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1) Contact
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viii, 374 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
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A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert since the beginning of time. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies, find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there...
These four amateur adventurers are about to uncover the key that could unlock the vast reaches of the universe.
A sudden burst of curiosity propels mild-mannered English professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site...
4) Majestic
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xvi, 362 pages ; 17 cm
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When an unusual aircraft crashes in the New Mexico desert, an operation code named Majestic is sent to investigate. How do they handle what they discover? Are there really aliens involved? How can they communicate with them?
5) Runner
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On a lonely planet in the distant future, Earth is a fading memory and technology is falling into ruin. As a "runner," Jak Rebo delivers valuable pacakges from planet-to-planet. When he takes an assignment to deliver a young boy believed to be a reincarnated religious leader to another planet, Jak finds himself at the center of a violent religious conflict, dodging assassins around every corner. The risk doubles after he teams p with Lani Norr, a...
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Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
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While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
7) Conspirator
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387 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
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Cajeiri, the son of Tabini-aiji, the leader of the Western Association, becomes a target of factions determined to destroy his father's rule and runs away to follow Bren Cameron, his human paidhi, to his country retreat.
8) Interference
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Semiosis duology volume 2
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318 pages ; 25 cm
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"Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known."--Provided by publisher.
17) Dragonsdawn
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The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists-a return to an agrarian way of life-until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Lethal spores began to fall like silvery thread-like rain from the sky, vaporizing everything-and everyone-in their path. The colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed. The colonists noticed that small, dragon-like lizards in their new world were joining the...
20) XO, Exoplanet
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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When Jupiter notices a planet circling a far star, he enlists the other planets in our solar system to send a letter, but soon there is a disagreement on which, exactly, is the exoplanet.
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