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Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with the fourth book in their series featuring the unforgettable character Gideon Crew"-- Provided by publisher.
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious...
2) Redshirts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
Author
Series
Troy rising volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Hero Troy Vernon wages war against the Horvath, Earth's alien conquerors, determined to free his enslaved world and to take the first steps into space using off-world technologies. If he succeeds, his ultimate plans will lead to the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system.
7) Home
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across...
Author
Publisher
Stratton Press
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
"I intend not to leave out a single detail of my account. While my memory is still fully functional, I want the readers of today and the readers of tomorrow to read and see my encounter. Nor will I make this encounter into a fictional best-selling novel of which I could certainly do. I am merely reporting the facts of what I was privileged to be shown and welcomed aboard by our distant universe space explorers. I do however hope earth's space explorers...
10) Independence day
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, 1996.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A jet jockey, a science nerd, the U.S. president, and other diverse survivors of a massive attack on earth join forces to defeat the aliens before they can achieve total victory.
11) The hot gate
Author
Series
Troy rising volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die--and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
13) Event
Author
Series
Event Group thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 4
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left?
15) Venom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter-ego. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
Intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for language.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Raised underground by a robot, twelve-year-old Eva Nine finally finds all she ever wanted in the human colony of New Attica, but something very bad is going on there and unless Eva and her friends stop it, it could mean the end of life on Orbona.
18) The return
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"During a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse, renowned astrophysicist Andrew Leland is suddenly lifted into the sky by a giant spacecraft and taken away for all to see. Six years later, he turns up, wandering in a South American desert, denying ever having been abducted and disappearing from the public eye. Meanwhile, he inspires legions of cultish devotees, including a young physics graduate student named Shawn Ferris who is...
Author
Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Formerly of the 82nd Airborne Division, New York Times best-selling author John Ringo brings unmatched authenticity to his military science fiction. When a subatomic physics experiment causes a massive explosion, interdimensional gateways open in Florida-and aliens pour out. Some intend to bring Earth to its knees. Others seem willing to help, but will annihilate the planet if Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller can't stop the menace from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. When the Prophets send their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite--to destroy the the Outer Colonies and acquire the location of Earth, a three-man renegade squad led by Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes fights to hold together a shaky alliance between human survivors and the...
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