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Fractalverse volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"July 25th, 2234. The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
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Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up...
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Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
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English
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The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend.
Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror - Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising...
5) Defiant
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English
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Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she's willing to go for victory.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A man awakens in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the “real world” should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving...
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Secret projects volume 4
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English
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Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad's strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next. But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn't keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the...
8) Ascension
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious...
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 428 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one of the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories,...
10) Princess of Dune
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Heroes of Dune volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib-Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned...
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English
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"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
178 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... A world in threatened. A young queen must save her people. A dark evil rises again. A young Jedi is discovered. The journey begins.
13) In ascension
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
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Downworld sequence volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction. WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes,...
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Series
Star Wars adventures volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Nallastian freighter sends out a distress signal and a Fondor Space Patrol ship responds. Although they cannot find the freighter, they do find a mysterious ship that appears to be the Sun Runner. The Sun Runner is a ghost ship that supposedly carries devices that will render other ships inoperable. Shortly after dispatching a message droid to the superior, the Space Patrol vessel suddenly goes silent.
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Series
Wild robot volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--|cProvided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.
The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.
Can she help the magnificent...
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Publisher
Source 7 Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
337 pages.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-new stories, seventeen bestselling authors regale us with adventures of animal companions and how they often are the ones rescuing the rescuer. New stories by / in the world of Jim Butcher ? from The Dresden Files Faith Hunter ? from Jane Yellowrock Patricia Briggs ? from Mercy...
19) ARCA
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Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) , illustrations ; cm.
Language
English
Description
The world ended, but the wealthiest citizens had a plan…the ARCA.
Aboard a craft headed for a new planet called Eden, earth’s billionaires live a life of luxury, all served by children and teenagers who toil in exchange for a promised life of freedom once ARCA makes landfall.
One of the teenagers—Effie—begins to suspect that not all of this story adds up. And as she pulls at the thread of the ARCA, larger mysteries reveal themselves. And...
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English
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"A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of 'depression plague' that people refer to simply as 'The Grey.' No one can predict whom it will afflict, or how, but once infected, there's no coming back. A young Hong Kong based scientist, Lily Barnes, is trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world. The human race is dwindling, and people fighting to push forward are increasingly rare. One day, Lily comes...
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