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Product Description: Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson – the great Victorian engineers – into the limelight, there was a ‘Colossus’ who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for what was to follow...read more

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9781445657813 | Amberley Pub Plc, June 30, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson – the great Victorian engineers – into the limelight, there was a ‘Colossus’ who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for what was to follow.

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Hardcover:

9781445633169 | Amberley Pub Plc, May 19, 2014, cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9781445655260 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2016, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Traveling through time was just the beginning—now Simon and Brad have to survive a reimagined early America in the second book of the alternative history Fireball trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher...read more

Hardcover:

9781481420136 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 20, 2015), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Traveling through time was just the beginning—now Simon and Brad have to survive a reimagined early America in the second book of the alternative history Fireball trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.

Paperback:

9781481420129 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 20, 2015), cover price $7.99

School and Library:

9780525440499 | Dutton Childrens Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Encountering a fireball which turns out to be a crossing point between their world and another one on a different probability track, two boys, one English and one American, face Indians, Vikings and Aztecs in their attempts to reach California.

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Product Description: Simon and Brad face their greatest danger yet—and discover the secret of the fireball—in the third book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.When Simon and Brad were caught in the mysterious fireball—a whirling ball of light that sucked them into a bizarre alternate world—they knew a terrifyingly different future was ahead...read more

Hardcover:

9781481420167 | Aladdin Paperbacks, October 20, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Simon and Brad face their greatest danger yet—and discover the secret of the fireball—in the third book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.

Paperback:

9781481420150 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 20, 2015), cover price $7.99

School and Library:

9780525442271 | Dutton Childrens Books, May 1, 1986, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Simon and Brad's fireball adventures take them to ancient China where they are exposed to incredible practices of mind control

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Two cousins are thrust into a parallel reality when they travel through time and fire in the first book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Simon and his cousin Brad hadn’t wanted to spend the summer together. And the quiet London suburb where Simon lived was the last place they expected anything unusual to happen. Then the fireball came. The huge whirling ball of light was like nothing the boys had ever seen before—and they felt compelled to investigate. They awoke in a world where everything had changed. It’s still England...but an England terrifyingly different from the one they had left behind. They passed through the fireball, and now they will have to learn to survive in the fascinatingly strange world on the other side…

Hardcover:

9781481420105 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 20, 2015), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Two cousins are thrust into a parallel reality when they travel through time and fire in the first book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.

Paperback:

9781481420099 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 20, 2015), cover price $7.99
9780441238453 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, January 1, 1984), cover price $2.25 | About this edition: When Simon and Brad investigate the mysterious fireball, they suddenly find themselves in an alternate world--a world where the unrealized possibilities of the actual world have been realized

School and Library:

9780525297383 | Dutton Childrens Books, June 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Two boys are drawn by a fireball into a society, parallel to 20th-century England, which has many of the characteristics of Roman Britain.

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Product Description: Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the world as we know it. He was responsible for building the Great Western Railway main line, introducing regular steamship travel across the Atlantic, building the first tunnel under a major river, and constructing docks, harbors, and bridges that enabled Britain to expand and grow as the powerhouse of the world...read more

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9780750963060 | Trafalgar Square, October 1, 2015, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the world as we know it.
9780752436975 | Tempus Pub Ltd, April 1, 2006, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In this book, John Christopher takes us on a tour through England, looking at the many structures and places created or influenced by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the most famous British engineers.

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High adventure and intrigue await in this classic work of science fiction from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.After the disastrous Breakdown of the twenty-first century, the world has made a change. Now, in the twenty-third century, all cities are ordered and sterile, carefully balanced, protected, and isolated from the uncivilized Outlands.Clive Anderson, the son of a politician, lives a privileged life in one of the cities until he is falsely accused of committing a crime. As punishment he is sent to a training island, where he is supposed to be re-taught how to be an unquestioning member of society, like everyone else in the cities.But Clive and his friends manage to escape the island, making their way into the forbidden and unknown Outlands, where they are captured by the legendary Wild Jack and his troop of savages. At first, Clive is happy to be part of this wild group, but soon he realizes that things are not at all what they seem...

