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1) Contact
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viii, 374 pages ; 21 cm
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Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
4) Honey girl
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"With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know, until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father's plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn't feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under...
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"Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy ... a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont ... who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God ... Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be a scientist's dream come true, but...
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256 pages ; 22 cm
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Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, refuses to abandon the research center in the Arctic when he receives news of a catastrophic event. Soon after, he discovers a mysterious child and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. Meanwhile, Mission Specialist Sullivan and her crew, the first astronauts to delve into deep space, discover that Mission Control is no longer on the air. Sullivan's career has cost her her marriage,...
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"What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito -- serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene -- takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya's struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya's brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya's whereabouts,...
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"Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood."--
With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father's...
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290 pages ; 24 cm
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"A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that braids the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. When Róisin and François meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica, they are immediately drawn to each other. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisin, a daughter of Ireland...
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259 pages ; 21 cm
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Augie es el último astrónomo en el Ártico. Todos los demás se han ido. Quedarse ya no es seguro, pero Augie no piensa irse a ningún otro sitio. Hasta que aparece Iris, una niña poco habladora y ajena al fin que parece acercarse, y las cosas cambian. ¿Cómo sacará a la niña de la región helada? Su única esperanza es una vieja radio, pero nadie recoge la señal... Sully está, junto a sus colegas astronautas, perdida en el espacio. La misión...
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