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1) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shaddam sits on the Golden Lion Throne, but he must produce a male heir, and his leadership is further threatened by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen whose primary targets are House Atreides and the mysterious Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.
Author
Series
Dune (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Decades after the original novels of the "Dune" saga, Frank Herbert's son--writing in conjunction with Kevin J. Anderson--pens this exciting prequel. Working from Frank Herbert's own notes, the authors reveal the chapter of the "Dune" saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: the Butlerain Jihad.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Prelude to Dune volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the origins of the rivalry between Duke Leto and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the actions that transformed Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck into heroes, the birth of Paul Atreides, and the creation of the tyrannical Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
A prequel to Frank Herbert's Dune, written by his son, based on a recently found manuscript. It is the story of a paleontologist sent to study the planet Arrakis, home to spices which give longevity.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
As the struggle against the thinking robots continues, Serena Butler's forces continue their battle and Selim Wormrider and his Fremen outlaws take the first step into becoming the fighters who would change history.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
Presents the second interquel of Frank Herbert's epic Dune series, chronicling the life of Lady Jessica after the disappearance of her son, Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib. "The Winds of Dune" begins after the events of "Dune Messiah". The growing battle between Jessica and her daughter, Alia, continues as Alia tries to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan and Bronso of Ix seems to be leading the opposition against the House of Atreides.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed her ancient order, but now she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the...
Author
Series
Great Schools of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
In a story set 10,000 years before the classic Dune, we discover the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild). Roderick Corrino is forced to take the throne after the assassination of his brother. He knows that the Navigators are the key to charting a glorious future for humanity ... or the end of civilization.
12) Princess of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib--Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned...
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