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Author
Series
Teixcalaan volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die. Now Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue...
Author
Series
Teixcalaan volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
4) Rosewater
Author
Series
The Wormwood Trilogy volume Book 1
Publisher
Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. A sensitive, he can navigate the massive psychic space created by the dome. But when something within the dome begins killing other sensitives, Kaaro must...
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin trilogy volume Book 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
After an alien race called the Shongari virtually conquers Earth, Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky and the rest of the humans must forge an alliance with Earth's vampires, who, once the enemies of the humans, now are willing to make amends--to defend the home planet they have in common.
7) The rising
Author
Series
The rising volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Martian meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous-even suicidal-the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration...
11) Stanley in space
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
104 p.: ill.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders...
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Alien was the star controller for the entire galaxy, which was a big job for a very little alien. One night something disastrous happens, and Alien faces the biggest problem of his life. Will Alien be able to fix the stars? With a focus on friendship and problem solving, this picture book is a treat for everyone.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistleblower father, and even though she hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government-and redirected it to her....
15) Lagoon
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
1st Saga Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biologist, a famous rapper, and a rogue soldier become the honor guard and interpreter of humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador in this thriller that combines magician realism and seemingly end-of-the-world high tension"-- Provided by publisher.
17) The stray
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered) : colored illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A family tries to adopt a stray alien, with unexpected results"--
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets—scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. “Forget science...
19) The Last Star
Author
Series
The 5th Wave volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--Provided by publisher.
20) The 5th Wave
Author
Series
The 5th Wave volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
457 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"-- Provided by publisher.