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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders...
62) Halo: cryptum
Author
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner who seeks out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors --long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent -- an act that forces his father's hand and forever changes Bornstellar's destiny ... and the fate of the entire galaxy.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
66) Mercy's reign
Author
Series
Keepers volume 2
Publisher
[J.L.M. Anderson]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After the events of Spheara, Mercy Validus is faced with his biggest challenge yet; a fight for his life, those he cares for, and his own sanity. His foundation begins to crumble as his friendships with Sylas and Caligo become strained, and he starts to understand just how much power he truly holds. He watches as his true inability to protect those he cares for becomes evident and the pressure continues to build. Meanwhile, Caligo's battle as King...
67) Mercy's light
Author
Series
Keepers volume 1
Publisher
[J.L.M. Anderson]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mercy has been keeping a secret from his loved ones and his village. A secret that could very well end his life. Descended from a group of ancient warriors from Aitus, Mercy is destined to become the greatest Keeper of Light the planet has ever seen, but one mistake will cost him everything. With his secret out, Mercy must now find a way to free his people and keep himself alive before Queen Mala and her Unity Council can cause any more damage. With...
68) Red moon
Author
Language
English
Description
It is thirty years from now and we have colonized the moon. Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler. Finally there is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating...
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A journey through the evolving cosmos, considering how human survival will depend on otherworldly perspectives. In David Whitehouse's most ambitious book to date, he explores how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning, and what the far-distant future may hold, both for the universe and for ourselves. Given enough time, Whitehouse contends, we must communicate with intelligent aliens whose divergent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission, into a mystery he never anticipated--his own mother. Plans, wills, and expectations collide...
73) Command decision
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
74) Outbound flight
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Outbound flight volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
Prince Roger MacClintock series volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
76) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
Author
Series
Expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series is now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them--and among the humans--who seek power ... and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization...
79) Threshold
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 2
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
As Helen Sutter, her super-sensor expert husband and their friends race to find caches of profitable alien technologies on the mysterious asteroid Ceres, an all-out interplanetary war threatens to break out as more and more enterprising people try to mine the technologies.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A thrilling story of science, Nazi research, secret spy planes, and the space race, UFO traces the history of the U.S. government's hunt for 'unidentified aerial phenomena' here on Earth, as well as the group of forward-thinking scientists who launched the search for extraterrestrial intelligence far from Earth. Drawing on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews with intelligence and military officials, Graff's book traces...
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