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Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes - literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth - bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's...
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Books4pocket. Narrativa volume 158
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Una satírica novela que expone las diferencias sociales de la época haciendo una comparación con un gobierno dirigido por mujeres. La trama de la historia radica en la intriga que va naciendo en el personaje principal llamado El Hombre-Montaña quién continuamente es influenciado por diversos otros personajes a cerca de un lugar gobernado por mujeres, en donde sus expectativas a cerca de este lugar van evolucionando de tal manera que el personaje...
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Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 3
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Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
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348 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm
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Iconoclastic scientist Isabella, Lady Trent of Scirland, embarks on a two-year global voyage, hoping to determine the relationships among the endless varieties of dragon.
11) Subterranean
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010
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422 p. ; 24 cm.
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Archaelogist Ashley Carter and a team of specialists attempt to explore a labyrinth deep beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth, a deadly maze that holds things that should not be disturbed.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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60 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Three, two, one . . . sleepover! Stink can't wait for Webster to arrive and sleep over for the very first time. Big sister Judy is ready with all the important rules: (1) You have to have a theme. (2) You have to have an activity. (3) You have to have snacks. (4) You cannot sleep! When Webster shows up in his outer-space pj's, it doesn't take long for a theme to emerge. Stink's race-car bed doubles as a spaceship and an old keyboard is a control...
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Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 5
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Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
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333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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A dragon naturalist and an explorer prone to igniting scandals, Lady Trent reveals what she discovered in the Sanctuary of Wings, behind the territory of Scirland?s enemies.- Novelist
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Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
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1 DVD (187 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
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The tale of an 18th-century physician who takes eight years to travel through a variety of fantastical lands, only to have everyone but his wife take him for a madman when he returns home.
15) The wanderer
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Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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"Without a word, and with Escher-like precision, van den Ende presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs, through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves uninterrupted, that also means it must save itself when it storms"--
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Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
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350 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet.
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Criterion collection volume 1017
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Criterion Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
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3 DVDs (248 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows four schoolboys as they embark on an expedition back through time; a gang of pirates try to get their hands on a doomsday machine invented by a scientist; follows the adventures of Baron Munchausen, a fictional German nobleman famous for his impossible exploits.
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Criterion collection volume 1166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 blu-rays (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Baron von Munchausen sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his friends, and winds up visiting the moon.
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