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Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After Captain Jim Holden discovers a derelict, abandoned spaceship, he unearths a secret that threatens to throw the entire solar system into war and a vast conspiracy that could mean the end of the human race.
Author
Series
Derlevai novels volume 4
Turtledove Harry. World at war volume 4
Darkness volume Bk: 4
Darkness volume 4
Turtledove Harry. World at war volume 4
Darkness volume Bk: 4
Darkness volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The war for the continent of Derlavi reaches its climax as the mages of Kuusamo and Lagoas race against time to come up with a new magic to stop the Algarve invaders.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of earth by Martians in 1894. Thirty five million miles into space, a species of Martians sets eyes on planet earth. With their own planet doomed for destruction, the Martians prepare to invade. Their weapons are ready and their aim is ruthless. The war of the worlds is about to begin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 62
Language
English
Formats
Description
In response the Voyager launched in 1977, an alien race, the Psychlos, remorselessly wiped out the humans with a poisonous gas barrage, and ground and air bombings. They killed more than 99.9% of the people on Earth, not to mention their sadistic hunting sprees of people for pure pleasure for the ensuing 1,000 years. Now, there are about 3,000 Psychlos stationed on Earth, mining her remaining natural resources, and mankind is an endangered species....
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past. But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly...
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 1
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--
7) Redshirts
Author
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
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
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is one of those rare people who likes rules but has a talent for thinking outside of them when everything starts coming apart. That is why he is now a mustang and also why he has enemies. At the moment, there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom's Parliament who don't think they need him or the navy for that matter. Unhappily for them, the edge of the explored galaxy can be a far more dangerous...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
10) Absolution gap
Author
Series
Revelation space universe volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The Inhibitors, an alien race designed to locate and destroy any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence, have set their sights on humanity and it is up to a ragtag group of refugees to stop the invasion before it is too late.
11) Earth Afire
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
12) Thrawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Traces the origins of Thrawn, one of the most ruthless warriors in the Galactic Empire, and the events behind his rise in the Imperial ranks.
13) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat aliens But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home. Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
16) Nova
Author
Series
Spectre war volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia's childhood...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 8
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Mesan Alignment has a plan--one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race--its way. Until recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled but then the Alignment hit two bumps in the road: one called the Star Empire of Manticore, the other named Honor Harrington. In order to undercut Manticore's galaxy-wide reputation as a star nation of its word, it launched Operation Janus--a false-flag...
20) Orphan's triumph
Author
Series
Jason Wander volume 5
Publisher
Orbitbooks.net
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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