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Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frightening from there. One of the true classics of science fiction.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland--everything changes. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of themselves. The islanders are hunted by the...
4) Dustborn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When raiders sent by a man known as the General attack her village, Delta suspects he is searching for her. Delta sets out to rescue her family but quickly learns that in the Wastes no one can be trusted; perhaps not even her childhood friend, Asher, who has been missing for nearly a decade. If Delta can trust Asher, she just might decode the map and trade evidence of the Verdant to the General for her family. What Delta doesn't count on is what waits...
5) Metropolis
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English
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The book behind Fritz Lang's landmark 1927 science-fiction film Metropolis This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart. , Thea von Harbou, in the novel's original epigraph Originally published in German in 1925, this expressionist epic tells a story about class difference and love...
6) Clanless
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Series
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Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (336 pages).
Language
English
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Four clans have been at war for centuries: the Kodiak, the Raven, the Wolf, and the Ram. Through brutal war tactics, the Ram have dominated the region, inflicting death and destruction on their neighbors. 17-year-old Zo is a Wolf and a healer who volunteers to infiltrate the Ram as a spy on behalf of the allied clans. She offers herself as a Ram slave, joining the people who are called the Nameless. Hers is a suicide mission-Zo's despair after losing...
7) Last Tree
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Series
Publisher
CBAY Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (272 pages).
Language
English
Description
Kira has never felt a drop of rain, but she carries a sea within her. In Kira's world, nothing is more precious than water, meaning nothing is more precious than Kira's gift. While the few remaining humans struggle to survive on an inhospitable Earth, the world government, desperate to control an even more desperate people, rations the few remaining natural resources, especially water. When the government, in the form of a bureaucrat named Thorne,...
8) Nameless
Author
Series
Nameless volume 1
Publisher
Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (336 pages).
Language
English
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Four clans have been at war for centuries: the Kodiak, the Raven, the Wolf, and the Ram. Through brutal war tactics, the Ram have dominated the region, inflicting death and destruction on their neighbors. Seventeen-year-old Zo is a Wolf and a healer who volunteers to infiltrate the Ram as a spy on behalf of the allied clans. She offers herself as a Ram slave, joining the people who are called the Nameless. Hers is a suicide mission-Zo's despair after...
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Once the red rash appears, it is too late. The victims die within hours, their rapidly decomposing bodies spreading the disease in the dust. Art, science, and learning die with them while the few survivors degenerate into feral clans. This story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the great pandemic of 2013.A former professor of literature-now a dirty old man in goatskin-tells his incredulous and uncomprehending grandsons, "I am the last man who...
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National Book Award for Fiction finalist volume 2020
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English
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"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Language
English
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"In a near-future world where tree pollen has made outdoor air unbreathable, a woman's safe but tedious life is thrown into turmoil when she witnesses a murder and her young daughter starts sleep-talking about the killer"--
12) The chasm
Author
Series
Seclusion (Jacqui Castle) volume 2
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been two months since Patch Collins escaped the Board and gone into hiding. When a familiar enemy resurfaces and she learns the fate of a loved one, Patch must make a choice: live a life of relative safety or risk everything to expose the Board's actions to the world.
13) Bitters
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Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
74 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The giant metal man has stood for hundreds of years, head tilted back, mouth open. All the dead of the town are disposed of this way, carried up the long staircase that winds around him and tipped in. At his toe emerges the Bitters, the lifeblood of the town, keeping them healthy and prosperous as the sick and needy come to buy and drink. McNubbin is a happy man with all he wants in life. He's carried the bodies up since he was 14, a worthwhile respected...
14) Poster girl
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked...
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Series
Darkest minds novels volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
507 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruby joins forces with the revolutionary Children's League to find critical information about the epidemic that has torn both her life and America apart.
16) Little monarchs
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, a sun shift has made it impossible for mammals to survive in the daylight, and ten-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, are studying the migration route of monarch butterflies along what used to be the western coast of the United States, hoping that something in the butterflies wing scales can be used to protect people from the sun and save humanity from extinction.
17) Forgotten
Author
Series
Deception game volume 2
Publisher
Clean Teen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sienna is no stranger to heartache and loss. But this time, it's different; someone--or something--has tampered with a loved one's memories, and she's determined to get answers.--Publisher
18) Fearless
Author
Series
Deception game volume 3
Publisher
Clean Teen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the run from the government, Sienna and her Fringe companions seek refuge in the primitive Zenith Camp. But navigating the camp isn't easy. It's run by a tough, no-nonsence girl named Paige who has a long, complicated history with Trey. And Sienna's caught right in the middle--Publisher
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died--winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou...
20) Catalyst
Author
Series
Deception game volume 1
Publisher
Clean Teen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Too pretty. Too smart. Too perfect. In a crumbling, futuristic Las Vegas where the wealthy choose the characteristics of their children like ordering off a drive-thru menu, seventeen-year-old Sienna Preston doesn't fit in. As a normal girl surrounded by genetically modified teenagers, all of her imperfections are on display. But after the death of her father, everything she's ever known and loved changes in an instant. With little skills to help provide...
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