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15263/Tea is for Tiara
...n on the flora of Themyscira. Though... I imagine you are not very fond of books, at their base existence." She dryly notes that last part. "All the informa ...have touchstones for my roots to hold to." Ivy shakes her head and says. "Books can be recycled, though in the digital age they are less needed. Nature is

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12110/Pinkeye
...cheerily. Whacha got there?" She emerges from the library with a stack of books in tow behind her, floating in her starry aura.    & ..." If anybody were to look at the books she's selected, they're all anatomy books. 

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Mary Roth
...ds doing in general) is discussing with fellow bibliophiles their favorite books and what they like about them. She has the makings of a librarian or potent ...free to read whatever she wants. She is becoming adept at finding specific books or pieces of information through physical and mental cataloguing. She doesn

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3489/Bad Luck Darling
...'s the real piece of work. You? You're chump change in comparison." In her books, anyway. Her eyes narrow in thought, however, and her head cants fai

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12277/Misshapen Identities
...ans to force something on somebody through trickery... yes I read a lot of books in the slammer! How did I find the time when I was getting... listen Pete,

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3288/Ice Palace: In Summer
...tand what neighborhood children like or even really are. He's seen them in books. "I have .... a trove of information on exorcism. You can read up on ...idly over at him. "Or I could offer to make him a reading list of books on humans. No actual deal /and/ I have a piece of paper with instructions o

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7565/Is This Even English
...r>She givers Clarice a soft smile, "Other than this, how are the other two books going for you?" ...bet it was. I'll go and return this and get the next couple of Lumberjanes books." She grins and nods at Cynthia. "I bet! After looking at this I'm surprise

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5013/To See A Man About A Soul
...ir exit, Terry does ask Amanda one question. "So... er. Do you know of any books I could read to instruct myself, or something?" A glance at the one he is c ...existed so long in the magical community. "You're chaotic by nature. Most books on the basics of magic tend to be big on order and structure. They need to

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12262/15 Fears: Buried Secrets
...back of the head."     As if on cue, one of the books from the stacks flies off the shelf and smacks him in the head. And then an ...more like your thing!" she calls. "Unless you think adding, 'And then the books stopped and fall harmlessly to the floor, allowing passage to our brave adv

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2977/Home Away From Home
..., yet, so no food here yet. Might be eating ramen for awhile once I get my books. Not looking forward to that. I hear they cost an arm and a leg." ...e food. "Figured couldn't go wrong bringing food. And I hear you about the books, got mine for the semester, not cheap, and business is supposed to be one o

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11240/How Long Can Pietro Stand Still
...' "I don't mind if you read at all. That's sort of why I thought of the books." Micola tells him with a smile. "It won't disturb me, I promise." she tell

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10064/Coffee decompression
...go to the afterlife until we were all dead. The End of the Line. So... the books were safe. Jon would have been capable of reading them, their legacy would ...ve to focus on the small things about reality that matters to you. Like my books and Raven. Like your prom. It may be silly but it still /matters/." <br

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4156/Buy You a Beer
...forward to watch where they are going. "I've been doing some...off books work. Curious what ended up getting you into our hallowed halls, finally. I

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1286/E Pluribus Unum: Sorry!
...s situations," he gestures towards Pepper now, "Ask Pepper to show you the books sometime. You'll weep." "What I'm seeing here, now," he continues, p ...shakes her head, "You don't want to see the books. I don't want to see the books, and I need to see them. Stark Industries, the Foundation can help." <b

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5991/Nightmare Nurse Meets Mania
...s the summoning at NYU just a few days prior. Somebody has been giving out books about summoning to people who have no idea what they're getting into. < ...d going to kids nightclubs, then odds are he wasn't summoned by one of the books." She pops the rest of the gyro into her mouth as she continue to muse abou

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10586/Old Soldiers can learn new tricks such as... cooking!
...  "Collections. Well.. weapons. Armor. Books. I have -sooo- many books in storage. I could fill a public library." He grins, "Wines of various sor

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6587/enhanced interrogation
...ime right now so it is empty and quiet. Bane is alone checking his books and cataloging his stolen loot from the nazca cartel. 

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12712/Widow and Arrow
...it." An amused expression on his face as well. "There's no ancient books on pre-Regan era Soviet Union or I'd invite you along." 

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7713/Rooftops in Hell...'s Kitchen
...n (690)}} has posed:'''     "I just returned all my books back to Gotham U that I borrowed for research. Chas gave me the hook up wit ...ything I need is about six feet beneath us. I have my journal, I have some books and clothes... I mean, Bart, I'm really not that complicated a person." she

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1547/The Bells: Artifacts
...concrete floor. Nothing should make it bow like a bookshelf with too many books on it and yet..." She straightens, stepping back... as much to let Lois get :'''{{#var:681|Zatanna Zatara (681)}} has posed:''' "I'll hit the books again. See if I can connect anything to mirrors or anything relating to tha

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11146/Hellfire and Damnation
...posed:''' "Secrets from the shadows, historial momentos and priceless books..." she muses lightly before turning that much more, her position now putti

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14953/Captain of Everywhere: The Galactic Protector
...rds the large table and unloads a double-armful of totes and bags, sending books and notepads spilling across the large hardwood slab. "Ooh, improm ...f them in Bart's timeline. "That can't be right. Are you sure your history books were correct?" She thumbs to herself, "I'm not exactly what you'd call a te

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1749/Catch-Up
...t I did, and before that the man tried to tell me that I need to read more books about how to handle politics when I was having a full on panic attack. Not ...:''' Emma shrugs. "Well, it was a thought." She takes a drink. "Really, books on politics? Does he think he could do a better job?" She pauses. "Wait, do

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Alfred Pennyworth
...the fleet of Bat-vehicles; his skill as a mechanic is largely derived from books, online courses, and years of practice. 

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11268/Writing on the Walls
...on the floor, with a penlight in her mouth as she looked through a pile of books. A very cold cup of coffee sits next to her. She's wearing a tank top, show ...nbsp; It takes Cael a moment to spot Phoebe, sitting quietly with her books, and she smiles down with an apologetic look. "Are they bothering you? I ca

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5652/The Thief of PRINCEs
...Parker (172)}} has posed:''' It is one of the most revered and reviled books in human history. Original name: "On Principalities." AKA "The Prince."< ..., but she's not going anywhere. "Good, you got her! Did you get the books?" asks the officer, as he holds out his hand to Spider-Man, who is still he

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12910/Negas and Monets
...t still?" because no she hasn't looked up from her phone yet. "I never had books as a kid that I remember at least. They bonded me when I was six.. I don't

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7324/A Confession's Aftermath
...has to think. Turning your world over in a day...that's a story for..comic books. Not reality, like this is. She squeezes Lydia's hand, offering Ritz

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5844/Feeling the Fire
...that had required her to have binders with technical layouts of buildings. Books which, if Sam had snooped, had details about fire alarm systems. &n

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1013/The Morning After - Repository of Secrets
...br>It seems like today is a consume information day, as she has a stack of books as tall as she is next to herself. She's claimed a spot on the balcony of t ...gauging who else is around. Hope with a nose in a book? Righto. A stack of books reaching perilous heights? "Don't let Jean see you like that. She might be

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11823/Bovine Scatology
...sure doesn't spend time watching the TV or reading news. She barely reads books on magic, generally skimming them at best. "X men? That's pretty mis

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14105/Alleygebra II
...something to do with all the comic books he reads. "I read a lot of comic books so." See? He gets it. Mikey dusts off his hands and glances around.

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Lorna Dane
...g herself to do more than meditate or lose herself away in reading various books. Even worse, her depressive moods in which she sinks into long, wit

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13027/Seems Like Old Times
...aitress a really nice tip. She was blonde, pretty and reading college text books. She was also genuinely sweet. He decided on corned beef hash and eggs aaaa

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987/Meetings and Meetings Again
...ight. Nothing I can do about right at this minute. Except maybe carry less books." she jokes.     "So, how about you, Alex? What

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Xi'An Coy Manh
maintaining and effectively using books and other resources. She may also be able to levy late

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9248/Sun King Ascendant: Fading Spark
...ll of fragrant herbs and other things. "Sorry it took so long. Bloody evil books." He shakes his head. "Ahh, Lydia... good. What are you putting in the tea? ...sp; Mr. Knight steps back from the bathroom vigil to watch Jon. "Evil books?" he asks. "Getting into more trouble? I would think we have quite enough o

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5959/Central Park Wandering
...rumps at nothing in particular. "Tyler can create things that he's read in books. I don't think that is why they want him though." she points out. Th

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8172/Coney Island Red Hots
...he's a scientist. After all, who else would come to the beach with Science books?     She is currently pouring over one particula ...hen she's so in depth in her work mode. "Oh.. Certainly.." She shifts some books.. stuffs a few papers covered in calculations into a book on Quantum Theory

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7616/In Erebos: The Bargain
...ks, even those rare books that are more than just recounting ancient myth, books that few living other than Raven have read, are not to be trusted when it c

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Death Reaper
...employment during her teenage years - and even that was mostly in off the books, paperwork-averse environments like carnivals and quasi-legal salesmanship.

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2360/The Doing of Things
...just sort of felt things out as I went and done a lot of research. Lots of books." She chuckles. "It's incredibly frustrating but if you keep at something l

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7794/I Am Not A Real Title
...blurrily working through some tome of a book.  Yes, Noriko reads books. It gets flung over her shoulder and ends up looking as if it lands ...self.  She uses her leg to visibly, slowly, scoooot the tower of books over to make more room around her immediate area. Michael gets a gla

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9073/Metropolisn't: Anomaly Garden 2: Meanwhile Back At The Ranch
...; I'm Kian s'Kai'Eryn t'Kaeh.  I think I've seen you in the books Terry gave me, but a lot of it didn't make sense."    &nb ...=============ELSEWHERE===================== "Hah, You've seen me in books? You must be thinking of my cousin Bib, he's the bookworm."He takes a drag

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5935/Danger on the B-Route
...bsp;   ... she was on her way to the Library to return some books and check out some others. She had her hair done up in braids again, pulled ...be Beacon (690)}} has posed:'''     "Returning some books on Sanskirt translation for a project. Didn't feel right to turn them into

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10170/An Off Day
...reply. "And the movie did it better justice than most of my other favorite books. It's been years since I watched it, though, not since Lyra was a little gi

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15109/No one can't get the better of me in a fair fight.
...costs. But thanks to the (very unwilling) criminals of Gotham her off the books slush funds are usually well stocked with cash. Just don't ask why ...turns in her chair to get a better view of Laura. On the matter of judging books by their cover, she's not getting much other than some very surface reads.

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5947/The Muppets Take Manhattan
...''' Viv might have watched a lot of movies for her age but with all the books, songs and non-fiction material there is to read finishing off the last hun

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11969/Unplugged Correspondence
...secretive that you do not want people to know about. Someone might say old books and clandestine meetings are not something "normal" humans are normally inv

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7395/Life Skills and Astral Struggles
...y, making clean crisp lines with the paper, like she had wrapped a hundred books as presents before. Which, knowing Lydia, wouldn't be that much of a stretc ...ime, I know," she says. "And gift wrapping is a skill much like any other. Books and boxes are easy. It's when you come across things that are shaped differ

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15279/Conjure by his Name
...themselves in, glancing towards the desk, the bookshelves loaded down with books before his eyes flicker back to her. Her display is not missed, but he does ...bookshelves, he can't help but lean in for a closer look at some of those books, strange sigils and languages he doesn't recognize frequenting those shelve

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14524/Retro
...this at the orphanage where I used to live. Old video games, old toys, old books. Nothing later than 1980 for us. Donations and salvage, anything to save a

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14123/Super Bowl Sunday
...flip through her book looking for something. She likes having actual paper books to study out of rather than electronic copies. "Hmm. Well, this class has t

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2082/Old Blood
...walking along a shelf row near James. Her fingertips caress the spines of books in passing, a sensual dance of touch as eyes flit from one title to the nex ...ious she feels safe in the library, a sanctuary of knowledge. Surroundd by books. It takes her a moment to even notice that she's being stared at by man and

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14814/A night to catch up
...nd says "If you need anyone to study with let me know, and I will read the books to help out as best I can." He offers and while he may not have the classes

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8713/A Broken Heart: Picking Up Pieces
...     "It's better this way. I've got a bunch of books now from my biological family. I can read them and study them. I'm not goin ...know if I'd still be wanted. Now... it's going to go into storage with my books." she breathes out, and tears threaten at her eyes again, and she looks dow

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10546/NYC's Amusements
...tting a "bloodbag" of her own before looking back. "It was Claudia, in the books." Her answer to Nat's statement is in English, though she then adds in flaw

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7921/Reliving Trauma in the Back Yard.
...he way they curl up together while they're reading. "I think I like comic books, though. It's more fun with all the pictures." ...henka's lips pull down in a slight frown. "Perhaps I will like these comic books. I will check library for them." Good, good. Some badly needed direction fo

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11957/Completing a Triangle
...helves lining the walls, even above the booths. The walls were nothing but books. There were tables, booths, quiet places where you could settle in with a g ...cal library. But then... this one doesn't have that wonderful smell of old books and hops and candle wax either." She settles in with that dry red ale and g

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8156/The Engineer, the Student and the Castle
...upon it she has placed her lunch, including a thermos of tea, and several books, papers, notebooks, and binders.     It's a perf

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Veira Lazarescu
...ns unless they are in WAND offices. Then her coworkers get to see him read books and other fantastic feats...like trying to drink coffee or trying to steal ...has been a fan of fairy tales and things of that nature. She has collected books on the Fae and their realms since she was in high school and continued tryi

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11960/To test a theory
...red solar radiation; depowered. Thankfully at least Donna brought her some books and a few other things; she's bored out of her mind. Sitting in the room, s

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1234/A New Stoodent
...s going on, then they'll be friends for life. That's how it works in those books right?" Charlotte smirks as she looks up to Rogue and stands awkwardly in t

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12102/Je suis a la maison, bebe!
...an' de Jeepers boy. Sounds like more fun than 'anging out 'ere and readin' books and doing math or whatever it is dey do. C'mon ... lessgo. Fun time." <

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1540/Looking for the best place that money can buy.
.... Well, and offices on that other side. Have to have somewhere to work the books." Thea gestures as she moves towards the door. "I think I've seen enough. Y

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Alexander Aaron
...ollars he has to make a request for it, but it handles his room and board, books, and the occasional frivolous fun time.