Hardcover:

9781481420075 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, May 12, 2015), cover price $17.99

Paperback:

9781481420068 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, May 12, 2015), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: High adventure and intrigue await in this classic work of science fiction from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.
9780020425762 | Reprint edition (Simon Pulse, October 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Clive Anderson is falsely accused of questioning the status quo and must escape from a twenty-third century 'retraining school'

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Neil, stunned by the death of his parents and adjusting to a new school, hardly notices the plague which has started in India--a disease marked by a bizarre symptom of premature aging

Hardcover:

9781481420013 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, May 12, 2015), cover price $17.99

Paperback:

9781481420006 | Aladdin Paperbacks, May 12, 2015, cover price $7.99

School and Library:

9780525292500 | Dutton Childrens Books, March 1, 1978, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Neil, stunned by the death of his parents and adjusting to a new school, hardly notices the plague which has started in India--a disease marked by a bizarre symptom of premature aging

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In prehistoric times, a boy from a hunting tribe meets a girl from an enemy tribe of farmers. A reader for students of English as a foreign language.

Hardcover:

9781481420044 | Aladdin Paperbacks, May 12, 2015, cover price $17.99

Paperback:

9781481420037 | Aladdin Paperbacks, May 12, 2015, cover price $7.99
9780582798229 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, June 1, 1983, cover price $7.53 | About this edition: In prehistoric times, a boy from a hunting tribe meets a girl from an enemy tribe of farmers.

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Product Description: A revolutionary new book on the Cure for Alcoholism and Addiction. John, a long time member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), explores his life of chronic alcoholism and his successful return to social drinking, following 30 years of continuous sobriety in AA...read more

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9781511554442 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 1, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A revolutionary new book on the Cure for Alcoholism and Addiction.
9780531055977, titled "The Conduct of American Foreign Relations: The Other Side of Diplomacy" | Franklin Watts, May 1, 1977, cover price $5.95 | also contains The Conduct of American Foreign Relations: The Other Side of Diplomacy | About this edition: Softcover book

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Paperback:

9781445639956 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 1, 2015, cover price $22.95
9780373291816, titled "Whitefeather's Woman" | Harlequin Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $4.99 | also contains Whitefeather''s Woman

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He called himself Jones and was more pirate than charter boat captain. His protective streak was suffocating. His kisses devastating. And the bullet scar on his back, the gun tucked in his pants, told Ann that there was plenty the sexy stranger wasn't telling her. Perhaps even more than she wasn't telling him. Because she wasn't Ann Smith, island-hopping rich girl. She was Analiese Tremaine, and she was there to find and rescue her missing brother. But how long could she hold on to her carefully constructed identity when her search had already landed her in deep trouble with no one but Jones to help her out alive?

Paperback:

9781445622101 | Amberley Pub Plc, February 19, 2015, cover price $24.50
9780373272662, titled "Alias Smith and Jones" | Harlequin Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $4.75 | also contains Alias Smith and Jones | About this edition: He called himself Jones and was more pirate than charter boat captain.

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Product Description: 1941 At the beginning of the year, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The war in Africa dominated the headlines, with huge swathes of the North African desert changing hands continually. At sea, Germany’s Bismarck sank HMS Hood, but was soon sunk herself, while Fortress Britain endured night after night of heavy Blitz and the horrors of the Luftwaffe’s incendiary bombs...read more

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9781445622095 | Amberley Pub Plc, February 19, 2015, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: 1941 At the beginning of the year, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy.
9780373272723, titled "The Cinderella Mission" | Harlequin Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $4.75 | also contains The Cinderella Mission | About this edition: Agent: Ethan Williams Mission: Intercept international jewel thieves with information on the whereabouts of a missing agent.

