Benford, Gregory
Summary: In a futuristic galactic empire, a man and his robot wife escape from their enemies by transferring their minds into the bodies of animals. By the author of Sailing Bright Eternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBenford, Gregory
Summary: In this thematic sequel to Gregory Benford's award-winning bestseller Timescape , a history professor finds that he is able to travel back to 1968, the year he was sixteen--here, he finds a slew of mentors with the same ability, including Robert Heinlein, Albert Einstein, and Philip K. Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SAGA Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENWelford, Ross
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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Summary: "Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination and in her quest for understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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Summary: "Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: S.F. Benford 2014Benford, Gregory
Summary: Follows the discovery of a complex life form during the first successful manned mission to Mars, a finding that poses significant questions about life on worlds beyond our solar system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspect/Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: "For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel -- or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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Summary: "A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Higuera 2021Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: Princess Leia and Han Solo brave dangers to investigate a lost colony of Jedi children on the planet Belsavis. The novel introduces many new life forms. By the author of Those Who Hunt the Night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMMacri, Thomas
Summary: Details the life of Wolverine, including his super powers and his battles alongside the X-Men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACFlint, Eric
Summary: "The emperor is dead; long live the emperors! The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag the Mughal Empire into a three-sided struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne. The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe is openly siding with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. The mission, made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLICastle, Jayne
Summary: Once a respected explorer, Joshua Knight is now called the Tarnished Knight by the press. He took the fall for a devastating event that occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House, a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. Now a recluse, Joshua spends his days trying to unlock the secrets in the looking glasses that cover the walls of an abandoned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024