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FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure Human-alien encounters Human-alien encounters Fiction Human-alien encounters Juvenile fiction Imaginary wars and battles Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Life on other planets Fiction Space ships Fiction Space warfare Fiction Young adult fictionAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie is overwhelmed with deadlines as she fulfills tooth fairy commissions, scrambles to invent a machine with her best friend Myron to enter in a contest and to beat her rival, and has to help an incorrigible alien repair his UFO.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLDow, Alechia
Summary: "Zaira Citlali is supposed to die. After all, she's the god Indigo reborn. Indigo, whose song created the universe and unified people across galaxies to banish Ozvios, the god of destruction. Although Zaira has never been able to harness Indigo's powers, the Ilori Emperor wants to sacrifice her in Ozvios's honor. Unless she escapes and finds Wesley, the boy prophesized to help her defeat Ozvios...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOWAnderson, Gillian
Summary: "Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India's ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father--a shooting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon451 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDConnolly, John
Summary: "The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic sci-fi with rich, character-driven plot, as Paul and Syl fight to save Earth from an enemy who is closer than ever. Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have traveled through Derith, the mysterious wormhole from which no traveler has ever returned. Yet Derith's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "It's up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador--and prevent mass extinction--in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action. After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world's fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOWeber, David
Summary: "We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCherryh, C. J.
Summary: It has been two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission to a faraway sector of space where over four thousand human spacers were under attack by a hostile alien race. Now, the Phoenix is almost home, having successfully rescued the stranded colonists through the combined negotiating talents of Bren Cameron-brilliant human paidhi to the atevi court, currently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEConnolly, John
Summary: "Following Conquest, the first part in a stunning new science fiction trilogy that "should not to be missed" (The Guardian), Empire continues the journey of Syl and Paul as they fight to regain planet Earth from a ruthless alien species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCherryh, C. J.
Summary: While the world of the atevi fragments into two antagonistic political camps, eight-year-old Cajeiri, the heir of Tabini-aiji--and the first atevi to have an understanding of the humans--becomes a target for those who oppose his father's rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECherryh, C. J.
Summary: Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission to a distant sector of space, and with resources strained by four thousand extra mouths to feed, the crew of the starship Phoenix yearns for the luxuries of home. But when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: supplies to their home station have been cut off; civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; the powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECherryh, C. J.
Summary: "At last--Cajeiri has his young guests from the starship, three young folk entranced by weather and trees and creatures with minds of their own. It's all he dreamed of ... But now safety is foremost: Cajeiri's grandfather has been assassinated, hostile Assassins Guild invaded Great-uncle's house, and now Bren Cameron, paidhi-aiji, who was sent to keep the aiji's son safe, has more than the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEHolt, Tom
Summary: A man slays a dragon that had his girlfriend spirited away with a bread knife, while another man wakes up trapped in a jar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLPournelle, Jerry
Summary: "NO REST FOR THE WEARY Rick Galloway's still not sure what inspired him to volunteer to fight Cubans in Angola, and he certainly never expected to end his African adventure shanghaied by a flying saucer when his CIA superiors cut him and his men adrift asthe Cubans overran their final position. He didn't expect to end up on the planet Tran, God only knew how many light-years from Earth, raising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUMatharu, Taran
Summary: "Cade has managed to survive the duel with the Hydra Alpha, barely. But the Games are far from over. By order of their cruel and mysterious overlord, Abaddon, Cade and his friends are sent off to war against the Greys, a humanoid race who have far surpassed humans in technology on their home planet. This attempt to move up the leaderboard, however, leads Cade to a game-changing revelation: The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishiing Group, LLC 2022