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Expanse volume 1
Language
English
Description
Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
"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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Series
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English
Description
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very...
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Series
Fleet School volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across...
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Series
Spider wars volume 2
Language
English
Description
Branded terrorists and on the run from the Fleet, ex-Marines Carmina Serra and Charlie Carter and mining superstar Zia Hollywood crash land on Lucifer, a planet at the end of the universe. Populated by two warring factions a religious cult and a crime syndicate Lucifer is blighted with a spate of murders that threaten to plunge the planet into civil war.
7) The Swarm
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Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China...
10) Apocalypse
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
There can be no surrender. There will be no mercy. It's not just the future of the galaxy at stake-- it's the destiny of the Force. Coruscant is the battlefield. The Jedi Knights take the Sith infiltrators by swift and fierce surprise. But victory against the cunning and savage Abeloth is anything but certain...
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Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Join Finn, Poe, and BB-8 as they infiltrate a First Order--occupied bacta plant for General Leia Organa. With over twenty possible outcomes, you'll have to choose carefully to keep Finn, Poe, and BB-8 safe from the First Order"--Page [4] of cover.
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Series
Formic Wars volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. In this...
13) Nemesis games
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Series
Expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen....
14) A new hero
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Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the toughest, most street-smart kid on the planet Lothal. Ezra Bridger might not have much, but every day is an adventure when it comes to outwitting Imperial Stormtroopers who have overrun his little corner of the galaxy's Outer Rim. But the excitement of collecting trooper helmets and gadgets gets a little old when you're all alone. And it's nothing compared to what Ezra discovers when he meets the rebels and goes on board their ship, the...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not easily relent. Yet the simple belief in good can still empower ordinary individuals to rise and meet the greatest challenges. So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens ...
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
Set between the events of "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens," the second entry in the "Aftermath" trilogy continues the story of a galactic civil war under the leadership of Wedge Antilles, Admiral Ackbar, and others after the destruction of the second Death Star.
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Series
Star wars adventures in wild space volume 3
Publisher
ABDO Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from Captain Korda on Thune, Milo and Lina track the source of a rebel transmission to a jungle planet, but they are unaware of the dangers lying in wait.