Peter David
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"Of The Mousers" – Dr. Stockman is bent on destroying the city with his army of "Mousers". Luckily, a group of mysterious ninjas have teamed up with Stockman's old lab assistant, April O'Neil, and together they are determined to save the city. Meanwhile, Stockman's boss, the head of The Purple Dragons criminal gang, is starting to piece together the identity of the mysterious ninjas that are thwarting his plans.
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"Meet Casey Jones" – As a child Casey Jones' father was tormented by the criminal gang, the Purple Dragons, driving both his father and mother to abandon him. Now Casey has become a vigilante, taking out the Purple Dragons one by one, in a quest for revenge for what they did to his family. Even though the Turtles and Casey fight for the same cause, Casey's methods are bringing him into conflict with one of the Turtles.
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"A Better Mousetrap" – April O'Neil is an inquisitive research assistant for Dr. Stockman, a scientist who claims to have created a new kind of rat extermination method. But when Dr. Stockman reveals his true plan to wreck havoc upon the city, a mysterious group of ninjas known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come to April's aid and her life is changed forever.
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"Things Change" – Childhood best friends, Frank and John, witness an accident and in the commotion they drop their baby turtles into the sewer. Years later the two friends couldn't be more different: Frank, now a police officer, is protecting the community from robot monsters while John has become a member of the evil gang the Purple dragons, yet they both have had strange interactions with a mysterious group of ninjas and their master, Splinter....
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"Bend it Like Turtles" – Dheeraj, a boy who works for April O'Neil, wants to use his skills as a black belt to impress a girl, but things go terribly wrong as he is overtaken by two thugs from a gang known as the Thoogs. With guidance from the Leonardo, Dheeraj wins his next confrontation with the Purple Dragons but things don't end there. The Thoogs now want to recruit Dheeraj and won't take no for an answer!
8) Tigerheart
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Paul Dear has grown up listening to his father's tall tales of adventure, which his mother infuses with common sense. But not even his parents know that Paul spends his days chatting with pixies and other magical creatures that dwell unseen among the living. And, at night in his room, a boy beckons to Paul from the mirror to come adventuring. When sudden tragedy strikes his family, Paul knows he must seek the great hero of his time: the Boy of Legend....
9) Q-in-Law
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Two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, and the U.S.S. Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, but his pleasure is cut short by the arrival of the Federation delegate from Betazed, Lwaxana Troi, the mother of ship's counselor, Deanna Troi. Despite Lwaxana Troi's romantic overtures toward the captain, the celebration seems...
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Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food...