Kevin J. Anderson
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves and other undead denizens on the world, it's been hell for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeau who works with a human lawyer as his partner. His cases now include a resurrected mummy that is suing the museum that put him on display, two witches that were victims of a curse gone terribly wrong seek restitution from a publisher for not using "spell check" on its magical tomes. And Dan must also find out...
Author
Series
Shamble & Die Investigations volume 2
Shamble and Die Investigations volume 2
Dan Shamble zombie P.I volume 2
Shamble and Die Investigations volume 2
Dan Shamble zombie P.I volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
While providing security for a mummified madame and saving his favorite watering hole from drying up, zombie detective Dan Shamble goes up against a local senator and his goons who picketed a production of "Shakespeare in the Dark."
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
Description
It has been fifty-six years since the events of the author's The machine crusade and following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 37
Description
"At last Shaddam sits on the Golden Lion Throne, his precarious position as ruler of the Known Universe dependent on producing a male heir. But his leadership is further threatened by the ambitious Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, whose insatiable thirst for dominance leads him to plot against some of the most powerful forces in the Imperium... His primary targets: House Atreides and the mysterious Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The Sisterhood are unaware of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 43
Description
"The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 34
Description
A Dune prequel portrays the "Butlerian jihad" against technology, a background story vital to the Dune universe.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 2
Formats
Description
This tale from Herbert's son and Anderson follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides, as she returns to the desert planet Dune for her son's funeral. Paul's suicide after his mistress's childbed death leaves his sister, the insane and brutal Alia, as regent for his twin children. Alia releases Princess Irulan, Paul's wife and biographer, from house arrest on the condition that she present Paul as a god, even as Bronso of Ix circulates...
9) Ruins
Author
Series
Description
Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucatan jungle to investigate a missing team of archaelogists. Their exploration leads to a strange electronic signal coming from beneath ancient ruins -- a signal aimed upward, at the stars
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 36
Description
Capturing all the complexity and grand themes of the original "Dune, " this prequel weaves a new tapestry of terrible betrayal, grand passions, and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than 30 years ago.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 25
Formats
Description
Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in safe-deposit boxes for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades....
Author
Series
Dune novels. Schools of Dune volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Navigators, mutated by spice into beings far superior to normal humans, have made space travel possible: their prescient awareness allows them to foresee safe paths through the universe as starships "fold" space. Only one man knows the secret of creating Navigators, and he intends to use them to build a commercial empire that spans the galaxy. However, Josef Venport is embattled by antitechnology fanatics led by charismatic and dangerous Manford Torondo....
13) Hunters of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 7
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Description
"At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune-Frank Herbert's final novel, a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As...
14) Mentats of Dune
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Series
Pub. Date
©2014.
Description
Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the antitechnology Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student,...
15) House Corrino
Author
Series
Dune novels. Prelude to Dune volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 32
Description
In this prequel to DUNE, Emperor Shaddam IV intends to gain absolute power by using Ixian slaves to create a synthetic form of melange, but Duke Leto Atreides has a bold plan to save them.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Schools of Dune volume 1
Formats
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.
18) Vengewar
Author
Series
Wake the dragon novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Two continents at war: the Three Kingdoms and Ishara have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises-the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world-the two warring nations must somehow set aside generations of hatred to form an alliance against a far more deadly enemy. Book one awakened the great dragon, and set the kingdoms at each other's throats. In book two, Vengewar, bitter rivalry and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format. In the first...
Author
Series
Shamble & Die Investigations volume 4
Shamble and Die Investigations volume 4
Dan Shamble zombie P.I volume 4
Shamble and Die Investigations volume 4
Dan Shamble zombie P.I volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
There's something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells rotten, even to a zombie detective like Dan Shamble. Diving into the slimy underbelly of a diabolical plot, Dan comes face-to-tentacles with an amphibious villain named Ah'Chulhu. With his snap-happy gang of gator-guys Ah'Chulhu wreaks havoc beneath the streets. Dan Shamble is running out of time before the whole...