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A breakthrough into the twenty-first century, this novel and movie puts the man of today into the credible environment of tomorrow, when he has conquered the perils of interplanetary travel and is ready for what comes next. You are hurtling across the abyss of space on an expedition to unexplored planets. Your only companion is a fellow astronaut: The three hibernauts who lie in a deep-freeze sleep will not be awakened until their skills are needed....
85) Undying
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Unearthed volume 2
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"Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed"--
86) The funny ride
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"When her kite lifts her above the ground, a child takes a 'funny ride' as she views what is on the ground and in the air. Includes reading activities and a word list"--
87) Cat & canary
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A city cat who lives out his fantasy of being able to fly finds that staying on the ground isn't so bad after all.
88) Flying
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A boy's simple questions about why he cannot fly lead to an imaginative journey with his father.
89) Some dogs do
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When Sid tries to convince his doggy classmates that he flew to school, they do not believe him.
90) The wrong hands
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Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated when he saves a baby after a plane crash and meets a beautiful girl. Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair was born with huge, strange hands. He was also born with a secret. The only time he ever told someone his secret, it got him into big trouble. So he won't be telling anyone ever again--or so he thinks. In this suspenseful and magical...
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The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury - a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin - visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...
92) The fledgling
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Hall family chronicles volume 4
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Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose.
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From the bestselling author of DEFCON One comes an explosive techno-thriller.
While Congress debates the merits of continued funding for the stealth bomber, sinister forces have their own goals in mind. During a training exercise, a B-2 bomber disappears. When search efforts produce no evidence that the bomber crashed, the US Air Force has no choice but to acknowledge that one of its most secret and high-tech aircraft has been hijacked.
Recovery...
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Earth's Alliance forces have emerged victorious from a brutal nine-year war with the Kastazi, a vicious, highly advanced alien race. In the dawn of a new peace, the Alliance Devastation Class starship California embarks on a mission of science and learning with a skeleton crew of seasoned officers, civilian students, and inexperienced military cadets. For cadets JD Marshall and Viv Nixon, the mission offers an opportunity to prove themselves and begin...
98) The return
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The Return is a tale about the kind of space adventure that could happen today--and that will happen tomorrow. As told by Buzz Aldrin, who's been there...and who's already helped change the world.
Former astronaut Scott Blackstone's dream of opening outer space to visits from everyday people is under attack. His pilot program has been marred by a fatal accident, he's out of a job, and he's being sued for a billions dollars. And it's beginning to...
99) Dark star rising
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Blackwood and Virtue volume 1
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The misfit crew of HMSS Daring are on a covert mission to dismantle a sprawling pirate network threatening the empire. Exuberant after scoring a major victory against enemy pirates, the star sailing ship HMSS Daring eagerly embarks on its new mission. Until the pirate network is dismantled and its mysterious leader Dark Star brought to justice, the safety of the empire remains in jeopardy. Supported by the ship's misfit crew, Subcommander Liam Blackwood...
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February 1975, Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar modules, has successfully landed. Exhilarated & confident, Commander Gary Lucas & Pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression in the surface of the lunar South Pole. Trouble begins there in the icy darkness, where temperatures reach 334 degrees below zero.