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1) Anathem
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 937 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions. Anathem...
3) Survival
Author
Series
Star quest trilogy volume Book 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier 'death waves,' gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in...
4) Embassytown
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Star Wars Thrawn volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When fourteen-year-old Padmé Naberrie wins the election for Queen of Naboo, she adopts the name Amidala and leaves her family to the rule from the royal palace. To keep her safe and secure, she'll need a group of skilled handmaidens who can be her assistants, confidantes, defenders, and decoys. Each girl is selected for her particular talents, but it will be up to Padmé to unite them as a group."
Author
Series
Probability trilogy volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Humans, having gained the ability to travel through space via a network of stargates left behind by vanished aliens, discover the planet World, inhabited by humanoids that have a shared reality, possibly caused by a huge alien artifact orbiting the planet.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the origins of Thrawn, one of the most ruthless warriors in the Galactic Empire, and the events behind his rise in the Imperial ranks.
12) Company's going
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After inviting two spacemen to stay for dinner, Shirley and Moe are asked to return with them to their planet Nextoo to cater their sister's rather large wedding.
13) Darth Plagueis
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Darth Plagueis, a Sith Lord who knows the Dark Side so well that he has power over life and death, joins forces with his apprentice, one-day emperor Darth Sidious, to try to dominate the whole galaxy.
14) Queen's Hope
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Padme is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padme gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padme on a secret mission, her handmaiden Sabe steps into the role of...
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Three Rooms Press edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the future, after a human offense against the natives of Hydros, the human population of the island of Sorve are ordered to leave. Forbidden on all other islands, in a flotilla of ships they seek the semi-mythical island of the Face of the Waters. During their journey they are forced to learn more about themselves, leading to questions about both religion and the purpose of humanity, all while facing danger from outside and within"--Page...
20) Provenance
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return...