Paul Stewart
1) Ya wanna go?
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United States Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee Paul Stewart is a tough-as-rawhide sports legend with a heart of gold and tireless will to survive. The heir apparent to a legacy in sports, Stewy was raised in a family that tracked the seasons by which sport was being played. The grandson of Stanley Cup-winning coach Bill Stewart, Sr., Stewy's road to professional hockey should have been smoother. In his long-anticipated autobiography, Stewy recounts the...
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'Let's play remembering,' says Hedgehog. But Rabbit isn't very keen - 'You know what always happens,' he says. And sure enough the friends remember events entirely differently, whether it be an acorn rolling competition or crossing a stream ('You fell in!' says Hedgehog. 'I was picking up a water snail,' says Rabbit. 'I dropped it when you grabbed me.')
3) The State of Northern Ireland and the Democratic Deficit: Between Sectarianism and Neo-Liberalism
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Written to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the GFA, this book argues that the seeds of recent problems were sown in the 1998 agreement. The fiasco of a Renewable Heating Incentive that overpaid participants, the lingering whiff of corruption, communities in crisis and growing poverty are all symptoms of the inherent failings of the supposed settlement.
Current difficulties are more than teething problems arising from the transition from...
4) Stormchaser
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 2
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English
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In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 3
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English
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Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.
6) Fergus Crane
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Far-flung adventures volume 1
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English
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Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.
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Wyrmeweald volume 1
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English
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Young pioneer, Micah, enters Wrymeweald full of hope to return home having made his fortune. But this is a land where wyrmes, fabulous dragon-like beasts, roam wild and reign supreme. After a near-brush with death on the edge of a canyon, Micah soon finds a chance to prove his worth when he meets with Eli, a veteran tracker of Wrymeweald.
9) Bloodhoney
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Wyrmeweald volume 2
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English
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Micah finds that winter is a dangerous time in the wyrmeweald. In addition to the intense cold, Micah and his friends Eli and Thrace are being hunted by an assassin intent on vengeance.
10) The bone trail
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Wyrmeweald volume 3
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English
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Micah and his friends have battled tirelessly against the kith bandits to protect the winged wyrmes. But the kith are getting bolder, trapping and killing wyrmes to take only their little flameoil sacs, then leaving the bodies to rot. Finally, deep in the heart of the weald, the whitewyrme has sent out a call to arms. The wyrmes are preparing for battle, ready to defend their home and themselves.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 4
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English
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Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
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English
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Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
14) Freeglader
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 7
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English
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Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 6
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David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
16) Hugo Pepper
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Far-flung adventures volume 3
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David Fickling Books
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[2007], c2006
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English
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A boy, orphaned and raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, boards his birth parents' sled and sets its special compass to "Home," where he uncovers a plot that threatens his mermaid godmothers and other friends of his family.
17) Corby Flood
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Far-flung adventures volume 2
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David Fickling Books
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[2006], c2005
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English
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While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 8
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English
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Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 9
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English
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Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
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MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In 1955, as the tightly contested hockey season was coming to an end, the star of the Montreal Canadians was suspended by the president of the league, setting off a huge riot in the streets of Montreal. This riot added to the sparks of the political revolution in Quebec that led to the rise of the separatist movement, which still flourishes today.