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Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Female Science Fiction Writers
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
Newbery Award Winners
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Aging writer Kilgore Trout finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is a murderous satire looking at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America
Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer in Midland City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to act accordingly. Science fiction writer Kilgore Trout is on his way to the Midland City Festival of the Arts. When they meet,...
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Gideon Crew volume 5
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English
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Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 2
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English
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Under Miss Beatrice Lockwood's plain gray gown, a pistol waits at the ready. Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission and with a secret past and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball and who then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. Joshua Gage is a cipher in the shadows with a hypnotically calm voice...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Set in the near future where climate change has wreaked havoc in parts of the American Midwest, a government agency exiles members of society deemed unproductive to a colony known as New Eden. An ambitious and impartial caseworker, Noah Kross investigates a case appealed by a single mother and her son. Determined to expose government secrets, Kross sets off to save the lives of the mother and child.
7) Moonfall
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mankind is threatened when a mysterious force throws the moon out of orbit, and sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth.
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
"An expansive, expensive adventure whose creativity outweights its more uneven elements."--Variety.
"Valerian...
10) Gemini man
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Henry Brogan, an elite assassin, is suddenly targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative that seemingly can predict his every move.
Just as he is about to retire, middle-aged assassin Henry Brogan discovers he is a target and the person hunting him is a younger clone of himself that can anticipate his thoughts and actions.
11) Ad astra
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When a mysterious event in space threatens Earth, an astronaut sets out on a journey to find his long-lost father, who went missing during an expedition to Mars.
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Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Sanity and Tallulah live in a space station at the end of the galaxy. When Sanity's illegally created three-headed kitten escapes, the girls have to turn their home upside down to find her in this graphic novel"--
14) Paycheck
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Having had his short term memory erased after working on a series of top secret projects, a computer engineer discovers that he has agreed to forfeit all pay in order to regain his past.
15) Chaos walking
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On a dystopian planet without women, Viola crash-lands in the middle of an all-male colony and together with Todd, its young member, they set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
16) 65
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An astronaut crashes on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Set in the near-future, this series follows employees and patrons of Westworld, a vast theme park modeled after America's Wild West. Over the course of three seasons, Westworld's android "hosts" begin to display aberrant behavior that explodes in violence, and takes the battleground between humans and hosts into the real world.
18) Man of steel
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English
Description
Clark Kent confronts his extraterrestrial origins and fights to save humanity when Earth is invaded by General Zod and his army.
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
19) Bloodshot
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Based on the best selling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as the superhero Bloodshot by the RST Corporation. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he's an unstoppable force--stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. But in controlling his body, the company has sway over his mind and memories, too. Now, Ray doesn't know what's real and what's not, but he's on a...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Set in the '90s, Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent on their destruction name Scourge.
"These Hasbro action...
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