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Author
Series
Virga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
With the Key of Candesce in her position, Venera Fanning lands on the ancient world of Spyre, where she initiates a war between the status quo and the reformists, and makes it her mission to seek revenge on the individuals responsible for her free fall.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Before the other 625 experiments landed in Hawaii, Stitch was enjoying his new 'Ohana with Lilo and Nani. It may have seemed like paradise, but little did they know something strange was about to happen...Stitch has a glitch!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence.
This changes when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cannot be natural. Its continents and oceans have been...
44) Deathworld
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gifted gambler fights to survive on a hostile planet in this classic novel from the creator of science fiction antihero the Stainless Steel Rat. The gravity is twice that of Earth. The weather is an unpredictable maelstrom. All species of life, both plant and animal, monstrous and microscopic, are lethal. And the environment is drenched with radioactivity. This is planet Pyrrus, where telepathically gifted gambler Jason dinAlt has ended up after...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? While the science behind this inquiry is fascinating, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is a reflection of our values, our fears, and most importantly, our enduring sense of hope. In The Possibility of Life, acclaimed science journalist Jaime Green traces the history of our understanding, from the days of Galileo and Copernicus to our contemporary quest for exoplanets....
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,"...
47) Ender's shadow
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bean must overcome his past and prove to the recruiters at the Battle School that he can help save the planet from an alien invasion.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of articles by various authors written in honor of Carl Sagan, discussing the U.S. and Russian space programs, the search for extraterrestrial life, the importance of science education, and the shaping of science policy, and including a chapter by Sagan in which he explains the place and role of Earth and mankind in the universe.
49) Dragonsblood
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Lorana, a young dragonrider with a gift for healing and telepathy, rushes to find a cure when a mysterious fatal illness infects the dragons just when a deadly cycle of Threadfall is due, and realizes the answer lies with Wind Blossom, a geneticist whose mother created the dragons hundreds of years earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Returning to the Jedi Academy, Victor struggles with his older sister's upcoming graduation and contemplates returning to his old ways of being the class clown.
51) Climbing Olympus
Author
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A group of surgically altered exiles plot to destroy a corrupt plot to colonize Mars in this science fiction adventure by a New York Times bestseller.
In order to terraform Mars, Earth first had to transform people . . .
The Red Planet is a harsh place, and normal humans cannot survive there during the many years of taming the planet. But a group of humans-called "volunteers," even though they were taken from prison gulags-have been surgically...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Go back to before the beginning, with New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Moon’s brand new collection of short stories set in the world of Paksenarrion, featuring beloved Paksworld characters alongside unknown future favorites, as they navigate all the challenges, opportunities, failures, and triumphs inherent in the deeds (and misdeeds) of their youth. Spanning from a time predating the events in Deed of Paksenarrion through to the Paladin’s...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Join Dick and the rest of his crew as they conclude their Earth mission with more laughs and hilarious human encounters. Includes Tommy's journey to college, Sally's new profession as a weather girl, Harry hangs with the Amish and The Big Giant Head issues a shocking final order.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Solomon's mission to investigate human behavior continues. They are a group of aliens who turn everyday events into out of this world hilarity. Experience the unusual happening of the gang as they share the joys of childbirth, attend an interactive murder mystery, recover from car crashes all while trying to learn about Earth customs and population.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, Thrawn proved to be indispensable to Emperor Palpatine and the Empire. Ambitious and a warrior never to be underestimated, one promotion followed another. Follow the events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power and infamy as Thrawn rises to Admiral
59) Nyxia uprising
Author
Series
The nyxia triad volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they're ever to make it home alive"--
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