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10756/Life is a Jolt
...call ahead with. ...or do they? If it was still in the day of print phone books that'd be one thing, but you can find pretty much anything on th Internet t

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Asariel
...r. She might be a little insane given no one really likes keeping track of books and such, but she does. It has become a part of life when you are an artist ...formation together into a very well established library. There are several books in the library that have old rituals on how to summon a few certain demons.

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16140/Look Who is Back
...most normal. The secret, magical bar he discovered while skimming over the books in the Velvet Room, before the place burned to cinders. It is not a

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Bando George
...005: I took over the world, but then gave it back. Don't check the history books on that, just believe me. 2010: I broke the scale on the ADHD test,

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12068/Explanations are Required
...g to his girlfriend, Cael, who's been sitting at the bar while he digs out books.     "I need a drink," he mutters, and goes arou ...he was certain it would be there. Jon's displeasure with the noted lack of books on the topic he was after jarred her back to reality. She looked at the tim

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12958/Veterans of the Medical Front
...is lovely as well... wonderful writer when she was alive. Have some of her books." Nettie muses, and she gives a wry grin, looking back to Ariah as she slip ...d." A ghost of a smile tugs at her lips, "...I cannot sit idly by and read books, as pleasant as that is. Not when there is work to do." 

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10672/Checking In With Book Suggestions
...she tells him. "But, books..." she muses. "I know we were talking romance books and I read this one series when I was eighteen. The author is up to like... ...to move to shut the door if needed. "No laughter. I read a great number of books. I'm not one to judge a person for having favorite authors. Or reading roma

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4182/Emmanem Lose Urself
...a bookshelf to "Ah."     Stepping over to the books she grabs her silverware and moves over to the table to sit down as regally ...ing_. "It's quiet, for one. And the students are usually hiding from their books, rather than in any hurry to spend more time with them. So, sometimes I'll

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5198/This will never do
...r. His gaze lingers briefly before drawing his attention away, back to the books. The shelf. The study. Thus ever is Loki. "Amora," and the te

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7357/Meeting the Contessa pt 1
...introductions are made. Pleasantries all around and Lydia signs one of her books. In the end they decide to retire to someplace more private. ...from the day's meeting - she's only part way through the first of Lydia's books, a fact she'd mentioned only briefly to Lydia and Mystique - but she's curi

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8569/Lessons and Near Misses
...he's on his Pauper's Throne, all his usual supplies around him plus a few books that he's paging through. One's Big and Old, the other looks like it might ...ccusingly, "And what's with that, huh? I mean, it's no demon contract, but books that big are either artsy photo collages or... whatever that is." &n

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11474/Keeping Warm
...book on the couch next to him and glowers. "Why are there /so/ many bloody books about magic written by people who haven't the first clue what magic /is/?"< ...They say this last as they head for the library, going to at least put the books on one of the tables in there. The invisible--or at least unseen--attendant

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12779/Blue Velvet Everywhere
...elp is all. Can I get ye' anythin' else to play with? More dolls, colorin' books and crayons or markers?" He asks and oddly enough he fishes out a bottle of

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6447/The Rats in the Walls
...ike toughening me up for...something. Training is good, I have read...some books ...what I'm dealing with. I'll look into it. If anything, I can afford occult books now." The thing watching could in fact be banished. The whateverthey

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8800/A Tangled Web of an Update
...ell... I suppose you are right about that. It certainly was in the history books." Unconsciously, Peggy's left thumb toys with her wedding ring on her left

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13250/Happy Harbor: Game Night (November)
...les.     It isn't until he gets up to put a few books on the return-to-shelf cart that he notices the whole assembly, and Tommy p

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13296/Peak Dining
...air in barely-constrained braids. Like that, uh... that one girl, from the books. I think she had freckles...?" Janet ventures, nose wrinkling in thought. <

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11168/Informal Team Meeting
...t's probably for the best. I've got a lot of learning to do and a stack of books to get through." Ugh. :'''{{#var:626|Rose Wilson (626)}} has posed:''' "Books are as dumb as boys. Mostly because they're written by boys who can't get g

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17732/Tear Those Meeses to Pieces!
...aybe she was a new employee. He really needed to pay more attention to his books. And if this was the sort of help he was hiring, he really needed to invest

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11681/Beacon Dark: Sharpening the Blade
...   And it seems very, very normal. A leather backpack, some books. A change of clothing including two pairs of socks (one with happy avocados ...ith lock whose key she left at a park.     The books are normal, one was a roadmap to places with crude names in the United King

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14448/It's Better than Taco Whiz!
...oint... A giant 'Icons of Tomorrow' booth is setup, featuring comic books for sale based on characters owned and licensed by <redacted>. From ' ...around the convention area of the shop, some of the kids holding big name books like Superman, Fantastic Four, and even an X-Men book in there... though th

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13935/Love Builds Bridges
...camera is my only big purchase in the near future. Not like you with text books. I am taking some online courses on media and such but they're pretty cheap

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16518/Smol But Dedly
...us community, her story well-known. It's a great Latverian tale! There are books! With pictures for the children! Zora is a hero! ...in Latveria. Pretty muc

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1366/X-men Base: Genosha
...ed on the way. This is the very basics of leadership. I can give you a few books on the matter to read, but... it is mostly you. You need a vision. And you ...furiously, rubbing at her eyes and face as she lifted her head. "Books?! They're not going to do shit." 

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921/An Unexpected Embassy Guest
...y from my home." With that, the doors swoosh open. It's loaded with books, first off, shelves full of them as the topics range a variety of interests ...is a complicated place for a complicated person. Her gaze glosses over the books (she's no intellectual), interested only in their contribution to the room'

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10522/Evening In
...llowing, she flashes a grin. "At least, I'll see about pulling some likely books for you to look through." And maybe even wrangling Patrick to help... or at

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12143/Looking for a gift.
|Location=Steve's Comic Books ...ee why Steve likes having the young man around. He just makes buying comic books seem so...desirable. Then he walk-thump-walk-thump-walk-thumps over

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8323/Post Van-operation Down-time
...nbsp;The appartment itself is more of a mess than Demona has ever seen it. Books are strewn all over her desk, some piled on top of others, and parts and pi

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8362/Bring Me My Sword!
...tephen Strange (179)}} has posed:''' The night is young and full of.....books. It was a rare offering, for it came from the Sorcerer Supreme to Il ...lly every place for a few seconds. How not to appreciate the assortment of books stacked here and there in all their tempting beauty? "We cannot always go t

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...ey're still working is a blessing, in this instance. The currently off-the-books SHIELD agent takes the gauze out of her pocket and begins wrapping it effic ...go by the book. At least most of the times, she knew they had went off the books when they visited that village a while ago with Clint. Still, for her to be

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Valerie Killmore
...isrespectful. DVD players, CD Players, headless barbie dolls, broken guns, books ...ting down the workings of those metaphysical things I was reading in those books on magic.

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17931/Surfing the Waves
...me to be at yours." Twisting to look at him, "Is this official or off the books?" 

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10253/Of Loss, Love, and Scarabs.
...ffee table holds the terrarium, and the dining room table is littered with books, papers and Egyptian artifacts.     "Here, sit,

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Tyrone Johnson
 NYPD Detective Brigid O'Reilly has helped TJ and Tandy a few times, off books of course. The fact that the two of them focus on removing criminals from t

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13612/Yule Be Sorry
...y engaged with a book on-hand. Not one of her bound-in-the-skin-of-a-theif books, no.     It's a boddice-ripper romantic fiction ...e who are pretending to do magic. Ty takes a moment to also go over to the books, and looks for some new runic tomes. 

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5163/Of Tea and Evil Twins
...hin in thought a moment as she looks over Jovian. "Well, there's plenty of books with the basic ideas behind manifestation of energies, ritual work, defense

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7205/Just something casual.
...e that ever happens." She gives a wry chuckle, "Despite what I write in my books, relationships rarely last forever." At Clarice's question, Lydia sh ...h of Supernatural stories, which is another show, and stuff from Anne Rice books. That kind of thing." She shrugs, "Eventually I got bored with other people

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1292/Morning Coffee
...t night, which is bogus by the way, so you are basically a superhero in my books." 

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10850/When Is a Door Not a Door
...frames turned face down. A couple of boxes marked 'MAGIC STUFF' and 'OTHER BOOKS', half-filled. The unfamiliar hum against any magical senses of wards meant

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Patsy Walker
...hing of the series ends. It leaves her idolizing the heroes shown in comic books in general until she graduated high school. * 2015: A member of the Air

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8192/Busy Day.
...t he can tuck it away in a pocket.     Not all books of magic need be gigantic tomes that weigh twenty stone. The one he just po ...   "And what sort of sating are you looking for? Read a few books? Take a few classes? Or maybe lend that strength and speed of yours to figh

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8961/Tea, Magic and Misfits
...ances around at the library and her expression goes sheepish. "Is this all books on magic?" ...lifetimes to get through it all. The secret is good cataloging. The older books never heard of indexing." She measures the girl for a moment, "Up for some

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13585/A Hellfire Christmas
...turns to face Logan, "Though I say I'm a bit surprised that you've read my books. I cater to a very niche crowd. I have a new one on its way, something more ...has such a hatred for. "A pleasure as well. I'll have to buy some of your books since I'm horribly uncivlizied and haven't read any of them. Do forgive me

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17048/Sewell's Office
.... Typical post-grad shoved into a closet with an escape window. Shelves of books -- some by notable psychologists like Hugo Strange and Jonathan Crane -- li ...he is immediately glancing at the stack of folders in the milk crate. The books are noticed, drawing a disgusted look from the young detective. Bef

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5465/The Wrath of J Jonah Jameson
...little apartment with the card table and not even enough shelves for your books. That's what he made us. Garbage." Eddie Brock's eyes go over ...y. I got a job as a lab tech, but all that money gets eaten up by tuition, books, materials, and the like. I got into Empire State University, though, and s

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9151/The Chas Enigma
...chained up in the back room.     The stacks of books are pushed aside, and Jon's writing in a notebook, humming along with the j ...manage."     He moves to start gathering up his books. It's getting late, after all. 

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14011/Rainy Nights at the Candle
...re for sale. He handles it as if it were about to fall apart as he enjoyed books, but knew you had to take care of them and the fingers natrually had all ki ...nbsp;She trails off, glancing around at the orbs and incense and herbs and books around. "..incantations and words of power and objects of focus...?" Then s

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Tyler Locke
to their memories. By putting media (books, DVDs, etc.) into the entryway, the person instantly

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Brian Braddock
...ncluding history, anthropology, and art. Don't think he sticks to hardback books alone; many blogs receive his attention as well. 

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8450/A Brief Moment
...some cheese nearby.", she says. Nettie has probably caught Ty with a few...books that is very age apporiate.     "I have a few qu ..., and the looks over at Corvax. "I'll get you some damn good rum for those books, Corvax.", she offers. 

