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21) The last colony
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Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds,
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Baen
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English
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"Number nine in the national best selling RCN space adventure series. Captain Daniel Leary with his friend-and spy-Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending them off on a wild goose chase to a sector where commerce is king and business is carried out by extortion and gunfights. With anarchy and rebellion...
23) Calamity
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Uncharted hearts volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her...
24) AT-AT attack!
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebels face off against the Empire's dreaded mechanical AT-ATs on the ice planet of Hoth.
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"Accompanied by his squad of clone troopers and a hulking swoop biker named Gizz, masterless Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama begins a routine protection detail that soon evolves to include a mystery massacre, the hijacking of a space freighter, and the kidnapping of orphaned younglings."--Provided by publisher.
26) Tiamat's wrath
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The Expanse volume 08
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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While Elvi Okoye weighs the consequences of uncovering the truth about weapons tied to an ancient genocide, Teresa Duarte navigates secrets and dangerous intrigues to fulfill her father's godlike ambition.
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2022.
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English
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"Daring pilots chart new routes through hyperspace, while Pathfinder teams make contact with frontier worlds to invite them to join the Republic. When a Pathfinder team's communications droid is found drifting in space, damaged and bearing a cryptic message, Jedi Knight Silandra Sho and her Padawan, Rooper Nitani, are sent to find the missing team members. Their investigation leads them to the planet Gloam, a ravaged world said to be haunted by mythical...
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Everyman's library volume 329
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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In three classic works, a time traveler finds a strange new world in the year 802,700; a scientist attempts to fulfill his evil desires after becoming invisible; and an astronomer fights for survival after Martians invade Earth.
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Disney/Lucas Film Press
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"The reign of the Galactic Empire has reached the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Enrolling at the Imperial Academy together to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true for the both of them. But Thane sours on the dream when he sees firsthand the horrific tactics the Empire uses to maintain its ironclad rule. Bitter...
34) Heir to the Jedi
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Challenged by ruthless Imperial bodyguards, death-dealing enemy battleships, merciless bounty hunters, and monstrous brain-eating parasites, Luke Skywalker plunges head-on into a high-stakes espionage operation that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.
35) Earth unaware
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Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the mining ship El Cavador spots an object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
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Viz Media
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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On Planet Doom, there's a horrible species of dragon that hatches every hundred years. It's just about hatching time, and Maahox orders the Drule army to ship thousands of dragon eggs off to Planet Arus! Will the dragon dawn be too much for the Voltron Force?
39) Battle born
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When an alien alliance known as the Covenant lays siege to the planet Meridian, four high school students--Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor--are thrust into battle to save their world. With their village in flames, the four find themselves stuck above ground, locked out of the town shelter where the rest of the survivors are gathers. With nothing but a few scavenged weapons and an injured Spartan, one of the UNSC's super-soldiers, they must tilt the...
40) Between planets
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When war threatens to break out between Venus and Earth, a boy with citizenship on both planets, attending school on Earth but whose home is on Mars, finds himself in an awkward situation.