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1) The deep sky
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect....
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim"--
4) Contagion
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Series
Contagion duology volume 1
Language
English
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After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project-including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried-and some monsters are only too ready to...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids. Olga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating,...
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Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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A spaceship piloted by children travels to Planet Infinity where the youngsters must navigate underground tunnels in search of the fourth element of a power source needed to save Earth.
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
8) Omega rising
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Voyagers land on a planet made entirely of water where they must find the third element of the Source that will save the Earth"--
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Language
English
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"Sylvestri Yarrow is drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. Tangled up in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested ... Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her Padawan Imri Cantaros arrive at the capital along with Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and his Padawan, Reath Silas--and are asked to assist...
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 2
Language
English
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"Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J.Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn's moons, to clear J.Lo's name after a string of misunderstandings"--
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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"Kevin is a thirtysomething homebody, happily committed to his hydroponics-expert girlfriend, Amber, as they grow weed in their basement in Vancouver. Out of the blue, Amber announces that she has been selected for a reality show where she will compete for one of two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars. If selected, she must stay on Mars for good, because the technology to come home doesn't exist yet. Is this a suicide mission or a bold new...
12) Into the dark
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace...Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic. Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he's traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Andy and Terry live in a 130-story treehouse. It used to be a 117-story treehouse, but they added another 13 stories. It has a soap bubble blaster, a time-wasting level, a 13-story igloo, the GRABINATOR (it can grab anything from anywhere at any time). It is a toilet paper factory, and an extraterrestrial observation center for observing aliens. As it turns out, though, it's Andy, Terry, and Jill who are being observed and then abducted by a giant...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is abnormally frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina town become fixated on aliens, and soon she and her family are forced to flee, making it clear that all is not as it seems.
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the...
17) Game of flames
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Dash, Carly, Gabriel, and Piper visit a planet made up of molten lava and run entirely by robots where they must find the second element of the Source that will save the Earth.
18) Midnight horizon
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Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Confronting the anarchistic marauders known as the Nihil, the Jedi Knights and their Padawans are put to the test, but soon discover that nothing is what it seems.
After a series of losses, the Republic seems to have the villainous Nihil marauders on the run. Jedi Masters Cohmac Vitus and Kantam Sy are sent to the world of Corellia, in the Galactic Core, to investigate a suspected Nihil attack. There, Padawans Reath Silas and Ram Jomaram encounter...
19) The Orpheus plot
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"The Navy has never accepted a Belter cadet before, but Lucas' skills secure him a place on the training ship, the Orpheus. Life in the Navy couldn't be more different than life in the Belt, and Lucas struggles to find his place. As a Belter, he's an outsider among his peers ... Lucas is caught between the worlds of his past and his future when a Belter rebellion puts everyone's lives at risk"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In this follow-up to Path of Deceit, fortune-seeking explorers, mysterious followers, and brave Jedi find their paths intersecting, setting them on a collision course that will haunt the Republic for centuries to come.
Cousins Marda and Yana Ro belong to the Path of the Open Hand, which believes the Force must not be used by anyone, especially the Jedi. When a Path mission to the Pilgrim Moon of Jedha erupts in violence, the two find themselves at...
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