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15913/A tale of espionage, milkshakes, and burgers in Bushwick.
...musty. Especially if it's old magic along with the accompanying old magic books and assorted magical trappings. It's not something she's as well versed in

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Saoirse Flynn
...rces available through the technology, US military, CIA, and Black Ops/Off Books types of contacts opening a lot of doors for potential assistance to Saoirs

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9888/Time to talk to a boss
...you wanted to meet outside of the Triskelion so things would stay off the books, we... We can respect that. But you can talk to both of us. We're older tha ...e to make. You have allies. If that move doesn't make it into the official books, well..." Peggy shrugs simply and then takes a small sip of her tea. "Self

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14116/Yoho, yoho, a mage's life for me!
...d maybe to separate the magic inside it from bits. I have too many asshole books left to me by him, and they all have such attitude." Of course, that's prob

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12362/ACAB... but so are Vigilantes
...hen going over to head towards a bookshelf to sort through a few different books containing different legal codes for Gotham Central. He just wants to get a

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4789/Another You: The Incredibly Shrinking Micronauts
...He's going to need material to keep him occupied. There may even be a few books downloaded to a tablet! "Okay. Got it. Well, the sooner we get started on a ...ow my Mary Poppins books after you watch it!" because of course he has the books. He walks up to Gar and hooks his arm around his full arm, and pats

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Julie Power
 Julie loves books, and is quite often seen reading. While most people have ereaders and compu

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Loki
...e best of the best of Asgard's weapon-masters. He preferred his studies in books, but the combat training was also required. While never as proficient as th ...dian kids were out running about outside, Loki was most often a student of books and lore. He's read everything in his own library as well as the vast libra

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11662/Drop in for a visit
...f the pastry. "I will have H & D do a full search of documents, books, etc. as a starting point. The internet is a beautiful thing, and they have

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5289/Shhh. We're Hunting Warehouses
...382|Peggy Carter (1382)}} has posed:''' This mission is no where on the books, but the information that Peggy got? She's very worried it will die on the ...up at the dark haired woman who is now their driver. "The SUV isn't on the books, right? You grabbed the off the record one?" She just needs to double check

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10502/Girl Talk
...s my dagger which is a whole different ball game. I know minor spells from books like how to make a zit vanish and I once cast a demon banishment spell but

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6181/Homework
...ered. Some old cartons were opened and old superhero memorabilia and scrap books set out. The clutter, on closer, examination /is/ organized. Little sticky

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2835/Meeting Over Tea
...other. But that was fifty years ago and a lot of US education system text books without much fondness of lauding women's accomplishments. Now, she can simp ...from what little her father would tell her from his perspective. From the books and media that she'd grown up with... and from the tidbits about Steve that

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16992/Ex Umbra: Odyssey of the Mind Continues
...gh they maintain a relatively equal size. On the second shelf, twenty-four books in, she ultimately finds a dense, blocky hardcover book wrapped in thick pa ...knew, Jemma recorded. But...did she get all of the detail she wanted? The books on loan are returned, back to the receptible that Jemma obtained them from.

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13150/Super Catch-up
...hat way. All right, I'll meet you on the roof... oh, hey, we can bring our books and study together! That'd be fun. No wrecking balls! OK, let me get going

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9000/Considerations of Justice
...gel? Yes. There are ways. Someone with knowledge and power, with the right books and implements..."     He huffs out a long breat ...s from the perspective of someone with the knowledge, power, and the right books. How many people out there do you believe /could/ do it? That will help us

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7148/Time Magic is Big Magic
...s needed to keep Daniel here in the 21st century. Her backpack was full of books and she was flying there by broom. It wasn't the longest of trips by the cr ...ain and she offers a hand, "That's right. Abcde." The backpack filled with books is taken off and put in the corner.     "Oh insi

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9994/By the Book
...me the book did that." Inside the area, sitting on top of a pile of books on a table labeled 'TO ARCHIVAL', is an archaic tome whose cover reads in J

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4702/From Flesh to Flesh
...shades that haunt the ink and letters of tomes well over a century old. If books have ghosts, there are certainly spirits here. And darker things t ...ce, in smaller ones. A nudge to the left puts her adjacent to him. Books can whisper, or they can scream. They can be voices for ripped out tongues,

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5396/By A Thread Unravelled
...e as ignoring her. A fine balance but hopefully clear. "Balancing Keller's books." ...he can't quite understand the conversation. No it was mention of balancing books. A soft, melancholy comes over her as she thinks on that phrase knowing exa

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7481/Forecasted coffee and snacks
...like to read a few things, so she grabs a few popular and less than known books. Pirates and Samurai stuff seems popular lately. Silly kids.  

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11736/A Fantastic location for art
...the model. As a thank you for helping Vivian with her work. She tucks the books neatly under one arm and gives a shy little wave in greeting with her free ...be a little awkward a hugger, but it's perhaps unstandable with the large books under her arm! 

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5338/SAVE YOURSELF
...e old, dusty, and extremely flammable shop that is the occult shop. Herbs, books, potions of questionnable nature- all are victims to the flame, or rather,

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16316/NWIMBY
...be great. They do not substitute for hands-on methods or thumbing through books. How can a digital nose substitute for actually sniffing an assortment of o

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8809/Bourbon dinner and 084s
...hour glass though, it's not a time thingy like the one in the Harry Potter books?" he asks lightly. If only he knew how real time magic was. He laughs at th

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10145/Welcome Home Duchess
... Fat chance.  PIZZA BOXAGEDDON, canyons formed from library books like some weird art installation, a puddle of blankets in the coffin where ...br>"I guess you better open them then.  Not like I can throw the books out the window, well I mean I could."  Something else crashes as

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3766/What the Hey
...rave, in which she was invited - and had the chance to leaf through a few books. See, Spiral might not like Mojo but being banished from the Wildwa ...hey are in. Some bookcases falling apart, a few probably unreadable mouldy books on them. A counter, which looks too fragile for them to risk sitting on it.

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7952/Follow Up On a Recently Forlorn Friend
...eo to the couch and hastily moving books off the couch. There are a lot of books about writing copy for tech companies, "Sorry the place is a bit of a mess,

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Clara Jennings
...r> 2020-2022 - Clara undertakes many more missions, retrieving scrolls, books, and artwork. Her targets include weak governments judged unfit to protect Clara's powers come from using books that inflict trauma. As they grant new magical powers, they also flex and c

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6515/Milkshakes, everyone loves them!
...flavor. "I also do a bit of writing on the side. I've even got a couple of books published." She shakes her head, "Nothing that will earn me a living though ...She offers an apologetic smile.     "What sort of books are they?" Her own shake has gotten runny enough that she stops using her s

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16605/The Handoff
...head at him. "Don't want no trouble. Job's done, an' any bonus work off t' books... well." She lifts her eyebrows, with a bit of a smirk. "Reckon y' got big

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2812/Training Grounds
...ed:'''     "Why not an actual AI? A couple of psych books, some cookbooks, words of wisdom, a little Sun Tzu..." Phoebe gives a bit o

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8281/Birthright: Where *is* it...
...'m going to kill her so fucking dead it'll wipe the memory of her from the books." His voice, to that point, was calm and even, but in that eerie way that s

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The Count of Monte Cristo
...hen he does get pulled for film roles he also appears to gravitate towards books to movies. While this film is actually pulling from the musical, the book's

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2101/Moving In
...admit it, more comfortable and home like than she had previously. Her own books and sundry were already back on the new sets of bookcases, leaving plenty o

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10941/Liquor and Legends
...y, probably magical, and let's be honest--even if he wasn't looking at the books, Jon just prefers to be in library-esque surroundings most of the time. Eve ...be glad to sit down with you whenver you like. And I mean... a lot of the books of the Bible are named for the authors, so why /not/ the Book of Lydia?"<br

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5255/Clean Up
...a card, and takes her number. He definitely will not turn down an off the books health care provider. "I've heard the name. Glad to meet you, they call me

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13028/Now You See Me; No, You Don't!
...e smiles back at her. "I needed some dinner. Ten I have to hit the history books. I'm bad at history. I can't draw correlations to save myself." He shrugs.

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955/Checking on the prisoner.
...sits on her bunk, impossible to tell what she's doing. If she's recalling books she's read, if she's listening to every footstep within the facility and de

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13803/Queen and Succubus
...s, sure." She stands taking the books and moves to sit opposite Emma - her books on the table, her legs crossed once more smoothing out her skirt before her ...ou. It sucks, and it makes me angry that people would do this. But history books are filled with messed up stuff. Don't ask me to quote them though because

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5464/When debts come due
...le more choice expletives and sweeps her hands out in a broad gesture. The books and tomes are swept away, disappearing in various combinations of green wit ...? Those are heady tricks to learn, are they not? I can't think where in my books there may be someting related to that." Though, knowing her mother... okay,

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2170/Interruptions and Bright Lights
...ses a hand to balance in the doorway, keeping Emma close with the other as books and knickknacks topple off the shelves with tinkles and crashes, along with

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8835/Oh, oh it's Magic (you know)
...he leans over, and brings up one... two... three.. four, five thick sketch books, and puts them on the coffee table.     "My tel ...g on the floor in front of the coffee table. He begins to look through the books that Phoebe brought out. His gaze moves over the work. "This is...incredibl

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13034/A Mouse's Story - A Visit From an Old Friend to What Came Before
...te can be seen going across the city before coming back up, with 2 bags of books, and a backpack on. He looks to the others and says "Stories of mice in myt ...few Native American historians if we can find any. He has been putting the books in two piles, ones that have a little info and ones that have none. <br

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4998/The Rec Is The Place
...ing intently. In fact, much of his time has been spent buried nose-deep in books on the repair, maintenance, and mechanical workings of pool equipment. Best

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5259/Genoshan Dinner Parties
...n as they move. "It is hard to say precisely all the ways that the history books are wrong, but there are many. Being that I have been in the Arts since com

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9504/While Aunt May's Away...
:'''{{#var:172|Peter Parker (172)}} has posed:''' Peter has a few books laid out on the table, and the computer has no less than 15 tabs open. The

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12303/Under the (Giant) Tree
...e opposite side. In her lap is a copy of one of the Phoebe and her Unicorn books, which she is cheerfully reading. 

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Priscilla Kitaen
...fledgling abilities or any other aspect. So far she's managed to read some books and find some websites but has no real idea if what she's studied and read

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10843/Nightclub Questions
...ng all this. He's not the kind of guy who READS things...well, maybe comic books. He closes the folder and looks up at the pretty young lady he'd met DJ'ing

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10535/When In Rome, Dinner!
...m tipsy. I might have zero filter, but..." she shrugs. "I have some books I could loan you or make suggestions since you like reading...which is nice ...uggests. A nod to her at the book trading suggestion. "Perhaps we'll trade books some time. I spend a lot of time reading - it's how I come to understand th

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16300/Paint Patrol
...tely. For reasons that are unclear they seem to have been related to comic books; the Doom Patrol is already aware that there's a comic book supervillain at ...e Doom Patrol's current mission may be related. Though, his is about comic books so I'm not quite sure I see how the pieces fit together. Perhaps this alley

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17855/Patch Notes
...choice." It'd be weird for them both if Viv had to explain paper books to Valeria. Who was probably making her own holodeck programs before she co

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11842/At the Head of the Trail
...r> Funny, that. She's brought a plate of cookies and a few comic books as well, bearing the image of a guy on a horse and the title 'Kid Colt!'. B

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4193/Zatanna's House of Mageek
...knows that this is not even the main room of this sort. Because there are books in here! Some of them are wall-to-wall artifacts. But they're in the ...does glance over to the book in the other's hands because well... Lara and books. But ultimately her stare ends back up on the Staff up until Zatanna's opin

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4429/Witches and Sorcerers. Blades and Cloaks
...er arm and bracelet back from his attention. He walks over to the stack of books and he scans across one shelf with a finger before he pulls out a single bo

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Ava Starr
...and can hold her own with any of them. (This is partly because the off-the-books division that trained her was one of those operations compromised by HYDRA. ...scoop it up after she scooped him up, and has kept it low-key and off-the-books ever since.

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10033/Communication
...ing Loki in the space, not to mention discovering that at least one of her books is missing pages, the sorceress has invested heavily in stronger wards and

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13012/Who you gonna call
...torney's office would look like. Bookshelves lined with all sorts of legal books, wide mahogany desk that houses a laptop and various other knickknacks. A *

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12091/Of Blackhawks and Boozehounds
...ave to get it sometime for something of a more personal nature and off teh books, but you're a bit beyond what I can justify for discretionary spending. Whi ...hat goes well beyond their own allowable zones. But.. That's what 'off teh books' things are for. 

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14435/What's that in the sky
...Not much to tell, I fancy myself an artist I draw and color my own co m ic books." 

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14642/At Least I Can See The Resemblance
...ung mutants who had no idea about the past, save what they read in history books, and even though weren't as accurate as they should be. Kitty did ha

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7437/What, It's Not All Fun and Games
...r>    She lets out a sigh before adding, "'course, the books and everything are just stories so- I don't know." She frowns deeply as she

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423/Glitter and Gold
...'s got a killer sci-fi and fantasy section, a towering selection of gaming books, and possibly more nooks and crannies to curl up with a nice novel than som ...ly looks over her shoulder to see whether or not the selection of steps or books are in the way of a spy. Espionage is dangerous, of course. Squeezin

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4793/Sending a Fox Message
...ciate the humor of it. I'm sorry! Tell me how to make amends. Immediately. Books, hot chocolate. Skating? Anything!" The scientist bows his head. It's entir ...useful. though I should have known not to startle you without reading any books. ... I'm glad you decided to be friends. You're good for me -no divine inte

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6073/The Doctor Makes House Calls
...n the counter in the kitchen are a bunch of spice and herbal jars. And old books that look like they contain recipes. "What brings you by?" she asks

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Samuel Clifton
...fields and across many topics from bits and pieces I've picked up from my books. 

