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1) The return
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After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to Earth to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner,...
2) Voyagers
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Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal that his research station is receiving from space is not random. Whatever it is, it's real.
And it's headed straight for Earth.
He'll do anything to be the first man to go out to confront this enigma. Even lose the only woman he's ever really loved.
And maybe start a world war.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....
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Multi-Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova continues the story of Earth's first extraterrestrial contact with Voyagers II: The Alien Within.
Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth-but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to...
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Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time, he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien himself, merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner's body.
The alien whose tomb that spacecraft was, brought humanity both a blessing and a deadly peril. The technology now the control of Vanguard Industries has changed...
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Keith Stoner has become merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lives inside his body. That technology in Stoner's bloodstream has the power to change mankind forever. And now, there are powerful and ruthless leaders who will stop at nothing to gain it.
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Voyagers (Random House) volume 1
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
8) Omega rising
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Random House
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"The Voyagers land on a planet made entirely of water where they must find the third element of the Source that will save the Earth"--
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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In this classic adventure novel, first published in 1873, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a?20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman and his manservant immediately set off.
11) Game of flames
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Random House
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[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Dash, Carly, Gabriel, and Piper visit a planet made up of molten lava and run entirely by robots where they must find the second element of the Source that will save the Earth.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels.
Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his trusted servant, Joe, and loyal friend, Dick Kennedy....
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Random House
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[2016]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"The Alpha and Omega teams are in a race for the six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy, but the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy, and the teams are running out of time"--
17) Colonyside
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Forced out of retirement by the government to find a CEO's missing daughter, disgraced recluse Carl Butler soon discovers that this isn't an open-and-shut case as attempts are made on his life, leading him to trust no one but himself.
18) Spaceside
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A military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge...Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he's a pariah. Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four where he's now Deputy VP of Corporate Security, protecting a high-tech military company on the corporate battlefield--at least, that's what the job...
20) Infinity riders
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Voyagers (Random House) volume 4
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A spaceship piloted by children travels to Planet Infinity where the youngsters must navigate underground tunnels in search of the fourth element of a power source needed to save Earth.