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"One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...
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"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and...
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Girl genius novels volume 2
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English
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Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, mad science rules the world... with mixed success.
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2009.
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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An inspector of the Extreme Crime Squad, Tyador Borlu, investigates a murder of a student in two fantastical cities somewhere between Europe and Asia that not adjacent to one another, but literally occupy the same area
5) Binti: Home
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Binti volume 3
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English
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It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations...
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Becoming an overnight celebrity at age sixteen should have been a lot more fun. Yes, there were times when it was extremely cool, but when the newness of it all wore off, Annie Collins was left with a permanent security detail and the kind of constant scrutiny that makes the college experience especially awkward. Not helping matters: she's the only kid in school with her own pet spaceship. She would love it if things found some kind of normal, but...
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Book of dust volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
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HL 830L
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English
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The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia’s College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the...
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2023.
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"In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship...
11) Dissolution
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Wyoming Chronicles volume 01
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English
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For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career. He and his urban classmates see this as the adventure of a lifetime: They are going to horse-pack in the wilderness to map and test a high-altitude archaeological site. Until a cyber-attack collapses the American banking system, and an already fractured nation descends into anarchy and chaos. All credit frozen, Sam and...
12) Fourth quadrant
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Wyoming Chronicles volume 02
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[2022]
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English
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Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system. On the advice of her boyfriend, a special forces lieutenant, she is told to flee Colorado Springs and make her way to Tappan Ranch in Wyoming. As the country continues to fall apart, Lauren and Randy Howman, a co-worker at her bank, make their way through the Colorado Rockies. On the advice of Tiffany Bishop, an old friend...
14) Road to Shandara
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Safanarion order volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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Aaron Jace is about to graduate from college when his grandfather unexpectedly dies. He finds a mysterious note that tells him he is a descendant from an ancient and powerful family called the Alenzar'seth, the Lords of Shandara. Along with the note is a family heriloom with a magic all its own,and two mystical swords forged as if they were made for him. The problem is he has never heard the name Alenzar'seth or of a place called Shandara. With death...
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[2008]
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English
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Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and end up in the 'lost' town of Wormwood, a town that is in the middle of nowhere. They find something strange and sinister happening there. Bones and weird decorations line Main Street. Local Wormwood legend says on All Hallow's Eve a hundred years ago, a crazed man tortured the youngsters in town by boiling them in oil. In retaliation, the townspeople beheaded him. Seeking revenge every...
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