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4694/Vorpal-Tunnel Syndrome
...e requested that he dedicate his next book to her. The thing is, those two books were his ONLY fictional publications as 'Lewis Carroll' at the time, and th

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12483/A New You: How Sausage is Made
...ever, this scene is marred by Viscera's corruption. Webs of flesh cling to books and shelves alike, and little knots of tumors collect where the flesh is th

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670/Spoiler Talks With The Batman
...hane into the study proper. It's quite a proper study; fire in the hearth, books on the shelves, a piano in the corner. But everything about it looks contri

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13223/Dress For the Job You Want
...d others more petite for the other agent. There were also a handful of RPG books tucked into the side of one box, along with some pieces of paper that were ...-so-popular game on another printing. I don't know why they have a hundred books for a set of rules, and why nineteen of them need to be about vampires. Is

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12269/In Search of the Socks
...o the scenery. Eyes set upon a mountain of books. "Maybe we got some magic books over there?" Hope's suggestion finally registers, leading him to loo ...cart, it rolling through the piles as a set of nearly full yellowed coupon books tumble over to the ground, all missing just that one final stamp needed for

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1167/Asgard Past: A Double-Edged Present
...corners where someone may have carelessly left it, perhaps we can find it. Books do not just /disappear/." Well, sometimes they do, but the sentimen ...p, he starts, jolting his quill across the page before himself. The books are put on hold (by royal decree of the younger Prince, Sif so convincingly

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17710/Getting the eyes right is indeed tricky.
...rea) and cross references them against online databases. Then it reads the books they're reading. Along with checking out a variety of other related searche

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626/Stubborn Wounds
...e room. This one is itself a vintage collectible in the style of the comic books they made during World War II about Captain America. It's got a comic book

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4837/A Late Night Drive
...de a novel called La Raton. This man was emulating the highwayman from the books, all the way down to the way he dressed. He had been behind quite a number ...re out your welcome already." She grabs the gentleman thief by the arm and books it back across the street. With the other hand she pulls keys from her jack

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15531/A Little Bit of Trouble
...ere doing. Unfortunately for them, this robbery made the history books. Given the tech they stole falls into the Worst Hands and causes a whole ga

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14035/Vamps Book and Belle
...wn into it. "What've you been reading?" she asks curiously. "Not any of my books. They're all smut save for the Book of Lydia." 

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11188/Merely Chaos
...sp;   It's magic, mostly, nowadays. He's not reading cursed books of the damned or anything like that but there is certainly a bounty of info ...g Lonnie said - that's a quote from 'V for Vendetta' - one of his favorite books, because of course it is. But why would he quote that now?   &

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8374/And Mair you go Safely...
...closes the door softly behind her. She's absent her usual satchel with its books and, lately, robot parts. But there is a little moth about the size of a ma ...learn at least ten different instruments, and my da would guide me through books. Dickens... Tennyson... Milton... But none of it stuck.   

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4869/Dance Dance Socialize
...mouth lifts, ghost of a smirk showing. "This seemed more interesting than books. Or the pile of dogs supposedly at school." She waits on James to finish wi

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14854/A Contest of Tragic Consequence
...of giggles by whatever reaction he might have. "Really, though. I collect books. I have a rather extensive library."     "So yo

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429/Maybe You Could Essay Slower...
...read an ebook on chess. It's not a total lie, she is reading several dozen books inside her head, just not the one infront of her. "Come in," she calls with

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6477/It's Not a Cathouse!
...to convalesce. Maybe I'' try that out. No chance to get a lioness off the books here." Thomas nods and pulls an envelope out of his pocket fat with bills.

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9740/Magical Cousins
...the old library with its ceiling high bookcases filled with leather bound books and magical curios a pleasant scent. Zatanna is in and receiving visitors t

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1481/Moving Up and Moving In
...ture reference that Lara is familiar with, although she's never read those books or seen the films. "I imagine you'll find your groove here rather qu ...d grins to her. "I need to see these films sometime, or rather... read the books. I probably would've been far too addicted to them if I had done it earlier

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11166/After the Orphan
...impersonation work up of one 'Alice Liddell' arrayed next to the stacks of books, including pictures that look eerily like Nadia, various government documen ...ad with a maternal affection. "Anyway, we can talk weirdo fantasy books or Russian girl ninjas, and I want to talk about the ninjas," Janet bids th

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17212/Welcome to Jonah's
...me here. Lara is seated at a table not far away, with a number of books, a phone, and a tablet computer scattered around in front of her, including ...She glances to Lara for the longest time to try and read the spines of the books and what is the woman is working on or reading. 

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1723/Some Follow-up Questions
...upon his chest. Over one shoulder was an ESU backpack that had only a few books within. Though that was likely to change soon. ...just casually going through what's stored in that locker, a few more text books are dropped onto the others at his feet, while a few personal effects are g

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Maria King
...she took when she bailed on her father. An old Kindle with a few favorite books in it, which is also out of juice more often than not. Food is her biggest

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7539/On genealogy and witches
.../greater/ talent than mine and, apparently," she grins, "a huge fan of my books. She contacted me and basically has offered to teach me her ways. Oh, appar ...out masking your signature. I don't think I have anything like that in the books that I have, though. If I knew /how/ they were tracking the blood, it'd be

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4602/Old Friends, Can You Imagine Us Years From Today
...osed:''' He knows his name! His human name. That was not in the history books. He checked on news about himself trying fruitlessly to track down Toro. He

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15465/=Bull in a Bookshop
...g ago, and the store is filled not only with the scent of teas, herbs, and books but a hint of the leftover Chinese food she'd run out to get. Situat

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Phoebe Beacon
 Phoebe is a voracious reader, collects books with an emphasis on history, folklore and legendry and finds comfort in the ...perienced in occult knowledge and building her own repository of notes and books beyond what she had in her folklore and mythology collection. If she doesn'

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3402/An Old Person Tries to Relate
...nbsp;  It'd be nice to get out and about and his head out of the books. So he lightly tapped out a response with his thumbs.     ...than what you learn. Unless you are one of those nerds that lives for the books and all that.." a small eyeroll given and she drains the rest of her beer.

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5702/Collecting Information
...ssy study. Academic messy, that is, full of bookshelves, a large desk, but books all over the room with bookmarks in them, several open notebooks, that sort ...en you did," she says. Batgirl slowly straightens then, moving over to the books that the professor was using. "We'd like to borrow these. We'll return them

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12735/If THAT Was Behind Door
...>The walls of the room are lined with book cases filled with leather bound books interspersed with odd objects - astrolabes, boxes, curios under glass. On a

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1446/You Were Warned It'd Get Weird
...t on the coffee table along with a well stuffed library with a plethora of books in any number of languages. "I have to go take care of some stuff, but I'll

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9122/A Moment of Peace
...feet folded up underneath her and a book in her lap. Not one of her spell books, though. It's Twilight. It's a terrible book, she knows, but it was comfort

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Nessa Donovan
...as access to whatever magical resources may be available to them including books and materials though it's certainly not a wealth of magic--they may have it

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967/Lingering in the Library
...g nothing like a Queen of a nation. Her fingers trailed over the spines of books and her gaze swept this way and that as she made her way toward the windows ...} has posed:''' Bobby Drake smiles a little bit and glances over at his books, shrugging his shoulders. "I think I'm done for tonight, but I should proba

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1803/Wagon'o Burrito
...days in school." She smirks and glances down again. "I used t'read books in French, watch French content creators on Youtube and do whatever it took

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4561/And Now For Something Completely Different
...and a bag of toiletries. She takes the latter into the bathroom, puts the books on a shelve, then sets the suitcase into her walk-in closet before grabbing

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3308/COFFEEEEEEE
...students that grace some of the other parts of the store. Not in terms of books but there is a folder and some papers. One stack in front of Ben and a seem

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8947/Rocking The Halls
...losophical works of machiavellian, The Bard, Plato, and more. Mixed in are books on military command structures, and law enforcement procedure as well as ge

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4563/Not Always the Missing
...ays "I never looked into the history of sports, I guess I should read some books on sports soon ...smiles, and she opens up her gym bag to show off the college level A&P books. "This has been my light reading. I've kinda thrown myself into training an

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5723/Power Play
...op. "Did you hear about the raid on Pacifica?" It wasn't as off-the-books as some of the other anti-HYDRA actions they've run of late. That one used

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9113/Path of Glory: Call for the Sorcerer
...;Jon's on watch duty today, keeping that silence by focusing on a stack of books (angelology, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) on the table of the booth ...    "I know, Phoebe," Jon says as he looks up from his books, "it's just--"     He cuts off at the knock on t

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2957/The Re-ant-imator
...ooks. "Here we go. I used to have one of those long boxes they store comic books in full of this stuff. Look through it for some idea of what science gone w

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14361/Billy Off the Street
...h beanbags, a mattress, a card table and bunch of tech stuff and mythology books that need sorting. He had a million things to do and of course the first th

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Kelda Stormrider
 Learning magic involved reading many, many books as well as attending lessons. Kelda is very

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17504/A Nerd and his Bot Go into a Bar...
...ngers, "Right! Clara, She's a fine archivist, She's purchased a roomful of books that are fine investments. She's best friends with Bot number 9 -Bongo. Tur

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8578/Bringing best friends to the Tower!
...ooks over to Irie and says "Oh, so that mean you want to borrow some of my books? I played a bit when I was going to Happy Harbor, and have thought about pl ...ousin she says, "Maddie's got a bunch of books," she says. "Even Star Wars books! They use funky dice though. Even more funky than D&D does." She, then

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17263/Purpose Bereft of Hope
...e level below. I'll get you online to do some shopping. I have a number of books I need appraised that I want to buy for the Kord Co library. I quoted you a

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5714/Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
...ggy Carter (1382)}} has posed:''' Like most of these completely off the books, undercover enough to not exist missions, everyone was slipped a note. 'If ...him to SHIELD custody. In fact, there's a lot we can't do or say on SHIELD books. But he can't stay here longer. I've got a house to move him to, out on Lon

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8368/Deadpool Can Listen to Instructions
...ies including Robin and Nightwing and others are all writen about in comic books. That the lines of stories are written, reset, rewritten, reset again and o ...in her own head, which should be scary. "So if you're also in these books, and know those stories... does any of it actually happen like the stories,

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5115/A doll for me, a gift for you.
...and Lou, at the main room, waggling a finger at them. "And if weird books come by or ya see any dolls attack to kill. No survivors!" There. Instructo

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6884/Quantum State
...f necessities under the cot, a tiny bedside table with a lamp and too many books, and just enough space to isolate as is needful. Honestly, she's had worse

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6474/Pizza That's Out Of This World
...ed about your people. From the... well, cartoons, to Edgar Rice Burrough's books abou-" He pauses. "I got carried off again. What were we talking abo ...Martian's, and I use that term lightly here as many of the aliens in these books, movies and cartoons are not even /from/ Mars, but how they are always out

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3009/A Joyful Reunion (or Grey Goo Scenario Avoided!)
...room. the room is small, cozy and neat. the mundane things, throw pillows, books, some tasteful art pieces, stand in contrast to the device in the corner. I

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10974/Wonder Moon
...hole superhero gig." He blinks a few times. "How do you learn chess stuff? Books? Apps? I wonder if Lanis plays chess." Morgan gestures to Diana with

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3094/The Ladies Who Hunt
...close button on the case file. It's not something she's putting it on the books yet. Yet. "Agent Carter. Take a seat." She's not quite as paranoid as Maria ...s out. Five German names, one Italian. None famous enough that the history books ever breathed their names again. "...I'm not certain. If it's... deliberate

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9088/The Best Way To Find Yourself
...generally thought that to be an independent study sort of thing. Just ... Books are back there, don't touch the tomes to the left and you'll be fine." 

