Science Fiction / Fantasy
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TITLE & AUTHOR
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SYNOPSIS
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Abduction
COOK, R |
Perry Bergman is conducting research in a remote region
of the Atlantic. Perry is invited to dive to the seamount with several
others in a submersible craft. Suddenly the small ship seems to lose power
and is lured into the underwater world of Saranta, inhabited by the
Interterreans.
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Acceptable Time
L'ENGLE, M |
Time travel tale featuring a young girl who, while
visiting her grandparents' farm, is suddenly dropped into the fierce world
of 3,000 years ago.
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Alas, Babylon
FRANK, P |
The next Pearl Harbor attack might be atomic. A novel
about the end of the world.
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Alice's Adventure In Wonderland
CAROLL, L |
Little Alice falls into a rabbit hole and ends up in
another world with peculiar laws of its own.
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Among The Hidden
HADDIX, M |
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law
limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve
years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another
"third" convinces him that the government is wrong. |
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Banner In The Sky*
ULLMAN, J |
Rudi chooses to save an enemy's life rather than fulfill
his dream of being the first to climb the Citadel.
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Beasties*
SLEATOR, W |
Doug and his sister have heard rumors of bloodthirsty
creatures living in the northern woods. Now they are about to meet a
family of these creatures.
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Blood And Chocolate
KLAUSE, A |
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage
werewolf must battle both her pack mates and the fear of the townspeople
to decide where she belongs, and with whom.
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Brave New World
HUXLEY, A |
Huxley´s vision of the future in his astonishing 1931
novel Brave New World - a world of tomorrow in which capitalist
civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific
and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed
to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class. |
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Brown Girl In The Ring
HOPKINSON, N |
Colorful and exotic story of Afro-Caribbean magic,
ancient spirits who rule human lives, and a young woman forced to fend for
herself in a 21st century Toronto that has fallen into economic
collapse. |
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Brute Orbits
ZERBROWSKI, G |
In the 21st century, Earth incarcerates its
undesirables in mined-out asteroids launched into new orbits. The
narrative follows the histories of several of these "rocks" as
their prisoners fight, unite and ultimately set out to create superior,
self-contained cultures free of the taint of earthly ways.
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Canyons*
PAULSEN, G |
A mystical link forged between Brennan and the long-dead
Apache, Coyote Runs, defies time in this supernatural adventure story.
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Childhood's End
CLARKE, A |
Giant silver ships heralding the arrival of the
Overlords appear above every major city in the world. The Overlords
eliminate ignorance, disease, poverty - and humanity too.
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Crazy Jack*
NAPOLI, D |
In this inventive recreation of Jack and the Beanstalk,
Crazy Jack's search for his vanished father yields not gold, but love and
a means to build a life.
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Cure*
LEVETIN, S |
Branded a deviant in the utopian society of 2407, Gemm
must undergo the cure. Suddenly he is Johannes, a Jewish teenage musician
in 1348 at the onset of the Black Death.
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Dawn Palace
HOOVER, H |
Having been trained in supernatural knowledge, teenager
Medea finds herself in a unique position to help when the Greek hero Jason
comes to her father's kingdom in search of the Golden Fleece. |
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Distraction
STERLING, B |
In Sterling's brave new world, c.2043, technology
threatens humanity, and powerful interest groups run the show. But the
real trouble lies ahead when a decent, hardworking chap and his
neurologist lover challenge the demagogue who serves as Louisiana's
governor. |
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
STEVENSON, R |
A bizarre potion transforms the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll
into his alter ego, the psychopathic Mr. Hyde.
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Dragon Weather
WATT-EVANS, L |
As a child, Arlian was captured by looters and sold as a
mining slave. As a man, he escapes seven years later, fueled by years of
hatred and a personal vow to exact retribution from those who wronged him.
But can one righteous man change the entire world for the better?
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Dream-Weaver*
LAWRENCE, L |
Using her psychic talents, an apprentice dream-weaver
learns that human colonists aboard a spaceship plan to settle on her
peaceful planet. |
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Elixer
BRAVER, G |
When Chris Bacon, a dedicated medicinal chemist,
journeys to Papua, New Guinea, in search of "miracle drugs that grow
on trees", he discovers tabukari, the "forbidden flower
of the long day" - a blossom with the power to prolong life.
