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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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H.G. Wells' original masterpiece now includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on the author, a list of further reading, and detailed notes. Famous for the mistaken panic that ensued from Orson Welles' 1938 radio dramatization, "The War of the Worlds" remains one of the most influential of all science fiction works.
This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. Odd atmospheric disturbances...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set between the events of "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens," the second entry in the "Aftermath" trilogy continues the story of a galactic civil war under the leadership of Wedge Antilles, Admiral Ackbar, and others after the destruction of the second Death Star.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Clone Wars volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Master Mace Windu returns to his Separatist-occupied homeworld to investigate the disappearance of his former Padawan, Depa Billaba, who had been working as an undercover agent.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 8
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 2
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence. But the powerful men who run the Church aren't going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world's seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows,...
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English
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Working in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucas Books/Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Set between Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope, an action-packed official novel based on the release of the new Star Wars video game follows Darth Vader as he embarks on a quest to rid the galaxy of the Jedi and confronts life-altering decisions that could change everything.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 3
Publisher
Lucas Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Follows Anakin Skywalker as he struggles with his duty as a Jedi Knight and his role as the secret husband of Senator Padmé Amidala, and chronicles the creation of Darth Vader and the birth of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 8
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An official novelization of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" follows a band of rebels on a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans.
As the shadows of the Empire loom across the galaxy, the Rebellion learns that an Imperial machine of unimaginable destructive power is nearing completion. If the worlds stand any chance, it lies with an unlikely band of allies: Jyn Erso, a resourceful young woman seeking vengeance; Cassian Andor, a war-weary rebel...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
13) Deceived
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
English
Description
A novelization of plots in the online video game "Star Wars: The Old Republic" shares the story of a mysterious Sith Lord who defies the Empire and destroys the Jedi Temple, setting the stage for the Treaty of Coruscant.
14) Devil's gun
Author
Series
Disco space opera volume 2
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Blocked by a closed intergalactic Gate, Niko and her crew create a pop-up restaurant to feed those similarly stranded, eventually accepting help from a suspicious archaeologist"-- Provided by publisher.
Life is hard when you're trying to outrun a vengeful pirate king. When the intergalactic Gate Niko and her crew plan to use is out of commission, they make the most of things and create a pop-up restaurant to serve the dozens of other stranded ships....
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twilight Company (men and women, human and nonhuman--of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry) gives the Rebel Alliance's hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence as they strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire's military machine.
Author
Series
Aftermath trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance -- now a fledgling New Republic -- presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 9
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When the leaders and soldiers of the tiny island of Charis rise up behind cybernetic avatar Merlin to defend their home, a powerful Church of God Awaiting, pushed to the brink of defeat, draws on its formidable resources and forbidden technologies in an ultimate battle between freedom and oppression."--Novelist.
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Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
℗2009.
Language
English
Description
Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Republic undercover agent Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republic's methods--and motives. Meanwhile Captain Gilad Pellaeon--sworn to protect the Republic over all--is torn between duty and desire and Ahsoka encounters a new and different Jedi philosophy, which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core.
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