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41) Candide
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end." that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Panlosss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cundgonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters.
43) Wildwood Road
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Series
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.
44) Mysterium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
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.
45) Heavy weather
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Story of a world wasted by ecological disaster, fueled by a black market in everything from semi-legal narcotics to human organs.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
"Somewhere in the galaxy, millions suddenly perish in a blinding instant of pain, anguish, and despair - a disruption of the Force so shocking, it is felt by Luke at his Jedi academy on Yavin 4 and by Leia at home on Coruscant. It is a deed that rivals the terrifying power of the Death Star, the long-destroyed weapon of the defeated Empire. But where did it happen? And how? And why?"--BOOK JACKET. "Then death comes to Coruscant itself. As Leia, head...
51) Death dream
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Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
A thriller set in the world of virtual reality. In Florida, a company creates an amusement park which gives people the impression they are walking on the moon, swimming under the ocean, or playing major league baseball. But delusion has its downside and in this case it is deadly. By the author of Dream of the Wolf.
55) Tides of light
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1989
Description
A small human band flees from an enemy it cannot hope to combat--superior artificial minds in great insectlike machines.
60) Poison sleep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Marla Mason is the target of a renegade assassin, a situation that worsens as she and her partner Rondeau deal with a troubled psychic who has escaped from the Blackwing Institute for criminally insane sorcerers.