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82) Makers
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What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture.
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Jimmy Neutron has a problem. He never picks up his pants, and his mom is fed up! If he doesn't change his messy habits, he won't get to go to the movies with his friends. But Jimmy's newest invention seems to solve his problems-that is, until it turns against him!
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Adventures of Jimmy Neutron boy genius volume 08
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The government's top agent is missing, and Jimmy Neutron has been recruited to find him. The boy genius goes across the world to find Agent X, who turns out to be Jimmy's super-spy hero, Jet Fusion. While rescuing Jet from his captors, Jimmy comes face-to-face with his old enemy, Professor Calamitous, who is determind to flood the world. Jimmy and Jet team up to defeat the evil professor, but can they stop him in time?
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S.T.O.R.M volume 2
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The fourteen-year-old geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, travel to Venice to investigate two "ghostly" burglaries and uncover a larger, more sinister plan involving teleportation, quantum computers, and a plot to assassinate the leading figures of international intelligence.
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The RBI are sent to investigate sightings of enormous, destructive creatures off the coast of Japan. Their investigation uncovers a bizarre inventor and stories of a slumbering sea dragon. Is their mission linked to the old legend of the "Dragon's Triangle" and its tales of disappearing ships? Features three case files from the strange world of Ripley's.
96) Fries alive!
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While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder's Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life after receiving an enormous jolt of electricity.
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Eleven-year-old Vincent Shadow, inspired by the ideas of the inventor Nikola Tesla, has always kept his many unusual toy inventions secret from his family until he enters a contest whose prize is to spend a summer working with the eccentric Howard G. Whizz of Whizzer Toys.