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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
'It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.' First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear --...
2) Sorrowland
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Vern gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong-not with them, but with her own body...A genre-bending work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the history of American racism"--
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Language
English
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People are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilities — and rights — of "amplified" humans. On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a new persecuted underclass known as "amps." Owen is forced to go on the run, desperate...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew — and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him,...
Author
Series
Includes Andromeda volume 1
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
675 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
6) Remember me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her. Kittridge, known to the world as “Last Stand in Denver,” has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware...
Author
Series
When the wind blows volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known. All that the children want is to return to the one place...
9) Nano
Author
Series
Pia Grazdani volume 2
Language
English
Description
A lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the foothills of the Rockies, Nano is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nanorobots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria.
But when Pia Grazdani takes a job there, she’s shocked by the secretive corporate culture. She’s warned by her boss not to investigate the other work...
But when Pia Grazdani takes a job there, she’s shocked by the secretive corporate culture. She’s warned by her boss not to investigate the other work...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Randall needs to start over, and Crescent Cove looks like the ideal place for the widowed pharmacist to begin again. What could be more perfect than running an old-fashioned pharmacy in an idyllic small town on the coast of northern California? But soon after purchasing the charming drugstore, Paul discovers it will be anything but business as usual in his new locale. Although Crescent Cove seems prosperous, there is also something about it that...
11) Receptor
Author
Series
Limitless novels volume 2
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From Alan Glynn--the author of Limitless-- comes Receptor, an irresistible thriller that reveals the origins of MDT-48 and the consequences of unlocking the human mind. On a Friday evening in 1953, Madison Avenue ad executive Ned Sweeney enjoys a cocktail in the apartment of a strange and charismatic man he met hours earlier. Ned doesn't know it, but he has just become a participant in Project MK-Ultra, a covert, CIA-run study of mind-control techniques....
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
506 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Where are the children?: Nancy Harmon had been found guilty in a California court of murdering her two young children, but she was released from prison on a legal technicality. Deciding to make a fresh start, to change her identity, she left San Francisco and sought tranquillity on Cape Cod. Seven years later, Nancy is remarried and has two small children: five-year-old Michael and three-year-old Missy. Finally she feels that she has been able to...
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