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Moon Base Alpha volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling series. Tensions are running high when multi-billionaire Lars Sjoburg is poisoned and demands to go home and everyone is looking to Dash Gibson to solve the case in this third and final book in the New York Times bestselling Moon Base Alpha series. Moon Base Alpha was supposed to be an exciting place to live, but Dash didnt expect for it to be this exciting. After solving a murder and rescuing the moon base commander, he...
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Series
Children of time volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yetlife is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology--and they've arrived from another world to help humanity's...
Author
Series
Indranan war volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the series that includes Behind the Throne and After the Crown finds gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail preparing to fight a full-scale war to defend her people while confronting the powerful enemies who killed her family.
44) After the crown
Author
Series
Indranan war volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The adrenaline-fueled, Star Wars-style sequel to Behind the Throne, a new space adventure series from author K.B. Wagers. Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent...
47) Monsters of men
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Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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The riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, reissued with compelling new covers and a bonus short story in each book."This is science fiction at its best, and is a singular fusion of brutality and idealism that is, at last, perfectly human." Booklist (starred review)As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized...
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Series
Escaping exodus volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you." - Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish City. The Compton Crook awardwinning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling stand-alone novel, set...
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Series
Void trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
At the center of the galaxy is the Dreaming Void, an artificial black hole that may hold paradise within its walls. When a human named Inigo begins dreaming of what lies within the Void, the word spreads, triggering a religious pilgrimage into the Void and possibly a catastrophic expansion that threatens the peace of the Commonwealth Universe.
50) Planetfall
Author
Series
Planetfall novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe...
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Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the Catteni ships floated into view above Denver. Now, as human slaves are herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realizes that her normal life is over, and her fight for freedom is just beginning.
53) One good soldier
Author
Series
One day on Mars volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We'll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science, and human reporting, Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity and explains in fascinating detail just how it will happen. The race is on. Private companies, driven by iconoclastic entrepreneurs, such as Elon...
57) Rolling thunder
Author
Series
Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--otherwise known as Podkayne--is a third-generation Martian. Her grandfather, Manny, was one of the first men to set foot on Mars. So Poddy has some planet-sized shoes to fill. That's why she's joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy. Though some may say her voice is a weapon in itself, Poddy passed the audition. And now she's going to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time--a couple of decades at most, before...
59) Space opera
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Series
Language
English
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"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
60) Semiosis
Author
Series
Semiosis duology volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits...Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools."--
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