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1 online resource (407 pages) |
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"Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, he hasn't had the most conventional childhood. When he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing ..."--Publisher description. |
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The son of a fortune teller, who was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, befriends a grumpy old widower and proves his friendship by getting stopped at the border by customs with a large bag of marijuana and an urn full of ashes. |
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"Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, he hasn't had the most conventional childhood. When he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing ..."--From publisher description. |
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Teenagers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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Epileptics -- Fiction.
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Veterans -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Epileptics. |
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Friendship. |
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Teenagers. |
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Veterans. |
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Great Britain. |
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Print version: Extence, Gavin, 1982- Universe versus Alex Woods New York, NY : Redhook, 2013 9780316246576 (DLC) 2012277741 (OCoLC)810122438 |
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9780316403030 : $78.00 |
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0316403032 : $78.00 |
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