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Author
Series
SF masterworks volume 72
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
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...
2) Night fall
Author
Series
John Corey mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married -- but not to each other -- --make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure... and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 victims on board, the terrible blast illuminating the sky. The government's verdict is mechanical failure. But the videotape may tell another story -- if it can be found. Now, on the fifth anniversary...
4) Airplane!
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Description
High up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching the happenings of Earth below, from dinosaurs roaming to planes taking flight, hoping for a visitor, until one day in 1969 when a spaceship soars from Earth. Includes Earth timeline and a history of space exploration.
6) Dead silence
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-- made obsolete-- when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate....
Author
Series
Lady Astronaut novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes inhabitable."_-Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 41
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Roberta Anderson, while searching for firewood in the forest, stumbles upon a burried ship and with the help of her onetime lover, Jim Gardener, excavates an artifact that changes the townspeople of Haven.
10) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
11) Jackie Brown
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, on board the Odyssey, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy. The International Oversight Committee has their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of soldiers, scientists, and civilians fleeing an attack find themselves stranded billions of miles from Earth on an ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. Through the danger and adventures, some will become heroes, some will become villains, and some won't make it out at all.
14) Galactica 1980
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Find out what happens when the original Battlestar Galactica finds Earth, and how they post scouts to help the planet gain the technology to battle the Cylons, who are bent on destroying Earth. Includes all 10 episodes.
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories, and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies. Facing friends and enemies both new and familiar, their adventures will unfold in surprising...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government's definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point--a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Young farm boy Luke Skywalker is thrust into a galaxy of adventure when he intercepts a distress call from the captive Princess Leia. The event launches him on a daring mission to rescue her from the clutches of Darth Vader and the Evil Empire. Join their mission in breathtaking 4K Ultra HD!
18) The 60's
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From the glamorous years of the Kennedy administration to the triumph of the first moonwalk, viewers are escorted through the period's world-changing events, including the Cuban missile crisis; the civil rights movement; the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.; urban riots; the Vietnam War; and the peace movement it fostered.