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Paperback:

9781445622088 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, February 19, 2015, cover price $24.50
9780373272655, titled "What a Man's Gotta Do" | Harlequin Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $4.75 | also contains What a Man''s Gotta Do

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Product Description: Luke encounters rage, treachery, and revenge in the second book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.As the Prince in Waiting, Luke has been protected by the High Seers since his father’s murder and his half-brother’s ascension to the throne of Winchester...read more

Hardcover:

9781481419956 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 17, 2015), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Luke encounters rage, treachery, and revenge in the second book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.
9780844664477 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $17.80 | About this edition: Prince-in-Waiting Luke returns from exile to Winchester, a city of a future England ruled by patterns from the past, and sets out on a journey through the Burning Lands, a volcanic wasteland.

Paperback:

9781481419949 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 17, 2015), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Luke encounters rage, treachery, and revenge in the second book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.
9780020425724 | Reissue edition (Simon Pulse, October 1, 1989), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: After his long search for the fabled city of Khan Gothlen, Luke returns home to find he is threatened by treachery

Reinforced:

9780606022675 | Demco Media, October 1, 1989, cover price $10.55 | About this edition: After his long search for the fabled city of Khan Gothlen, Luke returns home to find he is threatened by treachery

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Product Description: A thirteen-year-old’s expectations of royalty give way to adventure in the first book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.In Winchester, roles are clearly defined. Warriors fight battles every spring...read more

Hardcover:

9781481419925, titled "The Prince in Waiting" | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 17, 2015), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A thirteen-year-old’s expectations of royalty give way to adventure in the first book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.
9780899666686, titled "The Prince in Waiting" | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1990, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A thirteen-year-old’s expectations of royalty give way to adventure in the first book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.
9780844661575 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $18.25

Paperback:

9781481419918, titled "The Prince in Waiting" | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 17, 2015), cover price $7.99
9780020425731, titled "The Prince in Waiting" | Reissue edition (Simon Pulse, October 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Luke has no reason to suspect that anything will ever change in the primitive society of the future in which he lives.

Reinforced:

9780606022699, titled "The Prince in Waiting" | Demco Media, October 1, 1989, cover price $11.14 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Luke has no reason to suspect that anything will ever change in the primitive society of the future in which he lives.

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Product Description: The fate of Luke—and the civilized world—is at stake in the tumultuous and explosive conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.Following the death of his brother, Luke has now ascended to the throne of Winchester...read more

Hardcover:

9781481419987, titled "The Sword of the Spirits" | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 17, 2015), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The fate of Luke—and the civilized world—is at stake in the tumultuous and explosive conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.
9780844661582 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $17.75 | About this edition: The fate of Luke—and the civilized world—is at stake in the tumultuous and explosive conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.

Paperback:

9781481419970, titled "The Sword of the Spirits" | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 17, 2015), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The fate of Luke—and the civilized world—is at stake in the tumultuous and explosive conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.
9780020425748, titled "The Sword of the Spirits" | Reissue edition (Simon Pulse, October 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: In post-apocalyptic England, Luke returns a triumphant Prince from his expedition to the North, although he loses the three things he cares about most

Reinforced:

9780606043397, titled "The Sword of the Spirits" | Demco Media, October 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In post-apocalyptic England, Luke returns a triumphant Prince from his expedition to the North, although he loses the three things he cares about most

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Product Description: Denise Rainz is a respected professor and virus researcher who has pushed men and love out of her life since her divorce. Independent, financially comfortable, and focused on her work, Denise is completely thrown off guard when she meets a computer security wizard at the gym...read more

Hardcover:

9781491748251 | Iuniverse Inc, December 29, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Denise Rainz is a respected professor and virus researcher who has pushed men and love out of her life since her divorce.

Paperback:

9781491748237 | Iuniverse Inc, December 29, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Denise Rainz is a respected professor and virus researcher who has pushed men and love out of her life since her divorce.

Hardcover:

9780750952903 | Trafalgar Square, July 30, 2016, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: In a world where two nations rule all, Rob must find a way to live among them both in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.In the future, the world has been divided into two societies. One is the Conurb—a sprawling, modern city where technology rules and people live with only the bare minimum they need to survive...read more

Hardcover:

9781481418355, titled "The Guardians" | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, November 4, 2014), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In a world where two nations rule all, Rob must find a way to live among them both in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.
9780844662381, titled "Guardians" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1986, cover price $18.25 | About this edition: One of a series of fiction for schools.

