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A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction&s most original talents—back in print! Ghosts can be caught & bottled & sold by covert dealers to addicts who inhale the things—and when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles& occult underground are after him determined to kill him & get Edison&s powerful ghost for themselves Aided by Edison&s confused & irascible ghost Kootie flees—and finds himself dodging perils natural & supernatural in the gritty alleys & trainyards of a Los Angeles that tourists never see Fromm the slums around the LA River to the abandoned Houdini mansion in the Hollywood Hills to a final dramatic confrontation on the haunted ocean liner Queen Mary docked in Long Beach Expiration Date is a heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction&s most original talents About the Author Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call & Declare Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series & was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides His book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K Dick award & is considered a modern science fiction classic & a progenitor of the Steampunk genre Powers won the Dick award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant’s Palace Many of his novels such as Last Call & Alternate Routes upcoming from Baen Books are so-called “secret histories” which use real historical events in which supernatural & metaphysical elements influence the story in weird & compelling manners Powers grew up in Southern California & studied English at Cal State Fullerton where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock & K W Jeter as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K Dick who became a close friend & mentor Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims “stories are more effective & more truly represent the writer’s actual convictions when they manifest themselves without the writer’s conscious assistance I concern myself with my plots but I let my subconscious worry about my themes” Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife Serena ...

Jaw-dropping up-close photography shows the natural world & animals as you've never seen them before From fruit to flowers from shells to sharks from ants to elephants this extraordinary new encyclopedia will keep animal & nature enthusiasts from ages 9 to 109 utterly absorbed by amazing close-up images Did you know that baby foxes are born with blue eyes which later turn golden? Or that reptile scales are made from keratin the same material as your hair & nails? Explanatorium of Nature is the perfect way to find out how everything in nature works & why fungi plants birds invertebrates fish mammals reptiles amphibians & ecosystems exist & what they mean for our world Discover how spiders spin webs how flying works how snakes kill & much much more Children will spend hours poring over the incredible details from nature from the spines on a stinging nettle & lichen growing on a tree to the suckers on an iguana's feet Using never-before-seen cross sections macro & electron microscope images this is your chance to truly get up close with our natural world ...

Bears vs Babies is the perfect card game for adults teens & kids (ages 10) who are into building monstrous bears who eat horrible babies A highly-strategic party game for 2-5 players & only 20 minutes to play
Includes: 107 Cards (25 x 35 inches) Playmat FAQ sheet Rule Book all inside a FURRY BOXBears vs Babies is all about building amazing monsters eating delicious babies & destroying the competition
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15 New Cards for Exploding Kittens That Will Change Everything Exploding Kittens is a highly-strategic kitty-powered version of Russian roulette It&s also the most-backed crowd funded product in historywhich we hate to brag about The Card That Changes Everything With the Streaking Kitten in your hand you can draw an Exploding Kitten & NOT EXPLODE! Think of it like an Exploding Kitten containment field And There&s More Blind your opponents with unpleasant cat butts or drop a Catomic Bomb & watch other players soil themselves from fear And Oh So Much More Dominate other players by marking your territory take a dive into warm wet garbage or try tops on the bottom or bottoms on the top ...

Limited edition Original all-ages game

Includes:: 56 cards (25 x 35 inches) box & instructions Can be played

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Exploding Kittens NOT SAFE FOR WORK Edition is a card game for people who are into kittens & explosions & boob wizards & sometimes butts This NSFW Edition of Exploding Kittens is an ADULT ONLY party game for 2-5 players (up to 9 players when combined with any other deck) This is the most-backed project in Kickstarter history & all cards feature illustrations by The Oatmeal

Includes:: 56 cards (635 x 889 cm) box & instructions This box like 9999 of boxes does not meow

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Set contains 122 cards Ages 7 2-10 players Select cards from Exploding Kittens Imploding Kittens & the Exploding Kittens App All new cards backs with white border to prevent chipping 2-10 Players A new mechanism for balancing the game to the number of players in your party ...

You will receive a full case of Exploding Kittens Squish Me
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This is the Third Expansion of Exploding Kittens It

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