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Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order whose motto is "Community, Identity, Stability."—all at the cost of our freedom, humanity, and perhaps our souls. "A genius [who] who spent his life decrying...
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English
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"Marshall Everett has traveled a twisting, perilous road from the jungles of South America to the streets of Paris. As an undercover DEA agent, Marshall penetrated a powerful cartel and became the trusted right-hand man of a ruthless drug lord. The price he paid was devastating, costing him everything--and everyone--he loved. Back in the U.S., on temporary assignment to the Secret Service, on the presidential detail, Marshall performs an act of heroism...
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English
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"A visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal... A brilliant computer hacker slipping through top-secret databases a whisper ahead of security trackers, gathering the facts to fight the all-powerful perpetrators of mass murder... A pair of brutal operators, methodically shadowing their targets with every cutting-edge tool in the arsenal of today's surveillance...
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Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father...until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers--even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother--and Piper plans to escape.
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Series
Captain Underpants volume 12th
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
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Series
Greystone secrets volume 3
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English
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"In the dazzling conclusion to the Greystone Secrets series from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, the Greystones and their doubles, the Gustanos, must team up to save the alternate world--before both worlds are lost. All secrets are revealed in this page-turning, suspenseful story that shows the importance of teamwork, telling your story, and taking action when it matters most." --
8) Specials
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Series
Uglies volume 3
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
10) Pretties
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
12) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Eva arrives in New York City from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA. One in particular: the doctor who knows who Eva really is. Because her identity is the product of Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and...
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English
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A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sergeant Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret-even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon-a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors' signal. Now he's been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate for US...
14) Enders
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Series
Lexile measure
HL 510L
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English
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With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders--but he can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Having the chip removed could save Callie's life -- but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father.
15) The program
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The series that started it all!
In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.
Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a...
16) Cult classic
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Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And...another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with...
17) Infamy
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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When a former Army veteran suddenly murders a colonel in New York, he claims that he had to do it because he was being used in mind control experiments. Surprisingly, a top Wall Street criminal defense lawyer, one with ties to the White House, decides to defend the killer, arguing that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress from his tours in Afghanistan and that it's his patriotic duty to assist him. As New York District Attorney Roger "Butch"...
18) Game over
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (approximately 13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie during the six years she was subjected to terrifying experiments? And what is the unstoppable power that she can unleash from behind the "Door to December"?
20) Wizard for hire
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Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
410 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizards for hire."