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1) Line War
Author
Series
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Night Shade Books edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"The Polity is under attack from a ''melded'' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus''s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess . . . and beginning to question the motives...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
Author
Publisher
Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (286 pages)
Language
English
Description
Scientists and their families stationed on the remote planet of Fosaan were promised a tropical vacation-like experience. But Fosaan, devastated from an apocalyptic event nearly 300 years ago, is full of lethal predators and dangerous terrain. Earthers are forbidden to go beyond the safety zone of their settlement and must not engage the remaining reclusive Fosaanians, native to the planet. 16-year-old Quinn Neen is about to do both of those things....
Author
Publisher
Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (300 pages)
Language
English
Description
An ancient Hopi myth says people arrived on tiny silver pods that fell from the sky. But the truth is far more terrifying. 258 teens are sent from a dying Earth to a terraformed Mars as part of the Emergence Program, mankind's last hope before solar flares finish off their planet and species. Among the brave pioneers are 16-year-old Joey Westen and her twin brother, Jesse. After only minutes in space, something triggers a total ship lockdown. With...
6) The Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. 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...
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Language
English
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Owen Quarry is a member of COG, an company of elite, disgraced soldiers from around the globe, and while they are accustomed to crazy ops, they aren't used to orbiting a black hole to slow down time to fight Earth's dirty wars in the future. If they complete ten missions, they'll be redeemed as citizens in good standing, but the cost will be heavy in both time and their souls.
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (332 pages : illustrations (some color))
Language
English
Description
Death often hides in the dark, isolated corners of the earth - in thick woods, steaming swamps or angry seas. These natural dangers of animal, weather and terrain often give rise to legends and folk tales of demons, serpents and ghosts to put an understandable face to the unknown. And while many myths have a basis in reality, some are reality, the reality of the presence of Predators: alien hunters as savage as they are intelligent, as cunning as...
9) Ahsoka
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to find her place after the devastating events of Order 66, Jedi apprentice Ahsoka's resolve to fight the Empire leads her to Bail Organa and the Rebel Alliance.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity. When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero is drawn into the machinations of an enigmatic major who's...
12) Ender's shadow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains. Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and...
13) Chasing shadows
Author
Series
Sekret machines volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Four people scattered across the world--a soldier, a socialite, a pilot, and a prisoner--are forever changed by what they see in the sky and what it means for the future.
14) Heir to the Jedi
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Luke Skywalker takes on a high-stakes espionage operation to rescue a brilliant alien cryptographer sympathetic to the rebel cause, a mission that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 2
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sequel to "Old Man's War," the Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Reveals the origins of a doubtful stormtrooper for the First Order called FN-2187, a young scavenger on the desert planet of Jakku who calls herself Rey, and a hotshot Republic pilot named Poe Dameron, before they become involved in the major conflicts disrupting the galaxy.
17) Halo: Initiation
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (71 pages : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Halo -one of the most iconic video game franchises in history-comes to Dark Horse! Before she was a supersolider defending humanity as part of the Spartan-IV program, Sarah Palmer was an O.D.S.T. - Orbital Drop Shock Trooper - carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines! Join her on her dramatic journey from the ranks of humanity's toughest leathernecks to the highest echelon of elite warriors in the galaxy. Halo: Initiation collects...
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Language
English
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Description
"When Unit Four, a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere is activated for the first time...Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat...Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, reprogramming,...
19) Chaos vector
Author
Series
The Protectorate volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe. Sanda and Tomas are fleeing for their lives after letting the most dangerous smartship in the universe run free. Now, unsure of who to trust, Sanda knows only one thing for certain - to be able to save herself from becoming a pawn of greater powers, she needs to discover the secret of the coordinates...
20) Rey's story
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lonely scavenger. A lost little droid. An adventure of a lifetime. Rey never thought she would leave the desert planet of Jakku, but her life is turned upside-down when she meets BB-8, a small droid with a big secret"--Page 4 of cover.
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