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Series
Lorien legacies volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
2) Most wanted
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a mission for Lady Proxima goes horrible wrong, Han and Qi'ra team with a Rodian scrumrat named Tsulo to escape Lady Proxima's wrath as well as the dangerous Empire.
3) Dinosaur Boy
Author
Series
Dinosaur boy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
When aliens arrive, what will you choose? Beamed Up: Decide Your Destiny lets you get cozy in close encounters with interstellar travelers when aliens touch down in a field in Texas. What would first contact look like if you were in charge? You control the story - and the fate of the planet - as you probe 35 different scenarios and 140+ unique endings. Flee in terror, welcome your new overlords, or boldly go anywhere you like in this funny, scary,...
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
"The diplomatic mission from Earth to World ended in disaster, as the Earth's scientists discovered that the Worlders were not the scientifically advanced culture they believed. Though they brought a limited quantity of the vaccine against the deadly spore cloud, there was no way to make enough to vaccinate more than a few dozen, and the Earth scientists and surviving diplomats fled back to Earth. Once home, after the twenty-eight-year gap caused...
9) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
10) Stanley in space
Author
Series
Flat Stanley volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
Author
Series
Alien next door volume 9
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Language
English
Description
Harris, Roxy, and Zeke have one more adventure at a marvelous alien museum before heading back to Earth.
12) Human
Author
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by lies, Ethan Shaw, high school senior, doesn't fit in. Not in school. Not in his hometown. And don't even mention his non-existent love life. The last girl he asked out barfed on his shoes, checked out of school, and moved to coastal Mongolia. But things aren't all bad. Though he hides it, he's super strong and has amazing hearing. Better still, he's got a few friends and family who are fantastic. As the lies that form the basic framework...
13) Binti: home
Author
Series
Binti volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations...
14) Rosewater
Author
Series
Wormwood trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past....
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Language
English
Description
There's nothing hijabi alien hunter Abyan wants more than to graduate from Carlisle Academy and finally rid the Earth of aliens, the Nosaru. Everything is going to plan until the Nosaru kill one of Abyan's squad mates. To make matters worse, the school admins replace her elite squad member with a sub-par new recruit, Artemis. Despite Artemis failing every test--and bringing the team down with her--their cutthroat instructors refuse to kick her out....
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Still mourning the loss of his beloved Penny Priddy and his surrogate father Professor Hikita, Buckaroo Banzai must also contend with the constant threat of attack from his immortal nemesis Hanoi Xan, ruthless head of the World Crime League. To make matters worse, Planet 10 warrior queen John Emdall has sent her Lectroid legions against Earth with a brutal ultimatum. Or is her true target Buckaroo Banzai? As the apocalyptic threats continue to mount,...
Author
Series
Islands at the end of the world volume 2
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid--a being whose presence caused global devastation--and her friendship with Aukina but suffers regret over what she had to do to survive.
19) Destroyer down
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Language
English
Description
Follow Rey's adventure as she scavenges the newly-uncovered ruins of the Imperial Star Destroyer Spectral.
Author
Series
Star Wars knight errant volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books/Lucas Books
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
Jedi Knight Kerra Holt is deep in Sith territory, hoping to find the truth about her missing parents, and prevent a dangerous relic from falling into the wrong hands.
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