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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have experienced a bizarre night that included extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and a few lost hours during which they could recall very little until they underwent hypnosis. Their mysterious story was just the first of many that have been told by people who have since come forward with their own similar experiences. Although there are thousands of people who claim to have experienced alien abduction, much...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As one of six abducted scientists reserved for special use, physicist Clint Beecham and the five other Reserves decide to free the fifty thousand other humans abducted as food for the aliens' trip home and prevent their abductors from identifying the earth as a food source.
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
4) Lost cat!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One night, Fred the cat does not come home for diner. This is not like him since he loves food! Even more than butterflies, naps, and cuddles. Where could he be? His sweet owner is worried. But there's something she doesn't know about Fred! The pictures tell the story of what Fred is really up to in this fantastical, funny, and out-of-this wolrd adventure."--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding-complete with a true-believer bridegroom-she can't help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one"--
Author
Series
Adventures of Arnie the doughnut volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Arnie is shocked when he hears his neighbor Loretta Schmoretta tell news reporters that she was the victim of an alien abduction. And not just any aliens--alien doughnuts from outer spastry. Will Arnie be abducted? Will alien doughnuts take over the earth? What or who is at the heart of this "who-donut" mystery?
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In season two, the onetime outsider finds himself fully a part of this eclectic group of misfits all the while struggling with the knowledge that life exists beyond our world. Special Agent Alex Foster, a smart, dedicated FBI investigator who's on a mission to Beacon to track down fugitive CEO Jonathan Walsh for white-collar crime, but soon learns he harbors even greater secrets. The arrival of a new alien management on the spaceship complicates matters....
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"People of Earth centers on skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham, who investigates a support group to write about the members's supposed alien encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, however, the more he recognizes a semblance of truth to their stories and, possibly, even signs that point to his own alien abduction"--Container.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Delany, captained by a swashbuckling capitalist named Bob, is circling Europa--one of the moons of Jupiter--studying its atmosphere, but inside, the ship is divided into two warring camps. First there are the group of "Bobs" who slavishly follow the ship's vain, ignorant captain and who antagonize the two crew members who've run afoul of the Bobs: Dwayne and Nalani, who are studying the surface of the moon itself. But it is Dwayne and Nalani...
12) Communion
Publisher
Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
New York City author Whitley Strieber's account of an alien abduction that occurred while on vacation in the mountains of rural New York with his family and friends. The movie follows Strieber (portrayed by Christopher Walken) as he struggles to remember details of the event, and deals with the impact on his personal life. A psychiatrist uses hypnotic regression in order to aide Strieber in recovering his memory.
Author
Series
Blue book (Tynion) volume 1
Publisher
Tiny Onion, Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creators of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth, and Powers comes this ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye to capturing the strange essence of those encounters. In this debut volume, Tynion presents what he calls his "True Weird" stories. Tales of ordinary people encountering...
15) Skyline
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern California. But when sunrise arrives two hours early in the form of a haunting light from an unknown source, a group of friends watch in terror as people across the city are drawn outside and swept into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. From tankers to drones and hydra-like extraterrestrials, the aliens are inescapable and seemingly indestructible.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
These eight episodes have been deemed essential viewing for anyone who wants to fully experience all the thrills, mysteries and nuances of the upcoming theatrical movie. Themes center around alien abductions, psychic phenomenon and life forms not quite human. An exclusive collection.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Architect David Vincent has stumbled upon a terrifying secret-- aliens from a doomed planet are infiltrating Earth. After witnessing the landing of a UFO, his thrilling and adrenaline-pumping odyssey to warn the human race has only just begun.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
20) Taken
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the world's leading visionary filmmaker comes his newest extra terrestrial smash hit! Includes: Roswell: The Landing; A New Generation; Abductions and Government Conspiracies; Alien Contact; and The Gift. Also, a sixth disc full of bonus features.
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