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Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany...and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory in Poland.
A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism...
2) Code to zero
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale set during the height of the Cold War follows one man's journey to uncover family secrets on a quest that leads him into the heart of the nation's burgeoning space program.
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 5
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Having discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic savants as part of a plan to bio-engineer the world's next great prophet, a rogue group of Cold War scientists triggers an unexpectedly dangerous side effect in its young patients.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
Author
Series
MaddAddam volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
10) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin...
11) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
Description
When a Caltech intern notices what seems to be a spaceship decelerating towards Saturn, a new space race begins as governments hurry to get their hands on the technology.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Physical Desc
878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
13) Mississippi roll
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Hawk
Author
Series
Hawk volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hawk doesn't know her real name. She doesn't know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her.
She stays under the radar to survive...until a destiny that's perilously close to Maximum Ride's forces her to take flight. Someone is coming for her.
But it's not a rescue mission.
It's an execution.
16) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.
17) Origin in death
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a cosmetic surgeon is killed in his office with tidy precision, Detective Eve Dallas must track down the cunning, cold-blooded killer, who may be one of the doctor's beautiful female patients.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his home is attacked and his pregnant girlfriend is kidnapped, Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force confront deep spiritual mysteries tracing back to the Spanish Inquisition.
19) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin...
20) Inside straight
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new generation of aces comes of age as twenty-one of them compete against each other in a series of tasks and stunts on the blockbuster TV reality show "American Hero," and John Fortune, son of the show's creator, discovers his destiny.