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Summary: Delve into the cutthroat world of one of the High Republic's greatest foes, the merciless Lourna Dee, in this full script for the Star Wars audio original Tempest Runner. The Nihil storm has raged through the galaxy, leaving chaos and grief in its wake. Few of its raiders are as vicious as the Tempest Runner Lourna Dee. She stays one step ahead of the Jedi Order at the helm of a vessel named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOAnderson, John David
Summary: To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDLore, Pittacus
Summary: Syd Chambers grew up on Earth with his human mother. He was told his alien father left on a mission when Syd was very young, but has recently learned that his father hied protecting a secret about the history between humans and Denzans. He is now faced with a choice: allow humanity to come into physical power beyond their wildest dreams and risk their revenge against the Denzans... . or destroy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORMcDevitt, Jack
Summary: "After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDHaig, Matt
Summary: "The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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Summary: "Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination and in her quest for understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENJane, Emily
Summary: When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANCorey, James S. A.
Summary: "The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin. Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLETesh, Emily
Summary: "While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2023
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Summary: Qven was created to be a Presgr translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presgr and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something different isn't "optimal behavior". It's the type of behavior that will have you eliminated. But Qven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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Summary: "Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she's never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee. But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABrissett, Jennifer Marie
Summary: "The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the three habitable areas of the planet--Day, Dusk, and Night--the haves and have nots, criminals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIEllis, Lindsay
Summary: "Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLChen, Mike
Summary: When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CHEO'Keefe, Megan E.
Summary: "The code has been cracked. The secrets of the Casimir gates have been revealed. But humanity still isn't safe. The alien intelligence known as Rainier and her clones are still out there, hell-bent on its destruction. And only Sanda can stop them. With the universe's most powerful ship under her command and some of the most skilled hackers, fighters, and spies on her team, it will still take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'KERobson, Eddie
Summary: "Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attachae to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translatinghis thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She's not the agency's best translator, but what else is she going to do? She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF ROBMin, Dolki
Summary: "The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MINDickinson, Seth
Summary: "Anna Sinjari--refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker--has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other...While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2024