Space Lizards Stole My Brain

Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471117909

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Space Lizards Stole My Brain! by Mark Griffiths Pdf

When Admiral Skink, an alien-lizard warlord from the planet Swerdlix, is attacked by The Hideous and Unimaginably Vast Comet Creature of Poppledock he faces a certain death… but luckily his underlings have installed the BrainTwizzler 360 Mind Migration SystemTM. This nifty invention safely transfers Skink's mind on to a memory wafer and jettisons it through space to find a suitable temporary "home" until he can be rescued by his fellow Swerdlixians. Unluckily for eleven-year-old Lance Spratley it just so happens that the temporary home for Admiral Skink's mind is his body! And while Skink deals with being trapped in Lance's useless body - it can't even breathe fire! - Lance is transferred to a virtual waiting room surrounded by the lizard race who seem intent on destroying Earth when they have successfully retrieved Skink.Will Lance ever get his body back? And even if he does will he be able to thwart Admiral Skink and the Swerdlixians plans to invade Earth…

Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857078889

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Space Lizards Ate My Sister! by Mark Griffiths Pdf

Asteroid Peach is heading straight for Earth, and the planet will be destroyed in a matter of days. In desperation the world turns to the evil space lizard Admiral Skink, currently imprisoned in Cottelton police station in the body of Pickles the iguana. In return for his freedom, Admiral Skink promises to destroy the asteroid and save Earth, but instead he builds a wormhole bridge to his home planet, Swerdlix, and escapes! And just as Skink is making his getaway, a giant thrall-beast emerges from the wormhole, promptly eating Sally Spratley, Lance's little sister. It's up to Lance and his best friend, Tori, to travel to Swerdlix, capture Admiral Skink, stop the asteroid from destroying humanity, and find some flooblescoop powder to make the thrall-beast sneeze out Sally ... which shouldn't be that hard, should it?

Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393343021

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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon Pdf

"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857075383

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Geek Inc. : Technoslime Terror by Mark Griffiths Pdf

Somewhere in the small, dull town of Blue Hills, the impossible is happening. Inanimate objects are coming to life. Time travellers from the future are mingling unnoticed with the shoppers in the high street. School children are developing uncanny powers. Strange creatures are lurking within the grounds of a forgotten stately home. And with each of these mysteries comes a terrible threat that just might endanger the entire world... Fortunately, help with these extraordinary phenomena is at hand in the form of Gabby Grayling and Barney Watkins aka Geek Inc.! Gabby and Barney are set to investigate all the odd happenings in their town and find out the truth… In the first book in the series, Barney and Gabby meet and form a friendship when they investigate a top secret Government technology that brings inanimate objects to life. They also have to contend with the evil machinations of Gloria Pickles, the terrifying eleven year old editor of the school newspaper and would-be dictator.

Author : Doctor Who
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781405952361

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Doctor Who: Origin Stories by Doctor Who Pdf

*Includes a brand-new story feauturing the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate)!* We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives . . . Amy Pond looks for her Raggedy Man, Jo Grant remembers her childhood, the Master hunts the past . . . a young girl discovers a love for explosives. Eleven incredible stories from the world of Doctor Who - the early lives of friends and foes that have never been told before. The characters and their writers include: Ace by Sophie Aldred Sarah-Jane Smith by Mark Griffiths The Master, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Madame Vastra by Dave Rudden Ryan Sinclair and Yaz Khan by Emma Norry Clara Oswald by Jasbinder Bilan Amy Pond by Nikita Gill Davros by Temi Oh Martha Jones by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Jo Grant by Katy Manning © 2022 Doctor Who (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593230169

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A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne Pdf

From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky—“a darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart” (People)—comes a new novel that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is unlimited. This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons, one with his father’s violence in his blood, one with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold. From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.

Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471124808

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The Burp That Saved the World by Mark Griffiths Pdf

The Mustard twins disgust the town with their raucous burps but when aliens invade they are the only ones with a plan to save the world. A revolting, rhyming tale in the spirit of Roald Dahl and Horrid Henry.

Author : Kristen Britain
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698146471

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Mirror Sight by Kristen Britain Pdf

Magic, danger, and adventure abound for messenger Karigan G'ladheon in author Kristen Britain's New York Times-bestselling Green Rider fantasy series • "First-rate fantasy." —Library Journal Karigan G’ladheon is a Green Rider—a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. King Zachary sends Karigan and a contingent of Sacoridians beyond the edges of his nation, into the mysterious Blackveil Forest, which has been tainted with dark magic by a twisted immortal spirit named Mornhavon the Black. In a magical confrontation against Mornhavon, Karigan is jolted out of Blackveil Forest and wakes in darkness. She’s lying on smooth, cold stone, but as she reaches out, she realizes that the stone is not just beneath her, but above and around her as well. She’s landed in a sealed stone sarcophagus, some unknown tomb, and the air is becoming thin. Is this to be her end? If she escapes, where will she find herself? Is she still in the world she remembers, or has the magical explosion transported her somewhere completely different? To find out, she must first win free of her prison— before it becomes her grave. And should she succeed, will she be walking straight into a trap created by Mornhavon himself?

