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A guide to our closest neighbor by Maggie AderinA comprehensive guide to the Earth's closest neighbor explores humanity's relationship with the moon, offering a brief history of moongazing, discussing the topography and composition, and examining how it has influenced culture throughout the years. |
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The long journey home from the moon by Buzz AldrinRecounts the astronaut's life and career, including his childhood, the landmark 1969 moon landing, and his battles with alcoholism and depression after his fame. |
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A common-sense guide to quantum physics that provides comprehensive explanations of such topics as black holes, antimatter and space exploration. |
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The Infinite Tides: A novel by Christian KieferAchieving the goal of a lifetime when he arrives aboard the International Space Station, astronaut and math genius Keith Corcoran is shattered to receive news that his wife has left him and that his 16-year-old daughter has died in a car accident, a situation from which he gradually recovers at the side of an unlikely friend.
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Mainspring by Jay LakeThe first installment of a series in which the planets are run by a sophisticated clockwork solar system that connects everyday people to the Creator. A young clockmaker's apprentice is appointed by the Archangel Gabriel to rewind the Earth's Mainspring to prevent a disaster.
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Frank - father, architect, murderer - is recruited for the mission to Mars with the promise of a better life, along with seven of his most notorious fellow inmates. But as his crew sets to work on the red wasteland of Mars, the accidents mount up, and Frank begins to suspect they might not be accidents at all.
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Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis GillOn the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
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lluminae by Amie KaufmanCaught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague.
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Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09 -- one of the last remaining illegal Metals -- has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana's desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers.
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The Raging Ones by Krista RitchieIn a freezing world where everyone knows the day they will die, three teens unexpectedly survive their death days and compete for a highly sought-after spot on a new mission to space in order to escape from the planet.
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Racing the Moon by Alan W. ArmstrongMeeting an army scientist in 1947 who is a descendant of Captain John Smith, 11-year-old Alexis and her impulsive brother, Chuck, build a rocket before a shared interest in space travel inspires a series of adventures including a sailing trip down the Potomac to an island on the Chesapeake where a top secret rocket launch is about to take place.
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A space discovery guide by Margaret J. GoldsteinLooks at the history of private space travel and how companies might put people in orbit and beyond in the future. |
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Astrotwins: Project Blastoff by Mark E. KellyA tale inspired by the shared childhoods of the astronaut author and his twin brother follows the adventures of Scott and Mark, who are sent to their strict grandfather's house, where they endeavor to build a rocket with new friends they meet.
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Go, Otto, Go! by David MilgrimMaking numerous friends since landing on Earth, a homesick Otto the alien robot misses his family and decides to work, work, work on a spaceship that will take him up, up, up into space so that he can visit his own planet.
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The Crimson Comet by Dean MorrisseyAn inquisitive child, in a homemade rocket ship, takes a magical journey, high up in the sky, to meet the Man-in-the-Moon, in this exciting bedtime adventure.
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