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Author
Series
Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by a race of sentient alien ships, to explore the outer reaches of the universe, and begins to feel at home for the first time aboard Nadim, her assigned alien ship.
Author
Series
Rama series volume 1
Language
English
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"Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work"--
3) Zenith
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The all-girl crew of the starship Marauder is tested by a bounty hunter from their powerful mercenary leader's past; while across the galaxy, a ruthless tyrant waits in the shadows to exact revenge for the destruction of her people.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes"-unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when...
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
6) Honor bound
Author
Series
Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their...
Author
Series
FractalVerse volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Formats
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men and reunite during hunting season in the woods of Maine. These men will be plunged into a horrific struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance for survival is locked in their shared past--and in the Dreamcatcher.
10) Honor lost
Author
Series
Honors volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...
11) Red planet
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Series
Language
English
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"Marking the first appearance of the Martian elder race taht plays such a prominent role in Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein's iconic Red Planet tells the story of Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton's jurney to the Lowe Academy boarding school on Mars, and the discoveries they make there that impact the guture of their entire colony" -- back cover.
12) Remote control
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks-alone, except for her fox companion-searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away. The rules are strict and absolute: Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit. Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again. Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever. But what happens when, in escaping your old life by stealing a new one, you jump out of the frying pan and into the fire? Cousins from a clan of dwellers -people who inhabit the bodies and lives of others-become...
Author
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When John Carter discovers that his beloved wife, Dejah, has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, he is desperate to rescue her. However, the prison, which slowly rotates, is only opened once a Barsoomian year. As Dejah's prison sentence drags on for over a hundred days, the window of opportunity is narrowing for Carter to save her. Amid social and political unrest from the last war, the Thern had appointed a new leader, but many still believed...
Author
Series
Children of a Dead Earth volume 3
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
20170801
Language
English
Description
A new generation comes of age eighteen years after humanity arrived on the colony planet Gaia. Now threats from both within and outside their Trident threaten everything theyve built. The discovery of an alien installation inside Gaias moon, terrorist attacks and the kidnap of a mans daughter stretch the community to breaking point, but only two men stand a chance of solving all three mysteries before the makeshift planetary government shuts everything...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure.
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent...
17) Refraction
Author
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
After an attack on earth, all reflective surfaces become weapons to release monsters, causing a planet-wide ban on mirrors. Despite the danger, the demand rises, and 17-year-old Marty Callahan becomes a distributor in an illegal mirror trade―until he’s caught by the mayor's son, whose slate is far from clean. Both of them are exiled for their crimes to one of the many abandoned cities overrun by fog. But they soon realize their thoughts influence...
18) Fugitive six
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her friends from the Human Garde Academy saved her from mysterious abductors, Taylor uncovers a mole from a secret organization within the school that is orchestrating the disappearance of other teens with special abilities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius inventor, Ethan Fairmont, along with his ex-best friend Kareem, and new-kid Juan Carlos stumble across an extraterrestrial visitor they name Cheese, who is stuck on Earth in need of serious repairs, spicy snacks, and total secrecy.
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Series
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English
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Hugo Award Winners for Best Novel
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
Description
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent....