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  The Host

  by Stephenie Meyer

  The earth has been invaded by an alien species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact so that most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, and the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former... (more)
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  Lorien Legacies: Book 1

  I Am Number Four

  by Pittacus Lore

  Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We feel like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.....Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight... (more)
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  Chaos Walking: Book 3

  Monsters of Men

  by Patrick Ness

  "War," says the Mayor. "At last." Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the... (more)
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  Daniel X: Book 1

  The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

  by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

  The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells--the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel X has that power. Daniel's secret abilities -- like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses--have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien... (more)
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  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  The science fiction classic that proposed the possibility of intelligent life on other planets — written over 100 years ago, this compelling tale describes the Martian invasion of Earth and man's struggle to survive.
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  Chaos Walking: Book 2

  The Ask and the Answer

  by Patrick Ness

  Part two of the Chaos Walking literary sci-fi thriller follows a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard and secrets are never safe. Reaching the end of their tense and desperate flight in THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO, Todd and Viola did not find healing and hope in Haven. They found instead their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, waiting to welcome them to New Prentisstown. There... (more)
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  Sphere

  by Michael Crichton

  In the middle of the South Pacific, 1,000 feet below the surface, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a craft of phenomenal dimensions, it seems undamaged by its fall from the sky, and it appears to be at least three hundred years old. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies imaginations and mocks their... (more)
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  Daniel X: Book 2

  Watch the Skies

  by James Patterson, Ned Rust

  All's quiet in the small town of Holliswood; the television sets a-glow in every home. But not all is as perfect as it seems. A terrifying outlaw has just arrived in town, with the goal of throwing it into chaos--and filming the pandemonium for the fellas back home. Only one person can stop him and his thugs from destroying the city and everyone living there. Daniel X assembles an all-star team of his own... (more)
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  Hungry

  by Alethea Eason

  Deborah is starting to notice things about her best friend, Willy—like how cute he looks in his Halloween costume and the adorable way his red hair curls just above his collar. He's the coolest boy in sixth grade, and the closest friend she's got . . . that is, until her alien parents tell her she has to eat him for dinner. After all, she's an alien, too—even if she and her family do live in disguise. Should... (more)
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  Contact

  by Carl Sagan

  In December 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who — or what — is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future — and our own.
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  Roadside Picnic

  by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

  Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits compelled to venture illegally into the Zone and collect the strange artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered there. His whole life, even the nature of his daughter, is determined by the Zone.
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  The Andromeda Strain

  by Michael Crichton

  The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outerfringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of... (more)
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  Starfire Angels: Book 1

  Starfire Angels

  by Melanie Nilles

  They've been coming here for thousands of years, using Earth as a sanctuary to escape threats from their own kind. Mankind knows them as angels, and one of them left a child upon her death to be raised as a human. Raea is now a high school senior, and her life as a human is about to end. The crystal shard she bears is not a pretty pendant; it's a collective of powerful entities who chose her as their Keeper, a... (more)
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  Immortals After Dark: Book 8

  Deep Kiss of Winter

  Untouchable / Tempt Me Eternally

  by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter

  Under the cover of wintry dark shadows, passion's magic ignites a fire too hot to touch -- and too wicked to die....DEEP KISS OF WINTERTwo never-before-published paranormal stories to delight the senses and tantalize the imagination!#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORKRESLEY COLEdelivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the... (more)
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  Larklight: Book 1

  Larklight

  A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space

  by Philip Reeve

  Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the... (more)
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  The Only Alien on the Planet

  by Kristen D. Randle

  Drawn to the reclusive Smitty after moving to a new school, Ginny tries to understand his quiet pain and soon realizes that she has fallen in love with him, a situation that helps Smitty to emerge from his unhappy world. Reprint. AB. SLJ.
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  Daniel X: Book 3

  Demons and Druids

  by James Patterson

  Since his parents' tragic murder when he was just three years old, Daniel X has been forced to fend for himself. But he has a unique ability that has helped him along the way--the secret power to create objects out of thin air. Now, twelve years after that fateful day, Daniel finds himself one step closer to bringing his parents' brutal killer to justice. Following his father's list of deadly assassins to find the... (more)
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  The Midnight Breed: Book 2

  Kiss of Crimson

  by Lara Adrian

  He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all, but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess is plunged into his world—a shifting, shadowed place where... (more)
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  The Doomsday Conspiracy

  by Sidney Sheldon

  Handpicked by the NSA to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the recent crash of a weather balloon, Robert Bellamy searches for clues in Rome, Budapest, and Texas. Reprint.
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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  The first of six books in this "trilogy" which is adapted from Adams' radio series with the same name.