Collins, 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 COLWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: A chilling story of the invasion of Earth by Martians. Mass evacuation begins in panic as nations unite in an effort to repel the aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WELWillis, Connie
Summary: Francie is in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding-- complete with a true-believer bridegroom. Aliens obviously don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. She's not the only victim of the alien's abduction spree. He has acquired a con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "It's up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador--and prevent mass extinction--in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action. After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world's fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOJane, Emily
Summary: When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC JANEmrys, 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 EMRCampbell, Jack
Summary: Geary leads the fleet through space controlled by mysterious and hostile aliens. The fate of the fleet will depend on him making the right decision. If he can stay alive long enough to do that.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMZahn, Timothy
Summary: "A legend of Space Opera is back with the second book in the Sibyl's War Nicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philidelphia, then she andher partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a strange ship called the Fyrantha. Now she is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with the aliens and their ship, and no one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SCI.FIC ZAHLerman, Eleanor
Summary: There are two themes to Radiomen. First, if there are aliens interacting with our world they are likely just as confused about who or what God is as human beings are; and second, whoever they are, they're probably just as fond of dogs as we are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The PermanenT Press 2015
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Summary: "Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut ... We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Black 2016Liu, Cixin
Summary: "With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2015
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Summary: When Sky Patel-Baum is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she never imagines she'll end up in Area 51, a top-secret military base. Sky feels like she's landed in a whole new world, even though she hasn't left the planet. Because guess what? Area 51 is full of aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. But something even stranger is happening in Area 51--aliens are going missing. Where could they be?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUXMiéville, China.
Summary: Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIECherryh, C. J.
Summary: Cajeiri, the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association, has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father's rule. For Cajeiri is the first "ateva" youth to have lived in a human environment and the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similar--yet so dangerously different--aliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEWilber, Rick
Summary: "The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multisensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience. By fate, chance, or some darker design, Peter is perfectly positioned to be the one human to document the arrival of the aliens, the S'hudonni, [who] offer advanced science in exchange for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILFoster, Alan Dean
Summary: "The last known human searches the galaxy for companionship in a new adventure novel from the legendary author of the Pip & Flinx series. Ruslan is the last surviving human being in the entire universe. Saved by a species of friendly aliens, Ruslan is forced to live life as an artifact of history, paying a lonely homage to a once-proud race that spanned the stars. Now, with the weight of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSTurnbull, Cadwell
Summary: An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURWeber, 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: "Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries. Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Gunrunner empress Hail Bristol must navigate alien politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies war, in this second novel in the Farian War space opera trilogy. In a surprise attack that killed many of her dearest subjects, Hail Bristol, empressof Indrana, has been captured by the Shen -- the most ruthless and fearsome aliens humanity has ever encountered. As she plots her escape, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAGSawyer, Robert J.
Summary: "Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received, and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too ... if she lives long enough." "A wealthy industrialist offers to pay for Sarah to have a rollback - a hugely expensive experimental rejuvenation procedure. She accepts on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWLore, Pittacus.
Summary: The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORBrissett, Jennifer Marie
Summary: "The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the three habitable areas of the planet--Day, Dusk, and Night--the haves and have nots, criminals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRISummary: "This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019