Summary: The 27th day (1947, b & w, 76 min.): Five ordinary humans are given a box by aliens containing capsules capable of killing millions of people. If they can refrain from using the capsules for 27 days, the Earth will be spared. Will they be able to stand firm, especially when word leaks out and a panicked and furious population starts to hunt them down?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: After they hear of a group of children pressed into service by rebels on another planet, Jon Moore and his hyper-intelligent assault vehicle, Lobo, spring into action, confronting not only the horrors the children are facing, but also a dark chapter fromJon's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVan Name, Mark L.
Summary: Jon Moore, a nanotech-enhanced soldier of fortune, takes on a ruthless gang boss, a heavily armed group of religious fanatics, and a powerful interstellar government when he agrees to help an old friend protect a very special young boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVan Name, Mark L.
Summary: Jon Moore grew up on an island of outcasts and in a prison laboratory. When he escaped with nothing but his body's nanotech enhancements and more anger than even a long lifetime could wash away, an entire planet died behind him. Memories of the things he'd done still haunted him; because of them, he often ended up helping those in need. His kindnesses frequently didn't work out well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. Enterprises 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANBelleza, Rhoda
Summary: When their paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to work together to save their own lives and the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BELChari, Sheela
Summary: Returning to Earth after escaping the Martian colony, Mars Patel and his friends, along with genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt, discover that all the adults have mysteriously vanished and, as tensions rise and new mysteries are revealed, must somehow discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAClark, Henry
Summary: Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CLALucasfilm Press (COR)
Summary: Collects twelve short stories from the cinematic world of Star Wars, including two tales from "Star Wars: the Last Jedi."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2017
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Summary: The paradise of Thalassa is threatened by an evolutionary event brewing beneath the calm seas and by a spacecraft of refugees hovering in orbit above the planet. The arrival of a spaceship from Earth--destroyed when its sun went nova--carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal plkanet of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClarke, Arthur C. 1917-
Summary: "Allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe, and the universe's reaction to humanity."
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 1999