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Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
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A former captain in the Army of Karse, Alberich must take a perilous stand when his long-hidden psychic talents are revealed, and he is rescued from certain death and chosen to serve the queen of Valdemar, Karse's archenemy.
3) Firstborn
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Time odyssey volume 3
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Failing to eliminate life on Earth after their first attack, the Firstborn send a Q-bomb weapon to finish the job. Two cryogenically frozen females and a group of scientists studying the Eye, an artifact of the Firstborn, may be the only hope of finding a way to counter the onslaught.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem, temptation, in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".-The New York Times. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George...
5) Earthfall
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Homecoming saga volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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880L
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The Oversoul, a powerful computer that has the task of watching over the planet Harmony, is failing and must be taken to Earth to be repaired.
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Liath, Sanglant, Alain, and Fifth Son, fight their individual battles in the war-torn kingdoms of Wendar and Varre, with Liath struggling to master her magic powers; Sanglant, held prisoner in Gent, striving to maintain his sanity; Alain, the warrior, longing for peace; and Fifth Son, hoping to earn his father's favor in battle.
7) Mystic quest
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Bronze canticles volume 2
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Three heroes embark on desperate odysseys. For each to survive, all must succeed. For Galen Arvad's son, Caelith, hope takes the form of a stranger's voew to lead him to the lost ancestral home of the Mystics ; the faery Dwynwyn seeks salvation for her people in a distant land of unquenchable hor r o r ; and for the wizard-goblin Thux, a journey to the Ogre citaldel may elevate him to the height of power, if he own allies do not kill him first....
8) Earthborn
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Homecoming saga volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
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When the children of Harmony return to Earth, they find a much-altered world in which two intelligent races challenge the humans, while Shedemei and the Oversoul set out to find the Keeper of Earth.
9) Deep river
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"In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin...
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Homecoming saga volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Oversoul, the master computer that cares for the planet Harmony, continues to weaken, leaving it open to a challenge by the warrior Moozh and his army.
11) Breath of fire
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Kingmaker chronicles volume 2
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"'Cat' Catalia Fisa has been running from her destiny since she could crawl. But now, her newfound loved ones are caught between the shadow of Cat's tortured past and the threat of her world-shattering future. So what's a warrior queen to do when she knows it's her fate to be the harbinger of doom? Everything in her power. --Amazon
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Ten years after the Change rendered technology inoperable throughout the world, two brave leaders built two thriving communities in Oregon's Willamette Valley. But now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland.
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From "one of the greatest writers of this century," a fantasy masterpiece about the aftermath of a marriage between a mortal prince and an elfin princess. -Arthur C. Clarke
Before the fellowships and wardrobes and dire wolves . . .
. . . there was the village of Erl and the Kingdom of Elfland.
Considered formative to the development of the fairy tale and high fantasy subgenres, The King of Elfland's Daughter follows Alveric, who...
14) Sunstorm
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Time odyssey volume 2
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"Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?" "Bisesa's...
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Kingmaker chronicles volume 1
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Catalia "Cat" Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods-and her homicidal mother-have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon...
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Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts-an offense punishable by death-and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at her heels, Leena makes Noc an offer he can't refuse: powerful mythical creatures in exchange for her life. Plagued by a curse that kills everyone he loves, Noc agrees to Leena's terms in hopes of finding a cure....
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"Children of Tomorrow is a vivid and disturbing vision of what could happen in this coming century if we don't respond well to the current polycrisis. It's not a matter of end–of–everything apocalypse, but rather a continuous epic struggle to cope with wild change. Burgmann shows how the novel can be put back to its proper use describing history itself, by way of braided swift stories of people doing the epic work of survival. A novel to remember!"...
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Saga of kings volume 1
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The legendary thirteen stones once touched by the hand of the god Oum'ilah will grant immortality and supreme power to whoever can gather them and place them in the rightful crown.
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Saga of the Skolian Empire volume 1
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A novel of interstellar war that takes place in the distant future. Complications arise when the heirs of opposing sides fall in love.
20) The Soldier
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America — 1862
The nation has been torn apart by a war of secession, but not all southerners are alike and fight for their own causes. That's what Dustin Keith, a werewolf recently liberated from his mentor's guardianship, saw in Ben Myers, a Georgia farm boy serving in the Confederate Army. Only in the army so he could escape north and then find a way abroad, Dustin never expected to take part in the single bloodiest day in American history. At...
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