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Author
Series
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First print edition.
Physical Desc
604 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of La Colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. And...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the One volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand." After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical...
64) 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.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Foundation - The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare--that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best...
66) The Testing
Author
Series
Testing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
67) 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.
68) Brave new world
Author
Language
English
Description
Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New...
Author
Series
Jurassic Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"MOVIE TIE-IN"
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.
72) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
74) A talent for war
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Slim--fighter, leader, and interstellar hero--may, in fact, have ties to the alien Ashiyyur, and it is up to Alex to venture into the core of the alien galaxy to learn the astonishing truth.