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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
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Crime Scene Golgotha approaches Jesus's crucifixion from the perspective of a crime scene investigator: What do we know is fact? What can be historically documented? What can we deduce may have happened?
Taking the popular CSI television dramas as inspiration, Crime Scene Golgotha is a direct reaction to Mel Gibson's much talked about movie The Passion of the Christ. Ian Wilson systematically outlines what is known for sure about Jesus's trial and...
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Dispatcher volume 1
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone—999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher—a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in forcing Katrell to make some hard decisions.
Clients pay Katrell to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it is not enough to support her unemployed mother and Mom's deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. When a ghost warns her to stop the summonings or she'll "burn everything down,"...
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Dispatcher volume 3
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Rom Hugo-winning author John Scalzi comes The Dispatcher: Travel by Bullet, which clocks in at over 40,000 words, the longest novella yet in the series. The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life--and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier. But for as much as...
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New People Entertainment
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[2012]
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English
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Determined to resurrect friends who have died in battle, Kei and other members trapped in the 'in-between' world of GANTZ are aiming to score the 100 points needed to break through. An emergence of a mysterious investigator, however, complicates the situation further. The battle continues on as the two dimensions start to merge together. Some fight for love, and others fight for justice. At the end, who will sacrifice the most?
9) Risen
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Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
10) Hocus pocus
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In the year 1693, sisters, Winifred, Mary and Sarah were executed for their unforgiveble witchecraft. They captured and sucked the life out of children. Just before their execution, Winifred made a curse - a curse that when a virgin lights the black flame candle on Halloween light, in their house, they shall return, 300 years later, Max decides to light the candle in order to scare his irritating sister Dani and his love interest Alison. Now, the...
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[publisher not identified]
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2015.
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"Alastair Sterling was the inventor who sparked the robot revolution, and because of his sudden death he didn't see any of it. That is, until he wakes up in a robot body that matches his old one exactly. Until he steps outside and finds a world utterly unlike the one he left behind--a world where robots live alongside their human neighbors and coexist in their cities. A world he helped create. Now Al must track down his old partner Brendan to find...
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[publisher not identified]
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2017.
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English
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"Brendan Pinsky is the CEO of an influential robotics company. The most advanced android he's ever created, Sulla, adores him as if she were his own daughter. And the source of all Brendan's success is Alastair Sterling, his long-dead partner, who has just reawakened in a robot body of unknown origin. Brendan must decide whether to mine the past for answers to the mystery of Al's return, or to listen to his heart and welcome Al back into his life....
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Dispatcher volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone--999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher--a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher...
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2014]
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English
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"Martin hasn't had the best vacation. He accidentally killed his girlfriend with an axe. He cut his own arm off with a chainsaw. And his friends still got devoured by a battallion of Nazi zombies. This morning, he woke up in a hospital bed with a new arm -- but it's a super-powered zombie arm that wants to kill him, and anything else it can reach. With the help of his new Zombie Squad pals, he's gonna deliver some payback to Colonel Herzog by raising...
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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After witnessing her mother's untimely death as a child and her brother's violent murder as a young teen, Vicaria is on a desperate quest to cure death.
"Death is ever present in Vicaria's world -- violence, police brutality, substance abuse -- and after watching her mother and brother succumb, she's had enough. Vicaria is going to put an end to all this death... by bringing the dead back to life. Inspired by Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' The Angry...
16) The Easter story
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Candle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Retells the Easter story, including the ministry of Jesus and his betrayal, crucifixion, and resurrection.
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens. Shortly after moving from California...
18) Rubicon
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Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
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2023.
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English
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"Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity. When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero is drawn into the machinations of an enigmatic major who's...
20) Hocus pocus
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After accidentally bringing the Sanderson Sisters back from the dead, Max, Dani, and Allison race to stop their plans to torment Salem for all of eternity.
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