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Author
Series
Adventures of the PSS 118 volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Jack and his classmates find themselves in hostile alien territory after Jack accidentally launches their rickety public schoolship light years away from home.
Author
Series
Wormwood trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy...
4) Lost in time
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adeline is an orphan. Her mother died three years ago when she was sixteen, and her father is lost 202 million years ago, in the late Triassic. Adeline knows he sacrificed his life to save hers, but her determination to find the truth reveals more questions. What has unnerved her father's ex-colleagues? What are they secretly digging for in the desert? Adeline will do whatever it takes to get to the truth, because somewhere, 202 million years in the...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As war breaks out among the colonies, a huge ship appears over the UPP mining planet Shānmén, releasing a horror that yields hideous transformations. Rescue is too far away, and the colonists' only hope appears in the form of the vessel Righteous Fury. It carries the Jackals, an elite mix of former Colonial Marines and Royal Marines. Led by Zula Hendricks, the Jackals seek to rescue the few survivors from the depths of the planet, but have they...
Author
Series
Vampire Earth volume 10
Publisher
Roc, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Captured and sold to the Kurian-allied Maynes Conglomerate to work as a slave in the coal mines of Appalachia, Ahn-Kha is angered and appalled by the dangerous working conditions and the brutal treatment inflicted upon his fellow miners. When a protest against shortages is deliberately and bloodily suppressed, Ahn-Kha sets himself against the ruling Maynes family and embarks on a trail of vengeance through the Coal Country. Finally, the people of...
7) Villain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where monsters do battle with superpowered humans, Dekka, Shade, Cruz, Malik, Armo, and a new mutant with unmatched powers must stop a failed stand-up comic who can now control anyone with the power of his voice.
The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters. Into the chaos comes a villain with the power to control anyone with just the sound...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
RUBY FINLEY IS A SCIENCE GENIUS.
When eleven-year-old Ruby finds the weirdest bug she's ever seen in her front yard, she does what any young entomologist would do: She quickly captures it for further study.
But this insect is not your average bug. It doesn't appear in any of Ruby's reference books, and no online experts can identify it. Before Ruby can celebrate discovering a new species, the bug escapes. Soon, odd things go missing around
town,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
Author
Series
Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
Author
Series
Infinity courts novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, Nami Miyamoto wakes up in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Eos paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A Canticle for Leibowitz opens 600 years after 20th century civilization has been destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge." As a result of the war, there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification," anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging...
14) Space opera
Author
Series
Space opera volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction's trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman. A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose--and change--their gender....
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