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""The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their...
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"On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this...
3) Luce
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[2019]
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Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
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"Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the...
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"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"--
"Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...
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"Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in the much anticipated new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her...
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Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her sisters' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the 500th anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia,...
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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
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En esta segunda entrega de la colección Master Drawing Course, Leandro Fernández brinda una detallada explicación del tratamiento apropiado de las luces y las sombras, conocimiento indispensable para aquellos que deseen hacer una carrera profesional vinculada al mundo del dibujo.
En la primera parte de este volumen, se desarrolla el método de trabajo con las luces y las sombras en la historieta en blanco y negro. A continuación, se presenta un...
10) Skinner Luce
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Skinner was what servs called each other. It was because they were fake, their skins a disguise..."
Every year when the deep cold of winter sets in, unbeknownst to humanity, dangerous visitors arrive from another world. Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move among us in secret, hungry for tastes of this existence. Their fickle, often-violent needs must be accommodated at all times, and the price of keeping them satisfied is paid most...
Every year when the deep cold of winter sets in, unbeknownst to humanity, dangerous visitors arrive from another world. Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move among us in secret, hungry for tastes of this existence. Their fickle, often-violent needs must be accommodated at all times, and the price of keeping them satisfied is paid most...
11) A beam of light
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When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
14) Luce and Duke
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Beginning readers will enjoy this charming story about Luce and a horse named Duke. The colorful images, fresh text, and familiar and challenging vocabulary feature long U sounds that allow readers to practice early reading and phonemic skills while being fully engaged from cover to cover!
16) Luce Cannon
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Will Christie's poetry is fascinated by the power of language to inhabit and be inhabited. Christie questions her words as she uses them-tearing them apart or gathering them up, chasing them around or willfully creating new ones-with an alert attention to what they contain and how they affect us. By turns playful and violent, cerebral and romantic, funny and moving, these poems take nothing for granted. What they reveal will often surprise you.
17) Luce Mia
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Five years ago Lucio Vilgierchio was diagnosed with leukemia. His symptoms have abated, and today he has a family and leads a fairly "normal"life. But he is still scared...So he went back to the leukemia ward in search of the part of himself that he felt he had lost. There he met Sabrina, who was battling the same disease he had. He decided to join her struggle, their struggle. In search of that moment when you stop being a patient and go back to...
18) Running Luce
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Violette Giordano is a young ballet dancer of Italian heritage living in New York City, with everything to look forward to, but her estranged relationship with her father and near non-existent relationship with her mother have taken a toll on her productivity and all of the relationships in her life. Struggling to find the meaning of her own existence, she learns to create a new life for herself without the familiarity of the classical world she...
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La pequeña ciudad de Lago Elliot nunca volverá a ser la misma. Atrapados en una repentina tormenta, Zoe, una estudiante de último año de la secundaria de Lago Elliot y sus cinco amigos se refugiaron en la abandonada mina de uranio. En los próximos días, la audición de Zoe se agudiza drásticamente, más allá de lo que cualquier ser humano normal puede detectar. Le cuenta a sus amigos, sólo para descubrir que los otros cuatro también han...
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