Barrett, Judi
Summary: When astronauts land on Mars, their first discovery is a substance not unlike pie filling and Kate and Henry are eager to go taste some, but Grandpa, who may have some inside information, discourages them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Barrett 2013Muth, Jon J
Summary: In this graphic adaptation of a story by Stanislaw Lem, a meteoroid damages astronaut and space traveller Ijon's spaceship, and he finds himself caught in a time loop, contending with past and future versions of himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MUTHawking, Lucy
Summary: When George and Annie are selected as junior astronauts, it is a dream come true until they learn that strange things are happening on Earth as well as in the skies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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Summary: Mark Whitney was nearly killed by a dust storm on Mars and was abandoned by his crew who thought him dead. Now he's all alone with no way of letting Earth know he's alive, which doesn't matter because his supplies would run out before they'd get there. Either way, the environment or human error will likely kill him first. Not giving in, Mark works to survive, battling obstacle after obstacle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIKluger, Jeffrey
Summary: "When evil forces are going unchecked on earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try and seek justice in the only place she knows how to--the international space station. Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at the top of her class from the naval academy, had a successful career flying fighter jets, and has spent over three hundred days in space. So, when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLUBright, J. E.
Summary: When an unusual solar flare damages his space shuttle and causes astronaut Hank Henshaw and his crew--including his wife--to mutate, he blames Superman and as his surviving consciousness learns to fuse with technology he vows revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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Summary: "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacute while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's aliveway alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIScieszka, Jon
Summary: On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Scieszka 2020Day, Kate Hope
Summary: "June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station, but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle's fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAYSchrefer, Eliot
Summary: Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainablefuture--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCICho, Elaine U.
Summary: "Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint 2024
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Summary: "A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF HARHolmes, Colin
Summary: "A cranky old oxygen farmer on the Moon stumbles onto a century old secret that threatens to derail the first mission to Mars, destroy the Luna colony, and maybe even life on Earth" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Camcat Publishing, LLC 2023
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Summary: George is heartbroken when his neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays on space travel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAWSkrutskie, Emily
Summary: "A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love--only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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Summary: The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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Summary: After astronaut Catherine Wells's ship undergoes a catastrophic event and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her to be dead. Miraculously - and mysteriously - she survives, though everyone else on the mission is lost, as are most of Catherine's memories of her time in space. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICSuarez, Daniel
Summary: "The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUAWeir, Andy.
Summary: Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney was one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark is stranded alone with no way to even signal Earth. Even if he could, he wouldn't last until rescue arrived. Chances are, though, he won't starve -- so many other things are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIBarry, Max
Summary: "Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery. In this near future, our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBlumlein, Michael
Summary: "In Longer, Michael Blumlein explores dauntingly epic topics--love, the expanse of the human lifespan, mortality--with a beautifully sharp story that glows with grace and good humor even as it forces us to confront deep, universal fears. Gunjita and Cav are in orbit doing research for Gleem Galactic. They are wealthy enough to participate in rejuvenation: the practice of rebooting their bodies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor.com 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUHowrey, Meg
Summary: "Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them--and their families--changed forever In an age of space exploration, we search to find ourselves. In four years Prime Space will put the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Howrey 2017Weir, Andy.
Summary: "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014