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2) Ventus
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English
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Ventus is a large-scale Hard SF adventure novel in the tradition of Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, and Arthur C. Clarke. Karl Schroeder, a physicist and writer.
Young Jordan Mason, on the terraformed planet Ventus, has visions. Kidnapped by Calandria May-a human from offworld sent to investigate the AIs (the Winds) of Ventus-Jordan is desperate to find the meaning of his visions, desperate enough to risk calling down the Winds that destroy technology...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
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English
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
8) Uglies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
9) Deepsix
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Series
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English
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In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a...
10) Galaxy Quest
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space ... and then their series was cancelled. Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
11) X-men
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Because of unique genetic mutations, children with extraordinary and dangerous powers are born into a world filled with prejudice. Under the tutelage of Professior Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind.
12) Hollow man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Detemined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to phase III: human experimentation. Dr. Caine uses himself as the first subject.
13) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
14) Red planet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Looking starward for a solution to the dying of Earth, something no one expected awaits.
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
17) Forever free
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English
Description
William Mandella, a veteran of The Forever War, has settled with his family on a snow-covered planet where he makes a living ice fishing and teaching physics, but when a group consciousness known as Man takes control of his new home, Mandella organizes other humans to take to the stars to begin humanity anew.
18) The time traders
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Series
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English
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In an effort to discover the source of the alien technology the Russians are using, Ross Murdock travels back in time to Britain in the year 2000 B.C. to uncover the Russian base of operations.
19) The 6th day
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence.
20) Fahrenheit 451
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English
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NOW AN HBO FILM STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND MICHAEL SHANNON Sixty years after its originally publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden....
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