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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
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Series
Wayward children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy trigers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances.
Author
Series
Barsk volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
"An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of humanity's genius--animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings. The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracized...
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Series
Duelists trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The epic conclusion to the fast-paced new adventure fantasy series, the Duelists trilogy, from one of the most exciting new talents in fantasy.
Vocho and Kacha may be known for the first swordplay in the city of Reyes, but they've found themselves backed into a corner too often for their liking.
Finally reinstated into the Duelist's Guild for services rendered to the prelate, who has found himself back in charge, Vocho and Kacha are tasked with...
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Series
Publisher
ROC
Language
English
Description
After a two-year training with the Order that erased his memory, Greenshank undertakes a mission to use magic to help Navronne, but events cause him to remember his past as an evil sorcerer and recognize that corruption has seeped into the Order itself.
6) Visitor
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
Working with the aiji-dowager a year after returning from an interstellar mission to discover that their government had been overthrown, Bren Cameron finds his efforts to reinstate peace throughout the atevi world challenged by an unexpected new threat.
Author
Series
Dagger and the coin volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGS Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation and the priests of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the violence builds and the cracks in his rule begin to show, he will risk everything to gain her love or else her destruction. Clara Kalliam, the loyal traitor, is torn between the woman she once was and the...
Author
Publisher
Forge Books, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
"For centuries the Túatha Dé Danann lived in peace on an island where time flowed more slowly and the seasons were gentle--until that peace was shattered by the arrival of invaders. The Gaels, the Children of Milesios, came looking for easy riches and conquest, following the story of an island to the west where their every desire could be granted. They had not anticipated that it would already be home to others, and against the advice of their druids,...
Author
Series
Dead enders volume 2
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Language
English
Description
Edgar Nmumba is the only person who knows how to neutralize the Coalition's deadly Q bomb, but after he is captured by the Coalition it is up to Nathan Pretorius and the Dead Enders team to rescue him from a remote maximum prison in the Antares Sector.
10) The spider's war
Author
Series
Dagger and the coin volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and the weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent war of all against all. In Carse, with armies on all borders, Cithrin bel Sarcour,...
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