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1) Bridge
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with...
Author
Series
The wild robot volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--
3) The traitor
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 9
Publisher
Mercury Ink, Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xv, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With Tara still in the clutches of the Elite Elgen Guard Unit the Chasqui and their malevolent leader, the Sovereign Amash, Michael Vey and the Electroclan have no choice but to continue the fierce battle that has been waging since their arrival in Peru. But saving one of their own means battling a onetime teammate, as Jack has turned traitor and joined forces with Amash and his men. At the same time, the clan must work with the Alpha Team to act...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 160 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to the ire of the Patusan natives--the Korean conglomerate...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While playing an old fantasy videogame, Ash encounters Ruby, who seems far more than a pre-programmed side character, and together they discover she's a sentient AI originally designed as a weapon, trapping them both in deadly game that blurs the lines between real and virtual.
6) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being.
7) The Parasite
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 8
Publisher
Mercury Ink, Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn't last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
1st Scribner Classics ed.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The last book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy is a breakneck journey of suspense in which Dr. Ransom must choose sides in a battle between science and ethics. Like Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet, this is a compelling work of fiction that is also, at its heart, a timeless allegory of good and evil. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Scribner Classics ed.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem, temptation, in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".-The New York Times. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sylvestri Yarrow is on a streak of bad luck with no end of sight. She's been doing her best to keep the family cargo business going after her mom's death, but between mounting debt and increasing attacks by the Nihil on unsuspecting ships, Syl is in danger of losing all she has left of her mother. She heads to the galactic capital of Coruscant for help, but gets sidetracked when she's drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful...
11) Things not seen
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
12) Things that are
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009], �2008
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
14) Things hoped for
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
�2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
15) Exordia
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
532 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anna Sinjari--refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker--has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other...While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they...