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15250/Cup of Tea, Theft of Item, Jolly Good!
...long way to try and protect what they own, with good reason. Artifacts and books exist here that shouldn't be in mortal hands. Plenty of threats from people ...today. I just try to get out and check around when I can. I've found a few books in the past, but nothing too dangerous. The most 'dangerous' thing I've fou

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7440/Hot springs (in more ways than one!)
...her. "We have our own minds. Our own plans. And while I'm in better books than my brother, I don't like being a tool either, so ... Daddy can go suck

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14130/A beam of Joy to herald spring!
...sp;Ivy starts to come out to meet the women, "I don't know. Never read the books you know me. I rarely get into that stuff as much." She gives Susan a polit

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3103/Rain and Lightning
...ll definitely give you a call, for sure! Take care, Sarah!" With that, she books off, waving back towards Sarah as she hustles towards the Hyperloop station

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11715/The Value of Trust
...into Wonderland. Like... Alice in Wonderland but a bit different from the books. It's not inherently dangerous, but you have to be careful while you're the

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305/Just Like the Old Days
...there are a lot of things I want to try. College is not just learning from books. I want to make friends and learn how normal people live. It is hard to exp

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6942/Campbell's Soup
...ly and considers Clarice for a moment. "I can give you a copy of one of my books," she suggests. "They're a little bit saucy, I know, but you can read the r ...d that they set up for me to go to college with, and I make enough with my books to help pay the bills. I can afford this for both of us." She consi

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6215/Now You See Me...
...case, the white-haired speedster finds himself bored, a pile of paperbooks books sitting on the table beside him in... less than ideal condition. They rathe

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783/Titles Are Hard, So Are Relationships
...le from her lips of an arcane nature. Around her, the room reacts, books and cabinets shifting as items drift from their storage and come before the

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5709/Vacation snaps
...that will probably end all life on Earth. There's just a selection of cook books, some sketch pads and some sheet music for the flute. The top of which is f

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12991/Getting The Deets
...and weren't sharing that stuff yet. You know how people can be about comic books. Lead figures. Owning several dozen sets of dice just because they are cool

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4103/Crack Open Some Cold Ones
...ede but still. "Her names Siobhan Smythe. I'm digging through a few books myself but it doesn't look like there's an easy way to shake her of whateve

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Atrice Duckstein
...e area. She's young and still collecting and making copies of old worn out books, so it's not like it's a world-wide thing. It is her pride and joy and feel

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16299/The Hand Which Cleaves
...timespan when the writing style would have been used. She has another few books spread around her of which are translation guides. Whatever the exact langu

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17779/Cleaning Up Another Persons Mess
.... um... new to it? Seriously, mom's been teaching me 'cause I got into her books and got curious." He looks up at the big man, "I, ah, assumed you mi

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3109/Probably the Right Brother to Ask
...ghtly ripped jeans, t-shirt, sneakers, slightly-stuffed backpack. It's not books and school stuff in his bag, however, but his costume and utility belt to c

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2146/This one time, in Greenwich Village
...rs across the book, "Battling a midget in a trench coat intent on stealing books.. from a library. A bounty was set and the grappling hook fellow wanted to ..., too." Zatanna remains glib as she goes through the tome. "Lot of magical books on your table recently, Sera." She does angle the book enough that Blood ca

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12510/A New You: Aftermath
...elp me get this /thing/ out of my head and then retire and just work on my books." She shakes her head. "Maybe pick up teaching some night courses at the Un

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5911/The curse of random desires
...d in downtown Manhattan, she wasn't far. She'd been stepping out of a rare books store when the call came and she tossed her belongings in to the back of he

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4875/ToBeTitledSoon
...ch more to building a proper portfolio than just being able to balance the books, Ms. Guthrie. You need to research the stocks, look for the deals, know whe ...a little more at each word she hears come from Warren's mouth. Balance the books. Research the stocks. Retirement savings. 401k. By the end of it, Jubilee's

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8427/A Visit from a Friend
...nbsp;Jon happens to be on the Columbia University campus anyhow, returning books to the library and grabbing new ones to put in the messenger bag, picking u ...posed:'''     Desk covered in an organized chaos of books, papers, and notebooks, Mairin is sitting in her office squinting at a lapt

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3623/Getting the band started
...to tell Dr. Grey, I'll do it on de down low, I aint' going to hit dat many books. Or maybe, find another way to get docs, I'll make some calls." Remy is wal

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6660/The Daughters of Thanos v Proxima Midnight
...spartan and utilitarian, though there's weird things to do with magic and books too on the work table. They do know she only wears it when going on mission

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6791/Discussing the Birds and the Ants
...m.   Damian's eyes look around the lab, handing over the books he had borrowed, after removing them from the messenger bag. 

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7054/Nothing Stops the Juggern... Where the Hell is He
...avoid the especially how spots they reserve for pervs and people who spoil books, movies and joke. Hellooooo?" 

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985/First Date: Roll For Inititative!
...irl and crazed geek. There's a few painted minis on display, plus a lot of books on the shelves. A small computer desk is in the corner by the window, the c

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8978/Hello To You
...reak. But yeah, where he excels on the football field, he falters with the books. So he fidgets in his seat, idly flips pages back and forth, and just gener

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5986/Still wanted
...sturdy shed with a mattress, some basic tools and a giant pile of physics books and notebooks with things scribbled all over them. ...lf. I'm a physicist; bachelors degree only. I couldn't help but notice the books." still smiling and shaking while giving the makeshift flail a sort of intr

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6855/The Framework: An Old Familiar Feeling
...desk. They hadn't even gotten rid of any of the furniture. Some of her old books still had too much dust on them from shelves never being used. She f

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12345/Happy Harbor: School's Back In Session!
...he's found herself into a bit of a pickle. Apparently it's hard to balance books and a lunch tray. "Alright. You've got this." she mutters to herself. < ...hool in Jersey." The Pakistani student says in a quiet tone, clutching her books to her chest rather than wearing them in her Captain Marvel backpack. "Nobo

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11887/Mind to mind
...us... m-magic--< she tries to think of the right phrase from one of her books, and she winces.     <Basically by trying to

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16549/Neither Eloquent nor Lengthy
...>     So She tilts her own hat at Victor -- and she books it out of the bar.     There's a part of her th

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1833/The Fall of Peter Parker
...an anime fan or anything, or if you had any other favorite characters from books or something. I've been meaning to ask..." 

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15848/Skate!
...ather..." not dad. "...is an ass. My father is an author. He writes travel books. Lame, I know." ...br>    "An' yeah. Our dad? Asshole. Huge asshole. Only books he could write is 'how to drive off your kids for lack of profit' and 'how

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9389/Something About Cable...
...e desk she moves to one of the shelves filled with books and removes three books that are bound together. Behind is a small cabinet that she opens and remov

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418/A Bit of Fresh Air
...saw her looking at him. He carried a backpack stuff with thicker, heavier books, one of them being AP PHYSICS. Short brown hair, alert brown eyes that seem

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10114/Hellboy gets a burger.
...So THAT'S the kind of person who doesn't recognize Hellboy from his comic books. Fair enough. He swishes his tail a bit. It thunks against the legs of the

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13833/The Count of Monte Cristo: And Action! What A Nice Time For A Feast
...is not disruptive to the others..." she says quietly. "...but oui, I have books. I have nothing but time, monsieur. I look forward to continuing. Filling m

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5344/The Paraguay Hardening Mill
...old wooden door at the back of the library past several maze like isles of books.     There, a man waits guarding the door dresse ...br>Hunter follows Vogel into the library, setting himself up a few rows of books back from the door tapping his pen against the book he pretends to read. As

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6494/Itsu namu: Haori.
...usually in alphabetical order. So if there's any current Sailor Moon comic books - it would be on the wall over there under S - the back issues would be in

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1556/Hidden Whispers
...to find this LMD, bring it back in.. and if these idiots are going off the books, rein them in too." She looks over to Angelo, "I know that's a lot to absor ...bsp;  McMannis shakes his head. "Project Livewire was an off the books collaboration with the U.S. Government. Quasi-legal but with the goverment

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5860/Catching Up One Time Traveler to Another
...offices are still there, unless they're in a hidden now-lapsed and off-the-books base. Which, okay, is possible. This is SHIELD and the SSR they're talking ...investigation into HYDRA in our midst -- most of which we've done off-the-books, by the way -- and a diplomatic incident in Nepal that... well, in case you

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8189/Cinema Verite
...llectual German-Jewish family, emigrated to the US and wrote well regarded books of political philosophy. She taught in a lot of prestigious institutions. I

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5140/Carmine and Jigsaw; Down to Business
...ht.      It's fashioned a personal study, with books lining the walls and a lone mahogany writing desk in the center. There's no

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9453/Embassy Lament
...et the (correct) impression that he doesn't know what the Cheshire Cat is. Books aren't really his strong suit. "Oh. Cool. Well no disrespect intended." ...twist- the cat has a room at the Embassy! "Over here. I've just got a few books and mementos," he says as he opens the door, "Everybody's packing their stu

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6478/Meanwhile, at the cafe...
...i' thing. "Well. Most people think the Jedi are only a thing in movies and books. But then how come all my powers are Jedi powers?" she asks. "I- I haven't ...br>    With a shrug of her shoulders she adds, "In the books and the movies, most people can't sense the Force - only the Jedi. And- wel

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5615/The Demon and the Queen
...    "It's thousands of years old, I did not expect the books to be in pristine condition." she remarks, quietly, to Donna. "We were just ...endipitous thing to say. This is because, of course, Donna talks about the books.     "I have read some of them on earlier excurs

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3312/Who is Vorpal
...round with me 'cause, you know, spines get wrecked but I've got some forty books on my phone between several readers, so..." he pauses, "I also like parkour

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17097/Does This Place Come With Its Own Zipcode
...paintings to the lush rugs to the library filled with rare, leather bound books. One suspects that they don't see a ton of use all things considered, but r

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14473/The Boy Who Cried Demon
...riends, wanted him to do better in school, and had tried taking his gaming books away once but he'd run away from home for a week, so she gave them back.<br ...ty. Once we have them, we can let you get on with your life. Are there any books or anything you'd like to have so you can pass the time? Pretty sure we've

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8570/Mouth, Blade, and Cowabunga!
...r instance. I know who and what you are from an animated TV show and comic books." 

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12178/Beached
...e ruffles gently on Idu.     <Learning from books is slower going.> 

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2713/Seek the Hand, Find the Ring
...he shop. "We have bits and bobs from all over, don't you know. Do you want books or coins, jewelry or figurines? I believe there's actually collection of ol

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484/The Night We Met (Again)
...rned it into his own veritable sanctum sanctorum, with his computer setup, books, most of his things scavenged from his parents' home (they don't speak, and ...ce. "You were!" It isn't accusatory. "I read Pratchett too. Not all of the books, but some of them." A guilty pleasure that may be. "You did quote Granny at

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4376/A Stitch in Time
...areas for herself -- a messy desk of work materials in the far corner, her books and newspapers on the coffee table, a pile of high heels near the door, but

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11091/What Choices We Have...
...what the hour is tends to lose its power. Even now, in a study filled with books, is it daylight? Is it night? Does it matter? Not seemingly to a certain St

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11583/Funny Meeting You Here...
...s. "If Sandi is available... might want to call her to help Wease with the books. Keep him honest at least."     He shrugs. "I do ...eet and walks over to a bookshelf that has a number of things that are not books on it. "I don't know what I was thinking at the time... fucking hell." He b

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4662/The House and the Dame
...es up on the left, and to the right is a parlor or office overflowing with books and strange looking alchemical tools. It'd be about this time that ...the way of their own accord. It's as much laboratory as library; alembics, books, chemicals, all the trappings one would expect of a proper wizard. 

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13876/The world you call your own
...Your one self. You see this world around you? It's like the covers of old books on a shelf, golden print on leatherette spines. "I'm from the pages within.

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16215/Just Some Window Shopping
...e still tugging on his hand. "Most I have seen are characters from movies, books, cartoons, that sort of thing." After an unrequired breath, she keep

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14925/Look What the Catfish Dragged In
...ruly special. And they're the ones that count the highest. At least in his books. One of those finely sculpted brows arches slightly as she details

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16384/A River Flows Through It
...twenty recentyly, complaining to a mom type. "The books on magic are real books...." protesting before she realizes she might mean using the internet. "Als

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Kokumo Adebesi
something that she cannot do of her own doing, there are instruction books that she can follow to

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5572/We're all hungry here
...in dealing with those issues." she explains, "He wants it to be an off-the-books group too, secret warriors that don't have to be held by the same rules as

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10035/Monster, Monster, Burning Bright
...ie holds on tightly to one of the spines in front of her. "Bad beastie. No books for you." 

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12438/Patience is a Virtue
...io, and encounters the quiet young mage named Phoebe, who has one of Those Books.

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16823/Paper Beats Rock
...the way, she will wave to them.. Otherwise, she just holds her IV bag and books. Mustn't lose those! They were borrowed to her.    &

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4675/Coffee: Double Brewed
...up business at the campus. Unlike other times here, he hasn't brought any books. He just seems to be relaxing on the sofa. Hot cup of tea in one hand and t

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17464/Something Old, Something Blue
...and her own adopted kids, Blue has come to the Candle to look through the books. Her research hasn't gone well. She can follow a lot of different spoken la

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9829/The Troll Market: February
...lver-haired man rubs at his chin, thinking on that possibility. "There are books on this then? That seems... tempting, yet terribly dangerous." A wry chuckl ...hut again. Leaving Jan and Veira standing there. "We can talk about books over food. I'm starving." she murmurs to him as she reaches out to take his

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2099/Things To Learn
...around once more, taking in the office and adding: "Have you read all your books here?" 

