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Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now ... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South...
3) Redshirts
Author
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
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.
Author
Series
Sun eater volume 3
Publisher
DAW
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
784 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Raised underground by a robot, twelve-year-old Eva Nine finally finds all she ever wanted in the human colony of New Attica, but something very bad is going on there and unless Eva and her friends stop it, it could mean the end of life on Orbona.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters--or find herself facing a sword-wielding being whose looks put mortal men to shame. But there he was, Darius en Kragin, one of a race of shape-shifting warriors bound to guard the gates of Atlantis, and kill all travelers who strayed within its borders. Now Grace's life was in his hands, and Darius had to choose between...
Author
Series
Necroscope volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
While mourning the death of his wife, Scott St. John inexplicably gains the powers of the original necroscope, Harry Keough, and while unable to fully understand his powers, and with the help of three entities including a mysterious woman, the ghost of his wife, and a she-wolf, Scott must defeat the Modori Three aliens who intend to take over the Earth.
Author
Series
War of the Realms volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut... We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it--until we discovered we could...
10) Live free or die
Author
Series
Troy rising volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hero Troy Vernon wages war against the Horvath, Earth's alien conquerors, determined to free his enslaved world and to take the first steps into space using off-world technologies. If he succeeds, his ultimate plans will lead to the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Qven was created to be a Presgr translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presgr and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something different isn't "optimal behavior". It's the type of behavior that will have you eliminated. But Qven rebels anyway, determined to find a way to belong on their...
12) EarthRise
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the vicious, insect-like aliens called the Saurons invaded Earth and killed billions, they enslaved the survivors, forcing them to build mysterious temples under brutal conditions. In an effort to control their human slaves, the Saurons install a puppet president to keep them under control. But President Alexander Franklin and Chief of Security Jack Manning aren't about to play along. Rebellion is in the air, and the fight for freedom is spreading...
13) United as one
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 7
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Smith, known as Number Four, has the power to eliminate the leader of the Mogodorians but needs all who have Legacies to form an army for a final showdown.
14) Into the light
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and its cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn't expect the survivors' tenacity. And, crucially, they didn't know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged and made alliance with humankind,...
15) Armada: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Max can't wait to be abducted by aliens. He's sure they're coming and his family doesn't believe him. They'll believe him when he's gone.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There are three things about this planet which are too wonderful for me. Make that four things. The way of dreams in the mind; the way of tears in the eye; the way of words in the mouth; and the way of my wife Edna Bradshaw when she acts like a cat and love-nibbles me into her arms." This is the voice of Desi, the hero of Robert Olen Butler's novel Mr. Spaceman, who has kept a quiet vigil above the Earth for decades while studying the confusing,...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, 1996.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Arrival, radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky follows an extra-terrestrial radio signal and discovers a plot of alien invasion. In Arrival II, an investigative reporter and reluctant computer programmer must convince the government that a sinister alien conspiracy could wipe out the human species.
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
20) Babylon's ashes
Author
Series
Expanse volume 6
Language
English
Description
"A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths...
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