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481) Navigators of Dune
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune Trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic DUNE. NAVIGATORS OF DUNE is a fascinating portal into vital components of the mesmerizing, intense universe of Dune. Every DUNE fan knows of the Spacing Guild's mysterious Navigators, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood program to breed a superhuman, and the Mentats, trained as human computers to replace forbidden thinking machines. But until now, readers...
482) Gwendy's final task
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
483) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in the final installment of the Zita adventures. Wrongfully imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita has to plot the galaxy's greatest jailbreak before the evil prison warden can execute his plan of interstellar domination!"--
485) Beyond the Empire
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The adrenaline-fueled, explosive conclusion to the Indranan War trilogy by K. B. Wagers.
Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from both treasonous plots and foreign invasion.
Now, on the run from enemies on all fronts, Hail prepares to fight a full-scale war for her throne and her people, even...
486) Star Corps
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the future,
earth's warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains ...
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF 21ST-CENTURY AIR COMBAT, BY "ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED PILOTS IN AIR FORCE HISTORY" (NEW YORK POST)
151 combat missions
21 hard kills on surface -to -air missile sites
4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor
1 Purple Heart
First into a war zone, flying behind enemy lines to purposely draw fire, the wild weasels are elite fighter squadrons with the most dangerous
...Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A biography of immigrant scientist Gabriela González, who, armed with modern technology, completed the work that Albert Einstein had begun one hundred years earlier, confirming his theory of gravitational waves and breaking new ground for space-time research.
Series
The expanse volume 6
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Holden and the crew of the Rocinante fight alongside the Combined Fleet of Earth and Mars to protect the Inner Planets from Marco Inaros and his Free Navy's campaign of death and destruction. Meanwhile, on a distant planet beyond the Rings, a new power rises. Episodes include: Strange Dogs; Azure Dragon; Force Projection; Redoubt; Why We Fight; Babylon's Ashes.
490) The godhead complex
Author
Series
Maze cutter volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever. One person's God is another person's Devil.--Publisher....
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2011], â„—â™2011
Language
English
Description
The Wheedle, a large furry creature with a red blinking nose, has lived wrapped in peace and quiet atop the Space Needle for years and years. But late one night all of that changed as the empty streets echoed with the plaintiff cries of a kitten in distress.
492) Goliath
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists...
493) Planet 51
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
American astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker thinks he is the first person to set foot on Planet 51. Little does he know the planet is inhabited by little green people who live in a cheerful innocent world. The only fear they have is that their planet will be overtaken by alien invaders from planet Earth. Now, before he becomes part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum, Captain Baker, with the help of his new friend, Lem, must figure out a...
494) Never Cry Wolf
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The bestselling nature classic that stands as a hallmark of conservation writing and forever changed the way we look at wolves In 1948, Farley Mowat landed in the far north of Manitoba, Canada, a young biologist sent to investigate the region's dwindling population of caribou. Many people thought that the caribous' conspicuous decline had been caused by the tundra's most notorious predator: the wolf. Alone among the howling canine packs, Mowat expected...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together withh a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.
496) Eon
Author
Series
Publisher
ereads.com
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Perhaps it wasn't from our time; perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the three-hundred-kilometer-long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown-the remnants of a human society versed in English, Russian, and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 32
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 34
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 36
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house is back with a message from Morgan le Fay telling Jack and Annie to seek out "The Gray Ghost" and listen to her story, and immediately they are whisked away to Nepal where they meet Tenzin, a climber who has recently lost his family, and who takes them up the mountain to meet a snow leopard and renew himself.