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Firebird trilogy (Claudia Gray) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"When eighteen-year-old Marguerite Caine's father is killed, she must leap into different dimensions and versions of herself to catch her father's killer and avenge his murder"--
82) Ecko burning
Author
Series
Ecko trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ruthless and ambitious, Lord Phylos has control of Fhaveon city, and is using its forces to bring the grasslands under his command. His last opponent is an elderly scribe who's lost his best freind and wants only to do the right thing. Seeking weapons, Ecko and his companions follow a trail of myth and rumour to a ruined city where both nightmare and shocking truth lie in wait. When all of these things come together, the world will change beyond recognition....
83) The forever war
Author
Series
Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand, despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away.
Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard...
84) Ecko rising
Author
Series
Ecko trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the norm, Ecko stands alone as a testament to the extreme capabilities of his society. Driven half mad by the systems running his body, Ecko is a criminal for hire. No job is too dangerous or insane. When a mission goes wrong and Ecko finds himself catapulted across dimensions into a peaceful and unadvanced society living in fear of 'magic', he must confront his own percepions of reality...
86) The long cosmos
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
87) The whisper
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Series
Riverman trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alistair continues his quest to find his missing friend, Fiona, in Aquavania, a world where wishes can nearly come true, but he learns that the Whisper, once a boy named Charlie from his own world, has plans for Alistair and has used Fiona to try to get to him.
88) Ironhand
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Series
Stoneheart trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Having upset the balance between the warring statues of London, twelve-year-old George is confronted with new challenges as he tries to free his captured friends Edie and The Gunner from the formidable Walker and deal with the three strange veins of marble, bronze, and stone that have begun to grow out of his hand.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While trying to outwit the soldiers who are occupying their small town, fourteen-year-old Daniel, who cannot lie, and Emily, who discovers she has magical powers, are inexplicably drawn to a mysterious island in the heart of the forest where townsfolk have been warned never to go.
91) The long Utopia
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Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
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"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a 'normal' life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history....
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Series
Ninja librarians volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Dorrie and her brother Marcus accidently open a portal to Petrarch's Library, where they discover a secret society of warrior librarians who travel in time, protecting the world's greatest thinkers from torture and death for sharing knowledge and ideas.
94) The long war
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 8
Language
English
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Description
With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the territories, Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and battling--their way through different worlds as they try to save all of Halla.
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Frank Einstein volume 6
Language
English
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
Author
Series
Passages volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"What if a passage to a mysterious world opened up and beckoned you to play an important part in its unfolding adventures? That's what happens to four kids from our world who find themselves caught up in the history changing events of another time and place. Yet there is something familiar about the people they encounter and their faith in the remarkable Unseen one"-- P. [4] of cover.
98) Vortex
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.
Author
Series
Passages volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"What if a passage to a mysterious world opened up and beckoned you to play an important part in it's unfolding adventures? That's what happens to four kids from our world who find themselves caught up in the history changing events of another time and place. Yet there is something familiar about the people they encounter and their faith in the remarkable Unseen one"-- P. [4] of cover.
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Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 1
Language
English
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From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus literally a sign with his name on it everything in his normal little life changes. An encounter with the House of Answers, a magically hidden warehouse full of mysterious objects and even stranger people, only leads to more questions. These people think he's special a Keeper of an incredible gift although scientifically-minded Horace isn't so sure he really believes in that kind of thing....
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