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1981) A Call to Vengeance
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by forces unknown, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy with the resources to hurl warships across hundreds of light years seeks to conquer the Star Kingdom for reasons unknown, while forces from within Manticore's own government seek to discredit and weaken the Navy for reasons very much known: their own political gain.
It's up to officers like Travis
...1982) A Call to Duty
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life . . . the two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately.
But life in the RMN isn't exactly what he expected. Boot camp is rough and frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore
...Author
Series
Publisher
Infinitas Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Community is safe.
Unless you have superpowers.
Sixty years ago, a hallucinogenic plague annihilated half the world's population, leading to the formation of the Community—an international government that promises its citizens safety, security, and efficiency. Every day, Community citizens swallow a mandatory pill to ensure their immunity to the plague. A year after graduating high school, they take the Health
1984) The Drowned Cities
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die.
In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn...
In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn...
Author
Series
Ghostwalkers volume 11
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sink your teeth into this #1 New York Times bestselling GhostWalker novel—a “fantastic, sinister tale of danger and treachery”(RT Book Reviews).
GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot knows the price he paid for the secret military experiments that gave him his special catlike abilities. After all, he left his bayou home a healer and came back a killer. While Wyatt and his GhostWalker brother Gator may have known...
GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot knows the price he paid for the secret military experiments that gave him his special catlike abilities. After all, he left his bayou home a healer and came back a killer. While Wyatt and his GhostWalker brother Gator may have known...
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Crisis strikes the galaxy. After the destruction of the Death Star, the Sith Lord Darth Vader has been deemed responsible by Emperor Palpatine. Dishonored, Vader now seeks his own agenda--the identity of the Force-strong rebel pilot responsible for the Death Star's ruin. Enlisting the assistance of archaeologist Doctor Aphra, Vader has acquired a personal army composed of battle droids from a forgotten factory on the planet Geonosis. And with the...
1987) Logan
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
1988) Doctor Who: the movie
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
The Doctor is returning home to Gallifrey with the remains of his arch-nemesis, the Master. Forced off course, the TARDIS arrives in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1999, where the Doctor is critically wounded in a gangland gun battle. At the local hospital, Dr. Grace Holloway fights, and fails, to save his life. Later, in the morgue, the Doctor wakes up a new man. But he is not the only one, the Master has also found himself a new body. As the clock...
1989) Hawk
Author
Series
Hawk volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the sequel to Heir to the Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn’s sinister plan threatens to spell doom for the fledgling New Republic and its most iconic heroes.
The dying Empire’s most cunning and ruthless warlord, Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial Fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic’s destruction. Meanwhile,...
The dying Empire’s most cunning and ruthless warlord, Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial Fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic’s destruction. Meanwhile,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel version, scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster, but instead discover a high-tech submarine under the command of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
1992) Day zero
Author
Series
Day zero series volume 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Don't miss the exhilarating new novel from the author of Fat Girl on a Plane, featuring a fierce, bold heroine who will fight for her family and do whatever it takes to survive. Fans of Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It series and Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave series will cheer for this fast-paced, near-future thrill ride.
1993) The Gods of Mars
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ten years after John Carter was transported back to Earth against his will, he returns to Mars. Having been sent back to Earth before the birth of his child, Carter is desperate to reunite with his wife, Dejah, and meet their child. However, the reunion is forced to be postponed when Carter realizes that he materialized in an unfamiliar part of the planet. Known as the Valley Dor, Carter has landed in the Barsoomian afterlife, where no one is allowed...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlords...
For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlords...
1995) The path of daggers
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
After Nynaeve and his friends conquer the Seanchan forces they travel to Caemyln to reclaim the throne, but on their way they encounter enemies more powerful than they imagined, and they may have to sacrifice their lives to save the world.
1996) Swan song
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Pocket books paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets ... Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station ... and Swan, a young girl possessing...
1997) Last Day on Mars
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is Earth year 2213-but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun the process of going supernova. The human race has fled to Mars, but this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second trip: a one-hundred-fifty-year journey to a distant star, our best guess at where we might find a new home.
Liam Saunders-Chang is one of the last humans left on Mars....
1998) Gravity
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Edition
DVD two-disc special ed.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A compassionate ode to the beautiful messiness of being human." — Glendy Vanderah
"Reminiscent of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Rebecca Serle's In Five Years." — Booklist
A life-affirming debut that blends a poignant exploration of friendship and loss with a truly unforgettable love story.
What would you do if you had one more chance for the life of your dreams?
Lou
...2000) Wild cards: el comienzo
Series
Publisher
Oceano de Mexico
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1 ed.
Language
Español
Description
On September 15, 1946, an extraterrestrial virus fell on Manhattan. The survivors were transformed into Meta humans and aces. Meta humans are jokers, people with physical deformities and extraordinary abilities, always alienated and harassed while aces are men and women with normal human features that develop the gifts of flying, the ability to walk through walls and read minds, to change their shape at will, to become invisible, and to stop time....
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