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1) Departure
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"The world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the...
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2015
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After two decades in space, a man returns to Earth as something new and not completely human, in this “enormously inventive” novel by a Nebula Award winner (Galaxy Science Fiction).
Twenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having impossibly survived catastrophic...
Twenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having impossibly survived catastrophic...
3) Bunker 10
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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680L
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Something is going terribly wrong at the top secret Pinewood Military Installation, and the teenage geniuses who study and work there are about to discover a horrible truth as they lead a small military force trying to retrieve data and escape before the compound self-destructs.
4) Seed & Bone
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A gifted paleobotanist and rising star in the scientific community, Dr Yvette Coradi spends most of her time in a lab where she replicates ancient climates and synthesizes extinct plant life for study and use in the development of new medicines. Her skills bring her to the attention of a time traveling expedition team whose leaders invite her to take part in the latest mission: a backward jump millions of years from the world Yvette knows to gather...
5) Obsessions
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In the year 2019, a man spends his declining years with his cat. His home is in a lightly forested area, providing them with calm, scenic views. Both their healths are in decline, the man's from a hard-to-diagnose disease, the cat's from old age.
In the year 2294, a patrol cruiser was launched into the service of the third fleet. It served under several captains until it was pirated in 3045. Its new captain now uses the ship and a one-of-a-kind technology...
6) Mad Wolf
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The accidental time travel allows Chen Zhicheng to see his destiny. At the same time, it also brings the hope of reversing fate. In this only one year of life left, at this moment when the end times are coming, he has to kill his way out and get what he must get. Family, friendship, and love are indispensable. Those who stand in my way, kill without pardon!
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It began with death.
It began with a journey destined for hopelessness.
A baby basket is left on the doorstep of a Monastery. Inside it, is the frail body of a new-born baby girl with a bad skin condition from birth, and is left for dead. The medical condition known as Epitheliogenesis imperfecta would lead her realise that only very difficult options existed in the life she would have to live. A life full of pain and dejection, devoid of love, that...
8) The Message
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Bram looked through tears as he looked down at the back of the moon. He was surprised that there was enough light to see the pock marked surface as the moon slowly made its way past them. He had successfully learned how to Fold time and space and move an object into position. On this Fold his two ships, Wheel One and Wheel Two were within sight of each other. It was their first time at moving into an away from the Earth position. The trial was secret,...
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Being the son of a leader is never easy but Alien Travelers Kellan and Tendra just want to be like everyone else on Earth, that is until they come face to face with anti-Trav humans, an experience that will forever change their direction in life.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe – specifically, human and alien hybrid kids. But when terrorists threaten Kate's ability...
10) Impostor Fae
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Body length of two meters, hard armor green, teeth like serrated, head like a praying mantis, open mouth yellow water dripping, this ugly and smelly scythe mantis host, but waving covered with bristles chelipeds to Li Yan sent a friendly message, Li Yan calmly pierced its skull, from the jaws into, skull cover out, the so-called "open window" - - "Sorry, I'm not your kind, I'm an impostor. - "Sorry, I'm not your kind, I'm an impostor." There are even...
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Poor Zhang Xiaoshi has crossed over, and what's even more pathetic is that he has crossed over to the post-apocalyptic world where zombies are rampant. When Zhang Xiaoshi was at a loss for words, he was surprised to find that his consciousness had dovetailed with the Transformers' homeland, Cybertron. Well, dear Transformers, the end times, is your real stage! ...... "Do not put so many apertures on my head, salvation gods and horses are floating...
12) Paingod
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Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories. They not only knock you down . . . they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship...
13) Fallen
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Dr. Dakota Thomas isn't prepared for the gunshot victim who rolls through his emergency room doors. Michael Ricco looks like a young Marine in a world of trouble, his dog tags, however tell a different story. How could the military have no record of him? Why was he shot in the back in the middle of the desert, and why were thirteen people murdered to keep his secret? More than that, how could he have a birth date of 1898? In a world where genetic...
14) Experiment X
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In a twist of fate, instead of giving birth to a boy, the doctors got it wrong. Several years later, she now is to oversee projects at the Source Energy Organization. But something is not quite right... What if everything around you is not what it appears to be? You awake from a procedure only to find yourself in a strange place. Only these colors, sounds, and feelings seem familiar. Something is different. But what? Experiment X series is full of...
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Veracity's the personal assistant of her thirty times great grand uncle, the thousand year old astronaut. It's not such a bad gig, earning her the social and financial credits to live her life the way she wants. But then someone decides it's not fair that Jasper should live so long and takes steps to find out why. They harass and kidnap Jasper and it falls on Veracity to find and rescue him. Nobody's listening to her though. Nobody thinks this actually...
16) The City
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Second book in the Zombie Transference Series.
Warrant Officer Wagner and the rest of the survivors have just spent the last few days after they arrived in a strange alternate reality Earth seemingly stuck back in the 1950's trying to escape from the truth of a zombie apocalypse.
Driving toward a distant city where the military is holding out they must find that site to have any chance of escape.
Yet the trip is dangerous and while the infected are...
17) The Wolf Pack
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"Finally, something you all know about-this epidemic of what we've called convulsive accidents. Cases of mild poisoning and electric shock, with the victim suffering muscular spasms and going into a hazy and unrealistic mental state that sometimes lasts for days. There have been altogether too many of those 'accidents.' It's as if there were a silent wolf pack around us-dozens of the red-eyed beasts-"
18) Gamma - Tome 2
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En 2039, l'humanité est en proie au Fléau, une maladie énigmatique qui prive aléatoirement les individus de quatre de leurs cinq sens. Lucile Arias, en fuite, reçoit un appel urgent du laboratoire Radius. Ses anciens ennemis la sollicitent, car elle est la seule à être immunisée contre le Fléau. Dotée d'une vue exceptionnelle, elle s'engage courageusement dans un périple à travers une France dévastée par la maladie, accompagnée d'amis...
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There's a fresh grave dug at the Fairfield Funeral Home and all it's missing is a tombstone.
For months Alex Cheradon has been on the receiving end of a helping hand from Jonathon Bragan. But Bragan's help has been nothing more than a careful manipulation of Alex. Bragan's reaching the part of his plan where it's time to make his true intentions known to Alex. Of course, when that happens, the price of Bragan's help is going to come due as well.
Devon...
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