"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...

"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...

"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,...

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.

"A biographical novel in verse of three different girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists"--

"An absurdist nested fable about a fictional encounter between the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and a reclusive astronomer, who, though certainly blind and possibly crazy, has predicted an imminent eclipse"--Provided by publisher.

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.