Ben Oliver
1) The loop
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones...
2) The block
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Loop (Ben Oliver) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time it's a fate worse than death. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for twelve hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization. The only semblance of relief is the Sane Zone, created to keep prisoners from going completely mad. In this virtual reality, the prisoners live out their fantasies of life outside. But for Luka, it's different"--
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A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
4) The arc
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Series
Loop (Ben Oliver) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"In the final installment of ... [the] Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet ... [The] escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw[s] nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is destroyed"--Amazon.
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KETOGENIC DIET
The Ketogenic diet is a dietary approach that involves eating only a very small amount of carbohydrates, and instead getting most of your energy from high fat and protein rich foods.
This style of eating forces your body to enter a state known as 'ketosis' where you burn energy differently. This typically causes amazing fat loss results, as well as an increase in energy!
This book will explain to you everything you need to know about...
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Loop (Ben Oliver) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
In the second book of The Loop trilogy, Luka is trapped in a fate worse than death. But now that he knows the truth about what he and his fellow inmates are being used for, it's more important than ever that he not only escapes, but that he builds an army.
Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time it's a fate worse than death. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for twelve hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization....
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English
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The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is a diet developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to help improve the health of everyday Americans.
While not designed to be a weight loss program, almost everyone, who implements this diet notices some level of weight loss, along with lowered blood pressure, and an overall improvement in health and wellbeing!
This book explains to you everything that you need to know about...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Innocent victims maimed or broken by Batman's greatest enemies band together, and they blame Batman and his fellow vigilantes for what happened to them just as much as they blame the psychopaths who hurt them. Batman and his newly trained team of allies must take on these troubled souls, but one of Batman's teammates can't help but think they might have a point."--
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Series
Batman/Superman (2013) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel are close friends in the modern day--but the two weren't always such close allies. Discover how two of the World's Finest Super Heroes met for the first time in the New 52, and the mysterious adventure that takes them to a whole new world-the world of Earth 2! The heroes of the main DC Universe meet their Earth 2 counterparts for the first time! Collects Batman/Superman #1-4 and Justice League #23.1: Darkseid"--...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The Batman: Fear State Event is collected like never before! Gotham City is on the brink of martial law as Batman fights a two-front battle! The Scarecrow is unleashing a devasting attack on the city while the Magistrate have made their move to invade! Gotham City is on the brink of a violent evolutionary path and the danger level to Batman and his allies reaching a fever pitch! The Magistrate now have full support from the mayor to handle high-level...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Welcome to the possible future state of Gotham. The Magistrate, a freelance military and surveillance corporation, has been hired by Gotham's leadership to turn the old city into a futuristic surveillance state free of vigilante-based crime/heroics. Batman, horrified to see what his city was becoming, fought tooth and nail against Magistrate--and they killed him for it. Or did they? Bruce Wayne survived this assassination attempt, and has been laying...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"The summer 2020 blockbuster "The Joker War" is collected in this new hardcover that includes the tie-in chapters starring Batgirl, Red Hood, Nightwing, Catwoman, and, of course, Harley Quinn! As the Clown Prince of Crime battles the Dark Knight Detective head-to-head one last time. The Joker has never wanted to win before-he's never wanted his battle with Batman to end. But now his motivation has shifted. This collection features the Joker's confrontation...
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Ultimate X-Men volume 75
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English
Description
If one man is capable of disrupting the carefully controlled world of Charles Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters, it's this one: Ultimate Cable! He comes from a tragic future to wreak havoc on mutantkind today, and his sinister secrets will shock the X-Men to their very core. It's a huge event in Ultimate X-Men history. Get in on the ground floor. You've been warned. Plus: Delve into the secret life of the X-Men's rivals, Emma Frost's Academy of...
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Ultimate X-Men volume 81
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English
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The X-Men are no more. Long live the X-Men! The man from the future, Bishop, completes his own team of mutants, ready to carry on the legacy of Charles Xavier. And their first task is to stop the attacks of the deadly Sentinels against their kind. And you'll never guess who's behind the attacks... or who the new Ultimate X-Men are!
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Batwing volume 1
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English
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As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics-The New 52 event of September 2011, Batwing follows a soldier carrying on the legacy of The Dark Knight in the most tumultuous region on Earth. Meet Batwing, the Batman of Africa, as he takes on the villainous Massacre!
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Thunderbolts volume 122
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English
Description
Thunderbolts: Breaking Point, Thunderbolts: International Incident and Thunderbolts: Reason in Madness. Secret Invasion strikes Thunderbolts Mountain as Captain Marvel attacks! But when you're dealing with the Thunderbolts, it's never quite clear who's the villain and who's the hero...Also, another unexpected visitor shows up, threatening to tear the T-Bolts apart from within! Can Norman Osborn hold his team of damaged psyches and tortured souls together,...
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Batman Detective Comics volume 943
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English
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A part of DC Universe: Rebirth! Innocent victims maimed or broken by Batman's greatest enemies band together, and they blame Batman and his fellow vigilantes for what happened to them just as much as they blame the psychopaths who hurt them. Batman and his newly trained team of allies must take on these troubled souls, but one of Batman's teammates can't help but think they might have a point... From writer James Tynion (BATMAN/TMNT) and artist Alvaro...
19) Control
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Detective-Sergeant Kate Burnham isn't making any friends in the Washington, DC Police Department. That makes her the perfect scapegoat when a routine homicide investigation threatens to blow open a criminal conspiracy reaching to the upper echelons of the DC power elite. Either Kate makes it go away, or they make her go away. Cop or criminal, power is all about control, applied top-down from the penthouse elite to the hustlers on the street. But what...
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Martian Manhunter volume 7
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English
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MARS REBORN! He was the last son of a dead world. But now that world lives again. Mars has risen from the ashes, and J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, has returned to a life he never thought he'd lead. But even though his world and his people have come back from the dead, they've brought nothing but trouble with them. Somehow alive on this strange new world, the disparate aspects of J'onn's fractured personality are not all on board with his plan...