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Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked...
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A Collection of the most notorious works of H.P. Lovecraft.includeTHE CALL OF CTHULHU (1926)I. The Horror in ClayII. The Tale of Inspector LegrasseIII. The Madness from the SeaHERBERT WEST - REANIMATOR (1922)I. From the DarkII. The Plague-DaemonIII. Six Shots by MidnightIV. The Scream of the DeadV. The Horror from the ShadowsVI. The Tomb-LegionsTHE LURKING FEAR (1922)I. The Shadow on the ChimneyII. A Passer in the StormIII. What the Red Glare MeantIV....
3) Lightning
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 24
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1090L
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"A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere - the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later - another bolt of lightning - and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed to be? The devil in disguise? Or the master of...
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[2022]
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"In this new collection, Richard Thomas has crafted fourteen stories that push the boundaries of dark fiction in an intoxicating, piercing blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Equally provocative and profound, each story is masterfully woven with transgressive themes that burrow beneath the skin."--Dust jacket flap.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
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HL 450L
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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HL 650L
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English
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 41
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860L
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On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray metal protrusion she discovers in the ground is part of a mysterious and massive metal object, one that may have been buried there for millennia. Bobbi can't help but become obsessed and try to dig it out ... the consequences of which will affect and transmute...
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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 5
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[2016]
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A collection of stories set in the Black Tide Rising universe during an apocalyptic zombie attack features contributions from popular science fiction writers, including Eric Flint, John Scalzi, Dave Klecha, Sarah Hoyt, and Jody Lynn Nye.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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1170L
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
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HL 770L
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English
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- who got to this place the same...
11) City of bones
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Mortal instruments volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
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HL 710L
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"When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing-not even a smear of blood-to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?...
12) The toll
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"State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east to west, and you'll cross six bridges. Take it from west to east, and you might find seven. But you'd better hope not. Titus and Melanie Bell leave their hotel in Fargo for a second honeymoon canoeing the Okefenokee Swamp. But shortly before they reach their destination, they draw up to a halt at the edge of a rickety bridge...
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2017.
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"Warning! Frightening beasts inside. The forest is quiet. Something has scared the animals. Something...unnatural. A monster is on the loose. And Amrita Lakhani needs to crack the case. With the help of famous monster expert Kid Kaiju and his own monster, Fireclaw. The young reporter is about to break the biggest story of her career when she comes face-to-face with the gruesome Gorgilla! Amrita's terrifying adventure includes a special appearance...
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Galaxy of fear volume 7
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Zak and Tasa's vacation to the palace of Jabba the Hutt turns creepy when they visit the B'omarr monks who live in tunnels beneath the palace and want to tranfer the brains of wanted criminals inot the bodies of his unsuspecting followers.
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1996.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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While on a spaceship that travels at near light speed, Paige Christian's work is to study the changes on earth throughout two centuries; when a disaster befalls earth and she returns, she finds an unimaginable future.
17) The hollow skull
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1998
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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At first glance, the people of Madison seem normal, but late at night they plot to take over the world and get rid of the human race, and now someone needs to stop them before it is too late.
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2020.
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"From Wild to Wilder, you are offered a journey into the Worlds of Joe R. Lansdale. Go on a fishing trip for dinosaurs in the arctic and meet numerous characters from adventure novels and pulps, as a man unsure of his identity awakens to discover he has a job to do, if he only knew what it was and who he was. Cave men. Secret lairs. Visit the old West and be at the famous fight of Adobe Walls with Nat Love and his friend Black Hat Jack. Trapped in...
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2014.
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"A reclusive man, retreating to the Irish countryside with his sister, finds himself one day at the portal to another dimension. Years later, amid the crumbling ruins of his home, a pair of travelers find his diary and its horrifying details of the terrors that stalked his world--grotesque, swine-like monsters crawling from an abyss to swarm about the doors, fierce storms that threatened to unleash malevolent supernatural powers, and a harrowing vision...
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Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of human souls. They rule the planet. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
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