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1) Death's end
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has...
2) The Long War
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Long Earth volume 2
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English
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A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona...the Ninth? "You will love Nona, and Nona loves you." -Alix E. Harrow. "Unlike anything I've ever read." -V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth. "Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original." -The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth. Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
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English
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Kaladin, having traded his medical apprenticeship for a sword to protect his brother, finds himself in military servitude in the wars that plague the world of Roshar, but he struggles on as commander Brightlord Dalinar Kholin tries to decipher an ancient text called "The Way of Kings," and Shallan, a young woman, trains to pull off a daring theft.
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Stormlight archive volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 71
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English
Description
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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The worst was supposed to be over. We were reunited after a decade apart. We were discovering the truth about our past. We were training and getting stronger every day. We were even happy... But we never imagined the Mogadorians could turn one of our own against us. We were fools for trusting Five. And now eight is lost for ever. I would do anything to bring him back, but that's impossible. Instead I will dso whatever it takes to destroy every last...
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Draconis memoria volume 03
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The third book of epic conflicts and arcane intrigue in New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan's Draconis Memoria series. For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fueled by drake blood--and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now the very thing that sustained the corporate world threatens to destroy it. A drake of unimaginable power has risen, and it commands an army...
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"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic...
10) One second after
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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"New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies." "Months before publication, One...
12) United as one
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Lorien Legacies volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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The Mogadorian invasion has come to Earth, and they have all but won the battle for our planet. Their warships loom over our most populous cities--like New York City, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, and New Delhi--and no army will risk making a move against them. The Garde are all that stand in their way . . . but they are no longer alone in this fight. Human teens from across the globe, like John Smiths best friend, Sam Goode, have begun to develop Legacies...
13) Babylon's ashes
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Expanse volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths...
14) Killing Titan
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After barely surviving his last tour on Mars, Master Sergeant Michael Venn finds himself back on Earth in enforced isolation. Through a dangerous series of operations he returns to Mars to further his investigation into the Drifters--ancient artifacts suddenly reawakened on the red planet. But another front in the war leads his team to make the difficult journey to Saturn's moon, Titan. Here, in the cauldron of war, hides new truths about the Drifters,...
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"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
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Dread empire's fall volume 3
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English
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Working on opposite sides of the galaxy--one in deep space, the other undercover on an occupied planet--and haunted by personal ghosts, Captain Gareth Martinez and Lieutenant Lady Caroline Sula fight to save the Empire from the vicious, alien Naxid. In a desperate, audacious bid to stop the Naxid fleet, Martinez makes a move that could win the war...and lose his career. Meanwhile, Sula's guerrilla tactics may not be enough to stop the Naxid, until...
17) Empire of grass
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Last king of Osten Ard volume 2
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English
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The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions. Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger from every side. Their allies in Hernystir have made a pact with the dreadful Queen of the Norns to allow her armies to cross into mortal lands. The ancient, powerful nation of Nabban is on the verge of bloody civil war, and the fierce nomads of the Thrithings grasslands...
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"Princess Orlaith, heir to Rudi Mackenzie, Artos the First, High King of Montival, now wields the Sword of the Lady--and faces a new enemy. Fortunately, she also has a new ally in Reiko, Empress of Japan, who has been pursued to America by a conquering army from Asia. To combat their mutual foe, Orlaith and Reiko embark on a quest to find the fabled Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword, one of the three great treasures of the Japanese Imperial...
19) Generation one
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Lorien legacies reborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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"It has been one year since the breathtaking events of United as One--and our world will never be the same.The invasion of Earth was thwarted by our alien allies known as the Garde. But in order to do so, they unleashed their Loric energy and it spread throughout the globe. Now human teenagers have begun to develop incredible abilities--Legacies of their own."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Commander Honor Harrinton of the Royal Manticoran Navy has been exiled for making a superior officer look foolish. Now, she is in command of an aged light cruiser patrolling a godforsaken quadrant of the galaxy. To cap it all, the local system's aborigines smoke homicide-inducing hallucinogens.On Basilisk Station (or "HH1" as it's known to the faithful) is the first instalment in David Weber's cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the...
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