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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In [this novel], Nora Seed finds herself faced ... with the possibility of changing her life for a new one: following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist. She must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small. One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped,...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 7
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. You're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel your grapes for you, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the sun rise and the corn grow, you keep dreaming about seven thin cows and seven fat cows and, on top of everything else, the Great Pyramid has just exploded because of paracosmic instability. And then you've got to deal with all these assassins, sphinxes, huge wooden horses, mad...
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Series
Language
English
Description
An orphanś life is harsh -- and often short -- in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains -- a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans -- a group...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 63
Physical Desc
1123 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 31
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Running the family inn despite dwindling resources while her brother is away at war, Polly cuts off her hair to join the army and notices that her fellow recruits seem to be hiding secrets of their own.
Author
Series
Bone volume 3
Publisher
Graphix/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
174 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucius, Smiley and Phoney are attacked by rat creatures in the forrest, barely making it to Lucius' tavern. At the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are having strange dreams and Gran'ma Ben suddenly begins revealing long-kept secrets and new dangers.
Author
Series
Darker shade of magic volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kell is one of the last Travelers -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes--as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne -- a place where people fight...
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 6
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there's something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister curse--but it's the women around him who are dying. Harry's even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas--his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious...
Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science? In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Within this universe is a...
Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books, A division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Science of Discworld, the wizards of Unseen University unwittingly created Earth (aka Roundworld) and our universe. At the time, they were so concerned with the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants completely. Now, they have finally noticed humanity. And humanity has company: Elves, who want very much to take over human society. In this second installment in the Science of Discworld miniseries, Terry Pratchett and...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 15
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2000, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City watch needs MEN!" But what it's "got" includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus(a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... most of the time)and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil inthe air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. It'd...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the one volume 1
Language
English
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Description
It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed -- and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the...
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