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The Umbrella Academy volume vol 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who had previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, 'To save the world.' These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against...
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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"The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is -- each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. Rumor has lost her voice -- the source of her power. Spaceboy has eaten himself...
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
From the creators of Back to School with Bigfoot comes a hilarious story about Bigfoot's little sibling!
Bigfoot has always wanted a little brother and is in for a surprise when his parents return home from the hospital with a sister. He is not happy about this at first, and builds a robot brother to do everything he wanted to do with his little brother. But soon he learns that sisters can be just as cool as brobots... maybe even...44) Robot revolution
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Series
House of robots volume 3
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Robots on strike! Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos in the house! It's up to Sammy and his disabled sister Maddie to keep the peace until his inventor mom reveals her secret project ... and why it was worth the wait"--
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The last human volume 2
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
46) Network effect
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Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
47) The twisted ones
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Five nights at Freddy's volume 2
Language
English
Description
"It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar she finds herself drawn back into the world of...
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First cat in space volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In a world of villainous cowboys, high-speed chases, and falling pianos, can our iconic trio find their way back to one another and save the Moon Queen before it's too late? And who would want to poison her? With few she can trust in her own royal court, Moon Queen and First Cat will have to journey alone to find the antidote. If only LOZ 4000 were still with them... but our once-heroic toenail clipping robot is on the run, looking for a new purpose...
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
51) Mechanimals
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Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When a tornado leaves a farmer with a heap of scrap metal and no animals, his neighbors are sure it's all over for him. But the determined farmer refuses to admit defeat. His plans are big, and when his neighbors dismiss them with the words, "When pigs fly," they grow bigger still. The farmer sets to work to turn that scrap metal into some rather surprising creatures. Mechanimals will help all of us believe in our dreams, despite what the neighbors...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard.She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like...
53) A rover's story
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
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Murderbot diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...
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Alien adventures of Finn Caspian volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Eight-year-old Finn is the first kid born in space and he spends his days looking for a new planet to call home with his three best friends and his robot, Foggy. He's used to wild, galaxy hopping adventures. But when Explorer Troop 301 gets stuck on a planet that's about to explode, Finn and his friends will have to face giant aliens, a leader with mind control powers, and one evil, fluffy bunny rabbit in order to save the planet ... and themselves"--...
56) Robots go wild
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Series
House of robots volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
57) Fetch
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Three more bone-chilling novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five nights at Freddy's player up a night. Three boys -- Greg, Alec, and Oscar -- each have a problem that an item from Freddy Fazbear's Pizza might solve... if they can survive the trip!
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Ricky Ricotta volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Best friends always stick together - especially when they are in trouble!
Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot always watch out for each other - that's what friends are for! This time, they've managed to mangle the Ricotta family's minivan. Somehow they have to find a way to make up for their mistake.
When a mean little Martian named Major Monkey invades Earth, Ricky and his Robot race to save the day once more. But Major Monkey has a plan to get...
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"In the rugged landscape of eastern Oregon, a young scientist named June uncovers an exquisite artifact--a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll whose existence seems to validate her obsession with a harrowing story she was told by her grandfather many years earlier. The mechanical doll, June believes, is proof of a living race of automatons that walk undetected among us to this day. Ingeniously hidden inside the ancient doll is a lost message, addressed...
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Wild robot volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.