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61) The Flying Squad
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A conspiracy of smugglers try to frame a London police detective for murder in this classic mystery thriller.
Although his neighbors suspect he is quite rich, Li Yoseph lives in a sagging, squalid wooden house overhanging a creek, and has a habit of holding lengthy, animated conversations with invisible friends, usually in a foreign tongue. The police are certain he's involved in smuggling, but they've never been quite able to prove it. Now...
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Darby Langdon has a plan for taking out the bullies in her junior high. But she'll need a team of specialists to do it: the gamer, the actress, the scientist, the football player, the inventor, and the bookworm. Each of them has a secret that makes them perfect for what Darby has in mind. Now if only her plan would go as perfectly...
63) F*ck Off Squad
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Fuck Off Squad by Nicole Goux (Murders, Jem and the Holograms) and Dave Baker (Action Hospital, Suicide Forest) follows three would-be miscreants as they attempt to navigate the trials and tribulations of growing up in Los Angeles.
Needless to say, it's the greatest comic about Instagram, skating, and low-key trying to date someone while you're still in a relationship ever made.
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Ernest Fann is the world's biggest batman...Fan! And as the most knowledgeable about all things super-heroic, it is up to Ernest to recruit the finest crime-fighters on Earth! Together with his babysitter, Harriet, his best friend, Jack, and his faithful fido, Ernest is ready to teach his recruits all about secret identities, the best ways to lurk, and how to stop crime...maybe? Join New York Times bestselling writer-illustrator Jim Benton (Catwad,...
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Derek "Tiger" Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) drop from Low Earth Orbit to test the enhanced Gryphon-10 MK 4 hardshell wingsuit for combat applications. Every contingency has been planned. The 6-man squad believes it is fully prepared for hurtling around the world and staging critical re-entry, but challenged to innovate life-or-death solutions with only seconds to spare, Baily's team might not survive intact. Fly with Tiger and...
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Shelter pet squad volume 3
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In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!
There's a big surprise for the Shelter Pet Squad: A group of sato puppies has arrived! Satos are homeless dogs -- of various breeds -- from Puerto Rico. The kids will help them settle in until they are ready for adoption. Suzannah plays with a pup named Paloma until the little dog falls asleep...
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Shelter pet squad volume 2
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In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!
A pet is missing! When Suzannah arrives to volunteer at the shelter, one of the animals is missing! It's Merlin, a mischievous ferret who gets into everything, and loves to play hide and seek.Owning a ferret can be really hard work, the Shelter Pet Squad discovers. Whoever takes Merlin home...
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"Milo is thrilled to be starting at the country's most prestigious school. But it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on. The headmaster, Dr Pummelcrush, is bent on brainwashing the students and turning them into mindless, unthinking human robots. When Milo stumbles across a bright and colourful secret garden and meets its joyous gardener, he and his friends begin to open their minds to a whole new way of thinking: philosophy. Can...
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The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to chat, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realize that they've all survived rape-and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle becomes the Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. They declare open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
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In David Goodis's bruising crime novel The Secret Squad, Corey Bradford is on the skids and on a quick trip to boozeland. He was a plainclothes cop who got caught with his hands in pockets where they didn't belong and he was pushed out the precinct door. But he was still just as fast with his mitts as he was his wits, and others took notice. Such as mob kingpin Walter Grogan, a man who didn't take no for an answer. But Bradford is also recruited by...
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Dr. Shelley Brown is an educator whose love for children and learning inspired her to write GPS Squad: Summer Adventures. It's a fun read, for children ages five to seven. It teaches them about science and the world around them while they chuckle and laugh as they read and play.
Read GPS Squad: Summer Adventures and learn how J.T. and his best friends form a neighborhood club, and have exciting adventures and challenges during summer break.
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It was a cold Friday Night on the 17th of July, and the time; 11.30 GMT to be precise. This was an unannounced visit at an unholy hour.
The Military Junta had unleashed the dreaded looking Death Squad into the Special Block; all of them camouflaged in military regalia and wielding guns, poised to shot to kill, and you dare not look into their faces.
The Operations Commander stood at his usual place on the corridor, ready with a roughly torn sheet...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
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Collects Star Wars: Dark Droids - D-Squad (2023) #1-4. The unsung heroes of the Clone Wars return! A terrible scourge is corrupting the galaxy's droids. To fight this menace and rescue his best friend C-3PO, R2-D2 must assemble a team of droid heroes: the D-Squad! It's an adventure filled with guest stars from across the galaxy, including a special appearance by Chopper from Star Wars: Rebels! See Artoo battle the murderous BT-1! Witness the psychotic...
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Danger within. Danger without.
Abby Fisher wakes in the body of a girl masquerading as a boy at an Elite Military Academy.
She must figure out why she's there before she can get back home.
But first, there's the small matter of the rebellion to deal with.
And who's side is she on?
Princess or the Usurper?
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Terror stalks the campus of a Minnesota university, where two professors working on classified military research have been brutally murdered. Student Karen Butler fears for her life after her adviser is killed, realizing she's the only one left with detailed knowledge of a new nerve gas defense system plus a terrible nanotech weapon. Karen and her boyfriend, Jack Nelson, a member of the elite military group Eagle Squad, play a dangerous game with...
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Shelter pet squad volume 1
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In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!
Suzannah's always wanted a pet of her own, but she lives in an apartment where there are absolutely no pets allowed. What she CAN do is volunteer at a local pet shelter. There, although she's the youngest, Suzannah quickly finds herself making friends with the kids and bonding with the animals....
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Suicide Squad volume 1
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When five ordinary convicts are given incredible powers by the top-secret Blaze program, it falls to Harley Quinn, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark to keep them on mission as they hunt down a brutal cannibal with all the powers of Superman. But no one on Earth is prepared for the cosmic secret that hides inside that cannibal-and which now hides inside the Squad, too!
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Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about the Great War to be published. Although it is a piece of fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's own war experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front.
It follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers on the front in France after the German invasion. The anecdotes are episodic in nature, each with an individual chapter title. The best-known...
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Why can't shifters and humans just get along...
It has only been a few months since humanity found out about the various shifters that live among them. This brave new world is not without its challenges; neither for the humans or the shifters. Alpha Squad is formed to help law enforcement agencies deal with shifter related matters, and not a moment too soon! Follow the brave men and women of the squad as they try to come to terms with their new reality,...
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