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141) Uglies
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
Publisher
Moonbeam Films
Pub. Date
2012
Description
George and Lori discover the tiny bottled city of Shandar hidden deep underground for centuries. They must find a way to stop a death squad sent to destroy it and restore power to the city before it uncontrollably expands to its normal size annihilating itself and everything around it.
144) Elfangor's secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Visser Four has found the Time Matrix, the machine Elfangor had hidden, and he plans to use it to become Visser One.
145) Sword and star
Author
Series
Root code volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Three months after a brutal battle at Peris, Adam Yuga, Lochlan D'Bideshi, and their rebel fleet are embroiled in a new conflict. But things aren't going well. Even with Lock's homeship, Ashwina, at the head of the fleet, the Protectorate forces are adapting to their tactics. Before long, two devastating blows send the ragtag rebels on the run. But the greatest threat may come from within. Since the battle at Peris, Protectorate loyalist Isaac Sinder's...
146) The Transall saga
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 183
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
"Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The five novels collected in this volume - a successor to Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s - Offer an overview of the range of this science-fiction master." "Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where the...
148) 2312
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering...
149) Hammerfall
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C.J. Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels. Now at the peak of her career, this three-time Hugo Award winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall, part of a far-ranging series, The Gene Wars, set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology. In this brilliant novel -- possibly Cherryh's...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1971
Description
In a near future where a paranoid America has sealed itself off from the rest of the world by a vast and complicated defense system, a young Russian scientist infiltrates all defenses to tell an almost unbelievable and truly terrifying story. At the outer reaches of the solar system, near Pluto, has been detected a superior form of intelligent life, far smarter than man and in possession of technology that makes it immune to attack from human weaponry...
151) Starter villain
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
152) The firefly code
Author
Series
Firefly code volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
153) Annie bot: a novel
Author
Formats
Description
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
154) Altered carbon
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Series
Formats
Description
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor...
155) A maze of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.
156) Heaven's reach
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Description
An adventure novel in a world where humans have given animals the power to think and talk. The action centers on a spaceship crewed by both.
157) The outback stars
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Recovering from injuries sustained during the loss of her last ship, bored hero Lieutenant Jodenny Scott takes a berth on the next ship out, the Aral Sea, a ship full of misfits and malcontents, and journeys to the Alcheringa, an alien-controlled space warp.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1971
Description
In "The Cruel Equations," a planetary explorer finds out how lethal it can be when a robot guard has been designed to do too perfect a job. The fifteen other stories in this collection are "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?", "Cordle to Onion to Carrot," "The Petrified World," "Game: First Schematic," "Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends," "The Same to You Doubled," "Starting From Scratch," "The Mnemone," "Tripout," "Notes on the Perception...
159) Dinosaur summer
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Fifty years after Professor Challenger's discovery of the Lost World, America's last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles,...
160) The multiplex man
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
***Winner of The Prometheus Award***
Who is Richard Jarrow?
Is he the unassuming, mild-mannered teacher he thinks himself to be or something much more?
And how does the brilliant scientist named Ashling fit into the picture?
The Multiplex Man (winner of The Prometheus Award) is an intriguing thriller set in a future where every aspect of life on Earth is micromanaged by authorities who consider any deviation from the proscribed path as dangerous.
Off-world...
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