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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Vowing to bring down the crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process.
43) Furious gulf
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In the spaceship, Argo, humans flee machine creatures determined to exterminate them. The escape route takes them dangerously close to a black hole where they discover the remains of an ancient human civilization and a way of defeating the mechs. By the author of Great Sky River.
44) Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Half Navajo American Jamie Waterman is a geologist whose dream comes true when he is selected for the first landing team on Mars. He endures the rigors of training, the personality conflicts and political intrigues, as well as the dangers of traveling over 100 million kilometers in space. Once the international crew lands on Mars, they discover they must battle not only the alien land they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. As they head...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight Christmas stories by science-fiction author Connie Willis about church choirs, presents, pod people from outerspace, wishes that do and don't come true, stars and shepherds, wise men and Santa Claus, and other trappings of the season.
46) Wildwood Road
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
Anxieties over marriage, home and work amplify the eeriness of Golden's engrossing suburban horror novel. Michael and Jillian Dansky are heading home from a Halloween party when they give a young girl on the road a lift to a strange old mansion. She leaves them with the injunction to "come find me," and suddenly their lives are no longer the same.
48) Mysterium
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own.
49) Heavy weather
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Story of a world wasted by ecological disaster, fueled by a black market in everything from semi-legal narcotics to human organs.
50) Pony express \
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Color illustration on front cover of man in white shirt embracing woman in green and purple dress; silhouette of man on horse against pink background; scene of town street with stagecoach and men on horseback.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oscar spends the summer with his inventor cousin traveling around th United States in a Picklemobile eating chicken in the bag to win a contest, while being pursued by an angry woman with mystical powers, who is also determined to win the contest.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
"West of the land called Artemisia, past mountains, valleys, arroyos, and mesas, atop a sinuous, canyon-climbing road, the Place of Power spreads clawlike at the edge of the chasm. Here are walls to hold out the dragons, ogres, and goblins of the ruined lands. And from here the Witch, Quince Ellel, peers out into a world of faded pageantry, archetypal villages, and gang-filled cities decimated by violence and plague." "The scattered remnants of humanity...
53) Darkspell
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Daggerspell" in which Nevyn, Rhodry, and Jill struggle to unite the humans of Deverry with the powerful, mysterious, and once-hostile race of Elves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Hagan, a young Burgundian prince, is sent as a foster son to Attila of the Huns as a peace offering, but when Hagan, in the midst of battle and on the brink of death, discovers the pathway to the otherworld, he realizes that the knowledge makes him a dangerous adversary of the ferocious warlord.
55) Ghost legion
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Even though the galaxy is at peace, it is an uneasy peace. Dion, the ruler, has fallen in love with a woman who is not his queen, and suddenly the fragile alliances that rest on his marriage are threatened.
56) The Icarus hunt
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The space blockade runner, Jordan McKell, is hired by an industrialist to deliver a superfast star drive to Earth. His ship is spotted by aliens who are maintaining the blockade and the chase is on.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration,...