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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 19
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs.
Author
Series
Ringworld volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson's puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector Tunesmith, a Ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world. All the star-faring races of Known Space have sent warships to the Ringworld, and they are already at the brink of war. If fighting breaks out, the near-indestructible Ringworld will be destroyed: dissolved by antimatter weapons.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition spreading through the rig. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below -- on "Deep Storm," a stunningly advanced science research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The top secret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 16
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
373p ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaper himself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death's adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang." With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint,Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 26
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Discworld, the managent of time is entrusted to the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater, to cities, where citizens are forever asking, "Oh where does the time go?" Going against everything known, a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world's first truly accurate clock, but if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, time as we know it will stop. History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice...
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
434 p. : ill., map
Language
English
Description
The Red Star, that celestial curse whose eccentric orbit was responsible for Thread, has been shifted to a harmless orbit, and the current Threadfall will be the last. Technological marvels are changing the face of life on Pern. And the dragonriders, led by F'lessan, son of F'lar and Lessa and rider of bronze Golanth, and Tia, rider of green Zaranth, must forge a new place for themselves in a world that may no longer need them.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very...
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 24
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
viii, 438 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story alternates between two times--the immediate present, more than 500 turns since the first landing on Pern, and 400 turns earlier, when geneticist Wind Blossom, whose mother had created the dragons, was still alive. The situation in the later period is dire: thread is falling, and the dragons are sickening and dying. Only Wind Blossom can save the dragons, and that seems impossible. Time is the literal cure, however, and making the impossible...
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