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The Secret City, hidden high in a mountain range, harbors a handful of aliens stranded on Earth, waiting for rescue and running out of time. Over years of increasing poverty, an exodus to the human world has become their only chance for survival. The aliens are gradually assimilating, not as a discrete culture, but rather as a source of cheap labor. But the sudden arrival of ill-prepared rescuers will touch off divided loyalties, violent displacement,...
2) Invader
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"When an alien creature menaces two scientists marooned on a desert island, Rose, who has lost her memory, must rely on Thomas, though his behavior is suspicious. In California, Kailey is pressed into a life of crime by her corrosive lover, following a psychologically abusive past. As each woman faces invaders of different sorts, the questions mount. What is their underlying connection? What is Thomas trying to hide? And when will the beast strike...
3) Greater good
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Star Wars novels. Thrawn ascendancy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
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410 pages ; 25 cm.
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When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
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Mickey7 volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation. Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive--that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony's creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb,...
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2020.
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477 pages ; 23 cm
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"The galaxy's two multi-species superpowers stand on the brink of yet another pointless war. Soldiers, draft-dodgers, smugglers and spies from both sides have plans for fighting, avoiding, or profiting from the conflict. None of these plans are going to work out: war destroys plans as efficiently as it does lives. But everyone involved will make new friends, new enemies, and new plans that have a chance to end the war before it causes the collapse...
6) On impact
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Alien in my pocket volume 4
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Injured in a bicycle accident, Zack discovers that his alien houseguest has swiped his brakes, placing Zack's baseball season in jeopardy while subjecting him to an annoying little brother.
7) Ohm vs. Amp
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Alien in my pocket volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
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127, 11 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Zack McGee has gotten in tons of trouble thanks to Amp, the four-inch-tall alien that crash-landed into his bedroom, but when Amp's commander, Ohm, comes to collect the stranded alien, it's Amp's turn in the hot seat!"--
8) Dealbreaker
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The bounceback volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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503 pages ; 22 cm
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"Ruby Whiting has done the impossible. She has proved that humanity deserves a seat at the galactic table. Well, at least a shot at a seat. Having convinced the galactic governing body that mankind deserves a chance at fixing their own problems, Ruby has done her part to launch the planet into a new golden age of scientific discovery and technological revolution. However, there are still those in the galactic community that think that humanity is...
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Janitors of the post-apocalypse volume 3
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"Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. They were absolutely not trained to fight an interplanetary war with the xenocidal Prodryans or to make first contact with the Jynx, a race who might not be as primitive as they seem. But if there's one lesson Mops and her crew have learned, it's that things like "training" and "being remotely qualified" are overrated. The war is escalating. (This might be Mops' fault.) The...
10) Queen
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Sibyl's war volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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380 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Nicole Hammond is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with a strange alien ship called the Fyrantha. However, Nicole and all other sentient creatures are caught up in a war for control between two competing factions. Now, the street-kid turned rebel leader has a plan that would restore freedom to all who have been shanghaied by the strange ship. She just has to unite the many alien races being forced to combat for their freedom,...
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Old Man's War universe volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Humans expanded into space ... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement ... for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time--a couple of decades at most,...
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p2012
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7 sound discs (ca. 511 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The thirty-fourth century. Humankind is spread across three thousand light years in a myriad of worlds and habitats known as the Human Entelechy. Linked by a network of wormholes with Earth at its center, it is the world Captain RJ Stone awakens to after a twelve-thousand-year cryogenic suspension. Stone soon finds himself commanding the maiden voyage of the first spacecraft to break the light speed barrier.
13) A tryst of fate
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Xanth volume 45
Pub. Date
2021.
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304 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Squid may only be a tween alien cuttlefish, but her feelings for Chaos, her Demon boyfriend, are real, which is why she's more than ready to let someone else take over as the protagonist of this story. Being a main character is exhausting--and it's drastically cutting down her flirting time with Chaos. But their alternate future is dependent upon their completion of one final mission... Seven years from now, in another reality frame, things are not...
14) Nophek gloss
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The Graven novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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439 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a universe of its own. Together they will show him that the universe is much bigger, much more advanced, and much more mysterious than Caiden had ever imagined. But the universe hides dangers as well, and soon Caiden has his own plans. He vows to do anything it takes to get revenge on the slavers...
15) Burning paradise
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"Cassie Iverson, eighteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2014--but it's not our United States and it's not our 2014. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades--back to the dawn of radio communications--human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and...
16) Infinity engine
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2017.
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xv, 464 pages ; 24 cm.
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"In the outskirts of space, and the far corners of the Polity, complex dealings are in play. Several forces continue to pursue the deadly and enigmatic Penny Royal, none more dangerous than the Brockle, a psychopathic forensics AI and criminal who has escaped the Polity's confinements and is upgrading itself in anticipation of a deadly showdown, becoming ever more powerful and intelligent. Aboard Factory Station Room 101, the behemoth war factory...
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[2021]
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171 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
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"Los tipos malos volaron por el espacio exterior, regresaron a la Tierra y se las arreglaron para aterrizar exactamente en el lugar correcto... pero exactamente en el MOMENTO equivocado. ¿¡¿Quǐn hubiera pensado que las c̀psulas de escape alien̕genas pod̕an viajar en el tiempo?!? ¡Ahora est̀n 65 millones de ąos atr̀s en el pasado y tienen que evitar ser devorados por los dinosaurios y arreglar la m̀quina del tiempo rota si quieren regresar...
18) Lesser evil
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Star Wars novels. Thrawn ascendancy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
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548 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
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"The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of the Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. For thousands of years The Chiss Ascendancy has been an island of calm, a center of power, and a beacon of integrity. Led by the Nine Ruling Families, their leadership stands as a bulwark of stability against the Chaos of the Unknown Regions. But that stability has been eroded by a cunning foe...
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2014.
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A sequel to Alien Hunter finds CIA alien communications agent Flynn Carroll tracking down murderous rogue agents from the planet Aeon, an assignment that separates him from his unit and causes him to question what he believes about his own existence. By the best-selling author of Communion.
"Alien Hunter: Underworld, the searing sequel to Alien Hunter from bestselling author Whitley StrieberFlynn Carroll works for the most secret police unit on the...
20) War factory
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2016.
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xvi, 454 pages ; 24 cm.
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"A berserk AI runs rampant across galaxies in this explosive, fast-paced follow-up to Dark Intelligence, a new Polity novel from UK space opera master Neal Asher. Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the...
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