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2) Cat's Cradle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book...
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Language
English
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Description
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." This is the story of what Harry...
Author
Series
End series volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Corruption in high government offices threatens to block the election of a worthy presidential candidate as Joshua Jordan and his family fight seemingly impossible odds to clear his name and protect the autonomy of the nation of Israel.
5) Spin
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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6) Domain
Author
Series
Domain trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Here lies a pipe, there a reed that could be carved into a weapon, beyond a city he once lived in. He could swear his daughter’s name began with a J, but what was it, exactly? Then he encounters an old man,...
Author
Series
Jack West Jr. novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
11) End of days
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Constructing a ranch-fortress in the Southwest to prepare for an apocalypse about which she has seen visions since childhood, Lydia, the descendant of an Apache war-shaman, desperately seeks her daughter's gonzo journalist ex, who went missing after discovering plans for a catastrophic attack.
Author
Series
Jack West Jr. novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Series
World house volume 1
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A motley band of explorers, treasure hunters, and thrill seekers unite to track down a deadly beast after it escapes from its prison within the World House.
Author
Series
Underworld Detection Agency volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Armed with a strong immunity to magic, Sophie Lawson, who works for the Underworld Detection Agency, must stop the Apocalypse with the help of Alex Grace, her favorite fallen angel, before all Hell literally breaks loose.
17) Fuse
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where those who dwell within the Dome are safe, and those who live outside struggle to survive, Pressia decodes secrets from the past in an effort to set the Wretches free of their fusings forever.
Author
Series
Books of the elements volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The great city of Carce (a fantasy world based on Europe during the later Roman Empire) and all life on Earth will be destroyed unless two young men, Corylus and Varus, and two women, Hedia and Alphena, pursue the answer to the mysterious and threatening happenings that prefigure this disaster.
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