Science Fiction

XCOM: The Board Game

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You are humanity's last hope.

In XCOM: The Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the alien invasion.

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High
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Other
Play Time: 
90 min.
XCOM: The Board Game

Tuesday

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David Wiesner received the 1991 Caldecott Medal for Tuesday. In the years that followed, he went on to receive two more Caldecotts, and Tuesday went on to sell half a million copies in the United States and to be published in a dozen foreign countries. Now, with remarkable advances in the technology of color reproduction, the original artwork for Tuesday is being reproduced anew, for an edition even more faithful to the palette and texture of David Wiesner’s watercolor paintings.

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When You Reach Me (Unabridged)

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Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.

By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.

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750L
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04:20
When You Reach Me (Unabridged)

The Kill Order: Maze Runner Prequel (Unabridged)

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Before Wicked was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next.

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HL810L
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10:00
The Kill Order: Maze Runner Prequel (Unabridged)

Divergent

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In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives.

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HL700L
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11:12
Divergent

The Death Cure: Maze Runner Series #3

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This gripping dystopian adventure explodes with heart-stopping action, death-defying feats, and one totally heroic teen. Thomas and his friends have navigated their way through a deadly maze and a war-torn country, and now they're coming up against their most dangerous challenge yet: WICKED, the evil government agency that is suddenly asking for their help.

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HL760L
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08:55
The Death Cure: Maze Runner Series #3

Leviathan (Unabridged)

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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe.

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790L
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08:16
Leviathan (Unabridged)

Tunnel in the Sky (Unabridged)

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When Rod Walker decides to take the final test for "Deacon" Matson's interplanetary survival course, he knows he will be facing life-or-death situations on an unsettled planet. What he doesn't expect is that something will go wrong with the "Tunnel in the Sky" and he and his fellow students will not be able to return to Terra.

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08:26
Tunnel in the Sky (Unabridged)

Space Cadet (Unabridged)

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Matt Dodson arrives at Space Academy little prepared for the rigorous program he is about to enter. But that's the point of the academy: to take young men and steep them in a demanding tradition of honor, courage, and sacrifice until they have earned the right to join the Patrol as guardians of the solar peace.

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07:33
Space Cadet (Unabridged)

Have Space Suit, Will Travel (Unabridged)

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A journey of 167,000 lights years begins with...a bar of soap? Fasten your zero gravity restraints for Robert Heinlein's novel of intergalactic adventure, a story that carries teenager Clifford "Kip" Russell from his job as soda jerk to space-suit winner to alien abductee!

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770L
Length: 
08:04
Have Space Suit, Will Travel (Unabridged)

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