Frank Herbert
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
2) Dune messiah
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
I "Dune Messiah" fortsætter Frank Herbert historien om Paul Atreides, der nu er kendt som den frygtede Muad'Dib. Som kejser af det kendte univers besidder han mere magt, end nogen anden mand nogensinde var bestemt til at have. Tilbedt som et religiøst ikon af de fanatiske Fremen, står Paul over for fjendskabet fra de politiske huse han fejede af banen, da han tog tronen og en faretruende konspiration blandt hans nærmeste. Da Atreides-huset begynder...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Tvillingerne Leto og Ghanima Atreides er børn af kejser Paul Muad'Dib, som forsvandt i Arrakis øde ørken for ni år siden. Ligesom deres far besidder tvillingerne overnaturlige kræfter, som gør dem yderst værdifulde for deres manipulerende tante Alia, som styrer riget i Atreides navn. Hun står over for forrædere og rebeller, som truer hendes magt. Corrino-huset ønsker at genvinde tronen, og de fanastiske Fremen er stærkt oprørte af den...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La mayor epopeya de todos los tiempos, en nueva edición con la traducción corregida en 2019.
En el desértico planeta Arrakis, el agua es el bien más preciado y llorar a los muertos, el símbolo de máxima prodigalidad. Pero algo hace de Arrakis una pieza estratégica para los intereses del Emperador, las Grandes Casas y la Cofradía, los tres grandes poderes de la galaxia. Arrakis es el único origen conocido de la melange, preciosa
...Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Centuries have passed but for humanity to continue to prosper, Leto, the son of Dune's savior, must make a tremendous sacrifice.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rakis is becoming desert as the Lost Ones are returning home from space.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest - the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonised a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by...
11) The Green brain
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects that made these areas uninhabitable. But somehow those areas that had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers.
13) Hunters of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over...
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer, or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger.
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