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1) The deep sky
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of...
Author
Series
Kindom trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
74 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Strange doings seem to erupt whenever Mrs. Zork, the substitute art teacher shows up, in this most far-out adventure yet about the fun-filled Bailey School kids.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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A group of refugees escapes on a ship into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy, seeking safety with the assistance of Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica, revived with the help of genetic technology, while avoiding the diabolical traps of the Enemy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
9) Dune
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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In new, hardcover edition is the novel that shaped modern science fiction. Set on the desert planet Arrakis begins the story of a great family's plan to bring to fruition an unattainable dream. Winner of the first Nebula Award. This is the best-selling science fiction classic. It begins the story of the man known at Muad'dib & of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient & unattainable dream. "Unique-I know nothing comparable...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest--the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched...
13) Heretics of Dune
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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As factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor... -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the...
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Series
Zones of thought volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them--and among the humans--who...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth...
17) Carve the mark
Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since become a landmark in the field. Now, with the long awaited sequel The Children of the Sky about to be published, we are proud to offer the first-ever trade paperback edition of this big-screen SF classic. A Fire Upon The Deep is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 3
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
xxii, 362 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journeying across the desert when the City of Basilica falls, Wetchik, Nafai, and their families seek the hidden Harmony spaceport, finding their greatest hardship in the anger of their own people who are rebelling against a forced exile.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? While the science behind this inquiry is fascinating, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is a reflection of our values, our fears, and most importantly, our enduring sense of hope. In The Possibility of Life, acclaimed science journalist Jaime Green traces the history of our understanding, from the days of Galileo and Copernicus to our contemporary quest for exoplanets....
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