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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.
A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury— eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions
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Series
Shannara novels. Word & Void trilogy volume 1
Word and the void volume 1
Shannara novels. Word and Void trilogy volume 1
Word and the void volume 1
Shannara novels. Word and Void trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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On July 4, the town of Hopwell in Illinois, is invaded by demons intent on destruction. Opposing them is Nest Freemark, a girl who has magical powers. The drama comes when a demon announces he is her father.
3) Dust
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Series
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English
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"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
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Series
Expanse volume 3
Language
English
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Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
5) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company.
Author
Series
CoDominion universe. Second Empire volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1994].
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series is available in this collection, including a brand new novella. Includes Drive; The Butcher of Anderson Station; The Churn; Gods of Risk; The Vital Abyss; Strange Dogs; Auberon; and The Sins of Our Fathers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again
Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including:
Ender prequel series coauthor Aaron Johnston on Ender and the evolution of the child hero
Burn Notice creator Matt Nix on Ender's Game as a guide to life
Hugo award–winning writer...
Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including:
Ender prequel series coauthor Aaron Johnston on Ender and the evolution of the child hero
Burn Notice creator Matt Nix on Ender's Game as a guide to life
Hugo award–winning writer...
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Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An anthology of nineteen tales by well-known authors of young adult and adult literature which explore the lives of teens raised after a catastrophe, either in the first few years after the change or in the distant future.
10) The Bacta War
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Series
Star Wars novels. X-wing volume 4
Language
English
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Tyrant Ysanne Isard has seized control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta for a decidedly unhealthy purpose--to destabilize and annihilate the New Republic. Undermanned and without Alliance support, Rogue Squadron faces an overwhelmingly superior force--and nearly impossible task: to oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from the grip of a madman in a winner-take-all battle.
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English
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In a story set 10,000 years before the classic Dune, we discover the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild). Roderick Corrino is forced to take the throne after the assassination of his brother. He knows that the Navigators are the key to charting a glorious future for humanity ... or the end of civilization.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Joe Haldeman is the esteemed Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Forever War. Things are going nowhere for lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller-especially not after his girlfriend drops him for another man. But then while working late one night, he inadvertently stumbles upon what may be the greatest scientific breakthrough ever. His luck, however, runs out when he finds himself wanted for murder-in the future.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
The course of Kes' life seems set: she'll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas Ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she's content with that path -- or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their desert and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins need is a healer who is not quite human ... or a healer who...
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English
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Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is offered a possibly Mephistophelean proposal by which he might gain a perfect love and a magical immunity......
15) Magic street
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Mack Street, an abandoned child adopted by a Los Angeles neighborhood, discovers that he has strange powers that allow him to dream the dreams of others and to enter a parallel world in which his actions affect the real world.
16) I, robot
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Series
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English
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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
17) The shining ones
Author
Series
Tamuli volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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