Paperback:

9781481418348, titled "The Guardians" | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, November 4, 2014), cover price $7.99
9780020426813, titled "The Guardians" | Reprint edition (Simon Pulse, October 1, 1992), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: In the divided England of the distant future, a recently orphaned boy flees the sprawling area known as the Conurb for the serene world of the County where the people seem to live a simpler existence
9780020426806 | Simon Pulse, March 1, 1972, cover price $4.95 | also contains The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock | About this edition: An English boy living in the year 2052 witnesses the corruptions of a society ruled by fear and technology
9780020426806 | Simon Pulse, March 1, 1972, cover price $4.95 | also contains The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock | About this edition: An English boy living in the year 2052 witnesses the corruptions of a society ruled by fear and technology

Reinforced:

9780606020060, titled "The Guardians" | Demco Media, October 1, 1992, cover price $11.05 | About this edition: In the divided England of the distant future, a recently orphaned boy flees the sprawling area known as the Conurb for the serene world of the County where the people seem to live a simpler existence

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In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey to discover his birthright, and meets members of a technologically advanced remnant, who use machines to foster belief in demons among the people of Ben's homeland.In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey to discover his birthright, and meets members of a technologically advanced remnant, who use machines to foster belief in demons among the people of Ben's homeland

Hardcover:

9781481420198 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, November 4, 2014), cover price $17.99

Paperback:

9781481420181 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, November 4, 2014), cover price $7.99
9780689806339 | Reprint edition (Simon Pulse, October 1, 1996), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey to discover his birthright, and meets members of a technologically advanced remnant, who use machines to foster belief in demons among the people of Ben's homeland.

School and Library:

9780027184259 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey to discover his birthright, and meets members of a technologically advanced remnant, who use machines to foster belief in Demons among the people of Ben's homeland.

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9780606107938 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, October 1, 1996), cover price $11.86 | About this edition: In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey to discover his birthright, and meets members of a technologically advanced remnant, who use machines to foster belief in demons among the people of Ben's homeland.

Prebinding:

9780613732482, titled "Dusk Of Demons" | Turtleback Books, November 1, 1996, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey to discover his birthright, and meets members of a technologically advanced remnant, who use machines to foster belief in demons among the people of Ben's homeland.

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Two boys discover a series of caverns underneath their moon colony home in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.Marty and Steve may live on the moon, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to get away every once in a while. So when Steve makes the suggestion to skip school and take a lunar car out to explore the moon’s surface like real astronauts, Marty thinks it’s a great idea. But the fun quickly ends when the lunar car crashes, stranding Marty and Steve beneath the moon’s surface. There, in a bizarre, cave, Marty and Steve find the unexpected: a world filled with various plants, food, and life…including a man who supposedly went missing more than one hundred years before. The boys think that they’ve found the most wonderful place in the galaxy…but they soon learn that the joy comes with a price. The strange creature that is keeping them alive also wants to control them, and when Marty and Steve decide that they want to leave, the creature might have something else in mind.

Hardcover:

9781481418386, titled "The Lotus Caves" | Aladdin Paperbacks, November 4, 2014, cover price $17.99
9780844662398 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1986, cover price $18.25

Paperback:

9781481418379, titled "The Lotus Caves" | Aladdin Paperbacks, November 4, 2014, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Two boys discover a series of caverns underneath their moon colony home in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.
9780020426912, titled "The Lotus Caves" | Reissue edition (Simon Pulse, May 1, 1992), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Rebelling against the monotonous life of the moon colony, two boys go beyond its boundaries and discover a series of caves ruled by a super-intelligent plant-like being

Reinforced:

9780606015998, titled "The Lotus Caves" | Demco Media, May 1, 1992, cover price $11.05 | About this edition: Rebelling against the monotonous life of the moon colony, two boys go beyond its boundaries and discover a series of caves ruled by a super-intelligent plant-like being

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By John Christopher (editor)

Paperback:

9781445638928 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, October 19, 2014, cover price $34.95

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