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  • Heroes & Villains - Alexander the Great

    Louise Chipley Slavicek

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, Jan. 21, 2005)
    One of the most controversial figures in human history, Alexander the Great has been viewed both as hero and villain, noble liberator and rapacious conqueror, dauntless explorer and brutal exploiter. One thing about the young Macedonian king is not in dispute-during his brief lifetime, Alexander created the greatest empire the ancient world had ever known.
  • Heroes & Villains - Charles Manson

    Andy Koopmans

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, May 27, 2005)
    Charles Manson turned to crime in his adolescence and spent his early life in and out of prison. Then, for his role in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson became among the best-known criminals and an iconic villain. Decades later, from behind bars, he remains a compelling figure to many.
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  • Heroes & Villains - Osama bin Laden

    Bill Loehfelm

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, Feb. 21, 2003)
    Osama bin Laden spent more than two decades creating himself as a radical leader and terrorist in the Middle East. After the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, bin Laden came into international focus and became the world's most wanted man.
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  • Heroes & Villains - Nelson Mandela

    Andy Koopmans

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, April 19, 2004)
    Born a country boy in rural South Africa, Nelson Mandela became an anti-apartheid activist and was imprisoned in the 1960s for fighting the racist policies of the apartheid government. In prison, he became a powerful symbol of the fight against racial injustice and emerged 27 years later to become the first black South African president.
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  • Heroes & Villains - Martin Luther King

    Michael V. Uschan

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, Oct. 31, 2003)
    Martin Luther King was one of the 20th century's most inspiring and influential figures. King helped ignite and then led the African-American Civil Rights movement that began in the 1950s. He utilized tactics of nonviolence, including peaceful protests, to fight racism and win new freedom for African-Americans.
  • The Most Dangerous Mission: Saving Freezer Paperback

    H. Madison

    Paperback (Revival Waves of Glory Books & Publishing, Feb. 28, 2017)
    Freezer has just decided to leave with Jealousness to Villain World. In Villain world there was a evil scientist who's name was Dr. Scuttle, he turned Freezer into a villain. After a long transformation and a evil scheme the hero's went to save Freezer. Will the Hero's be able to save the world and Freezer from being under X-Finney's control?
  • The Most Dangerous Mission: Saving Freezer

    H. Madison

    Paperback (Revival Waves of Glory Books & Publishing, Nov. 21, 2014)
    Freezer has just decided to leave with Jealousness to Villain World. In Villain world there was a evil scientist who's name was Dr. Scuttle, he turned Freezer into a villain. After a long transformation and a evil scheme the hero's went to save Freezer. Will the Hero's be able to save the world and Freezer from being under X-Finney's control?
  • It's Hard To Be A Hero

    Michelle Engardt

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Feb. 14, 2016)
    It's the early 22nd century. Over 50 years ago, evolution finally took its next step as the first human developed superhuman abilities. Chaos broke lose as extremist parties formed and the world leaders struggeled to reastablish order. Their solution: sending the young adults that show signs of developing powers off to training facilities where they would be tought to control their abilities. Peter and Tate are part of them. They meet on their first day at the Academy. While Peter has lived a relatively normal life, Tate is ... different. He has issues - a lot of them. After a series of expriments, a second personality was implanted into his mind that has killed thousands of people and after a series of events, Tate had managed to travel back in time in an attempt to fix it all. Now he finds himself back with his old friends at the Academy in a body that hasn't fully developed its powers and hasn't underwent experimentation. But the second voice in his head was still there - the voice of a weapon, a killer that even time-travel couldn't get rid of.