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Space runners volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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After Benny Love and the Moon Platoon work with a small group of Alpha Maraudi aliens to steal a superweapon that could save Calam, the aliens' home planet, an Alpha Maraudi ship is given orders to fire on Earth and Benny and the platoon need to stop them before they destroy humanity.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Little Sofia befriends the Moon and sets off on a dreamy adventure to visit her friend. She sees our planet from the Moon's point of view and is inspired to do whatever she can to protect our Earth. When she wakes, Sofia encourages others to do the same"--
45) The dark side
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
"In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon." --
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Nicholas St. North, a daredevil swordsman seeking treasure in the fiercely guarded village of Santoff Claussen finds, instead, the great wizard Ombric Shalazar and a battle against the Nightmare King and his evil Fearlings--a battle Nicholas can win only if he finds five other Guardians in time.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 nearly gets killed doing it"--
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Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, and in the shadow of a mysterious legend, one woman digs deep into her own past to find a family and a future that she never could have imagined without leaving home. "Light of the Moon" Boarding a trascontinental flight on the evening of her birthday, Susannah Connolly has decided to give herself a long-deferred gift and take a break from the demands of her everyday...
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
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Overview: Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered...
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"When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Smurfs, a clan of small, lovable blue creatures with big personalities, go on a long trip to see the Blue Moon with Papa Smurf leading the way, but they find plenty of fun doing lots of other things as they hike, even if it means they don't get to where they are going quite as fast, in a picture book that introduces the Smurfs to a new generation of readers.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
Sicily, April 16 1677. From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, Anielo de Guzm�an y Carafa, marquis of Castle Rodrigo, names his wife, Do�na Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora de Moura is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail.The Marquise implements measures that include lowering the...
58) Fae and the moon
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
"Fae, in mourning for her missing mother, sits night after night below the Moon that her mother so loved. Then one night she discovers she can pluck the Moon out of the star-filled sky! Back safe in her house, she holds it close, feeling comfort at last. But Fae loses the Moon, and finds that taking it has awakened ancient monsters--rats, dragons, and more, who hunt it for themselves. Will Fae be able to reclaim the Moon, find her own inner strength,...
59) Palmetto moon
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found... Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn't see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing--she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn't want, she's left with no choice but to run away from the...
60) Pack up the moon
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"Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future- a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never...
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