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1) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl... Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's,...
2) Winter
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend--the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes...
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3.5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the Fairest of them all? Pure evil has a name, hides behind a mask of deceit, and uses her "glamour" to gain power. But who is Queen Levana? Long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress in The Lunar Chronicles, Levana lived a very different story -- a story that has never been told . . . until now. Marissa Meyer reveals the story behind her fascinating villain in Fairest, an unforgettable tale about...
4) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is splintered. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price than she'd ever expected. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai, especially the cyborg mechanic.
5) Scarlet
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
This is not the fairytale you remember. But it's one you won't forget. Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. The police have closed her case. The only person Scarlet can turn to is Wolf, a street fighter she does not trust, but they are drawn to each other. Meanwhile, in New Beijing, Cinder will become the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive -- when she breaks out of prison to stay one step ahead of vicious Queen Levana. As Scarlet and Wolf expose...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a ... book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
7) Noor
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Connor is a 20-something living on the streets as a common laborer. His mother has since died, and their earlier efforts did not stop the creation of SkyNet artificial intelligence network. As he will still become the leader of the human resistance, Connor is once again targeted by a Terminator sent from the future by SkyNet. This new Terminator, T-X, is a female and is more powerful than any of her predecessors. To protect Connor, the human...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Burn was once human. He also had a family and friends, until a metallic angel of death took everything from him. This mechanical monster, Shoftiel, was one of many living machines made to help humanity that revolted and declared war on their creators. It tore through Burn's home and wreaked havoc on his city until the buildings collapsed, crashing down upon them. Emerging from the rubble, Burn and Shoftiel discover their once separate bodies have...
Publisher
Manga Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1995
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2029 a female cybernetic government agent and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of "The Puppet Master", a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together, with her fellow agents from Section 9, they embark on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.
Author
Series
Novel of the Company volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are "dealt with." Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas, and Bell-Fairfax, are determined to rescue her, but first they must learn how to live together, because all three happen to be sharing Alec's body. What they find when they discover Mendoza is even worse than what they could imagined, and enough for them to decide to finally fight back against the Company.
12) The Terminator
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah Connor protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
13) Hello, gorgeous
Author
Series
Gorgeous novels volume 1
Publisher
Brava
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One minute I'm out with my sorority sisters; the next there's a terrible accident (beyond my friend Stacey's outfit) and I'm waking up in some weird clinic transformed into a human cyborg--with a mission: to stop evil and stuff. Uh, hello? I've got a beauty salon to run.
Granted, it is cool to run faster than a Ford Mustang when I need to, even if it's totally hard on my shoes. But then I have to bring in another human cyborg on the run? One who...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like humans. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. The story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task.
Author
Series
Novel of the Company volume 5
Publisher
TOR Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cyborg biologist Mendoza has been exiled to the extremely distant past to live her immortal span farming maize and lettuce for wealthy tourists of the twenty-fourth century. She occasionally reminisces about the man she loved in, first, the sixteenth, and then, the nineteenth century. Then, one day, he crash-lands in her cornfield. It isn't precisely he, of course, but someone from the same Company project named Alec Checkerfield and gone pirate.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
115, [29] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 (WE3) have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program's prototypes, and now that their testing is complete, they're slated to be permanently "decommissioned," causing them to seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom. Relentlessly pursued by their makers, the WE3 team must navigate a frightening...
17) Blade runner
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
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