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Summary: Kaya, raised in the undersea, high-tech world of Atlantis, has always been fascinated by the legends about life above the water. Despite the government's insistence that they're only stories, she can't help but dream about the Sun People, and when a group of officials known as Erasers move to bury those legends for good, Kaya sets out to the surface to uncover the truth once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MONMone, Gregory
Summary: After their daring escape from Atlantis, Lewis, Hanna, and their resourceful Atlantean friend, Kaya, find themselves pulled between two worlds. Trapped on the surface under the watchful eyes of government officials, the three adventurers receive an urgent call to return their stolen warship to Atlantis, or risk starting an all-out war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC MONMone, Gregory
Summary: Lewis, Hanna, and Kaya, their resourceful Atlantean friend, embark on an all-new journey through Atlantis, from the sunken underwater world of Evenor to the tunnels below Ridge City. Bonus content includes science and robotics concepts in the story, and a scientist's take on the curious biology of mermaids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONBova, Ben
Summary: Running a galactic ore carrier with his family in the wake of the Asteroid Wars, Victor Zacharius flies their ship into the middle of a military attack and bravely saves his family, only to find himself in the clutches of the seductive Cheena Madagascar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS--and prepares to crash it into New York City at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BOVBova, Ben
Summary: It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: In the aftermath of a terrible space accident, spaceplane scientist Dan Randolph, who designed the vehicle, realizes that his experiment was sabotaged and must outmaneuver terrorists, the government, and his creditors in order to prove himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: To prove that the massive symbionts, named Leviathans, that inhabit Jupiter's atmosphere possess intelligence, physicist Grant Archer readies a deep-pressure manned probe for immersion in the giant planet's deadly cloud cover. Equally anxious to thwart his attempt, millionaire Katherine Westfall seeks to outmaneuver Archer in her bid for the top spot in the International Astronautical Authority...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: "In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: "In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: "Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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Summary: Recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: Astronaut Keith Stoner returns to Earth after a century exploring space and discovers disastrous greenhouse flooding, ultraconservative religious-based governments, and the world on the brink of nuclear war, and decides to help save the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: Jamie Waterman, unsettled since returning to Earth from a Mars expedition six years earlier, signs on as commander of a second mission to the Red Planet where he hopes to investigate a structure he glimpsed on his last visit that could only have been built by an intelligent being.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Contents: Introduction -- Sam and the flying Dutchman -- Monster slayer -- Fifteen miles -- Muzhestvo -- Red sky at morning -- Greenhouse chill -- High jump -- Death on Venus -- The man who hated gravity -- Appointment in Sinai -- Sepulcher -- Leviathan -- Afterword: The roads ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Assoc. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: Space traveling for an extended time to one of Saturn's moons, the crew of the enormous colony ship Goddard falls prey to long-standing tensions after a first exploration vessel mysteriously fails.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVSummary: "From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAGBond, Gwenda
Summary: "A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONBova, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBova, Ben
Summary: "Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016