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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings -- Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.
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Chaos walking volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across...
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Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--Provided by publisher.
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Chaos walking volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
9) 2312
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English
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"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering...
10) Star splitter
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"For Jessica Mathers, teleportation and planetary colonization in deep space aren't just hypotheticals--they're real. They're also the very real reason her scientist parents left her behind six years ago. Now she is about to be reunited with them, forced to leave behind everyone she knows and loves, to join their research assignment on Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet almost 14 lightyears from Earth. Teleportation is safe and routine...
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Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
13) The lost colony
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Series
Long winter novels (A. G. Riddle) volume 3
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English
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"Can humanity survive on a new world? The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld--Eos--seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers--from the Carthage--have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos. Are they...
14) Chaos walking
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, Todd Hewitt discovers Viola, a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by "the Noise," a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola's life is threatened by the mayor of Todd's town, and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet's dark secrets.
15) Outpost
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Series
Donovan novels volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. But maybe it's worth the risk, for a brutal killer...
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Series
Spatterjay series volume 2
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants adulation, power, control and will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison "sprine"...
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable." --
18) The skinner
Author
Series
Spatterjay series volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Three unusual travelers arrive on the remote ocean planet of Spatterjay, braving the perils of the world's voracious wildlife as they pursue their individual quests, unaware that their paths are about to converge as the planet threatens to erupt into chaos.
19) Waste of space
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
20) Golden son
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, is battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.
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