Sanderson, Brandon
Summary: When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANMonroe, Mary Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONWhiteley, Aliya
Summary: Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita. But safety from what? Qita surrendered without complaint when Earth invaded; Innkeepers Jem and Isley, veterans from either side, have regrets but few scars. Their peace is disturbed when a visitor known to Isley comes to the Inn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHISanderson, Brandon
Summary: "Return to the planet Detritus with FM, Alanik, and Jorgen in this must-have three-novella collection featuring exclusive character art and deleted scenes from Skyward with commentary from Brandon Sanderson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANHenderson, Joe
Summary: "A fugitive in her home city of Chicago, Willa Fowler hits the road. But there are new dangers awaiting her outside the city--giant, man-eating bugs, for instance--and maybe one or two old ones, too. Can Willa outrun her past, or will she be forced to turn and face it?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKYHenderson, Joe
Summary: One day, gravity on Earth suddenly became a fraction of what it is now. Twenty years later, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. And to Willa Fowler, who was born just after G-day, it's pretty awesome. You can fly through the air! I mean, sure, you can also die if you jump too high. So you just don't jump too high. And maybe don't get mixed up in your dad's secret plan to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HENHenderson, Joe (Joseph H.)
Summary: "Willa's faced terrifying storms, giant man-eating bugs, a deadly rebellion and a whole lot of heartbreak... but nothing can prepare her for this. It's time for Willa to fulfill her father's last request. Time to fix the world. Skyward, Vol. 3 collects the conclusion of the hit series."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKYSanderson, Brandon
Summary: Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANSanderson, Brandon
Summary: "All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANContents: Disc one Diana's Diana / Lilys -- Frozen twilight / God is an Astronaut -- Dressed for rain / Sleeping Years -- No. 6 / Sam Kills Two -- I know i'll see you / A Place to Bury Strangers -- Love never dies a natural death / Robin Guthrie -- Standing still / Brothers Movement -- Memories just wash away / Project Skyward -- Setting sun / Howling Bells -- You're my toko / Television personalities --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocket Girl 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC THRBukem, L. T. J.
Contents: Sky line -- Dark matter -- Miles & miles from Marz -- Travel star -- Logical -- Close to the source -- Equanimity -- Chill -- Future shock -- Skyward -- Indian summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Looking Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BURRoach, Steve.
Contents: Disc 1: Early dawn --- Early man -- Begins looking skyward -- Walking upright -- Hunting & gathering -- Flow stone. Disc 2: Slow dissolve -- Walking upright II -- Fossil and fern -- Mastodon -- Elemental -- Late dawn -- Timeline -- Carbondate -- Below always.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Projekt 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE ROAVan William
Contents: Before I found you -- Revolution (ft. First Aid Kit) -- Fourth of July -- The country -- Don't take my love -- Never had enough of you -- The middle -- Skyward -- You'll be on my mind -- Cosmic sign -- Taking love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WILRudd, Roswell.
Contents: Fan fare (:25) -- Elton Dean (4:17) -- Astro slyde (3:37) -- Hulla gulla (3:02) -- No end (7:40) -- Bone again with Bonerama (6:37) -- To the day (5:09) -- Sand in my slide shuffle (6:35) -- Slide & the Family Bone (6:51) -- Twelve bars with Sexmob (6:25) -- A place above. Instroduction into skyward theme (2:11) ; Instrumental doxology (:30) ; Vocal doxology (1:12) ; Modal improvisation (2:57)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunny Side 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ RUDSummary: "The Legend of ZeldaTM: Art and Artifacts contains over four hundred pages of fully realized illustrations from the entire thirty-year history of The Legend of ZeldaTM"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 793.93 LEGFloyd, John Lewis
Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FloydLevesque, Emily
Summary: "For readers of Labgirl and Neil DeGrasse Tyson, The Last Stargazers combines the exciting travels of award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque with the misunderstood antics of a scrappy (and shrinking) crew of scientists working with stars and telescopes.She dissects both the romance and the real human curiosity that is so important to our exploration of space. Amidst the lonely quiet of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 LEVLeavitt, Loralee.
Summary: Candy is more than a sugary snack. With candy, you can become a scientific detective. You can test candy for secret ingredients, peel the skin off candy corn, or float an "m" from M&M's. You can spread candy dyes into rainbows, or pour rainbow layers of colored water. You'll learn how to turn candy into crystals, sink marshmallows, float taffy, or send soda spouting skyward. You can even make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 507.8 LEAMcPhee, John
Summary: The essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here--highly varied in length and theme--McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 MCPEmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EMRKrantz, Laura
Summary: "How likely is it that humans aren't alone in the universe? Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings and alien encounters abound-and some (like recent accounts from U.S. Navy pilots) even sound credible. And in recent years, armed with state-of-the-art technology and better information, the search for extraterrestrials overflows with exciting possibilities. Within our own solar system,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 KRAShubin, Neil.
Summary: From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that took place millions of years ago created the unique qualities of the human species? In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy--our hands, our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Parker, Sarah A.
Summary: "The Creators did not expect their beloved dragons to sail skyward upon their end. To curl into balls just beyond gravity's grip, littering the sky with tombstones. With moons. They certainly did not expect them to fall. As a valued Elding Blade of the rebellion group Fíur du Ath, Raeve's job is to kill. To complete orders and never get caught. When a renowned bounty hunter is employed by The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2023