Kevin J. Anderson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Planetologist Padot Kynes arrives on Arrakis and goes on a sandworm hunt; the Bene Gesserit discuss a secret hope about the Kwizatz Haderach; Duncan Idaho tries to escape from the Harkonnens; Leto Atreides can't wait to explore Ix but he is left stranded on a strange planet." --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 37
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"At last Shaddam sits on the Golden Lion Throne, his precarious position as ruler of the Known Universe dependent on producing a male heir. But his leadership is further threatened by the ambitious Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, whose insatiable thirst for dominance leads him to plot against some of the most powerful forces in the Imperium... His primary targets: House Atreides and the mysterious Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The Sisterhood are unaware of...
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Wake the dragon novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
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Thousands of years ago, the god Kur created the first race, the wreth, who were beautiful and powerful in magic. But when Kur discovered his world was flawed, he commanded the wreth to destroy Ossus, the dragon at the heart of the world. Kur disappeared, telling them that only when the dragon was destroyed would he return and remake the world; he would save those wreths who were victorious. This command launched countless centuries of devastating...
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Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 34
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A Dune prequel portrays the "Butlerian jihad" against technology, a background story vital to the Dune universe.
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Saga of seven suns volume 1
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Humans have colonized the worlds of the Spiral Arm and the rest of the galaxy seems to be theirs for the taking. The Klikiss Torch is a device capable of transforming gas giants into new suns, however, the Jovian worlds are home to an alien species. The victims of unintentional genocide, the advanced hydogues aren't looking for an apology or reparations when they launch their warships on a single mission to annihilate every last human in the universe....
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Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
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It has been fifty-six years since the events of the author's The machine crusade and following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.
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Saga of shadows volume 1
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"Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin J. Anderson's The Dark Between the Stars, galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and factions of humanity are pitted against...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 43
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"The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius"--Back cover.
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Saga of seven suns volume 3
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Caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between two alien superpowers, the factions of humanity and their allies, the Ildirans, are under siege. Can they resolve their differences to fight a common threat? For the leader of the Roamers, survival means extending a helping hand to others, while the chairman of the Terran Hansa plans to use a new, untested alien weapon regardless of the consequences. And for the new Ildiran Mage-Imperator, survival...
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Saga of seven suns volume 2
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[2003]
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Early in the 25th century, humans ignited a fierce war with the hydrogues. Now the gas-giant planets, once a major source of fuel for Earth, are off limits, and the fearsome hydrogues scour the solar system, incinerating humans and the trees of the worldforest. As political unrest spreads throughout Earth's space colonies, a possible ally is discovered: an ancient race of water-based creatures.
11) Kill zone
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2019.
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Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone , a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access...
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Owen Hardy, like all the people of Albion, has lived his whole life under the rule of The Watchmaker. His entire existence is meticulously planned, down to the exact second. But not anymore. Owen decides to go against the gears and finally start making decisions for himself.
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Dune novels. Main series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 25
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Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in safe-deposit boxes for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades....
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Saga of seven suns volume 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
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"In the fifth book of The Saga of Seven Suns, a climactic battle begins between the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes--a fury that will destroy many and change the landscape of the Spiral Arm forever"--Provided by publisher.
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"Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the rise of his son, little is known about the quiet ruler of Caladan and his partner Jessica. Or how a Duke of an inconsequential planet earned an emperor's favor, the ire of House Harkonnen, and set himself on a collision course with his own death. This is the story."--Provided by publisher.
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Star Wars novels. Callista trilogy volume 2
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If the Hutt Durga is able to create a powerful new death-weapon called Darksaber, then the forces of darkness may again rule over the Universe.
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2016.
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Navigators, mutated by spice into beings far superior to normal humans, have made space travel possible: their prescient awareness allows them to foresee safe paths through the universe as starships "fold" space. Only one man knows the secret of creating Navigators, and he intends to use them to build a commercial empire that spans the galaxy. However, Josef Venport is embattled by antitechnology fanatics led by charismatic and dangerous Manford Torondo....
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[2009]
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This tale from Herbert's son and Anderson follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides, as she returns to the desert planet Dune for her son's funeral. Paul's suicide after his mistress's childbed death leaves his sister, the insane and brutal Alia, as regent for his twin children. Alia releases Princess Irulan, Paul's wife and biographer, from house arrest on the condition that she present Paul as a god, even as Bronso of Ix circulates...
19) Metal swarm
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Saga of seven suns volume 6
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Based on the legendary science-fiction series by acclaimed novelist Kevin J. Anderson, THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS: VEILED ALLIANCES acts as a revelatory prequel to the Saga novels Hidden Empire and A Forest of Stars. In this fantastical volume, the human race begins its expansion into outer space only to discover that for centuries a multitude of other planets have been interacting on a cosmic scale. Now as Earth attempts to become a player in this new...
20) Clockwork lives
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[2015]
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Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories -- and ultimately her own.