Michael Crichton
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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.Millionaire George Morton is about to donate $10 million to the National Environmental Research Fund (NERF) when he suddenly decides against it. His lawyer, Peter Evans, is as surprised as anyone and is drawn into a web of intrigue after Morton's car careens off the road and Morton is presumed dead. Just before his "death," Morton was in contact with Dr. John Kenner, a researcher at the Center for Risk Analysis, who opposes NERF's agenda and presents...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
3) Airframe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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An airliner porpoises over the Pacific--dives and rises--killing a number of passengers. Human or technical error? On the answer depend a big overseas sale to China and company jobs. Vice-president Casey Singleton battles TV hounds, intrigues and a hostile CEO as she tries to determine the cause.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. But as always there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival.
6) Rising sun
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Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests.
“As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be.”—The New York Times Book Review
On the forty-fifth floor of the...
“As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be.”—The New York Times Book Review
On the forty-fifth floor of the...
7) Eruption
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
522 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
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Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
378 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995.
Edition
First Trade Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."--PeopleIt is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "ACTION-PACKED."--New York Daily News"FAST AND GRIPPING."--The Washington Post Book World"A VERY...
10) Sphere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A team of four top scientists assembled by the Navy is sent to investigate a spaceship that has been on the ocean floor for at least 300 years and they discover a dangerous secret.
11) Timeline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.
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Language
English
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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror.
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen,
13) Eruption
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
424 pages : color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano
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Language
English
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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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"It has been six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived..."-- From back cover.
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Series
Andromeda novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing...
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Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
711 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Congo\Sphere\Eaters of the Dead.
Contains three of Crichton's previously published novels: Congo, set deep in the jungle near the legendary ruins of a lost city; Sphere, set a thousand feet below the surface of the South Pacific, and Eaters of the Deadset in Bagdad in 922 A.D. All three novels transform fears of the unknown into moments of believable adventure and unbelievable suspense.
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...