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Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 07
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. AN OLD ENEMY RETURNS In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter,...
8) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world recounts how she became a pawn in a dangerous interstellar confrontation during which she was forced to use her wits and make terrible sacrifices in order to save the human race.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Series
Ibero-Americana Pragensia. Supplementum volume 44
Publisher
Karolinum Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
16) Les colonies francaises: leur organisation, leur administration et leurs principaux actes organiques
Author
Publisher
Impr. nationale
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the colonization of Africa by European countries, from the early invasions of the Portugese and the Dutch, to the establishment of the slave trade, to the extensive holdings of the British Empire of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
19) Singularity sky
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Description
In a world transformed by the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence, the colony of New Republic, founded by people who wanted no part of the technological revolution, is threatened by an information plague of advanced technology.
20) Half a life
Author
Language
English
Description
The son of a man who, inspired by Ghandi, married below his caste, travels to New York where he struggles to find his identity and forge a career as a writer.