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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"The Resistance is in ruins. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa--their names are famous among the oppressed worlds they fight to liberate. But names can only get you so far, and Leia's last desperate call for aid has gone unanswered. From the jungles of Ryloth to the shipyards of Corellia, the shadow of the First Order...
Author
Series
Shadowfell volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"To rescue her homeland from tyranny, Neryn must seek out the powerful Guardians to complete her training as a Caller"--
84) Blue warrior
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"A brutal conflict in Mali and an international race for rare elements sets the stage for Troy Pearce and his drone technology to rescue an old friend in this adrenaline-fueled series. Blue Warrior is set in the remote Sahara Desert, where a recently discovered deposit of strategically indispensable Rare Earth Elements (REEs) ignites an international rush to secure them. Standing in the way are the Tuaregs, the fierce tribe of warrior nomads of...
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Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Since the fall of Baghdad, women's voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein's statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging. In 2003, a twenty-four-year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging about life in the city under the pseudonym Riverbend. Her passion, honesty, and wry idiomatic English made her work a vital contribution to our understanding of post-war Iraq-and won her a large following. Baghdad Burning...
86) Adulthood rites
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Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a sexless Ooloi. The Oankali and Ooloi are part of an alien race that rescued humanity from a devastating nuclear war, but the price they exact is a high one the aliens are compelled to genetically merge their species with other races, drastically altering both in the process. There...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
88) Storm the earth
Author
Series
Shatter the sky volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Maren and her girlfriend Kaia set out to rescue Sev and free the dragons from the corrupt emperor"--
89) Amatka
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja finds herself falling in love with her housemate, Nina, and decides to stick around. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony and a cover-up by...
90) Rebel magisters
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Tea, Love ... and Revolution! The Rebel Mechanics arent the only group plotting revolution against the magical British Empire. There are rebel magisters, as well, and Verity Newton and her magister employer, Lord Henry, know that the only way for the revolution to succeed is if both groups work together. A diplomatic mission seems like the perfect opportunity for them to meet with rebels in other colonies and gather support - right under the governors...
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This memoir of fourteen months as America's proconsul in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Bremer describes negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic institutions vital to Iraq's future; his resistance to the cut-and-run policy that would have quickly delivered governance of Iraq to a handful of unrepresentative anti-Saddam...
92) Path of beasts
Author
Series
The keepers trilogy (Lian Tanner) volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Author
Series
Seven faceless saints duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 26
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Seven Faceless Saints by Lobb, M.K.:During Ombrazia's Second War of Saints, former friends Rossana Lacertosa and Damian Venturi--she is a rebel who wants to dismantle the corrupt system responsible for her father's death while he is the young head of security who serves the city and the saints with unswerving devotion--must work together to investigate murders within the city.
Crave by Wolff, Tracy:Grace's world changed when she joined the academy....
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Pub. Date
2018
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"Klaw stands supreme! The Black Panther's greatest foe has returned, ready for war! Can T'Challa finally defeat Ulysses Klaw, the man who killed his father, while his country threatens to rip itself apart? To make matters worse, Wakanda's gods disappear - and the Originators return! The former gods are back, but what are their intentions for a land that has forgotten them? And all this is only the beginning, as a cadre of villains returns, monsters...
95) Grace
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran Berj.
96) Possession
Author
Series
Possession novels (Elana Johnson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.
Author
Series
A Possession novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Jag, Zenn, Vi, and the rest of the resistance are determined to take down the Thinkers, but there is a traitor among them, who could cost them their cause--and their lives"--
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Series
Dorothy must die. Prequels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado -- taking you with it -- you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged...
100) Sniper: a novel
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
What did you do to deserve that a fellow soldier responds when he hears that Nicolai Lilin has been assigned to an unconventional, ultra-high-risk paramilitary unit of the Russian army. Also nicknamed the para-bats for the black parachutes that dropped them behind enemy lines at night, Lilin and his fellow saboteurs soon find themselves fighting Islamic insurgents armed with American weaponry in the breakaway province of Chechnya. In vivid, harrowing...