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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.
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And Another Thing...
by Eoin Colfer
An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . . Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , has not been entirely without incident. Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly... (more)
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Spore Galactic Adventures: Prima Official Game Guide
by David Knight
Prima's guide to Spore Galactic Adventures covers everything you need to know to get the most out of the Space Stage and the new Spore Galactic Adventures expansion. The Adventure Creator is covered at length, including a tutorial offering step-by-step instructions on how to create an adventure from scratch. Plus a bonus section filled with tons of useful data covering all the Space Stage's badges, tools, and... (more)
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Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries: The Visual Dictionary of the Universe
by DK Publishing
Come explore the universe from the inside out. This visual dictionary examines the planets, the stars, and the mysteries of space.
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Third From the Sun
by Richard Matheson
These extraordinary, hair-raising science fiction stories make you believe that you are there! Meet Loolie from Venus -- she ads in mags for mates with like fixtures! Move with the time traveler to a civilization where dirty postcards are pictures of -- food! Ride on the last space ship leaving -- for earth! Fall in love with Lover -- she wants to wrap her warm, pink mind around yours! Live dangerously and... (more)
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Galaxy : Exploring the Milky Way
by Stuart Clark
Fall River Press: Over two hundred and fifty thousand trillion miles away, amid the bright star clouds of Sagittarius, lies the point about which the Milky Ways 200 billion stars all revolve. Such distances, such numbers, such a view defy the imagination. Yet the incredible advances of modern science have built a compelling portrait of our cosmic habitat and armed with this hard-won knowledge, we can now... (more)
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Star Wars: Clone Wars (YA): Book 1
Legacy of the Jedi
by Jude Watson
4 Masters. 4 Apprentices. Yoda and Dooku. Dooku and Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan (the focus of the best-selling Jedi Apprentice series). Obi-Wan and Anakin (featured in the best-selling Jedi Quest series). One enemy. A Jedi student with a dark streak at the beginning of the book, he becomes a powerful -- and potentially dangerous -- planetary leader whose help Obi-Wan and Anakin will need in the Clone Wars. (more)
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Shoal Sequence: Book 2
Nova War
by Gary Gibson
In Stealing Light, Dakota discovered the Shoal's dark and dangerous secret, now she works towards stopping not only the spread of this knowledge, but also the onset of the Nova war. Found adrift near a Bandati colony world far away from Consortium space, Dakota and Corso find themselves prisoners of the Bandati. It becomes rapidly clear to them, that the humanity's limited knowledge of the rest of the galaxy -... (more)
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The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System Media Update (5th Edition)
by Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit
Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System Media Update , Fifth Edition includes Voyager: SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook on CD-ROM at no extra charge, and an enhanced MasteringAstronomy ™ online tutorial and assessment system. This edition’s expanded visual pedagogy features new Cosmic Context... (more)
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The Hidden Reality
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos: his most thrilling and accessible book to date—a state-of-the-art tour of the cutting-edge science that is changing the way we see our world. In recent years, a growing body of work—based on the principles of quantum mechanics, cosmology, and string theory—has been steadily converging around a proposal that our universe is... (more)
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The Black Hole Experiments: An astounding 21st century sci-fi classic!
by Victor Bertolaccini
An incredible potential blockbuster, with two amazing sci-fi/horror adventures, with voyages beyond the boundaries of space and time! At the end of the twenty-first century, scientists, with the United Nations Space Agency, operating expeditions to unexplored territories on Mars, stumble on a mysterious metallic sphere, with a pulsating vibration. At first they assume that it is the remains of a... (more)
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13 Above the Night
by Groff Conklin
Can music replace sex?It not only can, but does -- in a wild and way-out tale of reverse togetherness called "Mating Call" by Frank Herbert.Can a nice girl have multiple mates?The more the merrier, in a love drama of tomorrow about a "Nice Girl with Five Husbands" by Fritz Leiber.Can a game of death be played for kicks?Not on your life. Especially when it doesn't matter if you... (more)
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The Phantom Menace
by Terry Brooks, George Lucas
In barren desert lands and seedy spaceports . . . in vast underwater cities and in the blackest depths of space . . . unfolds a tale of good and evil, of myth and magic, of innocence and power. Based on the screenplay by George Lucas, this novel by master storyteller Terry Brooks probes the depths of one of the greatest tales of our time, providing rich detail and insight into the minds and motives of the... (more)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless
by Douglas Adams
At last in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchiker series. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide . Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space. The Restaurant at... (more)
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Hubble Revisited: New Images From the Discovery Machine
by Daniel Fischer
Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope continues to dazzle us. In recent months it has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics. What is the age of the Universe? How are stars born? Are extrasolar planets similar to those in our galaxy? In Hubble Revisited: New Images from the Discovery Machine, the authors of the... (more)
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Tanglewreck
by Jeanette Winterson
Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and... (more)
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Federation
by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens
At last! The long awaited novel featuring both famous crews of the Starship Enterprise in an epic adventure that spans time and space. Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging mission yet--rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy. Meanwhile, ninety-nine years in the future on the ... (more)
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Other Worlds: The Solar System And Beyond
by James S. Trefil
Outstanding imagery, stunningly presented. Perceptive text from award-winning science writer James Trefil. A foreword by David H. Levy, discoverer of 21 comets. Put them all together and you get Other Worlds: Images of the Cosmos from Earth and Space. Bonnie Gordon, editor of Astronomy magazine, calls this "a gorgeously produced book about our solar system, the larger universe, and our place in both....Few... (more)
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Merlin's Tour of the Universe
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Through the fictional persona of Merlin, a visitor from another galaxy, an astrophysicist answers the most commonly asked questions about the universe and illuminates the ideas of the most important astronomers and scientists of the past. Reprint. Tour."
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MoonBall
by Jane Yolen
Strike Three! Danny can't ever hit the ball. Once, just once, he'd like to swing his bat and connect. Then, one night, Danny finds himself floating out his window to play baseball with the All-Stars -- Orion, Dipper, the Gemini twins, Rigel, and the rest. Their opponents -- the Orbits -- are truly intimidating, especially the mean pitcher Moon. Danny?s afraid he'll strike out again. But maybe an... (more)

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