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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Reimagines the episode "Where no man has gone before" from the original "Star Trek" television series in the alternate timeline created by the 2009 film. When the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an unknown force that hits the ship, crewman Gary Mitchell is transformed into a psychic being that may pose a danger to the ship and its crew.
2963) Star Wars: Thrawn
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Now, discover how Grand Admiral Thrawn became one of the most feared military tacticians in a galaxy far, far away. Meet young Lieutenant Thrawn, who graduated the Imperial Academy with the highest marks possible. He's been assigned his own personal assistant, Ensign Eli Vanto, and is ascending quickly--but that doesn't mean everyone in the Imperial Army wants him to succeed. And Thrawn isn't the Empire's only rising star--so is Arihnda Pryce. The...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
Author
Series
Time Quintet volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
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Description
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
2969) Planetary: Book one
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"From critically acclaimed author Warren Ellis (THE AUTHORITY, TRANSMETROPOLITAN) and artist John Cassaday comes the ultimate collection of PLANETARY in PLANETARY BOOK ONE. This book collects the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful hundred-year-old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful but bored woman, and the Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines. Infatuated with tracking down evidence of superhuman activity, these mystery...
2970) The Curie Society
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A covert team of young women--members of the Curie Society, an elite organization dedicated to women in STEM--undertake high-stakes missions to save the world."--
Author
Series
Lazarus volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The world now lies divided not amongst political or geographic boundaries but amongst financial ones. Wealth is power, and that power rests with only a handful of families. Two of those families are at war. Carlyle and Hock are battling for control of North America. Malcolm Carlyle hovers at death's door, the victim of a poison created by Jakob Hock. As his eldest son, Stephen, struggles to fill his father's shoes, Carlyle's allies are growing more...
2974) The adoration of Jenna Fox (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): Jenna Fox chronicles
Author
Series
Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
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Description
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Princess Leia, Han, and Chewbacca rush to get crucial information to the Rebel Alliance, but when Han gets distracted by the possibility of earning fast credits with some cargo, he accidentally kidnaps the beautiful Princess Mi and finds more than just the Empire chasing the Millenium Falcon.
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
"They came from another time to ensure that the future would belong solely to the machines. They are Terminators--indestructible killing engines hiding inside shells of flesh and blood. Tireless, fearless, merciless, unencumbered by human emotion, dedicated to the complete eradication of mankind. But despite the frailty of human flesh, nothing is as immortal as the human spirit, and even the strongest metal will bend by the will of a mother fighting...
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
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Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Companion book to: The Giver, Messenger, and Son.;Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to...