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1) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune. As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley--and the wolf within her... An archaeologist, Riley is no stranger...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
460 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your...
7) The Becoming
Author
Series
The dragon heart legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In...
8) The operator
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world"--...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Gottie Oppenheimer, a seventeen-year-old physics prodigy, navigates grief, love, and disruptions in the space-time continuum in one very eventful summer.
Author
Series
The Korvac saga volume 4
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain America discovers that only the Ultimate Nullifier will defeat Korvac.
Author
Series
The Korvac saga volume 1
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain America, a proud member of the Avengers, is still trying to find his way in a strange new world when he discovers his connection to a mysterious man named Korvac, who claims to be similarly displaced in time.
Author
Series
The Korvac saga volume 2
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain America tries to prevent the Guardians of the Galaxy from taking Korvac away before he has faced justice for his crimes, but he then joins forces with them to stop an abnormally powerful Korvac.
Author
Series
The Korvac saga volume 3
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain America finds himself in the middle of a fight between the Firelord and Korvac.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
147 p.
Language
English
Description
In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.
17) Wakers
Author
Series
Side-step volume Book 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Laz Hayerian wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he and his companion Ivy Downey are clones, and they must work together--combining their talents to sense and step into and out of timestreams--to save humanity from imminent extinction.
18) The second spy
Author
Series
The books of Elsewhere volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving with her parents to Iowa, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers a mysterious notebook that can bring stories to life and which has a link to the 1914 disappearance of her great uncle.
Author
Series
Interdependency volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the...