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Expanse volume 2
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English
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"We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew...
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Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
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English
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One by one, the Bad Guys are vanishing. TAKEN by a creature with way too many teeth and far too many bottoms. Is this the end? Maybe. But will it be funny? You bet your butts it will!
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Flat Stanley volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
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English
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When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchip, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
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Series
Expanse volume 1
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English
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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
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Icarus saga volume 1
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English
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"There wasn't much money to be made as a Trailblazer, searching out new worlds for possible development. Still, it was safer than the bounty hunter career that had cost Gregory Roarke his left arm six years ago. And thanks to his Kadolian partner Selene's ultrasensitive sense of smell, they occasionally discovered a medically promising seed or spore they could sell under the table. It was a quiet life, uneventful and mostly legal. Until Roarke was...
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"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe--the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
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"During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die. Now Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue...
9) Starsight
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 740L
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English
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"As if the threat of huge, raging monsters from hyperspace isn't scary enough, hotshot fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade becomes embroiled in an alien empire's politics."--
11) Eyes of the void
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Final Architecture trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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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.
After eighty years of fragile peace the Architects are back, wreaking havoc as they consume entire planets. In the past, Originator artifacts- vestiges of a long-vanished civilization- could save a world from annihilation....
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Final Architecture trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
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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"From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens, praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 41
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray metal protrusion she discovers in the ground is part of a mysterious and massive metal object, one that may have been buried there for millennia. Bobbi can't help but become obsessed and try to dig it out ... the consequences of which will affect and transmute...
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"Star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula have decisively beaten the forces of the corrupt Zanshaa government. It seems all there's left to do is to travel to the capital of Zanshaa to reunite the empire under the banner of the Restoration. Before they can sweep up the pieces, though, it's revealed that any advance would spring an enemy trap. To make things worse, their opponents have more resources than Martinez and Sula could have imagined,...
16) Leviathan falls
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Expanse volume 9
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English
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"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...
17) Fleet elements
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The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity's survival.
18) Armageddon
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Series
Expeditionary force volume 8
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
"When the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman came home from their Renegade mission, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years at least. After there was trouble on the Homefront, and the President had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city, the UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates agian. So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission. But for the Pirates, nothing is ever simple,...
19) Paradise
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Series
Expeditionary force volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
"While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet Paradise. When the Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, the UN wants the ship to recon Paradise, but Colonel Joe Bishop warns they might not like what they find there, and they can't do anything to help humans on Paradise without endangering Earth."--Back...
20) Failure mode
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Expeditionary force volume 15
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
"When a mission ends in disaster and there is no way to achive the objective, on way to regroup and try again, no plan B, no hope, all you can do is fall back into FAILURE MODE: try to savage what you can. If it is even possible to save anything. Or anyone. The galaxy is doomed. Monkeys may be clever and too stubborn to give up, but Skippy The Idiot Who Got PLAYED knows the harsh truth: this is a fight he can't win. The odds are not only stacked againist...
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