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Ella Enchanted
LEVINE, G |
Ella has been the unfortunate recipient of an added
fairy's gift - the "gift of obedience" since her birth,. She
must obey any order that is given to her - even chopping off her own head!
But Ella refuses to accept her fate, and embarks on a quest to break the
curse.
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Ender's Game
CARD, O |
Ender Wiggin's is the result of a genetic breeding
program and years of harsh, unforgiving training. Thinking he is only
playing computer-simulated war games, Ender is really commanding the last
great fleet on earth.
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Ender's Shadow
CARD, O |
Bean was in Battle School with Ender Wiggins and became
his right hand, his strategist, and his friend. He was there with Ender at
the final battle. This is his story.
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Eva
DICKINSON, P |
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to
discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
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Eye Of The World
JORDAN, R |
Rand is on an epic quest to unite the diverse peoples of
his planet against the Dark One, who threatens to destroy their world. His
quest takes him through a series of complex and well-delineated alien
cultures.
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Fahrenheit 451*
BRADBURY, R
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Unsettling view of the future in which all books are
banned or burned.
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Fantastic Voyage
ASIMOV |
Five doctors are miniaturized and injected into a man's
arteries in order to destroy a blood clot.
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Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
ASIMOV & CONKLIN
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Science Fiction tales that surprise and shock. |
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Firegold
CALHOUN, D |
After troubling questions about his heritage arise,
Jonathan flees to the Red Mountains where he encounters a legendary race
of people called Dalriada.
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Flowers For Algernon
KEYES, D |
Provocative novel of a dramatic medical experiment and
its implication for society. 30-year-old retarded Charlie is turned into a
genius.
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Frameshift
SAWYER, R |
It doesn't occur to Molly and her geneticist husband,
Pierre that a Nobel laureate who has successfully extracted a
Neanderthal's DNA from its skeleton might not be an ideal sperm donor,
until young Amanda's looks and actions t to seem unusual.
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Gift Of Magic
DUNCAN, L |
When the old woman died, she left her grandchild Nancy
with the extraordinary gift of magic. Nancy can read people's minds, know
their thoughts, and make them do what she wants. Will she use her gift for
good, or satisfy her own selfish desire?
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Girl Who Owned A City
NELSON, O |
A young girl emerges as a leader when a fatal virus
kills everyone over the age of twelve.
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Giver
LOWRY, L |
Jonas is given a huge task by the Elders of the
Committee - to be responsible for receiving and keeping all memories of
the past.
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God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
VONNEGUT, K |
A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human
nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed,
hypocrisy and follies of the flesh.
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Grand Design
MARCO, J |
In this sequel to The Jackel of Nar Prince
Richius Vantran, the Jackal of Nar, has fled into exile. Meanwhile, Nar
has exploded in civil war between the religious fanatics of Bishop Herrith,
who follow the Light of God, and the ruthless followers of Count Biagio
and his Black Renaissance.
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Grave
PIKE, C |
An innocent man is attacked by a cult and buried alive.
A pretty girl meets a fascinating guy, who hardly seems to blink or
breathe, and emits a cool presence. They're both living in a weird realm
where life and death mirror each other - where the grave no longer
promises escape. |
Green Flash, And Other Tales Of Horror, Suspense And
Fantasy
AIKEN, J |
James Wing, a reporter, warns his best friend's widow
that the beautiful bay she and her neighbors had struggled to save was
going to be sold to developers. Now the developers have set their sights
on Kat Hubble, and they'll do anything, use anyone, to stop her from
interfering in their plans.
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Gunslinger
KING, S |
In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King
introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The
Last Gunslinger - a haunting figure and a loner on a spellbinding
journey into good and evil.
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Handmaid's Tale
ATWOOD, M |
The story is set in a future America where women are
categorized in terms of whether or not they are able to bear children, and
function in the strictly defined roles assigned to them by men.
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Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Book 2)
ROWLING, J |
Harry Potter is in terrible danger indeed when he
returns to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Chilling,
malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems
certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him.
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Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. (Book 4)
ROWLING, J |
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry vies with two
other magicians' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang,
in a Tri-wizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three
supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Book 3)
ROWLING, J |
Harry Potter "accidentally" causes the
Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon
and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment, Harry lunges out into the
darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.
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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
ROWLING, J
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Orphan Harry Potter's life changes when destiny calls
and he isenrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Hermit Thrush Sings*
BUTLER, S |
Orphaned and "defective" Leora defies the
oppressive laws of a tyrannical government and joins a band of rebels
trying to overthrow the government.
