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1) Guild boss
Author
Series
Harmony novel volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidnapped and drugged as she leaves the party, Lucy Bell manages to escape, only to find herself lost in the mysterious, alien underground maze of glowing green tunnels beneath Illusion Town. She's been surviving on determination and cold pizza, scavenged for her by a special dust bunny, when help finally shows up. Gabriel Jones is the Guild Hunter sent to rescue her, but escaping the underground ruins isn't the end of her troubles. It's only the...
Author
Series
Teixcalaan volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
Author
Series
Homecoming volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
5) Red moon
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
446 p.
Language
English
Description
"Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California"--
"It is twenty-five years...
Author
Series
Great Schools of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 p.
Language
English
Description
A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering...
9) Cibola burn
Author
Series
The expanse volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
611 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
Author
Series
The expanse volume 7
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
583 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. I
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Author
Series
Dune Caladan trilogy volume 3
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that...
14) Tiamat's wrath
Author
Series
The expanse volume 8
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
565 p.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable....
Author
Series
Dune Caladan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the rise of his son, little is known about the quiet ruler of Caladan and his partner Jessica. Or how a Duke of an inconsequential planet earned an emperor's favor, the ire of House Harkonnen, and set himself on a collision course with his own death. This is the story.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
76 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Travel to eight planets on your journey to find alien life. Each planet is modeled on an actual type of planet scientists have discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientifically based speculation is used to imagine all the possibilities of life beyond Earth.
17) Adrift
Author
Series
Donovan volume Book 5
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
313 pages;
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry live in a 130-story treehouse. Or, at least they WILL live in a 130-story treehouse once they finish building all 13 new levels!
The upgrades to the treehouse are still under construction and therefore super-duper top secret, but The 130-Story Treehouse is sure to be the zaniest adventure yet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Language
English
Description
Table of Contents
Home Away from Earth p. 4
Water World p. 6
Just Breathe p. 8
Changing Life p. 10
Gravity p. 12
Life on Mars? p. 14
Challenges p. 16
Terraforming p. 18
Growing Life p. 20
Artificial Structures p. 22
Getting There p. 24
Why Move? p. 26
In the Future p. 28
Glossary p. 30
For More Information p. 31
Index p. 32