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Jim Butcher, Mark Powers

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Dresden Files

When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking down and facing the perps, whether they be black magic practitioners, blood-hungry werewolves, or worse! This first volume of The Dresden Files Omnibus collects three complete comic book story arcs, including the exclusive-for-comics tale, "Welcome to th...

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Mark Powers

A hilarious, high-octane mystery series, full of fantasticly funny black-and-white illustrations. For readers who love Marcus Rashford's The Breakfast Club Adventures and, of course, pizza!When a new pizza restaurant in town causes everyone who eats there to wake up in rock-solid egg-shaped cocoons, it is up to Pip and his friends, Samira and Emanuel to come to the rescue.Reasons they didn't eat the pizza:Samira is lactose-intolerantEmanuel ...

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Jim Butcher, Mark Powers

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Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files

"To say I loved this book would be such an understatement. It's a great, intensely fun, quick read that satisfied my Dresden Files itch in a year during which I'm not sure we'll get a new novel in the series." - Kirkus A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is o...

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Jim Butcher, Mark Powers

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Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files

Harry Dresden`s life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council continues to view him with suspicion. If all that weren't enough, a pack of werewolves have unleashed a wave of terror on the Windy City. But as is always the case when it comes to the creatures of the Nevernever, there's far more going on than meets the ...

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Mark Powers

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Space Detectives

'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVEGrown an extra head and don't know why? You need the Space Detectives!Connor and Ethan are bamboozled when Starville, the space station where they live, is overrun with cosmic chaos! Boys have two heads, dogs have three tails and even ...

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Mark Powers

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Space Detectives

'Immensely, cheerily silly' GuardianDog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives!Connor and Ethan are spending their summer holidays aboard the world's first orbiting city, Starville (basically Beverley Hills in space!). The amazing space station is bursting with celebrities and the mega-rich. But Connor and Ethan are too busy selling ice cream to see the sigh...

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Mark Powers

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Sherlock Holmes – Mirror of Justice

The chain was never real. You made it real. Now unmake it.Eleanor Holmes, the last carrier of the Ashworth bloodline and granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes, thought she had ended the nightmare. She destroyed the Progenitor. She scattered the fragments. She severed the sixth finger that marked her family for centuries. But the dead do not stay dead. Not when they wear masks. Not when they hide in mirrors. Not when they whisper from inside your own blood.A lett...

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Mark Powers

Grace is woken in the middle of the night to the sound of an armoured horse in her back garden. The next thing she knows, a dying Grace doppelganger bursts through her bedroom door and insists that she is the fifteenth and final Grace, and it is her destiny to win the Worthy War.Grace's quest takes her to the county of Brokenshire, where she must work with her trusty steed (who has a sharp tongue and a habit of reminding Grace of all the ghastly ends her predecessors have met!) to ...

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Mark Powers

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Space Detectives

'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVEGrown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? Lost your peculiar pet? You need the Space Detectives!What seems like a simple case of a missing pet soon has the Space Detectives completely bamboozled! This...

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Mark Powers

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Spy Toys

Toy Story meets James Bond in this incredibly action-packed new series. Spy Toys are going to take the world by storm!The world's leading toy manufacturer makes playthings for the rich and famous, and every toy they create contains a tiny computerised brain and a unique personality. These toys are seriously awesome! But every so often there's a faulty toy ...Dan is a Snugaliffic Cuddlestar bear – he should be perfect for hugging. ...

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Mark Powers

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Spy Toys

Fresh from the success of their first mission, our heroes the Spy Toys – Dan the Snugaliffic Cuddlestar Bear, Arabella the Loadsasmiles Sunshine Doll and Flax the custom-made police robot rabbit – are ready for their next task. This time, the secret code that controls every Snaztacular Ultrafun toy has been stolen and all over the world toys are revolting and turning against the children who own them.Can Arabella disguise herself as a super-sweet little doll in order to spy on the ...

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Mark Powers

For centuries, humanity has questioned the existence of life on other worlds. When we finally meet extraterrestrial life, it isn't exactly as we may have hoped. An alien race known as The Benefactors has come to help mankind fend off an invasion by another, more malevolent alien race.