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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
2) Citadel
Author
Series
Troy rising volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu. But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally it becomes clear the war is just beginning, and Troy (a two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation) is humanity's best hope of survival.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 8
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
784 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Immediately following the destruction of the Separatist battleship Malevolence, a small team of Clones and their Jedi General are sent deep into the dangerous Wild Space to uncover the secret of the mysterious ships origin.
10) Aftermath
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance--now a fledgling New Republic--presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill,...
11) The last Jedi
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 9
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Expanded edition, First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An official novelization of the "Star Wars" film continues the epic adventures of Rey, Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker.
New heroes emerge to take up arms against the First Order: Rey, the orphan strong in the Force; Finn, the ex-stormtrooper who stands against his former masters; and Poe Dameron, the fearless X-wing pilot, have been drawn together to fight side-by-side with General Leia Organa and the Resistance. But the First Order's Supreme Leader...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the release of the Star Wars video game follows Darth Vader as he embarks on a quest to rid the galaxy of the Jedi and confronts life-altering decisions that could change everything.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
Author
Series
Star carrier volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier...
15) Embassytown
Author
Language
English
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
16) Thrawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
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.
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...
17) Bloodline
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling prequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, set roughly six years before the events of the film.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
19) Tarnished knight
Author
Series
The Lost Stars volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Ace mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
CEO Artur Drakon has been betrayed. The Syndic government failed to protect its citizens from both the Alliance and the alien enigmas. With a cadre of loyal soldiers under his command, Drakon launches a battle for control of the Midway Star System--assisted by an ally he's unsure he can trust.
20) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
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