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Flatland, a place of two dimensions peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms, is the home of narrator A. Square, who takes a tour of his bizarre homeland. This tour provides a hilarious satire on Victorian society with questions about the nature of the universe.
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a Square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions, for which the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics, and computer...
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"Following a string of mysterious murders, transfer student Soji Seta and his new friends have followed the legend of the Midnight Channel and found themselves pulled into another dimension! In this twisted TV world, a person's innermost secrets materialize as a Shadow--an entity that may become a powerful ally, or something much worse..."--Page 4 of cover.
6) Time travel
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"A nineteenth-century ship captain facing certain death at sea glimpses a ghostly figure guiding his ship to safety. Was it a pirate ghost, as the captain later claimed, or a hallucination brought on by extreme stress and dehydration? Eyewitness accounts of paranormal encounters like this one will entice all enthrall young readers. Short sidebars help develop critical thinking skills by prompting readers to consider alternative explanations, credibility...
7) Elsewhere
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Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
10) Flatland
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A fascinating science-fiction story with some biting, funny satire of Victorian society, Edwin Abbott's Flatland still has a lot to say about modern life, mathematics, people, philosophy and our perceptions of reality. The story takes us to a two-dimensional world where all the inhabitants are flat geometric shapes, and who are all firmly convinced that "length and width" is all there is.
11) Dimension W: 4
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"The ghosts of Lake Yasogami are none other than those who died there twenty-one years ago--their beings having been saved inside Dimension W by a powerful "Numbers" Coil! A young Shijuurou Sakaki and the victims of a dam flooding have been interfering with the present from their small slice of eternity. Shijuurou's sister, Marisa Sakaki, holds the key to everything, but a group of criminal Collectors after her secrets throws Hotel Yasogami into chaos....
15) Dimension W: 7
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"Traversing Easter Island's impossibly warped terrain, Kyouma finds himself once more on a collision course with the phantom Coil thief Loser. Both of them have ties to the dimensional wasteland of 'nothingness' around them, but the connection runs far deeper than Kyouma realizes. As the truth--about Kyouma's history, Mira's body, and even Dimension W itself--slowly comes to light, Kyouma must come face-to-face with the traumatic scars lurking deep...
16) Dimension W: 12
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"The Judgment Day once predicted by Dr. Shidou Yurizaki is nigh, and the Syndicate will not suffer interference. Faced with a rash of murdered Collectors and a secret that would shake the world if revealed, New Tesla turns to Kyouma and Mira for help. Yet, with few options at his disposal, what can Kyouma do to prevent this catastrophe? The secrets behind Mira's dual-ring Coil might be the first step to an answer..."
17) Dimension W: 11
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"Five years ago, a fateful encounter brought together two kindred spirits--a duo later known as the Phantom Thief Loser and his daughter. Now, Ellie is stepping out on her own to continue her adopted father's legacy. But while she's willing to do what it takes to learn Mira's and Kyouma's secrets, the danger that awaits is far greater than Ellie realizes! Can Kyouma, Mira, and Ellie survive crossing paths with the Syndicate, the greatest underworld...