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Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Read Alikes for Dune
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Read Alikes for Dune
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
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Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
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First Law World volume 1
Language
English
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Duke Orso imagines that he can become king by ending the civil wars that have devastated Styria, but he errs by trying to kill his overly popular general, mercenary Monza Murcatto. Recovering from her massive injuries and mourning her murdered brother, Monza vows vengeance on Orso and half a dozen of his accomplices.
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Powder mage trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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After his attempted invasion of Kez fails, Tamas must retreat to defend his country from the angry god, Kresimir, while Inspector Adamat tries to rescue his wife from the evil Lord Vetas in this sequel to Promise of Blood.
5) Scourged
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Iron druid chronicles volume 9
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English
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In a conclusion to the series, Granuaile McTiernan joins immortals Sun Wukong and Erland Shen in a fight against the Yama Kings in Taiwan, while Archdruid Owen Kennedy tries to keep the world safe for his apprentices and the future of Druidry, and Atticus races to save Gaia and see another sunrise.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world.
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher-for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular...
7) Empire
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Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Author
Series
Jeffrey Fuller novels volume 6
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
10) Witchmark
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Series
Kingston cycle series volume 1
Language
English
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In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his own. Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be enslaved to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man,...
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Seraphim novels (David Dalglish) volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After their parents are killed, twins Kael and Brenna Skyborn become Seraphim, aerial soldiers who use ice, fire, stone, and lightning as their weapons, as they prepare to fight in the brutal civil war occuring on the islands floating above the Endless Ocean.
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Dwarves (Markus Heitz) volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
There has been no word from the courageous warrior Tungdil since the bitter struggle at the Black Abyss. Dragons, magicians, and the cruel lfar have advanced far into the kingdom, seizing land. The dwarves face their next battle with very little hope of survival.
13) Victorious
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Lost fleet volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When he leads his fleet back into Syndic space to convince the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses, to surrender, Captain John "Black Jack" Geary is confronted by an even greater alien threat.
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Sibyl's war volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Facing a dead-end life at the side of a criminal, 19-year-old Nicole is manipulated into helping kidnap a doctor before all three are whisked away by mysterious beings to a ship where they are compelled to join the crew in fighting a war against power-seeking enemies -- Novelist.
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Imager portfolio volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Promoted to commander and assigned to convice the Pharsi High Council to submit to Lord Bhayar's rule, Quaeryt leads an Imagers team into hostile lands once held by the tyrannical Rex Kharst, where they confront a powerful order of women.
16) Guardian
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Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Admiral Geary's First Fleet of the Alliance survives the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally.
17) Voidfarer
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Series
Moonworlds saga volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
At first Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought the huge oval thing that had fallen from the sky was a dragon's egg. When it opened, however, he knew that it was much, much worse. His world was being invaded by pitiless sorcerers from Lupan, who could sweep whole armies aside, and even defeat the invulnerable glass dragons. Surrender or flight were the only options ... but not for Inspector Danolarian, his Wayfarer Constables, and his sweetheart, the...
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Halo series. Kilo-Five trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
Halo: Glasslands saw a very different development in the war that Earth has been fighting for so very long. With terrible losses on both sides, finally open hostilities have ended. But though a fragile peace has been established between Earth and the peoples of the Covenant, forces on both sides make that peace precarious. A schism among the Sangheili is gaining strength, with a splinter group trying to unseat the leader who agreed to peace; and while...
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Fleet school volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Cards bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Enders Shadow series.Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the...
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarrissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten. A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all. To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience...
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