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1) Carrie
Author
Language
English
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Carrie White could produce motion in objects without contact or other physical means. This little-known phenomenon, known as telekinesis, is produced in individuals under circumstances of extreme psychic stress. And Carrie was indeed pushed beyond human limits, as she unleashed her frightening power upon a small New England town.
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent,...
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 6
Language
English
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Description
For years the Garde have fought the Mogadorians in secret, but now the invasion has begun. If the Garde can't find a way to stop the Mogs, humanity will suffer the same fate as the Lorien: annihilation. When the Elders sent the Garde to Earth, they had a plan -- one which the Garde are finally starting to understand. A group of the Garde traveled to an ancient pyramid in Mexico where they awoke a power that had been hidden for generations. Now this...
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
433 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends, for the last time. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices...
5) Carrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1976
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of...
Author
Series
Frost files volume 1
Publisher
Orbit Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
482 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers -- a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she's normal for once. But then a body turns up at the site of her last job -- murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled...
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
445 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.
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