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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
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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
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.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Hostilities between factions are threatening to explode into a shooting war on the moon of Yakutsk, and the two major galactic military powers, Central Corps and PSI, have sent ships to defuse the situation. But when a strange artifact is discovered, events are set in motion that threaten the entire colonized galaxy--including former Central Corps Commander Elena Shaw. Now an engineer on a commercial shipping vessel, Elena finds herself drawn into...
8) 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.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
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) Dark star rising
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The misfit crew of HMSS Daring are on a covert mission to dismantle a sprawling pirate network threatening the empire. Exuberant after scoring a major victory against enemy pirates, the star sailing ship HMSS Daring eagerly embarks on its new mission. Until the pirate network is dismantled and its mysterious leader Dark Star brought to justice, the safety of the empire remains in jeopardy. Supported by the ship's misfit crew, Subcommander Liam Blackwood...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find that an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
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.
14) 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 --
15) Finder
Author
Series
Finder chronicles volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
April 2019.
Language
English
Description
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand. Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater deep...
16) 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.
Author
Series
Neog volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For the past year, their close loss in the annual Boarding Games has haunted the NeoG Interceptor Team Zuma's Ghost. With this year's competition looming, they're looking forward to some payback - until an unexpected personnel change leaves them reeling. Their best swordsman has been transferred, and a new lieutenant has been assigned in his place. Maxine Carmichael is trying to carve a place in the world on her own - away from the pressure and influence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Jyn Erso was five years old, her mother was murdered and her father taken from her to serve the Empire. She was taken in by Saw Gerrera, a man willing to go to any extremes necessary in order to resist Imperial tyranny. Jyn dedicates herself to the rebel cause, and to Saw. When she faces an unthinkable betrayal that shatters her world, Jyn will have to pull the pieces of herself back together and figure out what she truly believes in-- and who...
Language
English
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Description
As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It's up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search for the one hope of restoring peace to the galaxy.
Author
Series
Star wars novels. Force unleashed volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set between Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope, an action-packed official novel based on the release of the new Star Wars video game follows Darth Vader as he embarks on a quest to rid the galaxy of the Jedi and confronts life-altering decisions that could change everything.
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