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2) Binti
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
3) The effort
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When dark comet UD3 was spotted near Jupiter's orbit, its existence was largely ignored. Benjamin Schwartz, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies knew the threat this eight-kilometer comet posed to the survival of the human race. Ben and his girlfriend Amy Kowalski fly to South America to assemble an international counteraction team. On board a polar icebreaker Jack Campbell, a photographer for National Geographic, works to capture...
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"A tense and thrilling sci-fi adventure of space exploration and first contact, perfect for fans of The Martian, Arrival, and Interstellar. Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she now lives in semiretirement, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate...
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Vol. Two continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan-favorite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes' aid as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand.
10) Blast off
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When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.
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" From the first time a person looked up at the sky and wondered 'What's out there?" humans have dreamed about exploring the cosmos. From human missions to outer space and our exploration of Mars to the observation of mysterious UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), scientific advances over the past 60 years have made it possible to find some answers. About 60 years ago, the first manned spacecraft left Earth's atmosphere for the first time. In the...
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After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals. Michael Burnham grapples with her past growing up on Vulcan with her foster parents and brother Spock.
13) Rescue rebellion
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Geronimo Stiltonix and his crew head to the planet Jurassix to warn its inhabitants of a giant comet heading straight toward them, but the creatures there turn out to be ferocious, dinosaur-like beasts, who like to eat rodents. Can the spacemice save these aliens and still make it out alive?
14) Headlong flight
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While exploring the dangerous, uncharted Odyssean Pass, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the starship Enterprise land on a rogue planet that traps them in an endless succession of random jumps between dimensions.
16) Interstellar
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With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
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"Luciana Vega wants to be the first kid on Mars. But first she's got to be a good team player here on Earth."--Page [4] of cover.
In her second novel, Luciana is off to youth astronaut training camp! She hopes to be chosen to dive to an underwater habitat where real astronauts train for life in space. But when Luci accuses her diving partner of sabotage, no one believes her and her chances of making the diving team sink fast. Things hit rock bottom...
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"Hip-hop. Sci-fi. Kung-fu. Thirteen-year-old Wax's life may not be perfect, but that doesnt stop him from spinning some of the sickest beats on their Brooklyn block...but he's a better DJ than he thinks. One night, while making a mixtape for his crush, Wax scratches the perfect beat and responds to an intersteller challenge that transports him and the entire block to the robot-filled planet of Discopia. Mistaken by the locals for a master of the futuristic...
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The Triceratons have destroyed Earth. Everyone is gone, including Master Splinter. But the Turtles were saved at the last minute by the Fugitoid. Now, they must travel back in time, and through outer space to find the three pieces of the Black Hole Generator used by the Triceratons in order to save the world!
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"Journey to a Hulk Planet! Thoroughly shaken by his battle with Thor - and by Titan's impact on his friends - Bruce Banner finds what should be the ultimate paradise: an entire planet of Hulk-like creatures thriving under the heat of a gamma star. But even at the center of a civilization that worships him, Bruce can't shake thoughts of the past - and he should know by now that he can never find peace for long. For Titan, the darkest part of the Hulk,...
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