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Hobbit
TOLKIEN, J |
Tolkien has created a world of Fantasy called
Middle-Earth, populated by small creatures known as Hobbits. This prelude
to Lord of the Rings trilogy chronicles the adventures of Bilbo
Baggins.
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Honus And Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
GUTMAN, D |
When Joe Stoshack finds the most valuable baseball card
in the world in a pile of garbage, he thinks he has struck it rich. It
turns out that the card is worth more than money - it's a ticket to an
amazing time-travel adventure to a historic world series game.
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I Am Mordred: A Tale From Camelot
SPRINGER, N |
Merlin has prophesied that King Arthur will die at his
son Mordred's hand. Mordred wants a way to fight his fate in this
retelling of the Arthurian tale.
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I Sing The Body Electric! And Other Stories
BRADBURY, R
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Spellbinding collection of short stories that mixes
horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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In The Forests Of The Night*
ATWATER-RHODES, A |
Three hundred years ago she was Rachel, not Risika. She
had a family and she was human. Now she is a vampire and her past has come
to haunt her.
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Journey To The Center Of The Earth
VERNE, J |
Explorers enter the funnel of an Iceland volcano and are
ejected into the Mediterranean. During their subterranean journey, they
find fauna and flora similar to those in past eras.
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Jurassic Park
CRICHTON, M |
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning
dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures extinct for eons now roam
Jurassic Park, and the world can visit them for a price - until something
goes wrong.
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Just Ella*
HADDIX, M |
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, Ella finds
that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating
tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape. |
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Keeper Of The Isis Light
HUGHES, M |
16-year-old Olwen is the Keeper of the Light for a
galactic lighthouse on the planet Isis. Her world changes forever when
human settlers arrive.
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Lasher
RICE, A |
This sequel to The Witching Hour focuses on the
brilliant and beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, and Lasher, the
darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil
spell and vision she must now flee.
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Last Book In The Universe*
PHILBRICK, R |
Spared mind treatments because of his epilepsy, Spaz
still has his memory, an unusual thing in this futuristic world where no
one remembers books and writing is punishable. A powerful tale of love and
loss, and challenges we face in making choices.
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Left Hand Of Darkness
LE GUIN, U |
An Earth ambassador, Genly Ai, is sent to the planet of
Gethen, whose inhabitants are androgynous. Through his relationship with a
native, Estraven, Ai gains understanding both of the consequences of his
fixed sexual orientation and of Gethenian life.
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Leopard Lord
MORLAND, A |
The successor to the barony of Leopard's Gard has made a
wicked deal with the dark god, and now he must choose between the lives of
his countrymen and the woman he loves. |
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Long Patrol
JACQUES, B |
Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent
with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to join the Long Patrol and
defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde. |
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Lord Of The Rings
TOLKIEN, J
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Tolkien's trilogy of the Hobbits of Middle Earth and the
Great War of Rings.
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Lost World
DOYLE, A |
Two scientists, a big game hunter, and a journalist
travel to the Amazon rain forest. On a volcanic plateau, they discover an
isolated world still inhabited by dinosaurs, climaxing in a chase scene
with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. |
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Mariel Of Redwall
JACQUES, B |
The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the
animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild,
warlord of rodent corsairs. |
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Marlfox
JACQUES, B |
When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a
quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes
the curse of these evil animals on a lost island. |
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Martian Chronicles
BRADBURY, R |
These stories of Earth and Mars illustrate the universal
forces of love, hate, fear and courage.
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Martin The Warrior
JACQUES, B |
Bedrang the Stoat has his evil eyes set on ruling over
his own empire, and will do anything to make sure that his ultimate
Fantasy is fulfilled. He does not realize that the quiet, nameless mouse
he is holding captive will one day turn out to be the heroic and fearless
Martin the Warrior.
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Mattimeo
JACQUES, B |
Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns
to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall
Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders.
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Moonfall
MCDEVITT, J |
In 2024, after exhaustive efforts and draining
expenditures, Earth has at last built a colony on the moon and stands
poised to launch the first manned mission to Mars. U.S. Vice President
Charlie Haskell comes to the moon for the ribbon cutting. Then a comet is
spotted, its trajectory deduced, and a panicky evacuation begins.
