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81) Alone
Author
Series
Generations trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler's unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence. "We thought this place was our destiny--not our doom." Pawns in a millennia-old struggle, the young people known only as the Birthday Children were genetically engineered to survive on the...
Author
Series
Confederation novels volume 5
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After pirates invade the ship of her lover, Craig Ryder, and kidnap him, former Marine Torin Kerr calls in the Marines to get Craig back--and to stop the cosmic swashbucklers from changing the balance of power in space.
84) The last colony
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds,
85) Manifold: origin
Author
Series
Manifold trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 5
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years{u2014}as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets{u2014}scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. "Forget science...
88) Dooku: Jedi Lost
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delve into the history of the sinister Count Dooku in this audio original set in a galaxy far, far away.... Darth Tyranus. Count of Serenno. Leader of the Separatists. A red saber, unsheathed in the dark. But who was he, before he became the right hand of the Sith? As Dooku courts a new apprentice, the hidden truth of the Sith Lord's past begins to come to light. Dooku's life began as one of privilege--born within the stony walls of his family's estate,...
Author
Series
Humanity's fire volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As a new war threatens to erupt on the world of Darien, an outpost of intergalactic struggle, servants of malignant intelligences work feverishly to release these beings from their hyperspace prison.
91) Ice and shadow
Author
Publisher
Baen Books ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Brother to shadows: the bodyguard to an alien scientist must protect both his client, and the client's discovery, from harm.
Ice crown: an archaeologist searches for an artifact that will save the enslaved population of an isolated world.
93) Semiosis
Author
Series
Semiosis duology volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
February 2018.
Language
English
Description
"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits...Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools."--
94) Halo: silentium
Author
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the iconic science fiction film through LEGO figurines as Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia battle against Darth Vader as he attempts to end the rebellion with the powerful Death Star.
Author
Series
Confederation novels volume 4
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marine's marine. She's survived more deadly encounters--and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive--than anyone in the Corps. Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all will to escape. Now, Torin must fight her way not only out of the prison but also past the growing compulsion to...
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