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Author
Series
The Indranan war volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from...
Author
Series
Indranan War volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous move yet.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Physical Desc
878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
6) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a...
Author
Series
The Indranan War volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 p.
Language
English
Description
The adrenaline-fueled, explosive conclusion to the Indranan War trilogy by K. B. Wagers.
Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from both treasonous plots and foreign invasion.
Now, on the run from enemies on all fronts, Hail prepares to fight a full-scale war for her throne and her people, even...
Author
Series
The Farian War volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 p.
Language
English
Description
The first volume of an epic space opera trilogy featuring the gunrunner empress Hail Bristol, who must navigate alien politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies war.
Hail Bristol: former runaway princeess, interplanetary gunrunner, Empress of Indrana.
When the Empire's closest ally asks her to intervene in a galactic military crisis, she embarks on the highest stakes diplomatic mission Indrana has ever faced.
Caught between two powerful...
9) Governor
Author
Series
Ascent to empire volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another. The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic's Heart Worlds, don't care. Their star systems are light-years from any threat of attack. Their children are sheltered from the "mandatory service" that falls so heavily on the Fringe Worlds' backs. Their...
10) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The warring nations and corporations of Earth struggle to establish a truce as an imminent alien invasion approaches.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
12) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
14) Pariah
Author
Series
Donovan volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the survey ship Vixen. With a load of scientists aboard under the supervision of Dr. Dortmund Weisbacher, Vixen is tasked with the first comprehensive survey of the newly discovered planet called Donovan. Given that back in Solar System, Boardmember Radcek would have Benteen's brain dissected, he's particularly motivated to make his escape. The transition that should have taken Vixen years is instantaneous....
15) Alliance rising
Author
Series
The Hinder stars volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe...
Author
Series
A lady astronaut volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
Author
Series
Stars and bones volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Nicola Mafalda's scout ship comes under attack, she's left deeply traumatised by the drastic action it takes to keep her alive. Months later, when an old flame comes to her for help, she realises she has to find a way to forgive both the ship and her former lover. Reckless elements are attempting to reactivate a giant machine that has lain dormant for thousands of years. To stop them, Nicola and her crew will have to put aside their differences,...
18) Thrawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the origins of Thrawn, one of the most ruthless warriors in the Galactic Empire, and the events behind his rise in the Imperial ranks.
20) The bone house
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
385 p.
Language
English