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Handmaid's tale volume 1
Language
English
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In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child. Stripped of her most basic freedoms, (work, property, her own name), Offred remembers a different time, not so long ago, when she was valuable for more than her viable ovaries, when she was mother to a daughter she could keep, and when she and her husband lived and loved as equals. Darkly prescient, scathingly...
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Series
Publisher
Skybound Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A Sisterhood priestess whose soldiers own the rights to her body confronts a difficult choice between duty and her heart, while an elite Venus soldier questions his allegiances when he is ordered to kill his former partner.
65) The punch escrow
Author
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When he’s accidentally duplicated while teleporting, Joel Byram must outrun the most powerful corporation on the planet and find a way back to his wife in a world that now has two of him.
67) Among the free
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
68) The fold
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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Description
Despite the secret gifts he was born with, Marco Leland is content to live a quiet life in a small New England town, until an old government friend tells him that DARPA scientists have invented a device that could make teleportation a reality; but the scientists that are working on the device are changing, people are dying and reality itself seems to be warping.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The return of an old friend plunges empathic Flinx and his minidrag Pip into a maelstrom of intrigue and imagination on the planet Largess, where new trade agreements with the human-dominated Commonwealth are placed at risk by the disappearance of a powerful chieftain's daughter.
70) Throne of stars
Author
Series
Prince Roger MacClintock series volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"March to the Stars and We Few in one volume. Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat--until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded by an assassination attempt on the wild and dangerous planet of Marduk. After much travail, Roger has developed into a competent and compassionate leader of men. The competence will be tested when Roger and the Marines face an even greater...
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a routine procedure gone wrong renders a gaming billionaire brain dead, his stunned family and friends cryopreserve and digitally transfer his consciousness into an immortal tech-driven existence.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 7
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When all the second grade students must enter the science fair, which has global warming as its theme, best friends Ivy and Bean team up to create an unusual project.
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After kids start disappearing from their school, Mars Patel and his outcast friends investigate and find that all clues point to an eccentric tech genius with a popular podcast, Oliver Pruitt, who also happens to be Mars' hero.
Author
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a world where religion has been banned, inspector Adam Ferguson suspects the murder of a bishop and others like him is the result of their practicing religion illegally, until the perpetrator's target list expands to include atheists as well.
77) Heart of iron
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ana, an orphan found drifting through space, joins with an Ironblood boy to find the coordinates of a lost space ship which may hold clues to her identity, as they end up discovering dark secrets in a forgotten part of the universe.
78) The never wars
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Special Forces are used to crazy ops, but orbiting a black hole to slow down time and fight Earth's dirty battles in the future? That's new, even for them. But that's the mission for Owen Quarry, Anaya Pretorius, and the rest of COG, a company of elite, disgraced, soldiers from around the globe. They join a defrocked company commander, an AI warship with self-confidence issues, and a crew of misfit troupers on a dizzying time-quest: prove the concept...
79) Halo: Outcasts
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
2559. Formerly one of the Covenant's greatest and most fearsome warriors, Arbiter Thel 'Vadam is now allied with his former human enemies while deeply entrenched in leading the Sangheili people to a new era of unification. But his aspirations are under constant threat, whether by the dangerous, warring factions of rival Sangheili keeps, or the relentless shadow of oppression spread by the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana. An opportunity to...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Investigating a baffling murder-suicide at a Newport mansion that houses a respected think tank, Jeremy Logan discovers a secret room in the mansion filled with obscure scientific equipment related to a dangerous top-secret project.
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