Revenge of the Star Survivors

Revenge of the Star Survivors

Author: Michael Merschel

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 082343818X

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Middle school meets the Dark Side in this grimly hilarious survival story of a sci-fi-obsessed eighth grader. Clark Sherman's situation is desperate. He's just crash-landed on an inhospitable planet--also known as Festus Middle School--where the natives don't take kindly to newcomers . . . particularly ones who love sci-fi and memorizing episodes of the hit TV show Star Survivors. Hostile natives include violent bullies, uncaring teachers, and the fiendishly evil Principal Denton, and Clark realizes he'll be lucky enough to survive eighth grade, let alone thrive. But then, three kindred life forms make themselves known . . . and suddenly, Clark finds he not only has the will to survive, but the strength to fight back. Sharp, painfully funny, and deeply moving, Revenge of the Star Survivors is a story for sci-fi fans-- and for anyone who's ever felt alone in this world. Michael Merschel's witty writing, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, brings Clark's inner strength into the light. Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Jean Flynn Award for Best Children's Book


Star Wars

Star Wars

Author: Timothy Zahn

Publisher: Lucas Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0345459164

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Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara Jade, journey to the planet of Nirauan to combat an insidious enemy and salvage a part of Jedi history.


Revenge of the Scapegoat

Revenge of the Scapegoat

Author: Caren Beilin

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1948980088

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From the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art. In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross—the tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical—and drawing upon documentary strategies from Sheila Heti, Caren Beilin offers a tale of familial trauma that is also a broadly inclusive skewering of academia, the medical industry, and the contemporary art scene. One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father had written to her in her teens, in which he blames her for their family’s crises. Driven by the raw fact of receiving these devastating letters not once but twice in a lifetime, and in a panic of chronic pain brought on by rheumatoid arthritis, Iris escapes to the countryside—or some absurdist version of it. Nazi cows, Picassos used as tampons, and a pair of arthritic feet that speak in the voices of Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet are standard fare in this beguiling novel of odd characters, surprising circumstances, and intuitive leaps, all brought together in profoundly serious ways.


The Revenge of Magic

The Revenge of Magic

Author: James Riley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1481485792

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“Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan.” —Booklist When long-dead magical creatures are discovered all around the world, each buried with a book of magic, only children can unlock the dangerous power of the books in this start to an “imaginative and exciting” (Brandon Mull, #1 New York Times bestselling author) series from the author of the New York Times bestselling Story Thieves! Thirteen years ago, books of magic were discovered in various sites around the world alongside the bones of dragons. Only those born after “Discovery Day” have the power to use the magic. Now, on a vacation to Washington, DC, Fort Fitzgerald’s father is lost when a giant creature bursts through the earth, attacking the city. Fort is devastated, until an opportunity for justice arrives six months later, when a man named Dr. Opps invites Fort to a government-run school, the Oppenheimer School, to learn magic from those same books. But life’s no easier at the school, where secrets abound. What does Jia, Fort’s tutor, know about the attacks? Why does Rachel, master of destructive magic, think Fort is out to destroy the school? And why is Fort seeing memories of an expelled girl every time he goes to sleep? If Fort doesn’t find out what’s hiding within the Oppenheimer School, more attacks will come, and this time, nothing will stop them!


Revenge of the Spiders

Revenge of the Spiders

Author: Rod Little

Publisher: Starbase One

Published: 2017-10-07

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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In a post-apocalyptic world, beware the creatures you awaken An alien invasion has released a bio-weapon that has mutated many of Earth's creatures and wiped out most of our people. However, the enlarged spiders are siding with the humans, thanks to Bohai - a boy who can hear animals, and Sam - a boy who controls electricity. Together, they unite the human survivors and fight the invasion, while searching for clues to artifacts which may help them save the planet. And the giant spiders may be Earth's last line of defense.The aliens never counted on such resistance.A science fiction thriller, fast-paced and entertaining to read! 378 pagesThis is book 2 in the Sons of Neptune saga.


Tin Star

Tin Star

Author: Cecil Castellucci

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1596437758

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"Beaten and left for dead, fourteen-year-old Tula Bane finds herself abandoned on a space station called Yertina Feray after traveling with the colonist group, Children of the Earth"--


Just Revenge

Just Revenge

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2009-11-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0759523304

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One of the foremost courtroom lawyers of his generation. Alan M. Dershowitz takes controversial stands based on the principle of equal justice for all. Along the way, he has authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah; the bestselling account of the Claus von Bulow case Reversal of Fortune; and the bestselling courtroom drama The Advocate's Devil. Now Dershowitz has written a novel that is at once personal, passionate, and towering: an explosive legal thriller that pits Dershowitz's literary alter ego, attorney Abe Ringel, against the worst crime of the twentieth century -- the Holocaust. What if you witnessed the most abominable deeds that human beings can inflict upon each other? What if you came face-to-face with the very man who had slaughtered your family before your eyes? That is the question confronted by a celebrated professor named Max Menuchen. Max has found the man who had killed his entire family in cold blood more than a half century before. Max, who has never before broken a law, cannot turn down his chance for revenge. In 1943 Marcellus Prandus was a Lithuanian militia captain who carried out the blood-thirsty orders of his Nazi commanders during World War II. Today he is an old man living outside Boston. For Max, who has discovered Prandus's identity by chance, killing him is not enough, because Prandus is already dying of cancer. How can Max make Prandus suffer exactly as Max himself did? Can Max bring himself to assassinate Prandus's children and grandchildren and make the old man watch his family die, as Max himself was forced to do? By the time defense attorney Abe Ringel enters the case, Max has carried out an astounding act of revenge, and America'sgreat Holocaust trial has begun: an explosive legal and moral struggle to find the light of justice within the darkness of human evil. With Max facing almost certain conviction, Ringel desperately tries to prove his actions we


Revenge Wears Rubies

Revenge Wears Rubies

Author: Renee Bernard

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780425233375

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When Galen Hawke returns to England and discovers that Haley Moreland, his dead friend's fiancâee, is celebrating her upcoming wedding to another man, he decides to avenge his friend by first seducing and then destroying Haley.


Still Counting the Dead

Still Counting the Dead

Author: Frances Harrison

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2012-09-20

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1770893059

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"An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone." — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail.


Crash Into Me

Crash Into Me

Author: Liz Seccuro

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1596915854

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A haunting personal account by the woman at the center of the highly publicized "12-Step Apology" rape case describes how her attacker's written apology and her own struggles to heal prompted their e-mail correspondence, disturbing realizations about other attackers, and her eventual decision to prosecute. A first book.