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"The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. But they hadn't counted on a mutated plague wiping out half the human population, turning the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroying human civilization. You know, your standard apocalypse. The Krakau's first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it's hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four...
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Janitors of the post-apocalypse volume 3
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Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. They were absolutely not trained to fight an interplanetary war with the xenocidal Prodryans or to make first contact with the Jynx, a race who might not be as primitive as they seem. But if there's one lesson Mops and her crew have learned, it's that things like “training” and “being remotely qualified” are overrated. The war is escalating. (This might be Mops' fault.)...
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Thorne chronicles volume 2
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Space pirate Rory Thorne and her crew trace an abandoned ship to vicious advanced alien tech and a sentient floral plant designed to be a massive biological weapon.
5) Five tribes
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Course of empire volume 2
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"Countdown to Doomsday: The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself--entering a host's body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military's breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing...
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Janitors of the post-apocalypse volume 2
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[2019]
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"After uncovering the truth behind humans' devolution into feral monsters in 2017's Terminal Alliance, Lt. Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos and her team of sanitation engineers remain at large aboard the EMCS Pufferfish, which they appropriated after the rest of the crew was incapacitated during a bioterrorist attack. Mops is determined to clean up the mess at the heart of the Krakau Alliance, but when her latest source of information turns out to be a lawyer...
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"Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name, the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is as terrifyingly realistic and resonant as the original. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle-designated The Andromeda Strain-killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over...
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