Category: adventure
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Ghost of a Chance
By Simon R. Green Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2010 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal, adventure Series: Ghost Finders Novel; 1 ISBN: 9780441019168 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 260 Setting: London, England Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: The Carnacki Institute specializes in getting rid of ghosts and other…
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The Informationist: A Thriller
By Taylor Stevens Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2011 Genres: Thriller, adventure, suspense Series: Vanessa Michael Munroe; 1 ISBN: 9780307717092 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 307 Setting: Mainly set in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Africa. Also set in Houston, Texas and Frankfurt, Germany, with brief stints in Ankara, Turkey and Paris, France.…
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Mockingjay
By Suzanne Collins Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Scholastic Press, 2010 Genres: Science fiction, adventure, dystopian, thriller Series: The Hunger Games; 3 ISBN: 9780439023511 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 392 Setting: Panem – mainly District 13 & the Capitol, but also Districts 12, 8, and 2 Time period: Sometime in the future Plot…
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Catching Fire
By Suzanne Collins Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Scholastic Press, 2009 Genres: Science fiction, adventure, dystopian, thriller Series: The Hunger Games; 2 ISBN: 9780439023498 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 391 Setting: Panem – mainly District 12 & the Capitol Time period: Sometime in the future Plot summary: When Katniss returns to District 12…
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The Exile: an Outlander Graphic Novel
By Diana Gabaldon; illustrated by Hoang Nguyen Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Del Rey, 2010 Genre: Historical fiction, fantasy, adventure, time travel fantasy, historical fantasy, romance Format: Graphic novel Series: Outlander Graphic Novels; 1 ISBN: 9780345505385 Audience: Adult Number of pages: Unpaginated Setting: Scotland Time period: 1743 Plot summary: Young Jaime Fraser returns to…
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The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Scholastic Inc., c2008, 2009 Genres: Science fiction, adventure, dystopian, thriller Series: The Hunger Games; 1 ISBN: 9780439023528 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 374 Setting: District 12 & the Capitol, Panem Time period: Sometime in the future – after “the Dark Days, the uprising of…
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The Shimmer
By David Morrell Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Vanguard Press, 2009 Genres: Adventure, suspense, thriller, paranormal ISBN: 9781593155803 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 423 (including Afterword, Acknowledgements, and About the Author) Setting: Rostov, TX Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When Santa Fe police officer, Dan Page, returns home one day he discovers that…
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Skullcrack
By Ben Bo Place: Publisher & Year: Minneapolis: Lerner Sports, 2000 Genres: General fiction, adventure, paranormal ISBN: 9780822533085 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 159 (161 including Editor’s Note) Setting: Mulligan, Ireland (County Sligo) and Storm Island, Florida (near Cape Canaveral) Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Jonah Ebbers has one good thing in his…
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