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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.
The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who
...Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist, Antarctica.
4) Fast ice
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala investigate. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon: a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age. Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel a Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe...
5) Dead men
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with the 1912 death of Robert Scott in Antarctica, Birdie Bowers collapses on her way to view relics from Scott's expedition and is rescued by computer expert Adam, who falls in love with her and agrees to join a precarious trek to the Antarctic.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Kate was plucked from urban poverty and groomed to be an executive in the Business, a "discreet transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church." As she rises among the ranks and travels the globe, "she is forced to peel away layers of emotional insulation and to reassess the assumptions of a lifetime."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus. Having just arrived at the research station at the earth's southernmost tip, returning hero Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action"--
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation that leads him in search of an ancient Chinese expedition--and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world."--Publisher's description.
11) The split
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you ... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows...
Author
Series
Jack and the geniuses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Jack and his foster siblings, Ava and Matt, who are orphans. But they're not your typical kind of orphans -- they're geniuses. Well, Ava and Matt are, which sometimes makes life difficult for twelve-year-old Jack. Ava speaks multiple languages and builds robots for fun, and Matt is into astronomy and a whiz at math. As for Jack, it's hard to stand out when he's surrounded by geniuses all the time. When the kids try to spy on Dr. Hank Witherspoon,...
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