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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous...
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
5) Starbreaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Captain Tess Bailey and Shade Ganavan are the galaxy's Mos Wanted, while the universe is on the brink of catastrophic war. As their attraction builds, they must decide if they trust each other to change the course of history together.
Author
Series
Morcai Battalion volume 1
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a rag-tag band of humans from the Terravegan colonies are defeated and imprisoned by Rojok invaders, their female exobiologist has to save the life of the alien commander in order to save her captain, her comrades, and herself.
7) Guerilla
Author
Series
Makaum War volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While Master Sergeant Frank Sage runs recon on what could be a Phrenorian military base deep in the savage wilderness, a mysterious faction of Makau insurgents breaks the fragile peace with a reckless attack on the Terran base.
8) Bright light
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Gray has been stripped of his starship command, but the super-AI Konstantin has a plan for him: to visit the remote star Deneb, make contact with an alien civilization, and maybe--if he can make it in time--save humanity --
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
10) Target
Author
Series
Rebel force volume 1
Publisher
Lucas Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The Death Star has been destroyed. But back at the Rebel base, the celebration is over. The Alliance has intercepted a coded transmission, indicating that the Empire is determine to discover which pilot was responsible for the destruction of the Death Star. New security protocol is in effect: The details of the Death Star mission are now top secret, and no one is to know that Luke fired the decisive shot..."--p. [4] of cover.
11) Absolution gap
Author
Series
Revelation space universe volume 3
Publisher
ACE books
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Description
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence-and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety-or draw down its darkest enemy.And as she leads...
12) Forge of heaven
Author
Series
Gene Wars volume 2
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When one of Ezra Bridger's heists goes horribly wrong, he finds himself thrown together with a team of rebels, who are on a mission to free enslaved Wookiees from an Imperial prison.
15) The sky people
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life-even human life. At that point, the "Space Race" became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths...
16) Out of the dark
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
A master sergeant prowling the back country of the Balkans and a firearms instructor and former Marine find themselves at the center of a growing network of resistance against an invading force of alien, carnivorous Shongari intent on annihilating the human race.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 4
Language
English
Description
As a mighty fleet gathers to sail against Cayleb and the Charisian Empire, Merlin Athrawes and a handful of extraordinary humans stand in its path, ready for a battle that may hold the fate of Safehold, the last human planet, in the balance.
18) Raven stratagem
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 2
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Zare Leonis thinks he will become a model soldier for the Empire until he uncovers the Empire's destructive plans for his home planet of Lothal and his sister goes missing.
20) Hover
Author
Series
The taking (Melissa West) volume 2
Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ari and Jackson must stop a war against their home planet after a poisonous neurotoxin was released into Earth's atmosphere.
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