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Où es-tu Léopold? volume 1
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English
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"What if you woke up one morning and could turn invisible? Would you fight crime? Save the world? If you're like Leopold, you'd rather play tricks on your big sister and steal her caramels! But being invisible isn't all it's cracked up to be. Leopold can make his body disappear, but not his clothes. How will he pull his pranks with his pajamas showing? Is he brave enough to play his tricks in the nude? Maybe the right magic word is all he needs!
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"Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's How to disappear explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more enchanting and yet fanciful. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal,...
25) The Brass Queen
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Brass Queen volume 1
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English
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"In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the "Brass Queen," she has kept her baronial estate's coffers full. But when US spy J. F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she's pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a global war, Constance and Trusdale must learn to trust each other. If they...
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Follow the amazing adventures of a boy's best friend as he gets his paws on a secret formula that makes him invisible. When two criminal minds decide they want to cash in on Abner's invisibility secret, Abner decides to send them to the doghouse. A fun-filled adventure for the whole family that will leave viewers howling in laughter.
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The laughs and visual effects are out of sight when Nick Halloway becomes invisible by a freak accident. Invisibility makes it easier to spy on agents, particularly his chief adversary, who have put him in this predicament. And he can romance a lovely documentary producer in a way she's never 'seen' before. Nick embarks on his manic quest to find a cure, while evading the CIA.
31) Transparent
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"Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a small town where they're determined to start a normal life."--
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"Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology,...
34) Glamour in glass
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Glamourist histories volume 2
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English
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Newlyweds Jane and David Vincent travel to Belgium and their ability to create invisibility via glamour makes them a target for emperor Napoleon's returning forces.
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"In science fiction, invisibility cloaks let their users vanish from sight and sneak around unnoticed. How could one of these stealthy pieces of clothing work? Scientists have some ideas, which involve bending light. Discover the science and technology behind what it would take to make a real-life invisibility cloak!"--
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Primeros lectores volume 20
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Español
Description
Nora and Martín never greet or give thanks, but one day they realize that their lack of etiquette is rendering them invisible.
Nora y Martín nunca saludan ni dan las gracias, pero poco a poco se dan cuentan que sus malos modales los esta volviendo invisibles.
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English
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What if you woke up one morning and could turn invisible? Would you fight crime? Save the world? If you're like Leopold, you'd rather play tricks on your big sister and steal her caramels! But being invisible isn't all it's cracked up to be. Leopold can make his body disappear, but not his clothes. How will he pull his pranks with his pajamas showing? Is he brave enough to play his tricks in the nude?
39) Invisible
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Emotiva, conmovedora, diferente... Invisible narra, a través de los ojos de un niño, una historia que podría ser la de cualquiera de nosotros. ¿Quién no ha deseado alguna vez ser invisible? ¿Quién no ha deseado alguna vez dejar de serlo? El problema es que nunca he llegado a controlar bien ese poder: A veces, cuando más ganas tenía de ser invisible, era cuando más gente me veía, y en cambio, cuando deseaba que todos me vieran, era cuando...
40) Fade
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In the summer of 1938, Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, discovers he has inherited the ability to "fade". His "gift" soon shows him shocking secrets which lead to death and destruction.