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Doc Savage thriller volume 1
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Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
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Wild adventures of Doc Savage volume 1
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"When ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons -- a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus. Only Doc Savage, the scientist-superman who was forged in the fires of scientific knowledge to battle the unknown, is equal to the challenge."--[P.4] of cover.
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Wild adventures of Doc Savage volume 4
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There are unknown Things prowling the darkest patch of land on the planet. Haunted by creatures that might have emerged from the Hell's lowest regions, ancient Ultra-Stygia has turned into a cauldron of conflict between rival countries. Monster bats careen through the night sky. Invisible Cyclops patrol the scorched battleground. And a power beyond understanding robs men of their vision. Can the 20th century's premier scientist and superman untangle...
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Adam Savage--star of Discovery Channel's MythBusters and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech--shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality. "[This book] is a chronicle of my life as a maker. It's an exploration of making and of my own productive obsessions, but it's also a permission slip of sorts from me to you. Permission to grab hold of the things...
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Wild adventures of Doc Savage volume 2
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"It began with an uncanny encounter on busy Seventh Avenue. Two men pass each other in the street, walking along calmly one minute -- struck down the next by a horrific fate. All over Manhattan, soundless detonations cut down prince and pauper alike.... One one man, Doc Savage -- scientist, adventurer and superman -- can penetrate the eerie enigma that threatens to bring the mightiest city on earth to its knees."--[P.4] of cover.
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America's bravest, brashest voice is back?as ferocious and cutting as ever.
"Where has six decades of radical, mad-dog liberalism brought us?" Savage asks in his electrifying new book. "I'll tell you where: America is teetering on the cliffs of insanity."
Written with the fire, the conviction, and the clear vision of a modern-day prophet, Savage returns with a vengeance in this lightning rod of a book, speaking for all Americans who are fed up...
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When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T. Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants...