Summary: A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OUTAoki, Ryka
Summary: "Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF AOKBarrett, 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 2013Allegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie is overwhelmed with deadlines as she fulfills tooth fairy commissions, scrambles to invent a machine with her best friend Myron to enter in a contest and to beat her rival, and has to help an incorrigible alien repair his UFO.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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Summary: In the deepest, darkest corner of the solar system lies an enemy more terrifying than the people of Earth could imagine. Vicious warriors who will let nothing stand in the way of their crusade for galactic domination. They're cunning. They're ruthless. They're zombie butts from Uranus! Earth has only one hope for salvation. Zack, a twelve-year-old who wants nothing more than to wash his hands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRIMangels, Andy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANWeir, Andy
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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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF WEIWeir, Andy
Summary: "Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIKawahara, Reki
Summary: Having cleared the first and second floors of Aincrad at great cost, Kirito, Asuna, and the rest of the players ascend to the third floor. Tenuous new allies await them--most crucially, Kizmel, the elven knight. Kizmel is supposed to be a minor NPC with low-level AI, but she soon reveals herself to be much more. With new allies come new complications, though, and the elves of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAWWeir, Andy
Summary: Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Weir 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 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 WEIWeir, 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
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Weir 2014Weir, 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 WEIPoznanski, Ursula
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH POZMurray, Andy (Andrew Hunter)
Summary: "A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future-with clear parallels to today's headlines-in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019