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1) Elysium
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
2) Light years
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.
3) Gravity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments: Space.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
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Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria, where she’s headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that’s been torn by civil and political unrest. After just weeks on the job, she’s called to a scene by railroad tracks--a woman’s body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine--and as Scarpetta begins...
5) Gemina
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Illuminae files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
On board the Jump Station Heimdall, Hanna is the captain's pampered daughter; Nik a member of a notorious crime family. While they are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion. When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together. But alien predators...
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When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
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Apollo murders volume 1
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From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller and "exciting journey" into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary).
1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles from home. A quarter million miles from help.
NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 24
The Patrick McLanahan volume Book 24
Brad McLanahan volume 8
Brad McLanahan volume 6
The Patrick McLanahan volume Book 24
Brad McLanahan volume 8
Brad McLanahan volume 6
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
"In this new installment in the New York Times bestselling Brad McLanahan series, Russia and China have teamed up to gain dominance in outer space, and it's up to McLanahan and the newly formed U.S. Space Force to stop them"--
"Because its enemies never stop trying to undermine the United States' security, the men and women who serve to protect America must always be vigilant. Few know this better than warriors Brad McLanahan and Nadia Rozek. Newly...
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Monkey with a tool belt series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Chico Bon Bon and Clark the elephant fly the Banana 5 to the Superstar Space Station to fix the snack bar's Moon Malt machine, but find a situation stickier than they anticipated.
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Series
Galaxy of fear volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Zak and Tash hope to defeat the evil scientist Gog by finding the lost Jedi library on the abandoned space station Nespis 8, but that storehouse of knowledge is supposedly cursed and guarded by the ghost of a Jedi.
15) Starfire:a novel
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
"With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Strap yourself in as we prepare to blast off to explore a space station far above the Earth's surface. Our 'tour' includes a look at daily life on board, how astronauts exercise, work and even go to the toilet, and how astronauts and their supplies are transported between Earth and the space station.
17) Strike force
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 13
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Description
On the run from the Pasdaran, the theocrat's terror army, and unable to count on support from his friends in the regular army, Iranian rebel leader General Hesarak al-Kan Buzhazi desperately turns to his old nemesis, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, for help. Unwilling to commit American forces in an Iranian civil war, and with time running out, the U.S. president authorizes McLanahan to utilize a new, top-secret fleet of globe-crossing...
18) Space vehicles
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Full-color photographs and simple text describe space vehicles and the work they perform"--Provided by publisher.
19) The return
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Pub. Date
2000
Description
On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin, along with crewmate Neil Armstrong, made history as they placed humankind's first steps on the moon. Now, in The return, written with award-winning novelist John Barnes, Aldrin offers a compelling novel about the opportunities and dangers that confront us today--and shows why we must, and will, seize the challenges before us.
20) Jupiter
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Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 8
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Astrophysicist Grant Archer is sent by the reactionary and censorious forces of the "New Morality" coalition to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, charged with spying on his fellow scientists.