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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
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Maximum Ride manga volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
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English
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Maximum Ride manga volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but...
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Maximum Ride manga volume 6
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
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English
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Maximum Ride manga volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
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"Having recovered Angel, Max and the flock head to new York City to pursue a lead regarding their true identities. But where the flock goes, erasers are sure to follow! Even more troubling, though, is the voice that's begun whispering in Max's head. Is it really her destiny to save the world?-- p. [4] of cover.
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Maximum Ride manga volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
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Despite their initial hesitation, living with Anne has softened the Flock, so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave. With Thanksgiving so near, though, all of them want to stay, at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances, and while the Flock's new school seems normal and safe, secrets are hidden beneath its prestigious facade.
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Maximum Ride manga volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
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The Flock members are taken under the wing of an FBI agent and try to live "normal" lives by going to school, making friends--and continuing their relentless search for their parents. But the Erasers return, forcing the Flock to abandon their search and make their escape once again. It's also becoming more obvious to Max that her destiny is to save the world, and this is especially challenging to do when she is faced with her ultimate match: a newer...
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2018.
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English
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For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what...
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Maximum Ride manga volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
10) Maximum Ride: 8
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Maximum Ride manga volume 8
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate over their future, but frostbite isn't the only danger in the Antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder--and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered!" - Cover.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride manga volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Language
English
Description
Max and her winged friends must face the ultimate enemy and stop a plot to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race that will terminate the rest of humankind.
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Maximum Ride manga volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Language
English
Description
The Flock members try to live normal lives by going to school and making friends while they search for their parents, but when the Erasers return the group must escape again and Max finds that her destiny is to save the world.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Viz signature edition.
Language
English
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Mihai enters the stage just in time to save Badou from starring in his own death scene, but now the two of them are a captive audience to Beltheim's display of his lethal skills. As bad as things are in the above though, they're even worse in the below: under Giovanni command, the dog soldiers have started their final assault against the underground city. As the streets around them burn, Heine and Giovanni become locked in a savage fight to settle...
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Maximum Ride manga volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Language
English
Description
Having narrowly escaped the Erasers in New York City, the flock heads to Washington, D.C., to try to find out more about themselves. After they are approached and offered sanctuary by the FBI, they try going to school and living normal lives, but the Erasers catch up with them and send them on the run again.
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