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1) Proxima
Author
Series
Proxima volume 1
Publisher
Roc Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite.... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there...
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018], p2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (15 hr., 15 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir have escaped the murderous AI that was trapping them on Barbary Station, and earned themselves a place on Captain Sloane's fabled pirate crew. And now that they've arrived at Vesta, Sloane's home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations. Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane's absence. Adda and Iridian find themselves trapped in a contract...
Author
Series
The handmaid's tale volume 2
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
x, 419 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
Author
Series
Beyond the frontier volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018], p2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (27 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U. S. Edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
9) Howl
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself.
10) Hunting by stars
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
12) Sort of super
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
234 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Wyatt Flynn had something amazing happen to him: he got superpowers! Good ones too, like super-flight, super-strength, and super-speed. The only problem? Wyatt got his superpowers totally by mistake, and his dad--who's been overprotective since Wyatt's mom disappeared--thinks he's too young for them and worries what would happen if everyone found out. So he makes Wyatt hide his powers. Keeping such a huge secret from his best friends...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When, a year later, Mercer is spotted in Caracas,...
14) Juror #3
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
15) Raven stratagem
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 2
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kel Cheris, a young captain, summons the ghost of a long-dead General Shuos Jedao to stop a rebellion, the general possesses her and takes over General Khiruev's fleet.
16) Moon demon
Author
Series
Daughters of the moon volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2002.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Vanessa, a girl with the power to become invisible, worries that the other goddesses are shutting her out, fears a demon sent by the Atrox, and desires a handsome stranger.
17) The maniac
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
18) Executive intent
Author
Series
Lieutenant General Patrick McLanahan volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
19) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin...
20) Fourth wing
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....