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13266/Pillow Forts to 11
..... to just ignore it all and go build with blocks and pillows and coloring books. But I was always like this. Even when I was this small for real... I dunno

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10748/Satana's Snooping
...gs that look like they could be triggers to open up secret spaces. So many books are pulled, sconces twisted, tilted, lifted, yanked, and in frustration, a

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9976/End of Another School Day
...is still stuff to be done. Morgan, who really dislikes anything related to books, has fallen behind on his Post-20th Century European History class so he's

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17657/They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway
...y books in..." She frowns thoughtfully, "Well now. I suppose since before /books/ became a thing actually." Her head dips in a small nod, the closest ...ie:> 'Did you not hear when she said she's been around since... before. books. were. written?' "Be silent, we're working," Venom answers back to t

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2826/The Titans Take A Time Out
...bothers him because he just rolls right along. "Look at some of these art books if you have an interest in art. This one is from a video game." He holds ou ...get some of the classics shown to everyone. As for Manga, well, those are books with intricately drawn art inside them that tell a story." He nods, and the

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8416/Security Issues
...One of these days she is really going to have to open some more mythology books. "What's a Jiangshi? Is it like a mutant? I mean either way you don't seem

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3562/A new workforce
...is unsound they will do likewise. They could plug into wifi to handle the books, monitor contractors, you name it. They won't replace humans economically b

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707/ESU IS GREAT!
...the ground and unzips it, starting to go through it, pushing around a few books here and there, then scowling to himself as he holds up a small glass conta ...ns to the side to face her more directly, "My dad didn't let me have comic books and things, but what you said sounded familiar..."    &nb

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6273/Only Happy When it Rain(maker)s
...he library there time to time. Maybe we can hook up! They've got some neat books. Comfy benches too." She says this with the confidence of someone wh

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12443/CERN Concerns
...nology and more to the diagrams and notations on work boards, the piles of books that reveal his latest obsessions in research, and the other telltale signs

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10794/Bats in the Moonlight
...I first ran across Batgirl I asked her about a Union Hall and signing the books. I was only half kidding." Stepping slowly closer, she leans against a roof

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13753/Alarms Wailed, Lights Flashed
...s time was different, he was there to deliver some of his ethylene physics books he had read as a kid as he thought maybe they could use them in a math clas ...>Watching Wade he does answer, "No... I was actually here do drop off some books. Gabby helped me with something so, I figure I would play it forward to the

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Stephen Strange
...e desire to know. Stephen studying is a sight to behold. He reads multiple books, and requires multiple screens when he was in school, as tabs on his browse

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17055/Living Monoliths
...ns to Kenesha. He thinks for a second and says, "Yeah, I got nothing on my books. I'd be glad to stay on. Plus, I curious what you're digging up here. There

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7937/Ice Cream Time!
...th a recent scholarship check having come in, she had a bit leftover after books and necessities. She made her way to the counter with wide eyes. Ice cream

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16165/Scent in the Water
...creen TV that's on, playing some cartoon show meant to sell toys and comic books, and there's a similar blonde haired head sitting on a couch. &nbsp

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613/I Don't Mean To Boar You
...in general on the lawn, Heidi is currently looking through a huge stack of books. Greek and norse myths, a world history book, and a dictionary of slang ter :'''{{#var:40|Gwen Stacy (40)}} has posed:''' While there were plenty of books at manor detailing myths and legends about the artifact the pair or searchi

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3210/Beacon and Cain
...eacon (690)}} has posed:'''     Phobe sets down her books -- looks like she was taking notes on organs, and she sits down a moment, c

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268/Hashtag: GothamHope
...o. So... yeah. That's knowledge you have now." she states, then turns, and books it into the night.     "G'night Robin!" she cal

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574/Second Coming
...ary here. Half of that was just to see if it was really as big and full of books as people said. It was. Once she was finished, though, she moved out

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1361/Nightlife
...nd of adorable. And truth be told? She did rather like one or two of those books. Wrapped in the black dress, those red stockings, the hair-ribbons

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16497/Review of the Situation
...is. My ancestors have some writings on materials, but mostly it references books that were lost."     And Phoebe looks disturbed

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10742/Loungeheads
...of the lounge, doing different things? Two are reading two very different books (_Heart-Shaped Box_, _Consider Phlebas_), another is writing in a tiny note

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4595/New Years Eve, 1948
...that the woman doesn't use her full name here. Would it affect the history books? Well, Peggy has already said it. "...Melinda May, my colleague and dear fr

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15102/Quarantined Franklin!
...ight now." and then sighs, and looks back at the Raven looking through the books. "Don't worry bout Viper, he tried to mug me, and I ment to just leave him ...a bit, "And thanks.. I will have to drop by the store, and get some extra books." 

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6379/River Of Dreams
...ond, before following Amanda, "... let me guess: Look but don't touch, the books protect themselves?" 

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2124/Sanity Break
...the Species sort of way. Not to be one upped by you, I've been hitting the books again. Organic chemistry, bology, rounding out the sciences. Working on a d

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3388/Next X-Steps
...fice.     So, while there are miles of boxes of books and the like ready to go, it's still effectively Xavier's office...for the

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16093/Coffee With Doom.
...eturned from Latveria and when he came back, it was with a chestful of new books for the library in the coffee shop. Everyone deserves to research, to learn ...'     In a room, with Doom, in the gloom, among the books and journals and intellectual debate that you just can't get in a Starbucks

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7915/In Your Face-time
...:''' Terry is lounging on the couch in a tank top and shorts, a pile of books nearby indicates he was doing research when the call came in and he set the

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2862/You're gonna what
...are other people I can ask, I can ask the person in the phone, I can read books. But there's no guide to all things Sally and all I have really determined

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7425/Meeting the Contessa pt 2
...realistic but I wanted to avoid being /too/ real so people couldn't use my books to do something dangerous." She waves a hand, "Then I came across a text th ...er candidates out there," she says. "I'm just a part time dabbler. I write books. I don't even make a living off of that! I went to school to be an English

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3167/Imps and chakras
...of goods there, some of them actually legitimate occult props. A few rare books, some illegal exotic goods, and a few other items of interest. "Al ...les carefully through her nose, a few sniffs, squinting. Books, yes, older books -- treated wood -- metal -- sulfur...? Brimstone. An acid? Something too sw

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4112/Riddler Speaking On Riddlr
...br>Duty. It's a bitch. "Sure, I could use something to help pay for books next semester," Stephanie says with a nod. Already thinking about how much

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14155/Sinister Invites You To The Estate
...stuff is and expect to lead me down a hallway to see rusty tools and dull books maybe written, maybe forged. These things are always overstuffed and so ove ..., and Essex work failed, there is very little of documented in the history books, so it falls to the common person to remember the pain and suffering that a

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7551/1956: The Sleepless Nights
...side and muttering something that will be lost to the shadows of sleep and books of time. He definitely is getting this one. It's not until about fiv

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7298/Going To Pieces
...as posed:'''     "Terry lef' me a copy of his Alice books, when he was los' in space an' thought he was not comin' back," Kian explai

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5049/Drinkin, Josie's, TBD
...to some good resources, perhaps. I have a couple terribly dry and academic books in my collection. Reading about romance and smut with the supernatural soun ...l plots between the lewd." She shakes her head. "I don't mind dry academic books. I survived four and a half years of college, and that's reading about stuf

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10506/Yo, Dawg, I Hear You Like Games
|Location=Steve's Comic Books

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13964/Meeting the Minions
...ings done in TV shows." ...most of Marie's knowledge of romance comes from books and TV. Along with a little first-hand knowledge. "If it helps, I know of a

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7410/Welcome Home Daisy
...as posed:''' The word was out, SHIELD was back in the government's good books, no more hiding, and no more SHIELD task force snooping around looking for

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4683/Shine: Re-Acquaintincing
...ring and the physicality is a nice break from borrowed A&P and medical books!!     It's not hard to sneak in under the music

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Dinah Lance
...sonable price to pay. She knows how to run a shop, including balancing the books and keeping her stock fresh. 

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6118/Cube Part 2
...ts them from falling. In one corner is a small sort of fort? Made from the books and the cushions of a sofa. In the yellow room he discovers a room outfitte

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15083/Lousy T-Shirts for All!
...g this scavenger hunt for the Tuatha, whoever they are. Donna gave me some books to read about them."     She blinks at Audra an

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12270/Everything is *just* fine!
...he's home, sitting at her desk. The laptop is put away and several anatomy books are open and she's sketching in a sketchbook. 

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8263/The Secret Life of Jack Drake: Old Bones
...unted on the walls - a Zulu iklwa, a Japanese tanto blade. Shelves full of books in locked glass cases. Fossils. Cuneiform tablets.    &nb

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2228/A Touch of Frost
...ly know an awful lot about all of this. It'd take me ages to learn through books and research, most likely." She's not going to /suggest/ anything directly,

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17431/Art, Culture and Being Green
...or upgrade compared to my old dorms," and then he will hand her the sketch books. "Well, tell me what you think and we can go from there. I mean you're help ...without trying," although he's unsure how aging goes about. He's only six books deep in a long series. "And yet my comment about seeing me goes un

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13661/Assassin's Crowe
...of all manner of different lives and paths. And I can get you some of the books on digital if you want, Tynan. I've had one of the young bucks scanning in

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7142/Is There Life On Mars
...} has posed:''' "I like that. We can add a little list of your top five books- so think about the ones you'd recommend to the readers," Terry grins, "In ...ke a little time to reduce the list, but I believe I can make one of Earth books I would suggest people read." Setting the tea cup on the table, he s

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8878/Nature's Finest Balm
...onsidered moving back to Gotham just to... just to go. Impulse brought the books from Egypt where I'd stored them in Cairo, and I thought I could just learn

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3956/Finding Tommy
...inspection, do you honestly think the CFO will condone anyone cooking the books prior to an internal auditing outing? Pleeeease...you're sharper than that. ...ards the elevator, getting a bit alarmed about staying overtime to get his books in order. He cleans his forehead with an handkerchief. "All is fine.

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7010/Mo's Saving America's Ass
...forever until you come up with some. You gonna be OK playing this off the books?" ...e of them, most don't want to do good." she states. "I'm good with off the books for this. I could just take it home to my lab as well. Might leave less of

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1607/You Again
...rgotten." She shrugs and then she considers, "As for reading? I often read books about battles and by great generals." 

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11309/In The Wee Hours
...s hips, "I unpacked some of my old Greek and Italian mythology and culture books if you're interested and haven't already read them." she tells him with a s

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6095/A Visit With Emma
...sp;  "I'm actually taking a few plays from you and Charles' play books. I'm starting my own team, but we have a focus on being a team first, and b

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17622/Horrors of Hyborea
...mpses of just how little we know about our world, and how much our history books have gotten wrong. We can yet still improve, and yet still find answers to

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12239/Lighting the Lantern: Recruiting Allies
...Jessican instead. "I have a hard time finding the stuff I'm looking for in books, and I have access to a great library. I'd rather I could just give my boyf

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10677/Hello Hyperion!
...>Morgan is sitting at a table in his civilian clothes. He has a few school books on the table and a MacBook. He seems to be working on some stuff for school ...ooks to Morgan and points at the swear jar she crafted, and sat beside his books and school things on the table. Apparently the Princess has decided to take

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2184/And the cradle will rock
.... We are on the hunt for another book too. I'm not being metaphorical, the books are real." 

