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Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Physical Desc
878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake. Answering Campion's distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe life back into her farm: offer it as an artists' colony with free room, board, and 'life experience' in exchange for labor. Silvia, a wide-eyed would-be poet, and Ibrahim, a distracted painter, are drawn to her offer, and soon, to each other. But something lies beneath the surface. As the Edenic farm is plagued by events...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What would you find in a time capsule of the Jamestown Colony? Perhaps a portrait of John Smith, glass beads, or a deer jawbone. Examine artifacts like these to explore the history of the first permanent English settlement in North America. Open up this imaginary time capsule and learn!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly sixty teens awaken halfway through their training, stranded on a harsh alien world with few supplies, no adults, and led by a treacherous artificial intelligence, but their greatest enemy is each other.
10) Rescue mission!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm + 2 sheets of cards.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated storybook based on the hit animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous includes character cards! Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar--the home of the Jurassic World theme park. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Perfect for children ages 3 to 7, this paperback...