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Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
2) Aurora
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive"--
Author
Series
Expanse volume 5
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan. Now a Prime Original series.
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures...
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures...
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Series
Hitchhiker series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time....
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time....
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Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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English
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"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover.
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English
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On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet-pristine and habitable, like our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade robo-sapian Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Language
English
Description
"For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex...
8) Nova's ark
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press/Callaway
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nova, a robot boy from the planet Roton, accidentally rockets himself into space during a class field trip and eventually stumbles across the energy source his planet needs for survival.
9) Up Jim River
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and the Kennel has given up the search. But her daughter, the harper Méarana, has enlisted the scarred man, Donovan, to aid her in her search.
13) Alien envoy
Author
Series
Alien agent volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Agent Sorn picks Zack up from Earth and together they seek other aliens who can speak in support of inviting that planet to join the Galactic Union, while the Gnairt and the Kiapa Kapa Syndicate try to stop them.
Publisher
A.D.V. Films
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
American astronaut John Crichton is catapulted to the distant edge of the universe where an intergalactic conflict rages. He is taken aboard Moya, a huge bio-mechanical ship and comes face-to face with several alien fugitives. The group learns to work together as they travel across the galaxy to their respective homeworlds.
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among the stars. After centuries spent wandering empty space, their descendants were eventually accepted by the well-established species that govern the Milky Way. But that was long ago. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. While the Exodans take great pride in their original community...
16) Leviathan wakes
Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A special edition hardcover that celebrates the 10th anniversary of James S. A. Corey's modern masterwork of science fiction. This 10th anniversary edition hardcover includes: A striking new cover Stained edges and illustrated endpapers A black and magenta foil case A reversible cover that features the full, uncropped artwork of the original cover art A new introduction from the authors From New York Times-bestselling and Hugo award-winning author...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lovelace was once merely a ships artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who is determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.The...
18) Odd girl out
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Series
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English
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Ex-government agent Frank Compton must keep an extraordinary little girl safe from the malevolent group intelligence seeking to enslave the universe in the explosive third installment of Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn's Quadrail series Frank Compton is glad he's finally back on his home planet of Earth-galaxy-hopping aboard the Quadrail on his continuing mission to prevent the Modhri group mind from ruling the universe is exhausting business-but...
19) The life below
Author
Series
Final six volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Naomi and her fellow teen astronauts investigate the fate of their predecessors on the Europa colony, back on a deteriorating Earth, Leo works with a renegade scientist to warn the crew about hostile extraterrestrials.
Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what's ahead, on Europa, could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization...
20) Dark disciple
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English
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The Jedi Council pairs brash Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos with infamous one-time Sith acolyte Asajj Ventress to target and kill the man responsible for so many war atrocities, Count Dooku himself.
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