Vikas Adam
1) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The warring nations and corporations of Earth struggle to establish a truce as an imminent alien invasion approaches.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the Belgica’s crew’s diaries and journals and exclusive access to the ship’s logbook, an epic tale of a polar expedition that went terribly awry follows the crew, as they, condemned to months of endless night and plagued by a mysterious illness, descend into madness.
3) Omar rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While attending an elite boarding school in Pakistan, Omar, the son of a servant, discovers the school makes it nearly impossible for scholarship students to graduate and sets out to do the impossible—change a rigged system.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
The bestselling, "unvarnished" (The New York Times), "engrossing" (The Guardian), "gritty, well-researched" (The Economist)—and definitely unauthorized—biography of the celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain, based on extensive interviews with those who knew the real story.
Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible...
Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
Author
Series
Adventures of Sik Aziz volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues, from wiping out the population of Manhattan in this adventure based on Mesopotamian mythology.
10) Defy me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is. Still reeling from the explosive events of the Continental Symposium and the secrets Warner has been keeping, Juliette has nowhere to turn and doesn't know whom she can trust. She's desperate for answers, but to get them, she'll have to face the nightmares that have been chasing her for a lifetime.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Living Now Book Awards Gold Medalist, Social Activism/Charity
A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change.
In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace, and LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms, many of us are...
A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change.
In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace, and LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms, many of us are...
15) Vampire breath
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 49
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring his basement, Freddy and his friend Cara discover a mysterious bottle labeled "vampire breath" and accidentally break it open, unleashing a very thirsty Count Nightwing on the town.
16) A long way home
Author
Language
English
Description
The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home, but an identity long-since left behind.
17) Lion
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
An account of the author's effort to find his India birthplace describes how he was accidentally separated from his family, his survival on the streets of Calcutta, his adoption by an Australian family, and his headline-making Google Earth search.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II, a new novel follows four individuals as they, 20 years after the war, find their lives interconnecting in Israel, in unexpected ways, and must each ask where and to whom they truly belong.
20) The Grand Dark
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"A stand-alone heavy hitter that's more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig's upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson's The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch's pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but technologically it resembles the near-future dystopias of Cory Doctorow or China Miéville [...] Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy from an author who's punching above
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