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Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
An alien's attack on the outer-planet territory of Ganymede triggers instability throughout the solar system, prompting James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante to engage in peacekeeping efforts and search for a missing child.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Author
Series
Teixcalaan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Taking over for an ambassador who died a suspicious death, Mahit Dzmare investigates the potential murder while navigating the alien culture of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire, which is hiding a technological secret that could impact the universe.
Author
Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with the novel that begins The Shadow Series and allows us to reenter Ender's world anew.
With all the power of his original creation, Ender's Shadow is Card's parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion.
The human race is at War with
7) I, robot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.
“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian
I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of...
“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian
I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion.
9) The deep
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The historian of the water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slaves thrown overboard by slavers keeps all the memories of her people both painful and miraculous, until she discovers that their future lies in returning to the past.
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When humanity discovers the existence of an extra-dimensional field capable of transporting travelers to different worlds instantly, a significantly depopulated Earth is threatened by a subsequent finding that the field is unstable and may be cutting travelers off on the wrong side of Earth-friendly worlds.
11) Leech
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated chateau housing the Interprovincial Medical Institute, which has replaced every human practitioner of medicine, a parasite invades this fortress, spreading madness in this already dark pit of secrets, lies, violence and fear, and making a battlefield of the body where humanity will lose again.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A professor of biology and neurology at Stanford reveals what makes humans do the things they do, delving into environmental stimuli, things that trigger the nervous system, hormonal responses and how they work in conjunction with evolutionary and cultural factors.
13) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to the trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world and the consequences of a fateful decision.
14) Nightchaser
Author
Series
Nightchaser novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Tess Bailey and her crew are on the run from a dangerous tyrant, and their best hope for help is a tall, dark and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an astronaut confronts dangerous family secrets to stop a world-threatening crisis.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
Author
Language
English
Description
A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own powers make him a type of messiah figure among humans.
18) Earth unaware
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical.
Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically...
Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically...
20) The testaments
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate, relates and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
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