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1) Dead silence
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes' Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team...
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
3) The swarm
Author
Series
Second formic war volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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 struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was...
Author
Series
Hainish volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose — and change — their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Exploring questions of psychology, society, and human emotion...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A father takes his two children on a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure into space and invites them to look back at Earth and the conflicts that have taken place since the beginning of time. This becomes a brief history of the world and a guide to the universe, told with Oliver Jeffers's inimitable perspective, wit and exquisite artwork.
Author
Series
Revenger universe volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them . . . Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded with layers of protection - and to crack...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Identifies the moon as our only natural satellite, describes its movement and phases, and discusses how we have observed and explored it over the years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
137 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie present information about the universe, including our solar system, and briefly describe the history of space travel and of the science of astronomy.
11) The long utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a normal life in New Springfield -- they even adopt a child -- but it seems they have been guided there for...
Author
Language
English
Description
At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon. Rocket Men is the thrilling story of the moon mission, and it restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning...
13) Space jokes
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Riddles and jokes, including knock-knock jokes about astronauts, planets, robots, rockets, and features of outer space.
14) Network effect
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action."--
15) Moon zoom
Author
Series
Usborne very first reading volume 8
Publisher
EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two adventurous mice take a trip to the moon. Eighth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading with children.
16) Viaje a la luna
Author
Publisher
Usborne Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A little girl imagines herself as an astronaut taking a trip to the moon.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos. Gary Morgan -- a brilliant, renegade scientist is pilloried by the scientific community for his belief in a space elevator: a pillar to the sky, which he believes will make space flight fast, simple and affordable. Eva Morgan -- a brilliant and beautiful scientist of Ukranian descent, she has...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield to protect the capsule during its fiery reentry. It belongs to the flight directors, camera designers, software experts, suit testers, telescope...
19) Code to zero
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In January 1958, the midst of the Cold War, Luke Lucas wakes alone on the ground in a railway station with no idea how he got there--and finds that he must recover lost memories that others are glad he has forgotten if he is to save the launch of Explorer I, America's attempt to top the Soviet Union's Sputnik.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dispatched on a rescue mission to the farthest reaches of space, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by Krall, a ruthless enemy sworn against the Federation. Crash-landing on an uncharted hostile world, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew are separated with no means of escape. Only Jaylah, a rebellious alien warrior, can help them reunite and find a way off the planet in a race against time to stop Krall2s deadly army from triggering all-out galactic war....
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