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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...
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In pursuit of the friends she has lost, Emma Lindsay travels between the Many Worlds to an alternative Victorian London. She wakes up in a new body: that of Elizabeth McDermott, who is being treated in Bedlam. Drugged by her physician, will Emma be able to find a way out of this alternate reality?
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Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...
4) Ashes
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. When it happens, Alex was hiking in the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised...
6) Alien Envoy
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Alien agent volume 6
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Alien Agent Zack Gaither has spent his whole life on planet Earth. His assignment: to protect humans from the knowledge of life on other planets. Finally, the time is right, and Zack has the chance to help Earth join the Galactic Union. The only problem? A small army of alien thugs is set on keeping Earth out of the picture....
7) Apocalypse
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The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand. The world is being destroyed from the inside out. It's time for them to fight to the last, in the streets and in the nano.
8) Tabula Rasa
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When a procedure to erase her troubled memories goes awry, Sarah starts to remember snatches of her past. Was she a terrorist or vigilante? Will the procedure save or destroy her? The answers lie trapped within her mind.
9) BZRK
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Conjoined twins Charles and Benjamin Armstrong have a vision: no wars, no conflict, no hunger. And no free will. A group of teens, code name BZRK, are fighting back. And the battleground? The human brain.
10) Nobody
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Author of the popular BookTok series The Inheritance GamesJennifer Lynn Barnes introduces us to . . . Nobody. There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away. That's why they make the perfect assassins. The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization....
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Josh Higgins loves to make up stories about other planets. At least he thought he was making them up. After Josh publishes his first book, sinister blue aliens visit Earth! Josh quickly learns that the worlds he wrote about in his stories are way too real.
The outer space thugs take Josh and his kid sister Maggie all the way to the desert planet Yastol. And when Josh and Maggie refuse to aid the blue guys, a chase begins across Yastol's harsh...
12) Alien Encounter
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Alien agent volume 4
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Zack's back at work again, as an Alien Agent. His assignment: find an alien kid who hijacked a spaceship to Roswell, New Mexico. Sound easy? Not quite. Because Zack's dad is going too. And he's being chased by a man with a serious grudge against aliens. Can Zack find the missing alien and keep the truth from his dad while escaping the...
13) Alien Contact
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Alien agent volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Most humans know that scientists are combing outer space for evidence of intelligent life in the universe. And most aliens know that the Galactic Union has been diligently jamming those efforts until Earth is ready to join. A small group of aliens has other ideas, though. They plan on sending humans fake messages as part of a...
14) The Saints
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Quarantine volume 2
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McKinley High has been a battleground for eighteen months since a virus outbreak led to a military quarantine of the school. When the doors finally open, Will and Lucy's nightmare is over. . . or so they think.
15) Incognita
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In the wake of an experimental procedure that almost wiped out her memory forever, Angel has a chance for a fresh start. But her superhuman mental power lingers, putting her life and others' lives in jeopardy.
16) The Loners
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Quarantine volume 1
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Infected with a virus that's deadly to adults, McKinley High students have been under military quarantine for a year. High school cliques have turned into violent gangs. But David doesn't have a gang and he's up against the whole school in a fight for survival.
17) The Burnouts
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Quarantine volume 3
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David and Will are alive...but stuck outside of McKinley High. Lucy is inside, facing Hilary's deadly revenge. Outside or inside, the trio will fight for their lives in the third book of the Quarantine series.
18) Shadows
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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The post-EMP world only gets worse as the Changed grow in number and the Spared may not survive. Facing multiple adversaries, Alex continues to fight for her life.
19) Monsters
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 30
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In the final installment of The Ashes Trilogy, Alex must face the evolving Changed, whether she's ready or not.
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