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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Croyd Crenson is the Wild Card's greatest failure--and its greatest success. Dubbed 'The Sleeper,' he randomly undergoes hibernations that can span weeks or even months. After each hibernation, he awakens with a new appearance and set of powers--sometimes...
2) Snowglobe
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Snowglobe duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that's warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie--and the truth is out of reach"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Cat partners with Dani to study crop circles, but Dani secretly aims to disprove Cat's theory, and during their investigations they discover a dangerous rival also seeking answers who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
6) Out of body
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Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid's heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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16 classic stories reimagined: Latinx characters take center stage
Relit features sixteen original stories by award-winning and bestselling Latinx YA authors that revamp classics, myths, and fairy tales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of horror.
Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby...
Relit features sixteen original stories by award-winning and bestselling Latinx YA authors that revamp classics, myths, and fairy tales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of horror.
Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby...
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Series
Expanse volume 7
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante tries to rally forces against the new invasion. Now a Prime Original series.
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
An old enemy returns.
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion,...
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
An old enemy returns.
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion,...
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Maya, Taj, and Simone are supposed to be spending their summer broadening their horizons, but their plans take a strange and puzzling turn when the Curie Society's original chapter at the Sorbonne in Paris calls on them for help. Daksha, a Society alumna, is promoting cutting-edge science and technology startups at a showcase event, but someone has threatened to stop her and the proceedings. When Daksha is poisoned, the team swings into action to...
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The promise of Artificial Intelligence is great. But only if Artificial Intelligence fulfills our expectations. But, what about AI's expectations? Will they be different from ours? Will AI come to believe the best way to fulfill our expectations is to manage our expectations? If so, what of freedom?
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
12) Moon Hab
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English
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Lunar Series: Book 1: Moon HabCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robots. But AI and robots don't always do the job, and when they...
13) The Cloud
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It was the most audacious undertaking ever conceived by man. The building of a system-spanning Starway where giant light-sails would journey on beams of laser-light to distant stars. Not only a pathway to the stars, but also an abode of life, the Starway included many space habitats built to maintain its great focusing arrays. But, there was misunderstanding along the Starway. Misunderstanding between the Starway Corporation and the settlements.
And...
14) Time Wars
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English
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Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's theory by starting a time war between Tarba and the planet Atwan. No matter the winner of the struggle there can be only one outcome, spacetime slowly separating into its constituents. And separate nothing can exist. Time Wars is set in the future (2700s)...
15) Vigilance
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The history of freedom repeats itself. And the costs are always the same. The settlers of the new Republic of Mars were in a struggle for their freedom against powerful forces that would stop at nothing. For the Martians the costs are life, property and domestic security. But the true cost was vigilance, eternal if need be.
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
"Vigilance"...
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English
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Casey works hard on developing the resources to protect rapidly-eroding coastlines.As the dunes degrade, she knows the urgency of figuring out solutions.But not everyone agrees with her approach.When strangers show up at her grandfather's house, they bring more than just questions.Casey finds herself confronting her very values.A climate story with a heart from the author of Goldie.
17) Prelude to Space
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The world's first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship, Prometheus, is built from two separate components-one designed to travel from Earth's atmosphere to the Moon and back, and the other to carry the first component through Earth's atmosphere and into orbit. Sound familiar? That's because it's the basic description of the first space shuttle-well before its launch in 1971. Prelude to Space was published in 1951-well before the first Sputnik...
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Excerpt: "The main trouble with the planet Boyd III was one satellite too many. Had there been no third moon, large and close, the tides might have been less confused and the weather more predictable. Certain peaks of atmospheric wildness, recurrent coastal catastrophes, logical but distressing customs of the natives-lack of these factors would have made Boyd III a much more attractive world."
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An interwoven moving and insightful memoir, a healing help-guide for abuse survivors, and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront their perpetrators through the justice system and seek compensation. A story of a tragic upbringing involving sexual and physical abuse at school and at home. John SaundersOCO brutally honest account brings hope for institutional healing."
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The technologically groundbreaking novel of space exploration from the only science fiction author nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Roy Malcolm has always been fascinated by space travel. And when he wins a voyage to the Inner Space Station as a game show prize, he's sure it's the trip of a lifetime. Before long, Roy is taken in by the young crew-and shares their adventures and lives. One of Arthur C. Clarke's earliest novels, Islands in the Sky...
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