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1) Beautyland
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on...
Author
Series
Terra Ignota volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The third book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity In a future of near-instantaneous global travel and abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war-war has finally come. This is book 3 of the 4-volume SF epic Terra Ignota.
Author
Publisher
TOR Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writier, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A towering epic to rank with Douglas Preston's Blasphemy and Michael Crichton's Prey ... Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos. Gary Morgan--a brilliant, renegade scientist is pilloried by the scientific community for his belief in a space elevator: a pillar to the sky, which he believes will make space flight fast, simple and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Big Audrey, who has cat-like whiskers, and her telephathic friend Molly set out on a journey to find out why flying saucers are landing behind the old stone barn in Poughkeepsie, New York, and, more importantly, to determine whether another cat-whiskered girl really exists.
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 5
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to deal with her lover's murder and a forced retirement, Captain Honor Harrington assumes the role of Steadholder on the planet Grayson, but a threatening uprising calls her back into duty as head of the Grayson Navy.
7) The cure
Author
Series
The cure chronicles volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On her seventeenth birthday, Ashen Spencer is blindfolded and escorted to the massive, mysterious building known as the Arc to begin her year of training and testing in hopes that she can earn the Cure--a powerful drug given only to those deemed worthy to survive beyond their eighteenth birthday. Ashen has a chance to rise up from her former life of squalor and be granted a place in society, if the Panel--the mysterious group of powerful men and...
8) Awaken
Author
Series
The cure chronicles volume 2
Publisher
[K.A. Riley]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Leaving behind the people she loves most in the world, Ashen sets off into the wilderness in hopes of finding the elusive group of rebels know as the Consortium. But when she finds herself among strangers in the former ski town locals have named the 'Bastille, ' secrets begin to reveal themselves, friendships prove as fragile as glass, and Ashen begins to understand just how powerful her enemy really is. When her brother, Kel, goes missing, Ashen...
Author
Series
Publisher
KSA Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When circumstances leave her with little choice but to volunteer for the Interstellar Bride Program, Hannah Johnson finds herself matched with not one but two mates. Her soon-to-be husbands are warriors of the planet Prillon, a world whose men are known far and wide for their prowess both in battle and in bed.
Following her transport to a starship halfway across the galaxy, Hannah awakens in the presence of Zane Deston, the huge,
...10) Ukulele of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After losing their parents when they were just babies, private investigators Fran and Ken Stein now specialize in helping adoptees find their birth parents. So when a client asks them for help finding her father, with her only clue a rare ukulele, the case is a little weird, sure, but it's nothing they can't handle. But soon Fran and her brother are plunged into a world where nothing makes sense - and not just the fact that a very short (but very...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
12) Red dwarf: X
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The most inept band of space travelers ever to roam the interstellar highway returns with an all-new season of misadventures. This series begins with the Dwarfers mining ship still creaking through the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumbles upon the mysteriously abandoned SS Trojan. As they inspect the ship Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from an old foe and is suddenly faced with the dilemma of his life.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In this dystopian tale, young Erie and her older sister, Hurona, leave the only home they've ever known and discover that the world is much larger and more complicated than they'd ever imagined"--
Twelve-year-old Erie has never lived life fully in the sunlight. After destructive wildfires wreaked havoc on the world around her, the government came up with a plan--engineer a plant that cannot burn. Thus, the fire-resistant lockwood was born. The lockwood...
14) Explorers
Series
Shout select volume 116
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In their makeshift laboratory, three boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.
Publisher
Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Test driver Ben Richards discovers his blood contains every immunity known to man--in effect making him immortal. When an elderly billionaire named Maitland learns of Richards' condition, he hires mercenary Fletcher to track Richards all over the country, capture him, and bring him back to Maitland's estate for periodic transfusions.
Author
Series
Spacemice volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"MouseStar 1 is surrounded by floating space junk! It's yucky--and dangerous. Geronimo Stiltonix tracks down the source of the junk and meets very wasteful aliens. Even worse, robots that the aliens threw away have started to rebel! Can the spacemice restore harmony before the robots take over?"--Page 4 of cover.
17) Cartel 2045
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2045, the continuing drug war has caused havoc between The United States and Mexico. Gear Side International, a robotics engineering company on the brink of bankruptcy, sells off their technology to the Cartel on the black market. With the advanced military robotics technology in the wrong hands the cartel uses it to their advantage; replacing their enforcers, hit men, and soldiers.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In different parts of the Solar System, the crew of the Rocinante and their allies confront the sins of their past, while Marco Inaros unleashes an attack that will alter the future of Earth, Mars, the Belt, and the worlds beyond the Ring.
19) 80 days or die
Author
Series
Max Tilt volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt stumbled across his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he thought he had the answer to all his problems, but nothing in life is ever that easy. With his mom's illness getting worse again, Max needs to figure out a way to save his family--now more than ever. So Max and his cousin Alex revisit The Lost Treasures, and they find a clue that just might be the...
20) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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