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1) The prestige
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each other's...
Author
Series
Steampunk chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
Author
Series
Dirk Gently volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When a check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk's battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator ... or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world's most off-kilter private investigator?
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Language
English
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"Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence...
6) The Bookman
Author
Series
Bookman histories volume 01
Language
English
Description
When his girlfriend is killed in a terrorist attack committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes involved in a web of secrets and lies. His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of a London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself.
7) Everland
Author
Series
Everland volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Description
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure. Their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden...
Author
Series
Bone season volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population. But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilizing the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging. Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom...
11) Mortal engines
Author
Series
Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 1
Predator cities volume 1
Predator cities volume 01
Mortal engines quartet volume 01
Predator cities volume 1
Predator cities volume 01
Mortal engines quartet volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.
12) 28 weeks later
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of the London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited, but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The regenerated Doctor (David Tennant) travels through time and space with his companion Rose Tyler encountering strange lifeforms and protecting the Earth from alien invaders. This season is filled with more thrills, more laughs, more heartbreak and some terrifying new aliens and old acquaintances.
15) Children of men
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.
18) 1984, a novel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
A chilling portrait of a totalitarian society under the ever-watchful gaze of Big Brother, where love, privacy, and individuality are banned. The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's nightmare vision from 1949 of the world we are becoming is timelier that ever. 1984 is the great modern classic of a 'negative utopia' - a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Spurred on by his best friend, twelve-year-old Thomas uncovers two major family secrets: that he was adopted, and that his perfect-seeming family is part of an other-worldly organization.
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