Caine, Rachel
Summary: Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAIBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Twelve-year-old Amelia is the youngest member of crew on the Meddler, a spaceship that salvages scrap metal and anything else of value; currently they are interested in exploiting a debris field near the planet Canus, home to their cabin boy Greeny and his dog-like race, and Amelia is mad because her mother will not let her take part, so she and Greeny stow away on the salvage ship--but not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BRECollins, A. L. (Ai Lynn)
Summary: Fifth-grader Yin is really excited about her class trip to the International Space Station Three and the station museum's newest exhibit, the Star Cabbage, an alien plant discovered floating in space and considered harmless; but the station is on lockdown, the crew is not in evidence, and something large and growling is stalking the halls--but Yin is determined to investigate and find out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLBenford, Gregory
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellarjourney. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOWeber, David
Summary: "We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: "A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate and is ignoring all transmissions. Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to former Mission Commander Sally Jansen. Jansen was their leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WELSmith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: "A masterful blend of horror, science fiction, and pulse-pounding thrills, the first book in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's bestselling Orbs series introduces the last survivors of an alien invasion. The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. Cataclysmic solar storms have forced leaders from around the world to finally put aside their differences and agree on one thing--to jump ship. The human race...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. The human race is headed to Mars. When Dr. Sophie Winston and her team train for the flight, they come back to an abandoned earth. No humans and no water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after eighty years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series, following Shards of Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TCHSmith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: "The thrilling sequel to Nicholas Sansbury Smith's bestselling Orbs--when one of their own is captured, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team of survivors must exit the safety of their biosphere and fight off the growing horde of aliens. The Organics are still draining the oceans, raising temperatures worldwide, and the few remaining humans have been herded into farms, where the water in their bodies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Smith 2016Smith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: "There's sabotage from within and a strange virus is infecting the last human survivors of an alien invasion in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's smart and exciting third book in the bestselling Orbs series. With the alien armies growing stronger, Sophie's biosphere decides to join forces with the team from NTC's submarine. Using data from a surviving satellite, they discover strange, alien poles at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Smith 2016Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Summary: From the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time, this third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy depicts humanity on the brink of extinction--and reveals how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane installment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023