Eoin Colfer
1) Artemis Fowl
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English
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When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 2
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English
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Artemis receives a plea from his father, who has been kidnapped, but will have to join forces with the fairies to save him.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 6
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English
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Artemis is no stranger to trouble. In fact he's a magnet for it. Now his mother is gravely ill. Artemis Fowl must travel back through time to steal the cure from the clutches of the young criminal mastermind ... Artemis Fowl. That's right, with fairy ally Captain Holly Short by his side, Artemis is going back in time to do battle with himself.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 3
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English
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Artemis promises his father, now free, and a new man (but unfortunately also an honest man) that he, too, will quit his life of crime--after hatching one final scheme involving a super-computer utilizing fairy technology.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 4
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English
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While preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank, Artemis Fowl has no idea that Opal Koboi has cloned herself and escaped from jail, leaving only Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechon fairy police to save Artemis before Opal seeks revenge on him.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 5
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English
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When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent a catastrophe.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 7
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English
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"Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world s greatest teenage criminal mastermind? Captain Holly Short is unconvinced, and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies - not humans - and most likely triggered by Artemis's dabbling with fairy magic. Symptoms...
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Artemis Fowl series volume 8
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English
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Teenage genius Artemis Fowl and his arch rival Opal battle to the last.
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English
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Meg Finn is dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds. Back on Earth, she tries to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
10) Airman
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In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
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Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl appears in a graphic novel format. Eoin Colfer has teamed up with established comic writer Andrew Donkin to adapt the text. Fans will be able to see what Foaly's tin hat looks like and discover just how "Beet" Root got his name.
12) Illegal
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"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
13) The Fowl twins
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Fowl twins volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Eleven-year-old twins Miles and Beckett Fowl enjoy adventure and mayhem while helping a troll escape nefarious forces that want his magic.--
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English
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In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
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Fowl twins volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Twins Myles and Beckett face off against Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly, who has been plotting revenge against them since they humiliated him"--
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Disney/Hyperion
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[2009]
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English
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When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue where he finds an old acquaintance (a fairy), Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.
18) Plugged: a novel
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English
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When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor and searches for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
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English
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In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.
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Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie, is the last dragon on Earth and is hiding out in a Louisiana swamp. He strikes a deal with Cajun swamp rat Squib: Squib will keep him company and fetch supplies for him and Vern will protect Squib from the dirty cop that is chasing him. However, there will be soon be a fiery reckoning, in which dragons will either finally become extinct... or Vern's glory days are back.