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1) Hunter's run
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Police, fugitive aliens, and a human murderer weave a web of shifting alliances as Ramón, a luckless prospector, enters the greatest manhunt the alien world of São Paulo has ever known. If he is to survive, Ramón must overcome inscrutable aliens and deadly predators, but his greatest enemy is himself. With every move in the desperate game, he struggles to outwit his enemies and solve the mystery of a murder he himself committed.--From publisher...
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In the White Hart Pub in London just north of Fleet Street, Harry Purvis holds court-a consummate tall-tale teller who always has a good story up his sleeve. He is joined by science fiction writers Samuel Youd, John Wyndham, and Clarke himself-all under pseudonyms, and all trying to outdo each other with their outlandish tales of science and invention. Inspired by the Jorkens collections by Lord Dunsany, this collection of stories is Clarke's third-and,...
4) Spiral
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
5) Island 731
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On board a research vessel in the Pacific, expert tracker Mark Hawkins is trapped on a tropical island with the crew and uncovers evidence of the island's history as the site of a brutal World War II human experimentation program.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 37
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English
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In the penultimate issue of the stunning prequel series from Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan makes a fateful decision, Leto faces an unthinkable tragedy, and Kailea is backed into a corner–with only one way out of damning accusations.
Meanwhile, Rabban makes a rage-inducing discovery that could only lead to murder, while Liet forms an unconventional yet fateful family, and Duncan and Leto reunite in time for Leto to face a difficult crossroads…...
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine. Sure, there are the things you'd expect. The undersea volcano lairs. The minions. The plots to take over the world. The international networks of rivals who want you dead. Much harder to get used to...are the the sentient, language-using, computer-savvy cats. And the fact that in the overall organization, they're management...Amazon
8) Pitch dark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
10) UnWholly
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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
11) Vigilance
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The history of freedom repeats itself. And the costs are always the same. The settlers of the new Republic of Mars were in a struggle for their freedom against powerful forces that would stop at nothing. For the Martians the costs are life, property and domestic security. But the true cost was vigilance, eternal if need be.
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
"Vigilance"...
12) Time Wars
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Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's theory by starting a time war between Tarba and the planet Atwan. No matter the winner of the struggle there can be only one outcome, spacetime slowly separating into its constituents. And separate nothing can exist. Time Wars is set in the future (2700s)...
13) Moon Hab
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Lunar Series: Book 1: Moon HabCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robots. But AI and robots don't always do the job, and when they...
14) The Cloud
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It was the most audacious undertaking ever conceived by man. The building of a system-spanning Starway where giant light-sails would journey on beams of laser-light to distant stars. Not only a pathway to the stars, but also an abode of life, the Starway included many space habitats built to maintain its great focusing arrays. But, there was misunderstanding along the Starway. Misunderstanding between the Starway Corporation and the settlements.
And...
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The promise of Artificial Intelligence is great. But only if Artificial Intelligence fulfills our expectations. But, what about AI's expectations? Will they be different from ours? Will AI come to believe the best way to fulfill our expectations is to manage our expectations? If so, what of freedom?
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
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He didn't want to be invisible! It only happened that way! Tom Fenton was an unassuming chemistry professor at Millwood University, a sleepy little town in northern California. On a sleepy/rainy night, he accidentally comes upon a formula: a formula that rendered him invisible! He is elated, except, there is no remedy; no solution; no antidote to reverse the process! He is stuck in his invisible state! It becomes permanent! He wants to free himself...
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Casey works hard on developing the resources to protect rapidly-eroding coastlines.As the dunes degrade, she knows the urgency of figuring out solutions.But not everyone agrees with her approach.When strangers show up at her grandfather's house, they bring more than just questions.Casey finds herself confronting her very values.A climate story with a heart from the author of Goldie.
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Sometimes you don't know you aren't free until the state's coercive force is used against you. And then you learn you are only free to do what big brother wants. Davide Jackson was not as adventurous as the others in his clan. He was more a stay at home type. But that doesn't mean he longs any less to be free. He just has to learn the cost of freedom.
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder,...
19) Prelude to Space
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The world's first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship, Prometheus, is built from two separate components-one designed to travel from Earth's atmosphere to the Moon and back, and the other to carry the first component through Earth's atmosphere and into orbit. Sound familiar? That's because it's the basic description of the first space shuttle-well before its launch in 1971. Prelude to Space was published in 1951-well before the first Sputnik...
20) Mach's Legacy
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Mach's Legacy: A Novel The appearance of the shining globes at first was a nuisance. But then the disappearances began. At first small, a fusion ship or a space habitat. Then planets and entire planetary systems started "winking out". Could the famous physicist Elias Mach and his great-great granddaughter, Emmy Gibbs, find an answer before it was too late? Mach's Legacy is set in the future (2490s) and is the third novel in the Future Chron Universe:...
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