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Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1872 Phileas Fogg bets his friends he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. So he sets out from London with his faithful servant, Passepartout, on an incredible journey. Going by train, steamship, sailing boat, sledge and even elephant, they face many surprises--and setbacks--along the way. There is not time to lose--will Phileas make it home before the final hour and win the wager?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
4) Defy me
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is. Nothing in her world is what it seemed. She thought she's defeated The Reestablishment. She thought she'd finally taken control of her life, her power, and her pain. But a lifetime of lies unravelling before her has changed all that. Stronger, braver, and more resilient than ever, Juliette must fight for life and love. But first she has to survive the war being waged against her mind. She has to remember...
5) Winter
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Princess Winter, admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, teams up with the cyborg mechanic Cinder and her allies to defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters.
6) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
8) Restore me
Author
Series
Shatter me volume 4
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
It's been sixteen days since Juliette Ferrars killed the supreme commander of North America and took over as ruler of the Reestablishment on the continent... Juliette thought she'd won. She took over sector 45 and now has Warner by her side. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch--and with so much power in her young hands, the world is watching her every move, waiting to see what happens next.
9) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Series
Providence Falls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Liam O'Connor has one purpose in this life, to push the woman he loves into the arms of another man. The Irish rogue unknowingly changed the course of destiny when he fell in love with Cora McLeod over a century ago. Their passion was intense, brief and tragic. And the angels have been trying to restore the balance of fate ever since. Now police officers in Providence Falls, North Carolina, Liam and Cora are partners on a murder investigation. The...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a fiery passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever." -- Provided by publisher.
12) Stargate
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
Author
Language
English
Description
"All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn't want to see her today--or ever again. But she can't resist. She parks outside the open gates...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Press, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
440L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Avengers fight the Biomechanoids. They need some extra help! Iron Man and Black Panther have an idea to save the day."--
15) The peripheral
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
"William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant"--
In her forest-veiled pagan village, ⁹vike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodlineher father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maya has had a price on her head from the day she escaped the TechCorps. Genetically engineered for genius and trained for revolution, there's only one thing she can't do--forget... Gray has finally broken free of the Protectorate, but he can't escape the time bomb in his head. His body is rejecting his modifications, and his months are numbered. When Maya's team uncovers an operation trading in genetically enhanced children, she'll do anything to...
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 619 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
19) Lodestar
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
676 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Foster is back in the Lost Cities--but the Lost Cities have changed. The threat of war hangs heavy over her glittering world, and the Neverseen are wreaking havoc. The lines between friend and enemy have blurred, and Sophie is unsure whom to trust. But when she's warned that the people she loves most will be the next victims, she knows she has to act. If the Lodestar Initiative was the Neverseen's version of Project Moonlark...did that mean...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (738 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being torn apart by the Pioneers Morgan's group is not dispensed across their far-reaching settlements, with life behind the Pioneers' walls testing each of the group's members in different ways, and forcing them to define who they really are in this new world. As Morgan's bid to free the remaining members of the group grows bolder, Virginia's desperation to find her sister accelerates, as does her need to protect the settlements from the enemy...