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"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...
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"Eight years ago, Ethan and Rebecca met, two troublemaking kids sharing secrets and first kisses in a tree house, until Ethan's mom returned to take him away. Each and every visit, his only goodbye was a flower on Rebecca's windowsill. Four years ago, Ethan left for the last time to take care of his mother, who has struggled with addiction his whole life. Two years ago, Rebecca was in a car accident that killed her father. She's been learning to navigate...
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"The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...
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If Charlie and Sage are meant to be, why can't Sage stop kissing Charlie's brother? And why can't Charlie stop thinking about kissing the new boy at school? Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they...
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Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as an archival librarian, constantly surrounded by thought-provoking ideas and the books she loved. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured divorcee with a job that took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like...
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In this installment of the Ask the Experts series, Chemistry, our professors, scientists, and researchers tackle reader questions about the substances that compose all matter, their properties, and how they interact and change. Queries range from elementary questions, such as why some elements change color over a flame, to how chemistry works in everyday life, to how certain substances affect the body and more.
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For going on two decades, Scientific American's "Ask the Experts" column has been answering reader questions on all fields of science. We've taken your questions from the basic to the esoteric and reached out to top scientists, professors, and researchers to find out why the sky is blue or whether we really only use 10 percent of our brains.
Now, we've combed through our archives and have compiled some of the most interesting questions (and answers)...
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Clark and Adelaide think their lives can't get any worse. Until they meet each other. Adelaide-heiress to the wealthiest man in the Ceithren Empire-has felt a void since her sister's death. Just as she's resigned herself to the empty life her father chose for her, a relic from a world that shouldn't exist plunges her into chaos. Clark-son of the greatest terrorist the empire has ever known-is still reeling from his father's death. Since then, his...
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Clark thought he knew what grief was. Addie thought she understood the dangers of the Tempest Sea. They couldn't have been more wrong. When their only chance at survival lands them on opposite ends of an island that shouldn't exist, they will both be forced to contend with the consequences of their latest mistakes-and each other's. Will they be able to keep the promises they made one another, even as loss and circumstance morphs them into the very...
11) The Ever Falls
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The epic conclusion to The World Apart Series. Addie and Clark have just defeated one evil, only to have another closer to home than they thought possible. They thought they were finally safe, but Spectrum has been waiting for them. And this time, there are more lives at stake than anyone could've imagined. Will they be able to work together to stop the spread of RyLand's forces? Or will they have to sacrifice everyone they've ever loved for the sake...
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"Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart"--
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Alisa Salazar has a million things to do: friends to meet up with, Duper to take for a walk - even her dad has asked her to accompany him to an important dinner party... What a shame cloning is forbidden on Earth! How great it would be if she could send a couple of clones in her place. Then a device for making clones unexpectedly ends up in Alisa's hands. Now Alisa herself is in terrible danger.
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Natalie White has a problem - a small pimple on her nose threatens to leave her out of the school photo session. To help remedy matters, Natalie turns to Fairy Anzhelina, a popular beauty blogger and an employee at Angeloni cosmetics. But Natalie does not yet know that Anzhelina's cosmetics are banned and that the fairy herself is out to get her revenge on Angeloni.
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Alisa Salazar and her schoolmates have to write a difficult essay on an unknown topic. Some of her classmates try to revise, others pin their hopes on lucky charms; everybody is worried and anxious. Only Alisa has nothing to worry about: after all, she has a real life oracle at home - Duper the Truenox! But what will happen if Duper suddenly discovers that his gift of seeing the future is gone forever?
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Alisa Salazar really hates the baby photo that her parents have decided to put in the family archive kept at the intergalactic museum on Pluto. Her parents try to explain that remembering the past is the solid foundation upon which every family is built, but Alisa decides to go to Pluto to delete the photo. She has no idea of the terrible danger that lies in store.
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Poly-R, the Salazars' household robot, is convinced that he has a hard life. He has heaps of household chores to do: tidying up, baking pies, and putting up with Duper's cheeky antics. But the worst thing is that whatever he does, no matter how much he may try to please his masters, it is all a waste of time. No one appreciates how much he does, and all because he is an outdated model. They just keep him out of pity! On the day of Poly-R's annual...
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Sisters Marie and Natalie White are not at all alike and are always arguing. After yet another quarrel, they each go off their own way and meet two strange creatures - stepbrothers from Planet Ba. This unusual meeting helps the brothers to understand one another and Marie and Natalie to make up.
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From the far-off planet Verum, Alisa's father, Professor Salazar, brings back a truenox - a mysterious creature that is able to predict the future. Without warning, Professor Salazar's colleague Doctor Gilliam kidnaps the truenox, who Alisa and her friends have grown very fond of. Alisa rushes to the aid of her new friend.
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Poly-R, the Salazar's house robot, has gone crazy - he keeps chasing Duper round the house saying over and over again: "Perfection! Perfection!" It turns out that the culprit is a formula hidden in Poly-R's firmware, written by the cybernetics genius Phillip Soleko himself. The only way to fix Poly-R is to work out the secret formula. Erik Schroedinger and Alisa Salazar set off on a dangerous journey to a distant asteroid.