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1) Un Lun Dun
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Stumbling into an alternate funhouse version of her home city, twelve-year-old Londoner Deeba finds herself trapped in a world of killer giraffes, animated umbrellas, ghost children, and flying double-decker buses and menaced by a choking black smog, and is forced to take on the role of unlikely savior to prevent utter destruction.
2) Iron council
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A new cast of characters shares mythical adventures in the sprawling, phantasmagoric city of New Crobuzon.
3) Embassytown
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In the small run-down town of Littleville, Co., Nelson Jent is out of shape, out of work and out of hope. But, after a fateful alleyway scuffle, he stumbles upon a mysterious payphone. Calling for help, Nelson dials 4-3-7-6: H-E-R-O. With the power of the H-Dial, an ordinary man is transformed into a range of seemingly random, extraordinary superheroes, from the mischievous Boy Chimney to the one-man army of The Iron Snail! Confused and over his...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"What would happen if you discovered the H Dial, an unbelievably powerful artifact that turned you into a super hero? Nelson and Roxie are on the trail to unlock the mysteries of the H-dial while being stalked by the mysterious Centipede, who may have the answers they are looking for ... and his own dark and deadly motivations. It will take every ounce of courage and luck for our unlikely heroes to discover secrets of the H Dials before their enemies...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)
In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining...
In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining...