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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...
2) Code to zero
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"A man wakes up shaking with fear on the cold rest room floor in Union Station, Washington, D.C. He doesn't know how he got there, or even his own name. His ragged, dirty clothes imply he's a bum, probably getting over a bender. But something seems terribly wrong-and shadowy figures follow his every move.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coonts's Saucer brings back the characters, action, and exhilaration that made the original a smash. After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers...
8) The sky road
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Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The fate of a second attempt to conquer space hinges on the records left by Myra Godwin at the end of the first era of space flight centuries before.
9) Salvation
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Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett). In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind...
10) The long cosmos
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
11) Binary System
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Solaris
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
After surviving a catastrophic starship blow-out, Delia Kemp finds herself stranded on the inhospitable, ice-bound world of Valinda, populated by the Skelt, a race of hostile aliens who will stop at nothing to obtain Delia's scientific knowledge. Escaping from the Skelt, assisted by a friendly chimpanzee-like alien and a giant spider crab, she travels south through a phantasmagorical landscape as the long winter comes to an end and the short, blistering...
12) Space adventure
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Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A story-building book that lets readers create many different space travel adventures by making various choices in fourteen colorfully illustrated spreads, including what to wear, which planet to visit, and who will be part of the crew.
13) Dead silence
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed--made obsolete--when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate....
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Library of ever volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored -- until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Mazelike and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. And Lenora becomes its newly appointed Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian. She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces...
15) The hive
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Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now it's clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth's warring nations...
17) Outbound flight
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Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of an ambitious undertaking. 6 Jedi Masters, 12 Jedi Knights, and 50,000 men, women, and children will embark on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize worlds beyond the galaxy. Bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition until Master C'baoth foils a plot, winning him the political capital to set in motion Outbound Flight. Unknown to the...
18) Aurora's end
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Aurora cycle volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure,...
19) Ender in exile
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Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
20) Earth
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Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that...
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