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1) The Kingdom
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Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
2) The gauntlet
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Gauntlet volume 1
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When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.
3) Gone dark
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When seventeen-year-old Zara escaped her father's backwoods survivalist compound five years ago, she tried to forget the tragedy that drove her away, until a malware attack on the United States electrical grids cuts off the entire country's power. In the wake of the disaster and the chaos that ensues, Zara is forced to call upon skills she thought she'd never use again, and her best bet to survive is to go back to the home she left behind.
4) Want
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Want volume 1
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"Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits, protecting them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Frustrated by his city's corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost. With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates...
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"For the last twelve years, Meg has had one goal: don't become collateral damage in the near-daily battles of the aforementioned Supers. And for twelve years, she's managed to do just that. Sure, her minimum-wage job at the local coffee shop isn't great, she can't even leave her apartment without loading herself up with protective gear, and her car was just hijacked to throw at a supervillain (again), but sh''s not dead yet. But when Meg accidentally...
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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"As a student at Brooklyn Visions Academy, Miles Morales knows he's lucky. Not all kids get this opportunity, especially not kids from his neighborhood. With his quirky best friend Ganke, this school year is gonna be a blast. Right? Wrong. Miles has a secret. He's actually Spider-Man. Well not THE Spider-Man but A Spider-Man. Pretty much the only Spider-Man in town now that Peter Parker is gone. Miles is doing his best to save every little old lady...
7) Half life
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT SCI FI CLARK
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YOUNG ADULT SCI FI CLARK
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Sixteen-year-old overachiever Lucille Harper agrees to be a beta tester for a secretive human cloning program, hoping her clone will meet her academic and family responsibilities and leave her free to figure out who she really is.
There aren't enough hours in the day for Lucille-perfectionist, overachiever-to do everything she has to do, and there certainly aren't enough hours to hang out with friends, fall in love, get in trouble-all the teenage...
8) Taken
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Taken trilogy (Erin Bowman) volume 1
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"In the isolated town of Claysoot, every male is mysteriously "Heisted" on his eighteenth birthday, and seventeen-year-old Gray Weathersby is determined to figure out why"--
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Star Wars novels. Queen's shadow volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT SCI FI JOHNSTON
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YOUNG ADULT SCI FI JOHNSTON
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"When Padmé Naberrie, "Queen Amidala" of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padmé is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padmé must figure out how to navigate the treacherous waters of politics and forge a new identity beyond the queen's shadow"--
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An original young adult novel about one of the characters from Episode IX.
11) Jane, unlimited
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"Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia--an adjunct professor and deep sea photographer. Jane counted on Magnolia to make the world feel expansive and to turn life into an adventure. But Aunt Magnolia was lost a few months ago in Antarctica on one of her expeditions. Now, with no direction, a year out of high school, and obsessed with making umbrellas that look like her own dreams (but mostly just mourning her aunt), she is easily...
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Firebird trilogy (Claudia Gray) volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT SCI FI GRAY
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YOUNG ADULT SCI FI GRAY
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT CD FICTION GRAY
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YOUNG ADULT CD FICTION GRAY
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"When eighteen-year-old Marguerite Caine's father is killed, she must leap into different dimensions and versions of herself to catch her father's killer and avenge his murder"--
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Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)? How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's...
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT SCI FI NORRIS
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YOUNG ADULT SCI FI NORRIS
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Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.
15) fullmetal alchemist
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Other side of the sky volume 1
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"Prince North's home is in the sky, in a gleaming city held aloft by intricate engines, powered by technology. Nimh is the living goddess of her people on the Surface, responsible for providing answers, direction--hope. North's and Nimh's lives are entwined--though their hearts can never be. Linked by a terrifying prophecy and caught between duty and fate, they must choose between saving their people or succumbing to the bond that is forbidden between...
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Sidekick squad volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION LEE
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION LEE
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Welcome to Andover... where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship--only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby,...
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Celestial trilogy volume 1
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"The first book in a scifi retelling of the Mahabrahata. When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return to. In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a cursed queen sends her infant daughter away, a jealous uncle steals the throne of Kali from his nephew, and an exiled prince vows...
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Last gate of the emperor volume 1
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Enduring an isolated existence in hardscrabble Addis Prime, a star underground augmented reality gamer finds his small family targeted by city-razing monsters waging a galaxy-spanning war.
"Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family ... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking...
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION MURPHY
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION MURPHY
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When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...