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1) Dune
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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
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known -- and feared -- as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne -- and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared into the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities -- making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of the House Atreides. Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced house Corrino is plotting...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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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...
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Dune novels. Main series volume 6
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Before Paul Atreides became Muad'Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune...Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew House Atreides and sent Paul and his mother, Jessica, fleeing into the deadly wasteland of sand...Before the secrets of the spice and the sandworms were discovered...There was another story...The tale of young Leto Atreides learning to become a ruler in the shadow of his great father. The...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
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Description
In the penultimate issue of the stunning prequel series from Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan makes a fateful decision, Leto faces an unthinkable tragedy, and Kailea is backed into a corner–with only one way out of damning accusations.
Meanwhile, Rabban makes a rage-inducing discovery that could only lead to murder, while Liet forms an unconventional yet fateful family, and Duncan and Leto reunite in time for Leto to face a difficult crossroads…...
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune volume 3
Language
English
Description
Frank Herbert's Dune was just the beginning. Now, Frank Herbert's monumental saga of a young man's rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet, continues in this extraordinary miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Where it takes you is an epic of the human imagination.
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Series
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune volume 2
Language
English
Description
Frank Herbert's Dune was just the beginning. Now, Frank Herbert's monumental saga of a young man's rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet, continues in this extraordinary miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Where it takes you is an epic of the human imagination.
Author
Series
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune volume 1
Language
English
Description
Frank Herbert's Dune was just the beginning. Now, Frank Herbert's monumental saga of a young man's rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet, continues in this extraordinary miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Where it takes you is an epic of the human imagination.
12) 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
Dune novels. Main series volume 8
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
14) House atreides
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Set in the years leading up to explosive events in Frank Herbert's Dune, this prequel series transports readers to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets; a violent coup is planned by the emperor's son; eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey"--
15) House Harkonnen
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Series
Dune novels. Prelude to Dune volume 2
Language
English
Description
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds.As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides-and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Presents the second interquel of Frank Herbert's epic Dune series, chronicling the life of Lady Jessica after the disappearance of her son, Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib. "The Winds of Dune" begins after the events of "Dune Messiah". The growing battle between Jessica and her daughter, Alia, continues as Alia tries to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan and Bronso of Ix seems to be leading the opposition against the House of Atreides.
17) House Corrino
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Series
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English
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Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known...
18) Animal
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Series
Language
Français
Description
Martine épinglait les photos de cinq fillettes sur le tableau de liège, cinq fillettes âgées de huit et dix ans dont leurs disparitions restaient inexpliquées. Un mystère total. Pourtant, le premier cas remontait déjà un peu moins que cinq ans. Elle regardait ces cinq visages enfantins et elle ne savait pas par qui ou par o commencer. Elle avait beau relire les rapports d'enquête de ces prédécesseurs, elle n'avait aucune piste. Dans ces...
19) Déesses de glace
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Français
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Elle était resplendissante comme une poupée vitrifiée, comme une déesse dans son sanctuaire. L'espace était inviolable. Un secteur tout à fait spécial. L'immense dénivellation entre l'avenue des Pins et l'avenue Docteur Penfield faisait penser comme si elle était placée au pied d'un autel dans le choeur d'une chapelle. À quelques pas de là, un large escalier de bois rendait accessible l'avenue des Pins. Les arbres dissimulaient le haut...
20) Mosaïque
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Series
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Français
Description
Après 7 mois en poste, un cas compliqué échoua sur son bureau. Portant ses vêtements fétiches pour cette enquête et ayant sous la main son calepin Rhodia et sa plume Rotring, elle se plaisait à penser qu'elle était la future Colombo (la série télévisée américaine) ou Navarro (la série télévisée française). Sur place, elle découvrit une personne défigurée à coups d'un objet contondant qui gisait sans vie dans son lit. Aucune trace...
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