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1) Cibola burn
Author
Series
Expanse volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
2) Thrawn
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Description
After Thrawn is rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, his ingenuity and tactical abilities capture the attention of Emperor Palpatine. Thrawn proves to be as indispensable as he is ambitious. On missions to rout smugglers, snare spies, and defeat pirates, he triumphs time and again even as his methods infuriate superiors while inspiring admiration from the Empire. As one promotion follows another in his ascension to power, he schools his aide,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai--ruler of an empire at war with itself"--Page 4 of cover.
In the stunning conclusion to the Imperial Radch trilogy, a search of Athoek Station's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the Republic and the Separatists have battled across the stars, each building more and more deadly technology in an attempt to win the war. As a member of Chancellor Palpatine's top secret Death Star project, Orson Krennic is determined to develop a superweapon before their enemies can. And an old friend of Krennic's, the brilliant scientist Galen Erso, could be the key. Galen's energy-focused research has...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened thousands of minds to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. But a crucial question remained:...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Description
In the squalid, crime-infested city of Ankh-Morpork - bifurcated seaport capital and oldest city on the Discworld - one lives either by the sword or in the shadows. And it is from the shadows that Rincewind, deplorably second-rate magician and undisputed master of the art of cowardice, spies Twoflower, a pint-sized foreigner trailed by a big, wooden chest ... moving on hundreds of tiny legs. Twoflower may be the Discworld's first and only tourist....
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
11) Alf: Season one
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In September 1986, a loveable alien named Alf crashed his spaceship into the home of the unsuspecting Tanner family. For the next four years, Alf elusively avoided houseguests, chased the cat, ate everything in sight, but the Tanners always loved Alf.
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Series
Adventures of the Bailey School kids volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the art teacher disappears after a strange display of flashing lights, it looks like Bailey Elementary is in a bind. But, out of nowhere a mysterious and pale woman with silver-white hair and an unusual white outfit shows up to take her place. Soon after her arrival, the objects of Bailey City start to lose their color, but the new teacher seems to be getting more colorful every day. Can the Bailey School kids stop Bailey City from being washed...
14) The sparrow
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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
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15) A maze of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.
16) Provenance
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe. Are aliens real? Where are they? Why haven't we found them? What happens if we do? We've long been led to believe that astronomers spend every night searching the sky for extraterrestrials, but the truth is...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2003, 2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Anthony and his younger sister discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual box at an estate sale are alive, but they have no way of knowing that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical adventures to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.
20) The tuloriad
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Series
Publisher
Baen Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Plucked from the maelstrom on Earth the Posleen are cast out into the eternal blackness of the stars with only a slightly insane Indowy and a computer virus to guide them. What follows is a trail of tears and remembrance as the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors in a search for their homeworld.
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