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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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Series
Blood and ash volume 1
Language
English
Description
Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. The entire kingdom's future rests on...
3) Cloud atlas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
4) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Finn has always loved Autumn. She is a constant in his life, except it's in the role of friend, not girlfriend. Finn wants her to see him as more, wants to prove HE should be the man by her side. Even if that means heartache for the people they are each dating. It would be worth the pain to be with right person. Finn knows he and Autumn are fated to be together. But sometimes fate can be cruel to those in love.
Author
Series
Seekers volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the edge of the Endless Ice, the four bears Ujurak, Toklo, Lusa, and Kallik reach Star Island, where a large group of bears is in trouble but believes Lusa is destined to help bring back the favor of the spirits.
10) Armadale
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English
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If you can't get enough of classic British mystery novels, dive into this spine-tingling tale of mistaken identity penned by Wilkie Collins, the author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The tale, told partly through letters and documents, recounts the intertwined lives and fates of two distant cousins who both happen to bear the name 'Allan Armadale.'
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"Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story--their story--at the very beginning. Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University on a day that changes both of their lives forever. Together, they decide they want their lives to mean something, to matter. When they meet again a year later, it seems fated--perhaps they'll find life's meaning in each other. But then Gabe becomes a photojournalist...
12) Sons of destiny
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Series
Saga of Darren Shan volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, Frances and her best friends go to a fortune-teller who predicts Frances' murder, causing her to start tracking friends and enemies alike. Decades later, Annie Adams has arrived from London to meet Great-Aunt Frances at her vast country estate near the village of Castle Knoll as she's just replaced Annie's mom as an heir to a family fortune. But someone has murdered Frances, and now Annie will have to sort through all of Frances' files in...
14) A ruinous fate
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Series
Witch's dice volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In a world on the brink of war where one more roll from a magical die may set her down a dangerous path, nineteen-year-old Calla Rosewood joins a ragtag group of witches that ventures into an enchanted forest to find a way to reset their fates, only to discover that the forest may be more than any of them bargained for.
15) Blind speed
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Publisher
Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
16) Ed King
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When a mild-mannered actuary sleeps with the sexy British au pair who's taking care of his children in Seattle in 1962, he sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted and adored, grow up to be Edward Aaron King, a billionaire Internet tycoon and international celebrity-- who unknowingly hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.
17) Amber & Clay
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...
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Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.
20) Mr. Destiny
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A junior executive finds his wildest dreams have come true when he bumps into a mysterious stranger.
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