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1) Beautyland
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"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The...
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"When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to: 1. Nearly be fried by a superhero who turned out to be a supervillain. 2. Come face to face with Jin, the handsome boy of her dreams. 3. Discover a conspiracy involving an evil corporation that she made up. And it's all happening in her fictional webcomic world. Mina is trapped in the story she created. Now it's up to her to save everyone. Even if it means losing Jin forever"--...
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"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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770L
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Originating in a prehistoric era in a dark cave and traveling through time and lands, including ancient Egypt and the period of the Salem Witch Trials, a powerful story of enduring love unfolds as it is brought to a resolution in the present day.
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Magic books (Andre Norton) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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An old pillow, found in an attic trunk, guides three children through a maze to a house with an unusual occupant. Includes reader's guide by Tor Books.
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Binary star volume no. 1
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Destiny Times Three presents a fascinating exploration of the concept of multiple realities and potential futures. The narrative unfolds as the story of Joel Latham, a physicist who discovers a method of viewing alternate versions of the future. In this novel, the Earth is on the brink of destruction due to a series of atomic explosions. Joel, along with his wife and close friend, decides to use his invention to glimpse into various potential futures....
8) Big time
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Pub. Date
2024.
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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2023.
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"During their temporary research post on Apech--a planet ravaged by a time distorting illness--Wilhelmina Ming and four other elite students of the Crysthian empire have witnessed such illogical brutality that they've resorted to psychedelic antidepressants and group sex to take the edge off. After a night of indulgence following a gruesome execution, they wake to find an oblique warning in the form of an impaled corpse dangling from the exterior...
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Excerpts from an unknown guidebook volume 01
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790L
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Some things should never be opened... Ever. You have been warned. In Book I: Phases of the Moon, we discovered that Folktellers are travelers of time and space, sharing the stories people need to hear. Much has been revealed since Aaron, Wendy, and Jake first uncovered Pap's secret and learned the importance of the phases of the moon. But their adventures are far from over. In Book II: The Cave in the Rock, Aaron continues to learn what it means to...
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2024.
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"It's been two years since the world collapsed in a sheet of light, obliterating everything on Earth...but not quite everyone. Saved from the apocalypse by three mysterious beings, sisters Hannah and Amanda Given were marked with silver bracelets, along with four other survivors from their native world, and transported to an entirely different Earth, a place where the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances. Afflicted with time-bending...
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560L
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"When mysterious footprints appear in the Stockholm snow, Kara attempts to discover where they've come from and who they belong to. They lead her to Rebecca, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and her younger brother Samuel. Before long Kara realizes Rebecca and Samuel are refugees from another era--World War II--trying to find their way to safety. Her new friends are trapped in a dangerous loop, and it's up to Kara to help them break free"--
13) Light
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In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.
In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet...
In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet...
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Enchanted attic volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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When twins Linus and Ophelia and their friend, Walter, bring Tom Sawyer into the real world, Tom immediately starts trouble but when Ophelia, with whom he has fallen in love, is kidnapped, Tom is determined to save her.
15) Saving Moby Dick
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Enchanted attic volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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Orphaned fourteen-year-old twins Linus and Ophelia and their friend Walter think they can control the powers of the enchanted attic, but their plans backfire when they bring crazy Captain Ahab from the book world into the real world.
16) Screenplay
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Wealthy young dilettante Alys is as out of place in the Los Angeles of the 1980s as he is on the film sets of the 1920s. And yet that is exactly where he ends up, thanks to the intervention of a film director named Nesselrode, who seems to have traveled straight from the dawn of Hollywood into the present, and who, one day, leads Alys into the catacombs of an abandoned movie theater. The pair emerges in a black-and-white fantasia where silent films...
17) Fall Through
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Love and Rockets meets Russian Doll in this original, full-color graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour—from National Book Award–winning cartoonist Nate Powell.
At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas's first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided—largely...
At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas's first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided—largely...
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In the city of time volume 02
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"In this heart-pumping sci-fi sequel to In the City of Time, two people have to work together to prevent the cataclysm that will soon break the laws of physics and render Earth uninhabitable. Now in possession of the most dangerous book ever scribed, Willa and Saudade settle into the nineteenth century and start planning how to avert the cataclysm that will soon break the laws of physics and render Earth uninhabitable. Faraz only wants his best friend,...
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2024.
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Español
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"Se abre una nueva puerta. Existió un tiempo en el que había cuatro mundos, encajados como las páginas de un libro, cada uno latiendo con un poder mágico y conectados por una única ciudad: Londres. Tras un intento desesperado de prevenir la corrupción y la ruina de los cuatro Londres, solo tres quedaron en pie: el Londres Gris, próspero pero apenas capaz de recordar su herencia mágica; el Londres Rojo, rico y poderoso, gobernado en los últimos...
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