Author : Gary J. Shipley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0987156187

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Dreams of Amputation by Gary J. Shipley Pdf

"DREAMS OF AMPUTATION reads like the nightmares Derek Raymond might have experienced if he'd written cyberpunk. An exceptionally strange work, but a smart and thoughtful one as well. Disturbing, haunting, and inimitably weird, this is a book like no other." - Brian Evenson

Author : Rachel Bach
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316221139

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Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach Pdf

Badass heroine Devi Morris returns for another action-packed space adventure in the thrilling conclusion to Rachel Bach's Paradox trilogy. From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris's life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone-even her own government-determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to hide and wait for things to blow over, but Devi's never been one to shy from a fight, and she's getting mighty sick of running. It's time to put this crisis on her terms and do what she knows is right. But with all human life hanging on her actions, the price of taking a stand might be more than she can pay.

Author : Nate Crowley
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1804076147

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Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! by Nate Crowley Pdf

Ghazghkull Thraka, the Beast of Armageddon, is one of the greatest threats to the Imperium. For the first time, read his full story… as told to the Inquisition by his faithful banner bearer Makari. Of the billions of greenskins who swarm the galaxy, only the name of one strikes fear into the hearts of human and xenos alike: Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. The Warlord of Warlords. The Beast of Armageddon. The Prophet of the Waaagh! With his tusks and fists and power claw, he does the holy work of Gork and Mork, and soon all worlds will burn in his boot prints. Mystery shrouds how such a beast came to exist, and rumours abound that the mighty warlord was once just like any other ork. But if that is the case, how did his ascendance come to be? Many have lost their minds trying to unravel the mystery. Lord Inquisitor Tytonida Falx has headed into the murky depths of heresy to find the answer, only this time, something is different. She possesses something the others did not. Custody of the one creature in the universe who claims to know the truth of it all. Ghazghkull’s banner bearer: Makari the Grot.

Author : Richard Condon
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795335068

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The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon Pdf

The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time

Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Magicians
ISBN : 1903252199

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My Friend Mr Leakey by J. B. S. Haldane Pdf

Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857075406

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The Impossible Boy by Mark Griffiths Pdf

Praise for Geek Inc: Technoslime Terror "Full to the brim with fun, mysteries and oddities. Add to that a large, welcoming typescript and some very funny illustrations, and you have a book that both boys and girls will want to settle down and read." The Bookbag "Sure to be a hit with kids" The Book Zone 4 Boys Praise for Space Lizards Stole My Brain! "Very funny debut novel... loaded with goofy characters, daft situations and laugh-out-loud lines. Douglas Adams himself would have relished the surly triceratops who goes on a rampage towards the end" The Financial Times "Wacky fun that will appeal to younger readers." Parents in Touch "very amusing" Armadillo Magazine "Packed full of clever, witty prose and vibrant illustrations." Creative Steps "I think this is a great book. I like the illustrations, it's exciting and funny."Guardian online TheX-Filesmeets Dr Whoin this hilarious series from Mark Griffiths. Somewhere in the small, dull town of Blue Hills, the impossible is happening. Inanimate objects are coming to life. Time travellers from the future are mingling unnoticed with the shoppers in the high street. School children are developing uncanny powers. Strange creatures are lurking within the grounds of a forgotten stately home. And with each of these mysteries comes a terrible threat that just might endanger the entire world... Fortunately, help with these extraordinary phenomena is at hand in the form of Gabby Grayling and Barney Watkins aka The Odd Squad! Gabby and Barney are set to investigate all the odd happenings in their town and find out the truth…

Author : James F. David
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429911220

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Thunder of Time by James F. David Pdf

Ten years ago, the prehistoric past collided with the present as time itself underwent a tremendous disruption, transporting huge swaths of the Cretaceous Period into the world of the twentieth century. Entire neighborhoods and cities were replaced by dense primeval jungles and modern humanity suddenly found itself sharing the earth with fierce dinosaurs. In the end, desperate measures were taken to halt the disruptions and the crisis appeared to be over. Until now. Slowly at first, but with increasing frequency, time begins to unravel once more. What's worse, Nick Paulson, Director of the newly-formed Office of Security Science, discovers that the time displacements are being manipulated by unknown parties, utilizing a mysterious new technology. Indeed, the very integrity of the space-time continuum appears to be at risk. To preserve both the future and the past, Nick and his allies must uncover the secrets hidden within in a lost temple at the center of a dino-infested jungle–and in an enigmatic structure on the surface of the moon. But they are not alone in their quest. A cult of ruthless fanatics is also intent on controlling the time waves, and they will stop at nothing to reshape history to their own design . . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.