK XXX-ROTIC AT YOUR DISPOSAL OF PLEASURE, HARCORE LUST WITH CYBERPUNK ACTION!Plus a little horror... The Death-Heads cyberpunk killers... ...A night of sex, violence and action with a side dish of psychological horror. A trinity of enemies hunt them and things are about to heat up. Cyberpunk couple Devermando and Molly XXX are targeted by mercenaries and Ninja's along with a Red Beast who joins an assassin to take them down. A battle of survival...
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Why does the gene behave like a hedge fund manager? Why are mutations like a gambling scam? Why does nothing ever become top dog in life and win forever?
Humans only arrived after 99.99% of the time there's been life on earth. So what was here before us? And how did these species, and the evolutionary process that created them, end up with the unpromising creatures that were our ancestors?
In this, the first book of The Secrets of Life quartet, SS...
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How is it we humans only arrived after 99.995% of the time there's been life on earth-and yet we're now so dominant? If mutations take generations to have an effect, how did we manage to change so completely in just a blink in time? And why were our rulers and societies always so horrible-yet we endlessly put up with them?
Book One of The Secrets of Life quartet began the long narrative of existence by showing how the forces that Big Bang unleashed...
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Why are humans neither 'good' nor 'bad'? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we're asked if the world's getting better?
In this, the last book in The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor pulls together the threads of genetic and cultural evolution, and then adds to these the conclusions of evolutionary game theory. As he does this, he ends with an intertwined narrative that explains...
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Why is life like a poker game? How did a failed robbery help to explain human nature? Why are we so certain bad men will win-and yet we're so wrong?
In this, the third volume of The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor once more uses his easy-going, conversational style to explain how the science of decision analysis developed, and why it has come to show us not only the reasoning behind how humans arrive at their choices in life, but why so much...
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What are the bonds that form a real band?
As the contest to perform at Future World Fes draws near, pressure mounts from all sides for the members of Roselia - the rigorous practice they need to do every day to stay sharp, family tensions running high, and on top of everything else, a shocking development for Yukina.
When a professional record label approaches her to sign a solo deal, Yukina finds herself facing an impossibly heavy choice. Should...
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After her father's dreams of making it big in the music industry crumble beneath the strain of trying to appease both his managers and his fans, singer Yukina Minato is determined to make him proud by forming the "perfect band" of her own. But first, she'll have to find all the right members. They'll need unparalleled skill, passion and drive if they're going to succeed as a J-rock band in such a crowded scene!
Future World Fes is the biggest...
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Evaluate three mysteries connected to the Big Bang model that baffled theorists beginning in the late 1960s. Why was the early universe so uniform? Why does the universe obey the laws of geometry we teach in high school? And how did the universe come to be made of the kinds of particles we see and not others? A single solution to all three questions seemed too much to hope for, yet one turned up.
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