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Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe. Are aliens real? Where are they? Why haven't we found them? What happens if we do? We've long been led to believe that astronomers spend every night searching the sky for extraterrestrials, but the truth is...
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Sun eater volume 4
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The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire. Hadrian Marlowe is trapped. For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing. Mankind is losing. The Cielcin are spilling into human space from the fringes, picking their targets with...
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Hilo volume 6
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"After discovering the truth about how he lost his memories and Dr. Horizon's true identity, Hilo goes back to Earth and tries to prevent Razorwark from destroying the world--and everyone in it"
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Sun eater volume 3
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For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the Empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity's destruction. Rumors of a new king amongst the Cielcin have reached the Imperial throne. This one is not like the others. It does not raid borderworld territories, preferring precise, strategic attacks on the humans' Empire. To make matters worse, a cult of personality has formed around Hadrian, spurred on by legends...
5) Prodigals
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A giant alien spacecraft appears over Panama, and thus begins the alien invasion that humanity has always feared. But if the aliens are coming for us, who--or what--is coming for them?
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Imperials saga volume 1
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Emperor's daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League's Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals--to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and...
9) Starborn
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Following her heart, she left Earth behind-and now only she can save it . . .
Tina Santis Pulivok never thought anyone would make sense of the strange way her mind could become saturated with other people's moods. But then she met Althor, an empathic starfighter pilot from hundreds of years in the future. As their love grows, she leaves her Earth to join his universe where she has no ties except to Althor and their vulnerable marriage.
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10) Halo: Season 1
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After years of human civil war and growing political unrest, mankind's very future is threatened when our outermost colonies intrude upon the sacred worlds of the Covenant a fanatical powerful alliance of alien species. As the Covenant destroys world after human world only one soldier slows their advance a cybernetically enhanced 'Spartan' supersoldier, the Master Chief. But as the incredible mystery of the Covenant's true ambition, and the secrets...
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Noumenon volume 2
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Generations ago, Convoy Seven and I.C.C. left Earth on a mission that would take them far beyond the solar system. Launched by the Planet United Consortium, a global group formed to pursue cooperative Earth-wide interests in deep space, nine ships headed into the unknown to explore a distant star called LQ Pyx. Eons later, the convoy has returned to LQ Pyx to begin work on the Web, the alien megastructure that covers the star. Is it a Dyson Sphere,...
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Captured by the sadistic guards of the prison planet Alcatraz, the two teenage friends, Zak, and the alien Erro, are placed in bottomless cages hovering over a sea of poison acid and if they fall asleep or lose their grip they will fall to their deaths--and Zak will need all of his ingenuity if he is going to figure out a way to save himself and his friend.
13) Pitch dark
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Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
Tuck Morgan and his crew have slept in stasis aboard the USS John Muir for centuries. Their ship harbors a chunk of Earth, which unbeknownst to them, is the last hope for the failing human race. Laura Cruz is a shipraider searching the galaxy for the history that was scattered to the stars....
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In season four, an unknown force is destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. Luckily, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos isn't important enough for stuff like that! Instead, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and Provisional Ensign T'Lyn are keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolent computers and getting stuck in a couple of caves all while encountering new and classic aliens! This 2-disc set includes every episode...
15) Pikmin 4
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"Save your crew and stranded castaways with the help of Pikmin and Oatchi the Rescue Pup!" -- Back cover.
"¡Rescata a tu tripulación y a los náufragos con la ayuda de los Pikmin y de Ochin, el perro de rescate!" -- Back cover.
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"From crop circles to taking Earth's natural resources, we don't know what aliens might be looking for. Could you survive an alien attack? Find out what they might want and how you can fight back. This engaging hi-lo book draws in 5th and 6th grade readers with gripping content while a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level makes the information accessible. It's a roaring good time!"--
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An original novel based on the thrilling Star Trek movies directed by J.J. Abrams!
Taking place in an alternate timeline created when the Starship Kelvin was destroyed by a Romulan invader from the future, this bold new novel follows Captain James T. Kirk and an inexperienced crew commandeering a repaired U.S.S. Enterprise out of spacedock for a simple shakedown cruise. When a distress call comes in, the Enterprise must aid a large colony ship of...
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Time quintet volume 1
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"Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure -- one that will threaten their lives and our universe."--