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8837/A New Case
...he's been sitting there at the bar for a while, leafing through a stack of books on Egyptian history, making notes and occassionally muttering to himself wh ...e to Arkham, just now.     He eyes the stack of books and then starts gathering them up, along with the notebook he'd been writin

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15736/Positive Thoughts
...e chapter (because he refuses to get one of those e-reader things because *books should feel comforting*) he came across the header of family connectons. Of

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284/Life is but a Stage
.... THe modular cell still has a bench for a bed, and some shelving for some books which were not provided to him as they do not dare open his cell to give th

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1569/Fangs Meets Faerie
...t what once had kept people hidden behind fires and clutching a cross now, books, artwork and movies later, could practically have some people eagerly throw

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12130/Explanation Time
...ht with a spider-thing, so Jon is bracing himself. Having poured over some books of potential monster anatomy that left him /shuddering/, he's come out to t

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8430/Little Bit of When Things Were Easier.
...tom lip and pushes himself up from that Pauper's Throne. "I should hit the books.." For so many things, man has so many things to figure out right now, it's

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16026/The Certainest Sense of Irony
...ittle out of my wheelhouse to see how it goes. I read a bunch of cyberpunk books to get a feel for it and while the genre as it is doesn't really grip me, I ...es, "I mean, with any luck I'll find out, but I started looking around for books that would give me an idea, but there's surprisingly few of them. Most of w

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3318/titleing later
...:''' Tim's tastes aren't too complex, either. Caffeine, new technology, books, state-of-the-art weapons, high-tech gadgets, very fast highly armored cars

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9511/No Angels Allowed
...hat it means, by a different name. I have not yet come across it." Reading books of history and archeology, of course he has not come across them. Historian

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12411/Measure of a Monkey
...smirks and nods a bit to this. He has already read all the Sherlock Holmes books, so he spends his time looking about. He does stay in the chair, but he tak

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11368/Easy as 1, 2, square root of 9
...(Probably the one Irie uses so it can take speed typing) he has a stack of books with him this or that for dummies, the other for beginners. He starts going

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31/Proof
...t and nods. Pausing, the reply comes back: "Take your time, nothing on the books today until the evening." Again, the hypersonic 'ping' of a sent message si ...r>The reporter gets a polite smile in return. "Like I said, nothing on the books until the evening...unless something crops up, but the underground chatter'

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14393/NOWHERE and Back Again
...ious occult shops around. They're quite laden with some of the more exotic books out there. Some of art, some of fantasy. And Tobin's Spirit Guide. ...gain?" The last remaining armored goon scoops up his living pal and books it, just running the hell away from this place. The day is saved, so

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Alice Sinclaire
...etry of bosons would have her entranced for hours. In the void, she had no books to read so she began to systematically document all the life she could find

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15603/Just In The Neighborhood
...cal Westchester. The Manor House sat empty, aging its way into the history books, until a local figurehead needed her own place to live. And so, tonight, th

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6986/Changing of the Guard
...someone might strike at that moment. So he had to make do with the books people left in the lobby. By the time he had to come for his shift at stand

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7185/When it Rains
...ls her, using her best agent voice. Technically, she's still on the SHIELD books somewhere, herself. "She's seconded to SHIELD, currently. She was following

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4418/The Arts of Themyscira
..., but those few should have the opportunity to do so. We could bring a few books at a time, and allow scholars a place to study them, with guidance from tho

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4031/Please Feed After Midnight
...tually be able to figure it out. Humans charted all of the major demons in books, but finding an authentic one is difficult." He motions to himself, now. "M

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Gwen Stacy
...they just don't know her. Everything is very odd. But that's how comic books

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6026/Roll a D20
...sks guardedly, standing back up with the D8 palmed. "I've read some of the books you gave me, even though a lot of parts didn't make a lot of sense. I've fe

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6543/Pepper's parties are always more understated
...out aging written for the time, nothing that would mark it as 'one for the books'. Nope. That's not to say that Pepper isn't special. At least to som

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16064/Empires and Enchiladas
...r>"It's a *huge* help! I'll be able to cover next semester's tuition -and- books, now, thanks to you!", Yaretzi says, still beaming that smile. "What you di

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8361/Birthright: Shortcuts are Bad, M'kay
...he can't have them... they don't stick around her." He taps thoughtfully. "Books. Forties music..." He thinks harder and seems to hit on something. "Oh. Pun ...al bullshite.     "Chas, I'm gonna bring a few books down from the House that I need you to look through. I'll leave the name of

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9012/Too Little, Too Late
...latest body was found in Hell's Kitchen, then started combing through the books kept in the back room, which might be an odd thing for other people to watc ...;"I mean, Constantine has a decent collection on demonology and angelology books in there so maybe something tells us how to fight a Fallen or whatever this

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13879/Old New Faces
...hop, Talia would listen to anything going on while she would go to set her books down over on the nearest counter. Not bothering to ring a bell or anything ...anishes through a portal and onto the floor, landing cleanly on a cushion, books falling about on her lap that she'd been hauling, "Ah, hello. I just though

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11976/Lunch in Brooklyn
...ghter becomes obvious in that moment, as Yee tells her daughter to put her books away and eat, before she walks back to the counter. "I'll have my us

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2084/Betsy plans with Lorna
...s posed:''' "I think balancing the economy is harder than a nightclub's books." Betsy says with warmth, cracking the top off of her bottle to sip at wate

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1508/New Roommates
...that used to carry various kinds of alcohol and now carry various kinds of books, bric-a-brac, and even the occasional bit of clothing that isn't conjured o

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1961/Uh, Do You Know Who I Am
...help. "I'm outta the Army now, sorta. I mean, technically I'm still on the books but...." ...ition of 'non-fiction'. It shows in the coy twist of her grin. "None of my books are online. They're all hard-cover and they're in bookstores here in this c

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Ezekiel Sims
 Of course he is. He keeps several spiders as pets, and oftens enjoys books and documentaries about spiders. Though no expert in the field, he takes gr

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10123/Negotiation Consultation
...ndow.  There are also three betrothal IOUs and stacks of library books as if a fort of knowledge has risen around her. ...reign logic working with magic whatever. "Yeah, I wonder if all the books they care about are just named the same thing," Noriko says with a roll of

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3741/Shine: Do you smell smoke
...e, as she looks around, would find there's a lot of house plants, a lot of books, and a lot of geeky collectables, along with the silvery flowers with the s ...  Something below explodes on the third floor. Glass and burning books and bricks eject outwards into the alleyway.    &nbs

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15724/Freak flags
...aught experience with neurolinguistics so maybe I could direct you to some books, though I think there's a lot of nonsense surrounding the things that have

14 KB (2,534 words) - 04:49, 28 August 2023
8473/Homelessness is for the living...
...her, then walks back to where she is putting a few things into a bag. Some books, some parts, and some... clothes? 

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6052/Poxing Day
...blanket ready to fight fiercely for that which she has claimed. Her school books are laid out around her in a disordered mess of notebooks and texts as she

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2921/Down Time
...howing off several thick books. "I bought a bunch of used Advanced A&P Books from Gotham U's bookstore and I'm gonna brush up. My highschool AP Bio clas

30 KB (5,523 words) - 13:28, 15 August 2020
11372/For Once, the Tower isn't Full of Nonsense.
...e al most doesn't notice anyone else until she gets to a point where those books can be dropped and her communicator rummaged out of her backpack. "O ...} has posed:''' Mary groans at America and gestures at her pile of text books, "The scoop with me is... wait, was that a dig at me going for my journalis

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6081/The Incredible (Shrinking) She-Hulk!
... Apparently. He opes several more boxes and finds copies of his books. He puts some of those aside for Rod, who seems to enjoy his writing. Capac ...d of boxes to go through. Old junk. He grabs the black and red garment and books and shoves them back in the box. "What's brings you here? Social or science

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14894/Lara's Boulders Look Better Than Indy's
...ve to ever keep going, ever keep searching, ever keep changing the history books... which is what so many refuse to do. We, as a society, constantly get in

30 KB (5,697 words) - 02:59, 11 May 2023
12978/On Top of The Empire
...fall, his eyes wide. The impact jerks his open pack open further, spilling books and papers into the air. "Whoa whoa whoa!" he exclaims, completely unexpect

16 KB (2,982 words) - 00:30, 28 October 2022
372/Quiet Conversations
...e of what it is that you are concerned about." A pause. "I picked up a few books from the library. To read about Greeks and their history. The 'myths'." She

16 KB (3,042 words) - 06:37, 9 March 2020
Bane
...Duro prison, which had no primary education system to speak of aside from books of literature and knowledge of subjects, Bane memorized the knowledge of al

13 KB (2,276 words) - 04:37, 15 June 2021
8663/Saturday in the Tower
...as posed:'''     Chuckling, Heather gestures to the books in Mary's hands, "Have I distracted you enough? If not, I could keep going.

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2554/An Office Chat
...ing with regal authority near the ICER. The rest of the desk is covered in books, papers, and of course the computer. Two chairs are seated at slight

13 KB (2,381 words) - 18:29, 22 July 2020
7306/School Tour
...r>     That's all he was waiting for. He stuffs his books dramatically into his bag, and rushes to...the window. He looks out the win

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15151/At the Corner of Bad and Worse
...lot are annoyed," she warns John. Her battered backpack carries her school books. Uni ones, it's that time of semester end to return the old and wait on the

12 KB (2,070 words) - 15:20, 27 July 2023
17190/Ernesto and the Cajun
...ay that I attended, and ended up chatting with him. He's recommended a few books to me and we would get together and talk them over after I'd made it throug

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4239/Cranky Old SHIELD Agents
...t. "The owner, here, is a friend of mine. I keep this place off the books as much as I can." She gives Peggy a meaningful look. "You understand." .... Practically for family. "I was never here. And it won't touch the books. I promise." There is a weight behind Peggy's eyes as she says that, a grat

29 KB (5,407 words) - 05:56, 29 November 2020
8434/The 50-cent tour: Bart at the Curio
...be a wizard but he just uses future tech." He will open a box, and seeing books in it, he is out and back, and putting together an ikea bookcase. He pauses

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4897/It Came From the Deep
|Synopsis=An ancient horror, a great old one you say? To the books, heroes!

12 KB (2,155 words) - 06:01, 27 January 2021
Victor Carson
...altered physical program and finds that he enjoys the challenge. He sneaks books to Pandora. Mid 2022: The ExSamples escape after EX-13 Galatea over

12 KB (2,091 words) - 01:12, 15 August 2023
11164/Of Tabbies and Toasters
...'t always eneough. Hence enters the blonde Boomie. Dropping a stack of books into the return chute rather haapgazardly enough it would make Xi'an cry fo

14 KB (2,631 words) - 15:48, 16 May 2022
12493/Reading is Fundemental. But is it Fun
...sis=Charlie runs into Gabby and meets Jessica in the Velvet Room's bar. No books were harmed. No NARCs either.

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16334/It's Good To See You Peter Parker
...s, and pulls his heavy bookbag around to root through it. Papers, books, and a pencil case spill out while he searches. He flails once, trying and

13 KB (2,465 words) - 04:59, 15 November 2023
Mark Grayson
...d and the Grayson family recieves a stipend and royalities from the travel books he had written before his 'death'. Mark's mother, Debbie, is a successful r

14 KB (2,443 words) - 04:58, 28 February 2024
6658/The Overdue Fees Will be Huge!
...erly-concerning. I was quite similar in my youth, more inclined to read my books than to seek out the raucous joy of the mead halls or the tempering of swor ...ht? All the heads of state doing their thing. Golly, I'm glad I read those books on etiquette," she says with fervent relief. She beams at Kelda and gives h

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Nazo Sarwani
woman Suicide Squad, in short, kept off the books and away from Amanda Waller, whom one faction of

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6589/The Order of St. Dumbass: Daisy's Intel.
...name's Tyler. His powers are illusion based, but only works with shit from books he's read. Someone said something about him turning a velociraptor on the s

16 KB (2,978 words) - 10:03, 17 June 2021
5743/The Playground
...rom Peggy Carter's return, she found an old SSR base that had been off the books long enough to be almost completely forgotten.    &nb ...th me then." Yeah, Koga walked right into that one. Family reunion? On the books. Maybe. Carson's handing of the beer was quickly snatched with anot

48 KB (8,871 words) - 15:59, 4 April 2021
7936/A Questionable Evening
...lli chuckles, "That wouldn't be my first choice," she explains, "How about books? Literature?" the English teacher says with a knowing smile, "Too boring fo

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11849/Checking on the guy who can't die.
...ut he's actually something of an old western folk hero. Dime novel western books, old comics, all that jazz." She adds, "He was a little horrified wh ...cies in his approach to espionage. Honestly? I like reading trashy romance books over a bottle of Chardonnay. People watching when I have the time free duri

30 KB (5,387 words) - 01:25, 3 July 2022
11352/Date Night with Gabe
...y.. Gabe." SHe cuts herself off, then smiles at him, "C'mon, lets get your books and we'll swing by to make Robbie jealous before we head off to dinner." 

