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  “With engaging characters, a globe-trotting plot, and dangerous villains, it is hard to find something not to like. Equal parts edge-of-your-seat suspense and heartfelt coming-of-age.”

  —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

  “Fast-paced and clever, the novel reads like a mash-up of the National Treasure films and The Da Vinci Code.”

  —Publishers Weekly

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  Cover art © 2015 by Bill Perkins

  Logo design © 2015 by Jason Cook/Début Art

  Cover design by Tom Forget

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  Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

  THE COPERNICUS LEGACY: THE GOLDEN VENDETTA. Text copyright © 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Bill Perkins. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Control Number: 2015935759

  ISBN 978-0-06-219449-7 (trade bdg.) — ISBN 978-0-06-237821-7 (int.)

  EPub Edition © July 2015 ISBN 9780062194534

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