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Mossflower
JACQUES, B |
Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mouse thief set
out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal
inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who
has seized power
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Mr. Was
HAUTMAN, P |
After Jack's grandfather tries to strangle him, he runs
away, through a door he discovered that leads him fifty years into the
past. He's soon involved in events that will determine his own future.
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Net Force. End Game*
CLANCY, T |
Xanadu is the world's most exclusive resort. It's also a
possible base for the worst Net thefts ever. Now it's up to Megan and the
Net Force Explorer team to delete these techie thieves.
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Net Force. The Ultimate Escape*
CLANCY, T |
Julio Cortez has left the Net Force Explorers to move
with his family to a new home. But when he and his family are held
hostage, the team has to convince the world that Julio's in danger. And if
no one will listen, they'll do anything to rescue the Cortez family
themselves! |
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Net Force. Virtual* Vandals
CLANCY, T |
At a holographic "old-timers" baseball game,
Matt Hunter and several other Net Force Explorers are thrilled to see Babe
Ruth swing for the fences. But when Ruth does his famous routine of
pointing to the stands, four people dressed in 30s-style outfits stand up
and open fire with Tommy guns! Matt and his friends know that these
"virtual vandals" must be stopped.
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Never Trust A Dead Man*
VAN DE VELDE, V |
Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed
in the tomb with the dead man, 17-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a
witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
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Night Watch
STEWART, S |
The fabulously acclaimed Resurrection Man uncovered a
world where the horrors of modern war and technology had given rise to
magic. Now the magic returns - and nothing will ever be the same. |
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October Country
BRADBURY, R |
Ray Bradbury's first short story collection is back in
print, its chilling encounters with fun house mirrors, parasitic
accident-watchers and strange poker chips intact.
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Odder Than Ever*
COVILLE, B |
Witty, wise and weird - nine immensely satisfying and
thought-provoking short stories.
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On The Beach
SHUTE, N |
Innocent victims faced with nuclear extinction make
plans as the deadly rain moves in closer, and the world as we know it
winds towards an inevitable end.
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Once And Future King
WHITE, T |
Classic novel about the court of King Arthur, and the
basis of the movie, Camelot.
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One-armed Queen
YOLEN, J |
On the field of a battle, Jenna, queen of the Dales,
received an one-armed girl named Scillia from her dying mother's arms, and
adopted the baby. Scillia was named heir to the throne. When Scillia came
of age, she discovered the truth her mother had long concealed from her,
and a great rift opened between them, a rift that the men of Garun will
exploit to take by stealth what they could not win in battle. |
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Others See Us*
SLEATOR, W |
When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives
16-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying
secrets about family members at the summer reunion. |
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Outcast Of Redwall
JACQUES, B |
Though raised by the good creatures of Redwall Abbey,
the young ferret Veil was cast out after committing an unforgivable crime.
Now, his vicious father is leading hordes of sea rats and vermin on the
warpath, and Veil must choose his destiny - as friend or foe of Redwall
Abbey.
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Owlflight
LACKEY, M & DIXON, L
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Though apprenticed to a legendary wizard, the young
orphan Darian remains difficult and strong-willed. But a sudden twist of
fate changes his life forever. The sacking of his village forces him to
flee into the great forest, where the mysterious Hawk People lead him on
the path to maturity. |
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Parable Of The Sower
BUTLER, O |
Forced to flee an America where anarchy and violence
have completely taken over, empath Lauren Olamina - who can feel the pain
of others and is crippled by it - becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a
new world and a new faith christened "Earthseed".
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Passage To Little Bighorn
KRETZER-MALVEHY, T |
15-year-old Dakota, who has Lakota blood in him, is
hurled back through time to meet his ancestor Sitting Bull and witness the
massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
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Pastwatch: The Redemption Of Christopher Columbus
CARD, O |
The author interweaves a compelling portrait of
Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she
can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a
world filled with hope and healing.
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Pearls Of Lutra
JACQUES, B |
Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey,
attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at the same time
the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for himself. |
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Penguin Complete Ghost Stories
JAMES, M |
If you like British Edwardian ghost stories, this book
is the perfect companion for a dark night by the fire.
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Prisoner Of Time*
COONEY, C |
16-year-old Devonny moves from the 19th
century to the 20th century to escape an arranged marriage.
