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22) Invincible
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary earned his rank after being revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance to victory against the Syndicate Worlds. But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Now in command of the First Fleet, Geary is tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space, a mission he fears deliberately puts the fleet--and himself--in harm's way. An encounter with the alien enigmas confirms Geary's fears. Attacked...
Author
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes...
24) The wump world
Author
Publisher
Houghton-Mifflin
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus.
26) EMPulse2
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adele Michaels had found safe haven from her abusive ex-husband at the Rocky Mountains Geo-Domes resort. But when a nuclear electro-magnetic-pulse took down the entire power grid, multiple warheads turned the east coast into an unstable hot zone. Adele may be safe at the resort, but she's also stranded far from home and family. Now she must undertake a long and perilous journey from Montana to Michigan, and two of her new friends aren't about to...
27) Crazy House
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A B&N'S BEST BOOK OF 2017
There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape.
Becca Greenfield was snatched from her small hometown. She was thrown into a maximum-security prison and put on Death Row with other kids her age. Until her execution, Becca's told to fit in and shut her mouth... but Becca's never been very good at either. Her sister Cassie was always the good twin.
Becca's only hope is that...
28) Invictus
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling"--
29) Cog
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After an accident leaves him damaged and separated from his scientist caregiver, a young android recruits four robot accomplices and embarks on a cross-country road trip to reunite with her"--
Author
Series
Fallen world trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn's small island community and spread beyond the quarantine. No one is safe. But when Kaelyn finds samples of a vaccine in her father's abandoned lab, she knows there must be someone, somewhere, who can replicate it. Determined to stop the "friendly flu" for good, Kaelyn and her friends head to the mainland in search of help. They encounter a world beyond recognition. It's not only the virus that's a killer--there...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood--joy and dread, longing and suffocation--in blazing, arresting prose.
"When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room,...
32) Aurora: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest"--
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out, not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her...
33) Compass Rose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what's at stake for those who sail them. Rose was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins. Her uncanny sense of direction earns her a coveted place among the Archipelago Fleet elite, but it also attracts the attention of Admiral Comita, who sends her on a secret mission deep into pirate territory. Accompanied by a ragtag crew of mercenaries...
34) Randoms
Author
Series
Randoms volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old boy is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his entire life"--
35) Ready player one
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review.
"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the Oasis. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines -- puzzles that are based...
36) The traitor
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With Tara still in the clutches of the Elite Elgen Guard Unit the Chasqui and their malevolent leader, the Sovereign Amash, Michael Vey and the Electroclan have no choice but to continue the fierce battle that has been waging since their arrival in Peru. But saving one of their own means battling a onetime teammate, as Jack has turned traitor and joined forces with Amash and his men. At the same time, the clan must work with the Alpha Team to act...
37) Dandelion wine
Author
Language
English
Description
A summer in the life of a 12 year old boy in 1928 in the hamlet of Green Town, Ill.
Author
Series
Low volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater. A quiet little star nation, only recently recovered from the devastating blow of the Plague Years. More affluent than some, perhaps, but with little to attract trade or interstellar commerce, it had little need for a navy... and even less interest in paying for one. But Manticore has now become a target. The Star Kingdom isn't certain who is attacking it, or...
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Lightning strikes. Thunder is heard. The smell of ozone remains in the air. And the world changed forever. Welcome to the Stormlands. At first glance, everything seems to be the same, but there are small signs that not everything seems to be what it is. Even the most ordinary things can seem somewhat strange."--
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