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1) Great Apes
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Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend's loving arms. Much to his dismay, however, his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee....
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Spiral Mirror is a science fiction thriller and passionate love story based on tapes recorded by a college professor, Karl Grayland, while trapped at the foot of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 as it is about to erupt. This event brings him into the jaws of death for the love of two women: Laura Russell, a young attorney who on their journey to Seattle reveals to Karl that she is pregnant with his child; and Ariel, a sprite of a girl whom they rescue along...
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All her life, Eveningstar of the Pure has honed her survival skills against the strand, a nanotech organism, which infests most of the planet. And she has always shunned the Tainted, those who replace their body parts with tamed strand to enhance their bodies and minds. But then a gang of child soldiers kidnaps her brother, taking him to the distant Gridlands, past a gauntlet of shape-shifting monsters. In an eternal war between technology and nature-between...
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A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is an exuberant literary debut--a novel of real ideas and a playful examination of our in-between world, one that explores the nature of family, identity, art, and belief while also marking the introduction of an original new voice in contemporary fiction.
Owen Burr is the six-foot-eight, Olympics-bound senior captain of the Stanford University water polo team. In his final collegiate match, however, he suffers a catastrophic...
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In Year 2134, Earth, our galaxy, and beyond face extinction. Samuel O’Dalis, an empty shell of a good man, accidentally uncovers an interdimensional plot that changes reality itself. A concept so far beyond his comprehension, O’Dalis cannot grasp it as anything other than an ancient legend.
A Descent into the Wicked explores the legend of "The Shadows." It tells of an ancient, ruthless inter-dimensional alien species that invades the universe...
6) Reader
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Bobby Butler can read minds. He discovers his new gift in the worst possible place-high school. It doesn't go well. The fantasy of reading minds, of knowing exactly what other people think-of what they think of you-is very pretty. The reality is quite different. It begins with a beating, a lesson in the limits to his ability. It will end when he decides whether his new power will be a gift or a curse, for himself, his family and everyone around him....
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What Does It Mean To Be Human?
In a futuristic society where people were forced to leave a devastated Earth behind and set up their lives somewhere out amongst the stars. Three people wrestle with forging connections and building community in the face of intolerance and fear.
RAVI has been Re-Animated, brought back to life by the government for purposes unknown. When the Resistance raid the Re-Animation Centre halfway through his welcome...
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The first in the Inter-Planetary Alliance novels, cozy space operas set in a world where the rules are strict to keep people safe, but leave little room for individuality and case-by-case needs. Follow an adorable found family of space travellers as they try to navigate bureaucracy and budding relationships.-Basti needs 3 things to make his brand new– well, new to him –ship run:Firstly, He needs enough of a crew to get them safely spacebourne....
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Can a super-villain be rehabilitated?Jaquan Ramirez, also known as Chaos the Clown, believes he has been and can't wait to reunite with his daughter.His past catches up with him on the day of his release from prison, when a crime lord wants to be repaid the money he stole from him. If Jaquan doesn't return the goods, Hoss the Boss will take his daughter's life. But, if Jaquan uses his super-powers or is involved in any illegal activity, he will...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
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Bad Therapist: A Romance, is a playful comic novel recounting a romance between a mild-mannered New York City psychotherapist and a blue alien from outer space. It is best described as sui generis - but if you have a sense of humor about psychotherapy and a curiosity about what it might feel like to be sitting in that other chair... this might be for you.
13) Seveneves
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"A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain ... Five thousand years...
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D.O.D.O volume 1
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"A discreet translation assignment enmeshes a linguistics expert and a military intelligence operator in the world-shattering revelation that magic was once widely practiced and can be reactivated if they travel back in time to make historical changes that are complicated by human treachery."--
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The whateverpocalypse. That's what Toure, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn't alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn't explain where everyone went. It doesn't explain how the city became overgrown with vegetation in the space of a night....
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Incidentals volume 9
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With their last mission deemed a relative failure by Bo, Taylor, Vanessa, and Nuke are reaching their breaking point; feeling more and more used than part of a team, fraction lines are beginning to grow even wider. Meanwhile, Shannon becomes closer to Seven, while drifting further from Alex. Marko and Bo discuss how to fix their slowly fracturing team, but will their solution breach the gaps between the group or only drive them all further apart?...
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Ever since the night of "The Event," Bo Vincent Chen has had visions of an epic catastrophe making its journey toward Earth. To combat this potential future, he's brought together a team of enhanced individuals known as the Incidentals. However, each assigned mission has more often led down the path of failure than success for the team. With each new disaster comes another fracture between the team and Bo . . . fractures that threaten to rip the team...
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Incidentals volume 8
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The Incidentals are fractured, perhaps beyond repair. Despite Marko's best efforts, Shannon remains indifferent to joining the ragtag team, while Alex is still recovering, and Taylor, Nuke, and Vanessa flounder between trusting and questioning Bo. No time for that, though; a new meteor-enhanced individual has shown up on the radar, and they're about to go straight nuclear. The Incidentals team has to put aside their personal feelings to deal with...
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Incidentals volume 6
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Alex Winters, in an attempt to help the team save the captured Seven, ended up captured himself and in the hands of Professor Whisper. The rest of the team isn't going to take this lying down, however, and mount another rescue mission to save their would-be teammate from being a scientific experiment. The team suits back up, this time with Bo Vincent Chen joining them for reasons all his own. Alex Winters, in an attempt to help the team save the captured...
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Noble volume 9
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The dust around David Powell's memories has finally cleared, and he has finally reunited with his wife Astrid. Now able to rejoin his family, David takes a moment to breathe in his new life. But with new chances come new responsibilities for both David and Astrid, as they navigate the lingering secrets between them and David's newly found status as a hero figure.