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Red Mars
ROBINSON, K |
The first of three novels that will chronicle the
colonization of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to
daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers an opportunity to
strip the planet of its riches; and for the genetic
"alchemists", it presents a chance to create a biomedical
miracle. |
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Redwall
JACQUES, B |
Woodland has been a peaceful community of animals living
in harmony around Redwall Abbey - until the fateful day Cluny, king of
vermin, declared war.
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Reluctant God
SERVICE, P |
A walk in the Egyptian hills near her archaeologist
father’s dig leads Lorna into strange territory - and a friendship with
an ancient pharaoh’s son.
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River Rats*
STEVERMER, C |
This lively, futuristic novel is set on the Mississippi
River, where a sturdy paddle boat wheeler carries the River Rats, a troop
of orphans who survived a nuclear holocaust that destroyed the States.
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Salamandastron
JACQUES, B |
Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the
animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against
the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin. |
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Scent Of Magic
NORTON, A |
A young orphan named Willadene possesses the remarkable
ability to understand the magical smells that waft through her land. But
this gift soon turns into a curse when she is forced to journey to a dark
and evil place. |
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Seven Songs Of Merlin
BARRON, T |
A tide of evil sweeps the land of Fincayra - and its
first victim is Merlin's own mother. Merlin's sole hope for saving her
life is to master the Seven Songs of Wisdom and discover the secret of
seeing not with his eyes, but with his heart.
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Skellig
ALMOND, D |
When Michael's baby sister becomes seriously ill and he
discovers a creature not quite human in the crumbling garage in the
backyard, Michael knows that the well-being of this creature is somehow
linked to his sister's recovery.
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Sphere
CRICHTON, M |
When a huge vessel is discovered 1,000 feet below the
surface of the South Pacific, American scientists are baffled by the
discovery that the vessel is actually a spaceship and appears to be in
good condition.
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Spinners
NAPOLI, D |
Love, greed, magic and revenge all come together in this
elaborate retelling of a tale in which a young woman must spin straw into
gold.
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Split
LASKY, K |
In the year 3038 Darci Murlowe dreads the predictability
of her genetically engineered life, until she uncovers an underground
movement to save the human race. A provocative exploration of the moral
and ethical issues of cloning.
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Standing Wave
HENDRIX, H |
In the near future, humanity will encounter a vast new
intelligence. It is virtually immeasurable. It is beyond alien - it is
coming. Hendrix returns to the universe he created in his national best
selling debut, Lightpaths. |
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Stardust
GAIMAN, N |
Young Tristan Thorn vows to retrieve a fallen to win the
hand of the beautiful Victoria Forester. It is an oath that sends the
lovelorn swain into a world that is strange beyond imagining.
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Starman Jones
HEINLEIN, R |
It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship, if
you're a smart lad like Max Jones, but it's quite another thing when the
spaceship touches down on an unknown planet after passage through a time
warp... perhaps an unknown century.
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Starship Troopers
HEINLEIN, R |
A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot
camp in the universe - and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry
against mankind's most frightening enemy.
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Stinker From Space*
SERVICE, P |
When the crash of his spaceship in Midwestern America
results in mortal injury to his current body, alien Tsyng Yr must make a
quick switch - into a skunk! Karen and Jonathan join forces with
"Stinker" to help him return home - and unleash a hilarious
chain of events! |
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Stone Canal
MACLEOD, K |
Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only
a minor inconvenience. Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who
remembers life on Earth as Jonathan Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear
capability who was accused of losing World War III. That stranger
remembers David Reid, New Mars's leader...and the women they fought over
and ideals they once shared.
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Stranger With My Face*
DUNCAN, L |
Laurie's romantic summer turns supernatural when she
encounters black magic and astral beings.
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Switchers
THOMPSON, K |
Tess and Kevin, can "switch" into animals, and
together they have to stop the Northern Hemisphere from being destroyed by
a mysterious, creeping iciness. Taking on one animal form after another,
the two Switchers battle against the icy evil.
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Sword In The Stone
WHITE, T |
Classic story of the boyhood of King Arthur, greatest of
all legendary monarchs and symbol of the age of Chivalry.
