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Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to get much worse. He is taken to an abandoned island occupied only by Dr. Moreau, a disgraced English scientist for his unethical treatment of live creatures. Prendick finds that the Doctor has been up to old habits, using...
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Space Odyssey series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Frank Poole is revived, but he must recover Dave Bowman and HAL before he can rescue humankind from the third monolith discovered on Jupiter.
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1980
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English
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Fly to Mars and explore the mysteries of the red planet. Journey through time to futures ruled by cold computers and hear the deafening roar of dinosaurs in the past. Sing the body electric and look into the mechanical eyes of androids that want to replace human life as we know it. Visit idyllic landscapes and nostalgic towns that hide sinister secrets. Available in one massive collection for the first time digitally, experience the wondrous mind...
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First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane's novel of the sudden arrival-and equally sudden departure-of spaceships above Earth--
First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane's novel of the sudden arrival—and equally sudden departure—of spaceships above Earth. The arrival of spaceships can bring up a lot of big questions: What does it mean that we're not alone? Why did aliens...
45) The fall of five
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Lorien Legacies volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde go into hiding. They must learn to master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. When they receive a sign from Number Five--a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol--they know they are close to being reunited. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it's too late....
46) Touched: a novel
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Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil.--
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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes:...
48) Foundation
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Foundation series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
49) Son
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Giver quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
50) Rogue protocol
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Murderbot diaries volume 3
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"The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good."
51) Mars
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Twenty-five astronauts travel to Mars. But even before the landers touch down, political and personal friction threatens to ground the mission.
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House of El volume 3
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Sera and Zahn, two teenagers on opposite sides of the same extinction-level event, are drawn deeper into conspiracies that could doom them both--if the planet does not self-destruct first.
53) Lifeblood
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Everlife volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Having chosen her realm in the Everlife, Ten faces the consequences of her decision and endeavors to save her Secondlife while the war between Troika and Myriad rages, a situation that is further complicated by Ten's inability to forget Killian.
54) Mississippi roll
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Wild cards volume 24
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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After the suspicious death of a crew member on the historical steamboat Natchez, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman seeks to discover the ship's secrets, including the truth behind ghostly sightings of its first captain.
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Manticore Ascendant volume Book 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating...
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Manticore Ascendant volume Book 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"From multiple New York Times best selling author David Weber and #1 New York Times best selling author Timothy Zahn. NEW ENTRY IN BEST-SELLING SERIES. Book #2 in the Manticore Ascendant series, set in David Weber's Honorverse. Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately, he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one...
57) Uglies
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Uglies volume 1
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Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Classic Bradbury, this collection of tales offers images that are as keen as a tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that stain the body. Featuring a new Introduction, The Illustrated Man presents 18 startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds...
59) Chimera
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Parasitology volume 3
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English
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The worm has turned. This is the point at which the world could no long afford to pretend that nothing was wrong. The end began in a thousand places at the same time, sending little cracks through the foundation of mankind's casual dominion over the Earth. It was born of hubris, and it started slowly, only to gather in both speed and strength as the days went by. September 13, 2027: Timestamp 18:21 The Outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations...
60) Agency
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Peripheral volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital...
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