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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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English
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"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover.
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
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English
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Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera - the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body following a total system shutdown and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe...
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Acorna series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, sets out on a quest with one of her adoptive "uncles" to learn the truth about her origins, while at the same time the Linyaari, a gentle, telepathic race, embark on a journey throughout the galaxy to spread the alarm about a coming invasion and to search for a beloved infant lost long ago.
4) Contagion
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Contagion duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Responding to a distress call on the distant planet of Achlys, Thea Sadik and her search-and-rescue crew are confronted by a zombie-like outbreak that forces them to uncover a monstrous enemy.
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In the year 2139, fearless Tedra De Arr sets out to rescue her beleaguered planet Kystran from the savage rule of the evil Crad Ce Moerr. Experienced in combat but not in love, the beautiful, untouched Amazon flies with Martha, her wise-cracking, free-thinking computer, to a world where warriors reigns supreme--and into the arms of the one man she can never hope to vanquish: the bronzed barbarian Challen Ly-San-Ter. A magnificent creature of raw yet...
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
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English
Description
Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn't much better than a prison cell.
7) Logos run
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On runner Jak Rebo's most recent job, he encountered both a beautiful Sensitive named Lonni Norr and the almost legendary A1 known as Logos. He must deliver Logos to a mysterious backwater planet, where Logos can restore the system of star gates that once knitted the settled worlds together.
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 3
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English
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Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community in this exciting third adventure in the acclaimed and multi-award-nominated science fiction Wayfarers series, brimming with heartwarming characters and dazzling space adventure.Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among...
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Final six volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
10) Chilling effect
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Chilling effect volume 1
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English
Description
"Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
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English
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"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
12) The stone gods
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Billie Crusoe, sent to colonize a new blue planet along with the renegade robo-sapian Spike, learns the unhappy truth of the old adage about people being doomed to repeat their mistakes when a technical maneuver fails, sending the travelers on a gender-bending adventure through time and space.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
"Two boys, alone in space: sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission. Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor with no memory of a launch. There's more that doesn't add up: evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship's operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed--not when he's rescuing his own sister. In...
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Way-too-real aliens volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Aspiring author Josh writes about an ideal vacation planet, hoping that he and his sister Maggie can travel to outer space safely and have summer fun, but he does not count on encountering the creatures that are already living there.
15) Honor bound
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Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to be fighting, Zara, her co-pilot Beatriz, and their Leviathan ship Nadim barely escaped the carnage with their lives. Now Zara and her crew of Honors need a safe haven, far from the creatures who want to annihilate them. But they'll have to settle for the Sliver: a wild, dangerous...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those...
17) Acorna's world
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Acorna series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Acorna has made peace with her Linyaari past, and is finally free aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons her with her companions to a nearby planet where they learn that the cold-blooded Khleevi race are threatening to eradicat all Linyaari and human life from the galaxy.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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The brilliant astrophysicist, Adela de Montgarde has awakened from a two hundred year sleep to find the Empire transformed including her own son as the Emperor, faster-than-light travel has been achieved, and humanity has moved out to many new planets in the solar system.
20) Alien envoy
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Alien agent volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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Agent Sorn picks Zack up from Earth and together they seek other aliens who can speak in support of inviting that planet to join the Galactic Union, while the Gnairt and the Kiapa Kapa Syndicate try to stop them.
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