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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a swarm of aliens fly down to Earth, meeting people is the last thing they want to do--what they really, really want...is to steal underwear from you! These hilarious aliens love underpants in every color and size--whether big or small, red or green, and everything in between! Since they don't have underwear up in space, they're willing to steal fabrics from any place. They think that Mom's frilly, pink panties are a perfect place to hide. And...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An unsuspecting newlywed finds himself the subject of alien scientific study in this humorous tale from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author. After an evening out to dinner, one sultry midsummer eve, Charlie finds himself in the right place at the wrong time: lying underneath an oak tree after making love with his new wife. But while Maria drifts off into dreamland, Charlie finds himself being watched by a one-eyed alien in the branches above....
3) Topside
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jo, a maintenance technician in an underground society, makes a massive error during a routine repair and to set things right, must journey above ground, to a dangerous area swarming with alien life.
Publisher
Outland Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A spaceship's nothing without her crew. In the vastness of space, there's room for all types of adventures. Scientists seek to solve the mysteries of the universe. Explorers look for lost alien civilizations or new worlds to support life. Planet builders and planet smugglers create life and steal worlds. And some human spacefarers navigate with the help (or hindrance) of feline or feathered companions. The universe contains infinite possibilities--but...
Author
Series
Bad guys volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Bad Guys find themselves sixty-five million years in the past where they must avoid being eaten by dinosaurs, fix their broken time machine, and get back home before an evil alien destroys the world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a future where alien beings consume technology as a few humans try to preserve it, Strata, her brother, and a friend are separated from their caravan and, with a wonderful robotic horse, must fight their way back.
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Language
English
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• In his long-awaited debut short story collection, Nebula award-winning author Sam J. Miller delivers a hauntingly beautiful and occasionally terrifying paen at the intersection between queer life in the past, present, and future.
• Miller (The Art of Starving, Blackfish City, The Blade Between) has found acclaim across genres; this collection will appeal to his LGBTQIA+, horror, fantasy, and literary fiction readers
• National marketing...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they're convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach... an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland's most revered authors... Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving...
10) Return to zero
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"When the United Nations takes drastic measures against the Human Garde to keep them in check, the students at the Academy must go on the offensive while those who have defected face off against a new and equally dangerous threat"--
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Language
English
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The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, Hugo Award winner for Best Series!
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.
Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer.
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer delivers an intergalactic tale of impossible love ... and betrayal The first time Mekashe, Captain of the Imperial Guard, meets blue-eyed human beauty Jasmine Donally, the two nearly come to blows. Forever devoted to the Cehn-Tahr, Mekashe is forced to sever ties with the object of his adoration. Years pass before their paths cross again, but Mekashe hasn't forgotten what transpired -- or the way she...
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Series
Bad guys volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Bad Guys have strangely acquired SUPERPOWERS! But their powers might be, well, defective. They can only do things like blow their own pants off in public. Not exactly what you'd call hero-caliber skills. Defective or not, the Bad Guys have a job to do. With Marmalade ready to destroy the world, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, and Mr. Shark finally have their chance to be (super)heroes! And this time, they may just get some help...
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--as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets--scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. "Forget science fiction,"...
15) After Doomsday
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The only survivors of an annihilated human race must find one another somewhere in the cosmos and unite to destroy the alien aggressors who obliterated the Earth in this classic science fiction adventure After a three-year mission, the American starship Benjamin Franklin and its all-male crew have returned to Earth, only to discover the planet is dead, a blackened shell devoid of life. It is clear that one of a trio of alien species engineered the...
Author
Series
Bad guys volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A creature with tons of teeth and way too many butts is stealing the Bad Guys one by one.
17) Youth
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Language
English
Description
Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Kiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons . . .
The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignments-and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger, faster, smarter, and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated. A reluctant "superhero," Kiera wishes she were normal, but it is not to be.
On Orpheus...
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Drawn from the leading pulp magazines of the 1950s -- Galaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and Fantastic Universe -- these eight groundbreaking selections offer spellbinding science-fiction tales of encounters with Martians and other extraterrestrials. "Youth," by Isaac Asimov, recounts two friends' discovery of a pair of strange little animals the morning after mysterious thunder without a storm. Philip José Farmer's "Rastignac the Devil" tells...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! A Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017" pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger! Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera -- the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry...
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