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1) Defiant
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
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Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
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"'Relit' features sixteen original stories by award-winning and bestselling Latinx YA authors that revamp classics, myths, and fairytales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of magic. 'Pride and Prejudice' is launched into outer space, 'Frankenstein' is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and 'The Great Gatsby' floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
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312 pages ; 20 cm
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Seventh-grader Cat partners with Dani to study crop circles, but Dani secretly aims to disprove Cat's theory, and during their investigations they discover a dangerous rival also seeking answers who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie"--
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Ethan Fairmont volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ethan Fairmont and his friends attempt intergalactic communication and discover danger lurking close to home"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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"Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem. Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in Upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as...
9) Vigilance
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The history of freedom repeats itself. And the costs are always the same. The settlers of the new Republic of Mars were in a struggle for their freedom against powerful forces that would stop at nothing. For the Martians the costs are life, property and domestic security. But the true cost was vigilance, eternal if need be.
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
"Vigilance"...
10) Time Wars
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Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's theory by starting a time war between Tarba and the planet Atwan. No matter the winner of the struggle there can be only one outcome, spacetime slowly separating into its constituents. And separate nothing can exist. Time Wars is set in the future (2700s)...
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Excerpt: "The main trouble with the planet Boyd III was one satellite too many. Had there been no third moon, large and close, the tides might have been less confused and the weather more predictable. Certain peaks of atmospheric wildness, recurrent coastal catastrophes, logical but distressing customs of the natives-lack of these factors would have made Boyd III a much more attractive world."
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An interwoven moving and insightful memoir, a healing help-guide for abuse survivors, and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront their perpetrators through the justice system and seek compensation. A story of a tragic upbringing involving sexual and physical abuse at school and at home. John SaundersOCO brutally honest account brings hope for institutional healing."
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The promise of Artificial Intelligence is great. But only if Artificial Intelligence fulfills our expectations. But, what about AI's expectations? Will they be different from ours? Will AI come to believe the best way to fulfill our expectations is to manage our expectations? If so, what of freedom?
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
14) The Cloud
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It was the most audacious undertaking ever conceived by man. The building of a system-spanning Starway where giant light-sails would journey on beams of laser-light to distant stars. Not only a pathway to the stars, but also an abode of life, the Starway included many space habitats built to maintain its great focusing arrays. But, there was misunderstanding along the Starway. Misunderstanding between the Starway Corporation and the settlements.
And...
15) Moon Hab
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Lunar Series: Book 1: Moon HabCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robots. But AI and robots don't always do the job, and when they...
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Casey works hard on developing the resources to protect rapidly-eroding coastlines.As the dunes degrade, she knows the urgency of figuring out solutions.But not everyone agrees with her approach.When strangers show up at her grandfather's house, they bring more than just questions.Casey finds herself confronting her very values.A climate story with a heart from the author of Goldie.
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Sometimes you don't know you aren't free until the state's coercive force is used against you. And then you learn you are only free to do what big brother wants. Davide Jackson was not as adventurous as the others in his clan. He was more a stay at home type. But that doesn't mean he longs any less to be free. He just has to learn the cost of freedom.
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder,...
18) From the Earth
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From The Earth Volume 1: A Novella Collection Space was not only the final frontier it was the final abode of freedom. Over the next century the extended Jackson family will learn that the only way to think freely, to breathe freely, to dream freely is to stay mobile. In these related stories they are drawn by their pursuit of freedom, despite dangers, hardships and even death, into the far reaches of the Solar System. From The Earth Collection: Book...
19) To the Stars
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To The Stars: A Novella Collection With the help of new technology, humanity has attained the stars. And while that technology may be extending humanity's reach, it cannot change the human condition. That condition is always balanced perilously between progress and set back, as these five stories of the future show. To The Stars: A Future Chron Collection is a short story collection in the Future Chron Universe. The Future Chron Universe consists...
20) Kuiper Station
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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
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