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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.
Author
Series
Sorrow Falls volume 1
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to investigate and finds that Annie Collins, sixteen, might have the answers he seeks.
25) Pitch dark
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
27) Shattered spear
Author
Series
The Lost Stars volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series returns to the "strong saga"* of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, and the determination of two people to create a better future in the farthest reaches of the colonized galaxy... The Syndicate Worlds continues to splinter as more star systems pledge allegiance to President Gwen Iceni, General Artur Drakon, and the new government they're establishing at Midway. But the toxic...
Author
Series
Chilling effect volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra find themselves once again on the fringe of populated space--and at the center of a raging covert war. When Eva's sister asks for help locating a missing scientist, promises of a big paycheck and a noble cause convince Eva to take the job despite lingering trust issues. With reluctant assistance from her estranged mother, Eva and her crew follow the missing scientist's trail across the universe,...
29) I am a pilot
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Meet Hans Solo and other Star Wars pilots.
30) Aetherbound
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies. But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race.
Author
Series
Salvagers (Alex White) volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Furious and fun, the first book in this bold, new science fiction adventure series follows a ragtag group of adventurers as they try to find a legendary ship that just might be the key to clearing their name and saving the universe"--
Author
Series
Apollo murders volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to the breaking point back on Earth.
35) Claws that catch
Author
Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 4
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.
36) Deathtroopers
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Death troopers volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
Author
Series
Not-so-impossible tales volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When ten-year-old Astra and her family move to a new planet, she must save the spaceship and its crew from man-eating cakes, aliens, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
38) Conspirator
Author
Series
Foreigner universe volume 10
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Cajeiri, the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association, has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father's rule. For Cajeiri is the first "ateva" youth to have lived in a human environment and the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similar--yet so dangerously different--aliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.
39) Rosebud
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When five sentient digital beings-condemned for over three hundred years to crew the small survey ship by the all-powerful Company-encounter a mysterious black sphere, their course of action is clear: obtain the object, inform the Company, earn lots of praise. But the ship malfunctions, and the crew has no choice but to approach the sphere and survey it themselves. They have no idea that this object-and the transcendent truth hidden within-will change...
40) Velocity weapon
Author
Series
The Protectorate volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship breaking up around her as she evac pod expanded, sealing her away for salvage-medics to pick up. She wakes up 230 years later on an empty enemy smartship, The Light of Berossus-- or Bero, as he prefers to be called. The war is lost. The star system is dead. But in the vastness of space, anything is possible.... -- adapted from back cover
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