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Talisman
KING, S |
As lung cancer consumes his mother, Jack Sawyer is sent
on a mystic quest through a parallel country called the Territories. He
must obtain the talisman that can save his mother's life and that of her 'Twinner',
the queen of the Territories. But evil forces crave the talisman for their
own use; Jack must dodge and fight his way across a continent. |
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Terrorists Of Irustan
MARLEY, L |
Zahra Ibsada, living on the planet of Irustan, is a
talented medicant. Kalen, her best friend, and a mother who is struggling
to save her daughter from a cruel betrothal, begs Zahra for help, and
although it goes against her medicant vows, Zahra reluctantly agrees. This
silent act of terrorism has far-reaching consequences - for herself, and
for all the women of her planet. |
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Timeline
CRICHTON, M |
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of
the 21st century in a world of exploding advances on the
frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points,
without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any
moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can
enter, literally, life in 14th century feudal France.
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To Ride Pegasus
MCCAFFREY, A |
They were four extraordinary women who read minds,
healed bodies, diverted disasters, foretold the future - and became
pariahs in their own land. A talented, elite cadre, they stepped out of
the everyday human race to enter their own! |
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To Say Nothing Of The Dog
WILLIS, C |
Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940's and his time
of 1888, researching a cathedral for a patron that wants to rebuild it.
When the time continuum is disrupted, he must fix things.
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Towers Of The Sunset
MODESITT, L |
Modesitt returns to the world of his bestseller The
Magic of Recluce with a new magical Fantasy adventureprequel. Set
centuries earlier, this new work tells the story of the founding of the
magical society on the island of Recluce.
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Transall Saga
PAULSEN, G |
Mark's solo hike in the desert turns into a
life-altering odyssey when he stumbles into a beam of blue light that
transports him into an alien world.
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Twilight Eyes
KOONTZ, D |
Slim MacKenzie is both hunter and hunted. Sought by
police for murder, Slim also stalks the diabolical Others, genetically
engineered "demons" from a prior Earth civilization.
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Venus
BOVA, B |
Late in the 21st century, the son of a tyrannical tycoon
accepts the ultimate challenge: a race to Venus to recover the remains of
his older brother who perished in the first attempt by man to land on the
planet.
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Virtual War*
SKURZYNSKI, G |
Corgan is a 14-year-old genetically engineered soldier
who was raised in an isolated computer-generated environment for the
purpose of one war, now two weeks away. His sheltered existence shattered
when he meets his fellow warriors, Corgan, and realizes that the virtual
landscape surrounding them is not the only illussion orchestrated by the
Supreme Council of the Federation. |
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Virus Clans: A Story Of Evolution
KANALY, M |
The story of a research scientist on the verge of an
extraordinary discovery: certain viruses are no longer acting in a random
way. In fact, they seem to be intelligently planning where and how to
multiply.
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War Of The Worlds
WELLS, H
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Martians invade Earth in this Science Fiction classic.
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Waste Lands
KING, S |
The third masterful novel in King's epic saga The
Dark Tower. Roland, the Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to the Dark
Tower of his dreams and nightmares - as he crosses a desert of damnation
in a macabre world that is a twisted mirror image of our own.
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Waterdance
LOGSTON, A |
Known equally for her swordmanship and for her magical
talents, Peri single-handedly rescues a prisoner from a Sarkond warriors'
camp - and finds herself the liberator of a dreaded Sarkond heretic. Now,
they must depend on each other in order to survive, and face the prophecy
they are destined to fulfill, together. |
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Watership Down
ADAMS, R |
Picturesque saga of a maverick band of rabbits that,
against all odds, seek a new home and a better society.
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What Dreams May Come
MATHESON, R |
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no
idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him
abruptly from his beloved wife. Now Chris must discover the true nature of
life after death.
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White Order
MODESITT, L |
Another entry in Modesitt's popular Recluce series, one
that upholds the Saga's reputation for intelligence and increasing
originality. This volume in the series stands unusually well on its own as
a classic and competent coming-of-age story.
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Wild Hunt*
YOLEN, J |
Two young boys become reluctant pawns in a showdown
between light and dark, summer and winter, good and evil. |
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Wizard Of Earthsea
LE GUIN, U |
The first book of Le Guin's famous Earthsea cycle
relates the story of Ged, a boy with an unusual aptitude for wizardry.
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Woman Who Loved Reindeer
PIERCE, M |
In this haunting Fantasy, a young girl living in the far
North becomes the caretaker of a shape-shifting baby who will one day help
her fulfill her destiny as leader of the people.
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Wrinkle In Time
L'ENGLE, M |
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly
strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in
secret work for the government. |