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62) The Calm Man
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Sally watched the molten gold glow in the sky. Then knew she would not see her son and her husband ever again on Earth.
63) United as one
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Lorien Legacies volume 7
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English
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The Garde didn?t start this war, but they are determined to end it and with the fate of the Earth up in the air, they must battle the Mogadorians one last time.
64) Double Take
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning. Before his strange adventure ended, young Paul Asher found himself going around in circles-very peculiar circles indeed!
66) The Peacemaker
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Arrow lanced down out of the night like a spear of flame, vengeful and deadly. The legends of Jaq Merril are legion-but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
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English
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Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together....
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This work of science fiction by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith"), originally published in 1931, tells the story of Arcturus, the Inter-Planetary Corporation's top liner, and it's attempted voyage to Mars. Following an attack from a mysterious spaceship, they crash land on Ganymede, a planet of primeval terrors. The remaining crew build a new spacecraft and discover a way to survive amid the warring intelligences of the Jovian system. This work is...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Finding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr. Seaton and his allies, but ultimately the entire world hangs in the...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Ethical Engineer is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, first published in 1963. The story is set in a fictional medieval kingdom, where a power-hungry king named Lanius seeks to expand his empire by conquering neighboring lands. The main character, Conn Maxwell, is an engineer who is hired by Lanius to build a war machine that will help him conquer his enemies. However, Conn is also a man of ethics and principles, and he struggles with...
72) Return to zero
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Lorien legacies reborn volume 3
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English
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"When the United Nations takes drastic measures against the Human Garde to keep them in check, the students at the Academy must go on the offensive while those who have defected face off against a new and equally dangerous threat"--
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Planet thieves volume 1
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
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English
Description
The Planet Thieves is the first thrilling installment of a new middle-grade series by Dan Krokos.
Two weeks ago, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and seventeen of his fellow cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command boarded the SS Egypt. The trip was supposed to be a short routine voyage to log their required spacetime for summer quarter.
But routine goes out the airlock when they're attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war...
75) Off Course
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth! The first envoy from another world was about to speak-that is, if he could forget that horse for a minute....
76) Children of time
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Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
77) Miss Meteor
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
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