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Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An Englishman takes to the road in the company of a philosophical bug, their observations skewering everything English. "The private rooms of Monsieur H-- / Were known for being oh so posh; / Then it was learned that all his druthers / Were still the property of others."
Author
Publisher
Bard
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A woman answers a newspaper ad for a job as a sexual partner to a man who does not want emotional involvement. She is Kristin and her employer is an apocalyptologist. A tale of kinky sex against the background of doomsday by the author of Amnesiascope.
8) Symphony
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in New Jersey, some sinister things are going on. The water becomes contaminated, the church cross becomes coated with dead moths, strange fires break out, bells ring by themselves and the minister discovers magical powers. Is this the end of the world, as some predict? An atmospheric novel on a small apocalypse, first volume of a quartet. By the author of Jackals.
Author
Series
Zack files ; 18
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After falling through his computer screen, Zack travels back in time to a school in 999 A.D. where the students believe the world will end in the new millenium.
12) The magic circle
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of prophecies from before the time of Christ gives a female scientist the chance to save the world in this captivating thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of The Eight In the last week of Jesus's life, the Emperor Augustus orders the purge of all prophecies that question his divine power. Thus, in the crater of a dormant volcano, the books of the Sibylline oracle are sealed-lost to the world until the nineteenth...
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the year 2000 as a milestone marking two thousand years of human achievement, as a threshold leading into a new millennium, and as an important anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.
16) Chariot
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A fantasy on Travis Falkirk whose magical powers allow him to control slot machines in casinos in Las Vegas. He becomes the hero in a struggle against an evil power, decimating the country with smallpox.
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.