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"A tense and thrilling sci-fi adventure of space exploration and first contact, perfect for fans of The Martian, Arrival, and Interstellar. Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she now lives in semiretirement, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate...
3) Honor lost
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Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...
4) Honor bound
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After defeat in battle, Zara Cole and her crew flee to Sliver, an outpost inhabited by alien criminals, but when Zara discovers dark secrets about Sliver, she has to decide if she is going to stand and fight the evil trying to annihilate them.
5) Starclimber
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As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
6) Salvation
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"In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful--until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly-located world eighty-nine light years from Earth,...
7) Space wreck
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While searching for rare space crystals, Sam and Simon crash land on an unexplored asteroid and their only hope of escape may be to combine parts of their ship with those of a ghost ship.
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"The Delany, captained by a swashbuckling capitalist named Bob, is circling Europa--one of the moons of Jupiter--studying its atmosphere, but inside, the ship is divided into two warring camps. First there are the group of "Bobs" who slavishly follow the ship's vain, ignorant captain and who antagonize the two crew members who've run afoul of the Bobs: Dwayne and Nalani, who are studying the surface of the moon itself. But it is Dwayne and Nalani...
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George's neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays about space travel and color photographs.
12) Party on Pluto
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Presents the story of twins Trudy and Tina who attend a party, which is Ms. Bickleblorb's wedding.
14) Headlong flight
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While exploring the dangerous, uncharted Odyssean Pass, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the starship Enterprise land on a rogue planet that traps them in an endless succession of random jumps between dimensions.
15) Lost on Earth
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Twins Trudy and Tina are heading home from a field trip with their class when the Space Bus has a problem and Ms. Bickleblorb must make a landing on the mysterious planet Earth.
19) Trapped in space
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Stranded when their shuttlecraft crash lands while they are helping to explore a new planet, teen siblings Sammi and Jak are saved from deadly plants by intelligent beings who communicate primarily through shared feelings.