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1) Earth abides
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960L
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English
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"First published in 1949 and the winner of the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951, Earth Abides went on to become one of the most influential science-fiction novels of the twentieth century. It remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth"--
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Ashes series (William W. Johnstone) volume 26
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English
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After a nuclear holocaust, an ex-soldier and his rebels fight a Nazi madman in Africa in this adventure from a USA Today–bestselling author.
Africa—ignited by the burning rage of Bruno Bottger, a power-hungery lunatic living out Hitler's nightmare vision for the future. But even Bottger isn't prepared for the aftermath of his own sick ambitions.
Germ warfare strategy has turned African civilians into killing...
Africa—ignited by the burning rage of Bruno Bottger, a power-hungery lunatic living out Hitler's nightmare vision for the future. But even Bottger isn't prepared for the aftermath of his own sick ambitions.
Germ warfare strategy has turned African civilians into killing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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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.
4) The returned
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Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party. They've settled into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time...Until one day Jacob appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world, people's loved ones are returning from the beyond. As chaos...
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'All over the world women and girls are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain, and even death. And with this small twist of nature, everything changes drastically. Ambitious and provocative, visceral and page-turning, award-winning author Naomi Alderman's THE POWER at once takes us on a journey to an alternate reality and exposes our own world in bold and surprising ways."--
6) Markswoman
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Series
Asiana volume 01
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English
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"An order of magical-knife wielding female assassins brings both peace and chaos to their post-apocalyptic world in this bewitching blend of science fiction and epic fantasy--the first entry in a debut duology that displays the inventiveness of the works of Sarah Beth Durst, Marie Lu, and S. J. Kincaid. Kyra is the youngest Markswoman in the Order of Kali, a highly trained sisterhood of elite warriors armed with telepathic blades. Guided by a strict...
7) Sea of rust
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"In this post-apocalyptic "robot western," critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill brilliantly chronicles the tale of a scavenger robot wandering in the wasteland left after the war that destroyed humanity"--
8) Antiphon
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Series
Psalms of Isaak volume 03
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English
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The ancient past is not dead. The hands of the Wizard King still reach out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to regain control of the magick and technology that the monks sought to understand and claim for their own.
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Books of Before and Now volume 1
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English
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"Papa Lucy saved the human race. He was a sorcerer, a lawmaker, a god. Papa Lucy led millions from the fires and destruction of the Before, into a savage new world known as the Now. Then, when the crops failed, when the livestock died, Papa Lucy gave hope. He gave civilization to the broken leftovers of humanity, their minds wiped blank when they stumbled after him, through the secret places and out into the Now. Papa Lucy saved the human race. Papa...
10) Eternity
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Opposing groups clash over control of the Corridor, an access point to alternative worlds in the past, present, and future.
11) The vagrant
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Years have passed since the demon swarm-- and humanity's destruction-- emerged from the Breach. As each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity, bent and twisted by the new order, corrupted by the Usurper, the enemy, and his infernal horde. The Vagrant is friendless and alone, walking across the desolate, war-torn landscape. His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make...
12) Canticle
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Psalms of Isaak volume 2
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English
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The noble allies of General Rudolfo gather for a feast in honor of his first child, a celebration that is attacked by invisible assassins who murder all of the guests and deliver an ominous message for the Hidden Pope Petronus.
13) Darkest heart
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Anya-a stoic, blue-winged angelic warrior-was bitten by a demon prince in battle, and now she has precious little time to find a cure for his deadly venom. But the only archangel with the power to stop the dark poison from corrupting her body and soul is missing. She'll have to trust her guide, the outcast high demon Dommiel, who is as handsome as he is dangerous if she has any hope. An outcast of his own kind, high demon Dommiel stays under cover...
15) Dustborn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"When raiders sent by a man known as the General attack her village, Delta suspects he is searching for her. Delta sets out to rescue her family but quickly learns that in the Wastes no one can be trusted; perhaps not even her childhood friend, Asher, who has been missing for nearly a decade. If Delta can trust Asher, she just might decode the map and trade evidence of the Verdant to the General for her family. What Delta doesn't count on is what...
16) Decipher
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"In the greatest tradition of Jules Verne, and with the breathtaking depth and pace of Michael Crichton, Stel Pavlou's Decipher is a roller coaster ride through an epic of an adventure." -- Cover.
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"When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, the world is vastly different from what he remembers. Arrogant and bombastic, he comes down the mountain expecting an easy conquest: the wealthy, spectacular city-state of Kathmandu, ruled by the all-knowing, all-seeing tyrant Al Karma. To his surprise, he finds that Kathmandu is a cut-price paradise, where citizens want for nothing and even the dregs of society are distinclty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When Darroti, a young merchant in the city of Lemabantunk, is accused of murdering a highborn woman, he and his family are exiled to the unknown world that lies beyond a mysterious gate, where they encounter a world tormented by hatred and warfare.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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"According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living...
20) Karma of the sun
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"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
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