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12346/Good Help is Hard to Find - and then there's Alfred.
...ontinued, patting the firearm. "I figured i'd take a leaf from all of your books and handle it myself."     There was another bea

15 KB (2,690 words) - 05:28, 8 August 2022
13263/=Sugar and spice, and everything nice
...table. (NO eating in the sunken living space!) Pepper has coloring books scattered around, as well as a well over a hundred-count of colored pencils ...expertly' filling in the lines to one of those 'mandala' grown-up coloring books (the thought being that it'd take more time!). Looking up and tucking her t

29 KB (5,272 words) - 03:12, 4 November 2022
16253/Robbinsville Roundup
...m past them. In the Library he sets up the flash bangs, and checks out the books the man has, and then into the kitchen to set up more bangs and also to rai ...'s review of the library would be pretty quick -- mostly they're reference books, and they're old, rotting, and a lot of them have mold. The fridge is in a

38 KB (7,017 words) - 05:07, 22 November 2023
12832/Who moved the damn targets
...it at the target, "Fury put me in charge of a special unit. A bit off the books.." she explains. "It's a lot of responsibility and I am not ..., sure about

15 KB (2,883 words) - 22:16, 19 September 2022
11860/Wonderland: The Girl That's Never Been
...er after carefully extracting it from the box. Even if she hadn't read the books that Terry gave her, the mirror imagery is kind of hard to miss. A House be

15 KB (2,880 words) - 12:16, 5 July 2022
5066/And Some Honky Tonks Live Up To The Stereotype
...ays. "Or at least I hope," he says with a bit of a grin. "And haha, I read books, classics mostly, another Alfred thing, he tricked me by getting me to use ... Stephanie laughs. "Sweaty men grappling isn't a negative in everyone's books, now," she tells Jason. "Sure I'll grab some on the way back," she says. Th

30 KB (5,786 words) - 21:04, 9 February 2021
5887/Even if it's just dancing in the park
...an mind.     She reads their emotions like open books, and if she wanted, she could mix them around into shifting shades, or perh

15 KB (2,718 words) - 02:44, 9 April 2021
8234/Let Me Help
...o the door and Phoebe. "He's gone by now, kiddo. I'll see that he gets the books if you're not around when he pops in tomorrow. It's time for you to head up ...her battle, and knows this is not one she was going to win. She takes the books, and using the stool next to John's, she goes half-way over the counter to

46 KB (8,599 words) - 05:16, 16 October 2021
1974/Bailar en La Rosaleda
...putting words to what you already know. That'd be easy enough, find a few books 'nd read up on the process of it all. There'll be some time in the week for

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7403/Drink Up
...ady eyes sweep over the bartender, the guy at the stool, the girl with her books, and he plants his hands at his hips. That is definitely a bushy, ringed ta

15 KB (2,786 words) - 05:17, 17 August 2021
2773/Unstopping the Unstoppable Waspette
...'s fingers a squeeze. "With an outfit and a codename, that puts you on the books. I'd say something about 'being a real superhero is in your heart' but that

14 KB (2,610 words) - 04:17, 4 August 2020
8600/A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity: Second Opinion
...Arkham Asylum is properly in its place, pens in a neat line and a stack of books arranged at perfect right angles upon his desk. He is a man who understands

15 KB (2,675 words) - 06:52, 8 November 2021
2403/SHIELD: The embiggening of a school bus
...make some notes." She tells Bobbi when they are further inside. Except the books and notes do not seem to be in evidence. "But I need to know more about thi ...wing seemingly nothing until with a sudden *fwoosh* she is holding several books, research papers, obscure possibly classified articles, and three notebooks

29 KB (5,319 words) - 11:45, 13 July 2020
13267/Those that can't teach
...d what it said for me. Words they'd never seen before. Mom has lots of big books about reading the diviners messages." Had. They were destroyed when Afterli

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Pietro Maximoff
...to flights of fancy. He is a history aficionado and reads whatever history books he can find. As a result, he is able to ramble on about dates and facts eno

14 KB (2,459 words) - 21:17, 17 March 2020
3253/How Could I Ever Know
...apartment, the camera apparently propped up on something- like a series of books. "It's Terry." The redhead is sitting at the table where the camera

15 KB (2,907 words) - 12:06, 6 September 2020
14269/Young, Just Us! Interlude: Chowderheads
...she's brought a messenger bag for storing swag and has acquired some tour books from a little tour shop near the condo tower. Her attire? Stuff for a swim ...     "You really can't go wrong with candy, or books. Or those penny-squishing machines." 

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990/S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y.. Night
...derdome in xmas lights. Of course his room is a wasteland of school books, some clothes mostly from the school store tragically, and other supplies.

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10675/Meanwhile Back at Stately Wayne Manor
...he (currently unlit) fireplace with his laptop open on his lap and several books piled on the end table next to the chair. He is pouring through a college-l ...t as nice as my room at my last house." she states, coming in with her own books -- leatherbound and old, and her sketchbooks.    &nb

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16585/!citamarD gnirotneM
...t dances in the sunshine. Seen and unseen hands polish under statues, lift books, and wipe bindings. Paintings and their frames gleam from the ministration

14 KB (2,567 words) - 04:40, 18 December 2023
9654/Weekend at Metropolis U
...o school, but I like it. On my off time, I read. I like different kinds of books. Right now, I'm halfway through a book by Umberto Eco. FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM.

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5428/Stray Cat Strut
...up closer to tax day. You know, spouses hiding refunds, folks cooking the books and hiding embezzlements from the boss. All that stuff..." From his tone of

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9326/Monitor Duty
...y the canvas." Though for her it was the portraits she was restoring, less books. Still.     As Batman moved, Arthur's attention move

15 KB (2,830 words) - 19:24, 28 December 2021
6847/Girls Night Out...
...could use a real job other than writing smutty lesbian paranormal romance books." Her eyes light up as she remembers something. "Oh! Mystique! I br ..., very, very long time. "I was just saying I was going to read one of your books, rather than going out drinking... cranberry juice and sprite," she holds u

50 KB (9,270 words) - 04:30, 14 August 2021
1040/Never skip leg day
...d forth. The book club spent most of its time trying to consider which new books to read and usually those were in the fantasy/sci-fi genre. And the art clu

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6177/Pizza is Life
...eavors. If he came to New York, I'd help him out any way I could... of the books of course." 

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509/A Call to Arms
...the collisions of plans and reality.      "Sam. Books? Isn't that a little low-tech for your tastes?" Colette stops when she sees ...|Samuel Morgan (382)}} has posed:'''     Of all the books Sam could be reading, he would happen to be caught reading 'Dune'. Classic

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Vivian Vision
...o 120 miles an hour, although currently she can only manage to carry a few books or other small objects while at the density required for flight. 

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1651/The Shameless Avenger
...to clear his mouth. "Politics are messy even when war's not on the books. If you're trying not to talk yourself into a corner, then you're someone e

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8490/Coffee with a Friend
...nbsp; Only it isn't the ususal work for Mairin. Rather than a pile of books or robot parts or even a magical tretise... She is surounded by thread, nee

17 KB (3,253 words) - 17:34, 2 November 2021
16785/Bart's experimenting
...;   "Well, I use my powers to defend historic objects. Like books, scrolls, art. Sometimes I protect museums, sometimes I am returning stolen

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10913/The Cheshire and the Great Tree
...a victim of probability. You ever read the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy books? She's kind of like Fenchurch..." He frowns. "But I am positive it can be r

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3270/With Costume You Get Egg-Roll
...:''' "My bank account. It was in excruciating pain from the tuition and books, but this finally put it on life support. Say the appropriate prayers." He

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27/The Breakstone Slasher
...ough. Hit that library they've got in there tomorrow. See if they have any books on samurai? Don't ask." He chuckles and shakes his head. "I'll be fi

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3238/If He Be Worthy
...ing the hallways, T'Challa ended up in the study. Moving along the rows of books. Spotting a favorite to pull off the shelf and examine. "I have not read th

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Abcde Prescelta
keep their writers on task and happy. Books being published is what they care most about. If an

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2348/Wired Goddess
...from below. There are a few items spread on the table -- notes, artifacts, books, and a photo of a scrap of text, the notes underneath reading HYBORIAN ERA

14 KB (2,603 words) - 08:35, 5 July 2020
13955/Street justice is police justice
...her Supernatural Hunting bag that she toted out sometimes. This had school books, pens, notebooks, and her school art kit. 

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5469/Legs Miserables
...se, but do we need to do anything special if we have like... other magical books somewhere? Or if we get them?" She spreads her hands slightly as if to show ...a note every couple of days asking when we're going to replace the de Sade books. And..." "That might be a big 'if', or maybe a big oof," she contin

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8716/Hey I know that person.
...it is hard to not slip a bit, that stuff, is more stuff I read in history books, than was there for." He admits. "But to be honest, I don't think our futur

16 KB (3,087 words) - 17:22, 11 May 2022
13936/A Time for Talking
...g about being surrounded by the smell of old leather, vanilla pages of old books and their bindings, and the sweetness of the dark wood. Generally when she

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4715/10:49 in 1949, A Late Night
...back home we can toast her farewell and another weird case of ours in the books." 

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16105/Daughter and Son of the Demon
...that it is alive. That it schemes, it works, it plans." Magcial, sentient books were a thing. Those with cunning and the ability to manipulate it were far

15 KB (2,929 words) - 05:15, 19 October 2023
7760/Welcome to the Neighborhood
...stop trembling and decides. Terry would experience something from fantasy books all of a sudden, the feeling of.. death's hand? A deep chill spreading from

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8433/For Rent.
...ck and forth from the little room (which was now slightly overcrowded with books, notebooks, and mandala posters with notes scribbled on them in ever-improv

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10886/No More Bachelor Pads
...fer th' buildin', so that'll provide me some honest income t' keep on th' books. Otherwise, been pretty quiet." 

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9118/What are the odds
...he inner office is lined with bookshelves, full of both the normal sort of books on psychiatry and also more esoteric volumes--everything from ethnobotany a ...833|Lucifer (1833)}} has posed:''' Lucifer's gaze moves directly to the books, and he passes by them with an alert, scanning quality. There's no attempt

31 KB (5,670 words) - 08:40, 4 January 2022
3879/Humans Actually Have Problems
...dless violent creatures while the demon lords sit in their castles reading books or whatever they do." He does, however, nod and shake his Slim Jim at her.

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8270/A Goth Schoolteacher walks into a bar...
...The Laughing Magician is quiet tonight. Chas is in the back, going through books. Most of the rest of the Night Brigade are off doing other things. The bart

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13442/There's No Shoes Like Snow Shoes
...hared a sip of tea herself before recapping the thermos. "People don't buy books like that to have some kind of.... summer movie blockbuster experience. The

14 KB (2,567 words) - 06:11, 26 November 2022
4987/Out of the Frying Pan
...dreamstone and puts it on an empty cubby shelf along with a wide array of books and knicknacks. The shelving shimmers minutely once his hand withdraws. "Sh

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7622/A Chance to Ketchup
...;   He clears his throat. "So uh. Do you happen to have any books hidden away here? Or should I just lie here awkwardly, until my clothes cyc ...ant. Books? Yes. "I have some Ursula K. Le Guin, and one of Schroedinger's books--I wrote some in the margins, if that bothers you--and," Tim starts to list

53 KB (9,824 words) - 05:21, 1 September 2021
11039/Wonderland: Who Are You
...on, her eyes go wide as the trees start displaying odd fruit. "Look, Mads! Books!" She rushes up to one and peers at the spine. Medulla Grammatice," she rea ...re made of paper, paper comes from trees... fruits of thought? A forest of books?" He snaps his fingers, frowning as he tries to come up with the pun, but i

55 KB (10,042 words) - 19:01, 11 May 2022
9544/Noonan's Snooze-nans
...s, really." Probably a strange thing for the man to hear - getting used to books, rather than getting used to //technology//. ...lot. Between you insisting, and Lydia's teaching, and Rahne's addiction to books..." Clarice hasn't been able to escape from it! "And Theo's pretty insistan

41 KB (7,622 words) - 12:54, 10 January 2022
172/Late Night Catching Up
...nd again?" He tilts his head back, "I ask only because I think I had those books yo loaned me. Very interesting. Though I'm afraid I didn't get to read them

16 KB (3,039 words) - 02:38, 7 March 2020
640/A royal visit
...looks over to him to whisper, "It seems like a very lovely place. How many books roughly, do you know?" 

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8346/Coffee of DOOM
...iew of the place and a look out the windows. He glances over at a stand of books, pulling one out to check the spine. ...to grab her own reading from the medical and science rack of journals and books. Eddie picks up his pastry and takes a small bite. "Wow. Ok, full marks to

27 KB (5,060 words) - 04:55, 21 October 2021
9400/World of Insufficient Light meets Daughter of Fire
...e a vampire -and- was a face she knew, the woman tilts her head. "If those books didn't scare them off, I imagine they will survive." 

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6013/The Dumpling Curse Continues
...oor. Let the staff handle the goons. Or wait for the police." He turns and books through the door. 

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8718/Scotland at 21
..., so I can get better. I read all the Lumberjanes. I like comics more than books so far. It's- all the pictures make it less intimidating, somehow," she exp

16 KB (3,029 words) - 23:04, 19 November 2021
15063/And The Word is... SHAZAM!
...rie's advisement, a little timidly. It smells wonderful, herbs, roses, and books. He was supposed to meet Nettie Crowe but realizes he has no idea what she

15 KB (2,692 words) - 04:26, 2 June 2023
3252/Demons within and without
...ng and fucking everything until a lord summons us to do something. I steal books sometimes, and I hear rumors, but I didn't think you were real." he suddenl

15 KB (2,791 words) - 12:06, 6 September 2020
12186/1953: The Russians Are Here
...cy, if she'd been one of the agents to slip into the store to browse comic books and chewing gum, she'd've known immediately that two people cozying up to t

14 KB (2,504 words) - 10:05, 2 June 2023
7602/Another Night in Gotham
...hat I'm doing, I'm just here to help. I would've checked in and signed the books, but I've had trouble finding your Union Hall." 

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8448/April Ivy
...ks interview or something. I mean, it's classier if we say it's an off the books interview and not just us hanging out on a Tuesday, right?" 

32 KB (6,091 words) - 05:45, 28 October 2021
4083/No kidding, there I was...
...hem then. It might be harder next time. And keeping these missions off the books... that's the challenge. Bobbi offered me a way to work within SHIELD. She

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