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A powerful mind magier and spy poses as a pampered princess to try to determine who is stealing royal tearstone, in the first novel of a new series set in the Crown of Shards world. Gemma Ripley's reputation for being a pampered princess is carefully crafted to hide the fact that she is a powerful mind magier-- and a spy. Prince Leonidas Morricone of Morta is her mortal enemy, but she must join forces with him to discover who is stealing tearstone...
2) Wildcard
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Series
Warcross volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Emika and the Phoenix Riders are determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, but Emika's survival depends on the ruthless Blackcoats whose help comes at a price.
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Finishing school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 780L
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English
Description
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
4) Blasphemy
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Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 2
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English
Description
The Torus, the world's biggest supercollider, is locked in an Arizona mountain. Built by Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius, for the purpose of divulging the mysteries of the creation of the universe, there are others who believe it will suck the earth into a black hole, or that it's a challenge to God. When 12 scientists are sent to turn the machine on, they discover a secret that will either destroy the world or save. Either way, the countdown...
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Dark biology volume 2
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English
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The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates...
6) Zero-G
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English
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In the year 2050, eighty-year-old deputy FBI director Samuel Lord and his space-based "Zero-G" men must stop the Chinese from using a weapon that, unknown to them, could destroy Earth.
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts...
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Series
Finishing school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
9) Zero world
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Includes the complete bonus novella The Dire Earth, a prequel to the bestselling sci-fi adventure The Darwin Elevator."
"Published in rapid succession, Jason M. Hough's first three novels, The Darwin Elevator, The Exodus Towers, and The Plague Forge, earned mountains of praise and comparisons to such authors as James S. A. Corey and John Scalzi. Now Hough returns with a riveting near-future spy thriller that combines the adrenaline of a high-octane...
10) Dark state
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Series
Empire Games volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse. Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross' new story-line, and perfect entry point for new readers, in The Merchant Princes series. In the near-future,...
11) Tempest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over again, learns that his father is a spy, and discovers powerful enemies of time who will stop at nothing to recruit him for their own purposes.
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In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection-and fake the death-of a leading Soviet scientist. A ferociously cool fable" (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city"
13) Mindwalker
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Would you ever surrender control of your mind? Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. In the ten years she's been rescuing imperilled field agents for the Syntex Corporation - by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety - Sil hasn't lost a single life. And she's not about to start now. She's got twelve months left on the clock before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, and she's hell-bent on...
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Series
Black Widow (Margaret Stohl) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Graduates of Moscow's famed Red Room spy school are taught to keep their enemies close and their loved ones at a distance. Now Natasha and Ava-- the Black Widow and the Red Widow-- are searching South America in order to extinguish a smuggling operation. The Red Room attempts to assassinate them, and hacks their secure S.H.I.E.L.D network. Now no one can be trusted-- and no one is safe.
16) Spaceheadz
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
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English
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
17) Thirst
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Series
Thirst duology volume 1
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English
Description
A waterborne disease has contaminated the world's fresh water, decimating the human race. Seventeen-year-old Eli McShane and his friends flee the chaos and violence in Phoenix and journey north toward the rumored location of a safe water source. They add several to their number, including the mysterious Hannah, who is being hunted by a dangerous man. Desperation brings out the worst in many of the travelers, infecting even those closest to Eli. When...
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Dark Talents novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meets X-Men in a classic British espionage story. A young woman must go undercover and use her superpowers to discover a secret Nazi plat and stop an invasion of England. In 1936, there are paranormal abilities that have slowlyseeped into the world, brought to the surface by the suffering of the Great War. The research to weaponize these abilities in England has lagged behind Germany, but now it's underway at an ultra-secret...
20) Sunkiller
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you found the secret of a lifetime? What if you could change the universe? Chase Weston never would have thought being the bodyguard for an archaeologist would be so dangerous...even an archaeologist digging for the remains of an alien civilization on another planet. But everyone wants what Dr. Angel Cortez has found... no matter the human cost. Because beneath the dirt and stone lies an ancient mystery, a secret history, and...
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