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Ballantine Books
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English
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As Jacen Solo continues his rise to power, he grows increasingly like his grandfather, Darth Vader, and his evil Sith mentor, Emperor Palpatine, until he is forced to make a horrifying choice that will change his own life and those of the Skywalker and Solo families.
22) All clear
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Oxford time travel novels volume 5
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English
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Three time-traveling historians wind up in World War II England, where they discover small discrepancies in the historical record that indicate, contrary to the beliefs of time-travel theory, that one or all of them may have affected the past and changed the outcome of the war.
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Space Odyssey series volume 2
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English
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The celebrated author continues his Space Odyssey with this Hugo Award winner.
In 1968, Arthur C. Clarke's bestselling 2001: A Space Odyssey captivated the world and was adapted into the classic film by Stanley Kubrick. Fourteen years later, fans and critics were thrilled by the release of 2010: Odyssey Two.
Nine years after the ill-fated Discovery One mission to Jupiter, a joint Soviet-American crew travels to the planet to investigate the...
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English
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You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought I’d left the blood and politics behind in my own...
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Legends of Shannara volume 1
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Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Co-existing peacefully for five hundred years after creating their magically protected valley, the surviving members of four non-demon races band together against frightening creatures that are penetrating the shield around their home.
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Series
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Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Panterra Qu, a newly anointed Knight of the Word who has been entrusted with the last black staff and its powers, must protect thousands of lives that are put in danger when centuries of protective magic disappears.
29) The gypsy morph
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Series
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Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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With the fall of the last cities, demons and other minions of the dark roam the ravaged landscape of the former United States, while a small band of survivors journeys northward toward a safe haven, led by a boy named Hawk, the legendary gypsy morph.
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Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
Millennia before the rise of Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, in an Old Republic marked by an ongoing struggle between the Sidi and Jedi, Darth Bane plots to bring down the Brotherhood of the Sith and to replace it with a more powerful order.
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English
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built...
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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An illustrated anthology focusing on the world of Pern includes "The Smallest Dragonboy," "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," "Runner of Pern," and a previously unpublished Pern adventure featuring the Dragonriders.
36) Jarka Ruus
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High druid of Shannara volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Twenty years after Grianne Ohmsford abandoned her life as the evil Ilse Witch to lead the Druid Council protecting the Four Lands, she disappears, and it is up to her nephew Pen and his comrades to go to her rescue.
38) Dragon's kin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The dragonriders explore the capabilities of the dragons' distant cousins, the watch-whers, a discovery that enables them to save more lives in their ongoing fight with Thread.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"-- Publisher.
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