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1) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vesuvian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
PLAYING GOD HAS CONSEQUENCES. Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who's like a brother, and he's about to marry the girl of his dreams. Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him. After a freak accident in the Amazon Rainforest, Jake wakes up in the hospital -- eighteen months later. Long presumed dead, he discovers his fiancée is married and pregnant, his house was...
3) Holy Fire
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus ( Time ). In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy -- if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension, has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can...
5) Silver Shark
Author
Series
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The World of Kinsmen Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen -- small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families -- control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield ... and sometimes in the bedroom. Claire Shannon...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"His body hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac space traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth Many centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported back to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does not recognize--a world of flying cars and sentient floating houses--with no memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two enthralling novels by Robert Silverberg about a future in which the minds of the living can be changed for a price-often with dire consequences In To Live Again, thanks to the Scheffing Institute, death is not the end. For a hefty fee, the soul bank stores the personas of those who have died and inserts them into the brains of willing, living hosts. It's a process that integrates the two minds, imbuing the host with a menu of highly valuable abilities,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Nebula Award-winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" is a multigenerational epic of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun ( Publishers Weekly ). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels gathered here comprise the complete Venus saga by the author of The Shore of Women , "one of the genre's best writers" ( The Washington Post ). The Venus Project -- making the planet's atmosphere habitable...
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a future without limits, humans can manipulate their genetic structure with animal DNA to become whatever they wish to be. Fast, strong, beautiful ... or deadly. The only force able to stand against these modified humans is the Agency, where brutal government enforcers are raised from childhood to protect the peace by any means necessary. For Liane, the Agency is the only home she's ever known. Alongside her Handler, Damian, she fights against...
Author
Series
Thrilled to Death volume 1
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When man plays god, evil follows in these three sci-fi fantasy thrillers by the international bestselling author whose "pacing is nonstop" ( Publishers Weekly , on Hunter ). Hunter Scientists have accidentally tapped into the deepest recesses of the human mind -- and unleash a terrifying force. Now, with an infected creature is loose in the Alaskan wilderness, the America military asks expert tracker Nathaniel Hunter to locate the beast before it...
Author
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED - This is an anthology edition of the Kinsmen Universe, which includes SILENT BLADE, SILVER SHARK, plus a new short story, and three original illustrations. ** Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen-small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families-control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits...
12) Heaven's Reach
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Prepare for a harrowing ride through the universe by the New York Times -- bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Postman. Book Three in the Uplift Storm Trilogy The peaceful existence of six outcast races on Jijo has ended. Ancient enemies, the Jophur, have discovered them, preparing to subject the refugees to their dark, perverted plans. The Jijoans' only hope is the same ship that accidently led their foes to the planet. The Earthship Streaker...
13) Infinity's Shore
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef. Book Two in the Uplift Storm Trilogy It's illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but six castaway races have managed to coexist there for some time. They've successfully hidden from watchful law enforcers of the Five Galaxies -- until now... After making an amazing discovery far away -- a derelict armada whose mere existence triggered...
14) Frankenstein
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is no greater novel and no more well-known monster than Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Now you can enjoy the original 1818 version in this beautifully designed edition . The creature at the center of this tale is more than just a lumbering giant. He is in reality a thinking intelligent being who is tormented by a world in which he does not belong. Shelley draws upon the universal themes of creation and the nature of existence with the overall...
15) Sea Change
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
New from the Nebula Award winning author of Beggars in Spain: A riveting climate-change technothriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself. In this environmental page-turner, activist lawyer Renata Black -- covert member of the Org -- must go deep underground to unravel the truth behind the ecological disaster that has paralyzed the food industry and destroyed her family. " Sea Change...
16) Dreamsnake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Hugo and Nebula Award -- winning novel from the New York Times -- bestselling author of The Moon and the Sun. On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer can even ease patients into death with the power of her dreamsnake. But she is not respected and trusted by all, and when she tries to help a sick nomad child, the frightened clan kills her dreamsnake. Ashamed...
Author
Language
English
Description
There's a heavy price to pay for the manipulation of nature in this novel from the revered author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. It begins as a boon for mankind--the creation of the substance Herakleophorbia IV. When fed to farm animals, it causes them to grow to enormous size. But when it is accidentally allowed to enter the local food chain, the consequences prove monstrous: Human children exposed to it grow into giants, reaching...
18) Silent Blade
Author
Series
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The World of Kinsmen Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen -- small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families -- control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield ... and sometimes in the bedroom. Old hatreds...
19) Nanoshock
Author
Series
Sinless volume 2
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"K. C. Alexander follows up their high-energy, high-tech dystopian Necrotech with "brutal, unapologetic, sexy cyberpunk" (Scott Sigler) that hits the ground and tears it all to hell... Riko's landed teeth-first in hell and ass-deep in a shredded reputation. Thanks to a run-in with two corporations, a nasty case of mixed-up memories and a worse case of betrayal stamped on her back, she's got a trail of dead friends and bad choices behind her no credible...
20) Buying Time
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Nebula Award-winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money--and for some, both are running out ... The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body--as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he...
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