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83) Starter villain
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
84) One second after
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Apocalypse prophecies and terrorist uprisings in a near-future world erupt when, after an EMP attack, all of the planet's technologies abruptly stop working, triggering global looting, food riots and insurrections--a situation that places humanity's fate in the hands of a small mountain village in the American south.
85) Leech
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated chateau housing the Interprovincial Medical Institute, which has replaced every human practitioner of medicine, a parasite invades this fortress, spreading madness in this already dark pit of secrets, lies, violence and fear, and making a battlefield of the body where humanity will lose again.
86) Green mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
As colonists begin to transform Mars into a livable, Earth-like planet, tensions erupt between those who would alter the planet into a paradise for humanity and those who wish to preserve the planet's harsh, barren beauty.
87) Recursion
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a suicide, New York City police officer Barry Sutton finds a connection to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and a controversial neuroscientist working to preserve precious memories.
88) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"-- Provided by publisher.
89) Nightchaser
Author
Series
Nightchaser novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Captain Tess Bailey and her crew are on the run from a dangerous tyrant, and their best hope for help is a tall, dark and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When an unwitting act of betrayal leads to the capture of his android Gio, who once hunted humans, Victor Lawson and his assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to the City of Electric Dreams to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
92) The terraformers
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, Destry is dedicated to terraforming the planet Sask-E until she discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, and as she uncovers more about their past, she starts to question the mission she’s devoted her life to.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
96) Unravel me
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Juliette has escaped to the headquarters of the rebel resistance and though she is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an astronaut confronts dangerous family secrets to stop a world-threatening crisis.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own powers make him a type of messiah figure among humans.
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Language
English
Description
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
100) Earth unaware
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
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