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Series
Publisher
Future Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Description
In The Traveller’s Guide to Dark Tourism, we delve into what it means to be a dark tourist; uncover the ethics of such travel, including which destinations serve to educate and inform, as well as the dos and don’ts of visiting sites with sinister pasts. Elsewhere, explore some of the most significant sites to visit, from places that have been shaped by disasters – both natural and man-made – and battlefields of the world’s defining wars,
...Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
Fifty years since it was first released, The Dark Side of the Moon remains one of the most popular, revered, and examined rock albums of all time. It has sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide while setting a record for longevity on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart (724 consecutive weeks after its release, and more than 950 when accounting for reappearances). The breakthrough masterpiece stands as a kind of alpha and omega for one of the
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Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
5) Greenwitch
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur and that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the forces of the Dark.
Author
Series
This present darkness volume 1.s
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In this trail-blazing novel on spiritual warfare, a prayerful pastor and a hard-boiled reporter compare notes and find themselves fighting a plot to subjugate the human race. A prayerful pastor and a hard-boiled reporter fight a plot to subjugate the human race.
10) The gunslinger
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Taking place mere hours following the events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea -- a terrain filled with unearthly monstrosities that mean certain death if he lets his guard down. But there are other mysteries along this desolate shoreline as well: three arcane doorways standing freely in...
13) The waste lands
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah -- cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In The Golden Compass, readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is...
15) The subtle knife
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
16) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly. Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
"Megan thought she knew who she was. Until she came to Grandmother's house. ... Then she began having dreams again, of a life she never lived, a love she never knew ... a secret that threatened to drive her to the grave."--Cover.
