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1) Horizon
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When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
2) Liferaft
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The spires.
They've been looming in the distance the whole time, watching silently as the young survivors of the crash-landed Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of dangerous, unnatural landscapes.
After weeks of terror and heartbreak, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers to their ordeal... and perhaps a way home.
Here,...
3) Equinox
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The anticipated final chapter of the award-winning Horizon series is here!After a brutal civil war, Almagest is finally at peace, but the larger battle isn't over. Dr. Caeli Crys has been captured by the Drokarans, feared enemy of the Interplanetary Alliance, who plan to use her unique telepathic gifts for their own sinister purposes.Captain Derek Markham and his elite team of operatives race after Caeli, but soon find themselves trapped behind enemy...
4) Deadzone
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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen joins the race for survival! The survivors have made it out of the jungle, but they may be sorry they ever left when they stumble upon a whole new ecosystem, populated with entirely new threats. And the greatest threat of all may come from within. Because one of the kids is changing . . .
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Horizon volume 7
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Zhia Malen has delivered the first crippling blow to Earth. Now, Chicago braces for a super storm as she kicks off the next phase of her invasion. But the connection between her world and Earth runs deeper than she imagined, making this planet hostile to EVERY species in the galaxy.
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National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson takes the wheel of this thrilling chapter in the race for survival. The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deep-water basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive. New York Times bestselling...
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Horizon volume 13
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Zhia Malen thought she'd killed Kepler's top agent-Lincoln. But now he reemerges, ready for a second round with the alien invader. Meanwhile, on Valius, no one is to be trusted.
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Horizon volume 1
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Zhia Malen thought she'd fought her very last war, until she learned her planet was targeted for occupation by a desperate world called Earth. The people of Earth will be told that her arrival on our planet means invasion. These are lies. This is retaliation. Skybound's newest original series will show you that survival isn't just a human instinct.
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National Book Award winner Jude Watson joins the race for survival! The harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift. There are other kids, too... The sevenbook megaseries begun by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies) reaches a pivotal turning point as only New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jude Watson could deliver!...
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Not only was A. E. Filby, a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "the World's most traveled motorist", Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.
Horizon Fever is an honest, colorful, often shocking account;...
11) Colony High
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High school is hard enough. It gets a lot harder after the aliens show up.In the captivating YA science fiction novel "Colony High" by acclaimed author David Brin, the skeptical high school junior, Mark Bamford, finds himself caught up in a web of mystery and extraterrestrial intrigue. Living in the seemingly ordinary town of Twenty-Nine Palms, California, Mark dismisses the absurd rumor circulating among his classmates-an alien stranded in their...
12) Bank Run
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Mark Noland doesn't know how he always ends up in these situations. All he wants is a few quiet days on Rescon with his new boyfriend Gavnson. But he's just finished a job, and the rest of his team wants their pay.A simple trip to the bank shouldn't be much trouble, and then it's back to peace and quiet. What could possibly go wrong? The answer to this is apparently robbery, kidnapping, and a foot chase across town. A run to the bank takes on a whole...
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Even before Archibald Edmund Filby (Victoria Twead's roguish uncle) embarked on his famous African expeditions, he took advantage of a government-sponsored scheme to migrate to Australia. It was 1921 and his daredevil nature, soon had him performing reckless feats as, a buckjumper in a popular circus rodeo.
Whilst trekking through this vast continent, he embraced the opportunity to become a jockey, photographer, actor, pilot, car salesman, and pearl...
14) Horizon's Edge
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"Sometimes, when the chips are down, all you need is a wild card."
Star Team Seven has, lost more, than just their ship, they lost, their captain. Hammer has been, transported into the past during the most pivotal moment in Earth's history, the Gray War. What's worse, is that Hammer could very well change the course of history of left unchecked. Acting captain, Tivex and the remaining crew of Team Seven must now use the Horizon to go back in time,...
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Marcie Hugo and Drake Soldado are unusual travel companions united by similar goals. A teenage girl and a man in his thirties. One is returning home to honour a promise, the other needs to find his daughters, which he hasn't seen for over four years since they were taken from him and sold as slaves.Marcie has promised her best friend and childhood sweetheart that she'll return from Prime City with the lung transplant he so desperately needs. She plans...
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Bart lives in the pressure cooker that's the Black Hole; a neon-lit hell filled with prostitutes, pimps, and pushers. Muggings, murders, and mods are commonplace, and few earn enough credits to get by, let alone support a family.
He gives the best of himself to his dead-end job and despotic boss, yet still only earns enough credits to last five out of the seven days in a week. Each night, he returns exhausted to his dilapidated house to comfort his...
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What lies beyond the Event Horizon?Neil and Marie have just told the whole world that they have been using wormholes to travel through the universe, and that aliens exist. Soon after the news goes viral, a new threat emerges from space, and it's up to Marie to save the planet. Race Through Space: Event Horizon 2 is the next action-packed addition to the highly rated space adventure, The Race Through Space.
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Two hundred years ago, the great Ark Horizon Alpha escaped a doomed Earth and went searching for a new home. The passengers landed on Tau Ceti e expecting paradise, but instead, they discovered a planet stuck in its “own” version of the cretaceous period. The humans' one defense against the dinosaurs ravaging the planet is an electric fence, built from the remains of the shuttles that brought them there. But Eden base has only days of power left.
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Infinite Horizon volume 1
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Collects all six issues of INFINITE HORIZON plus bonus materials! The Eisner nominated series inspired by The Odyssey is finally completed and collected. The Soldier With No Name survived years of war only to be stranded halfway across the globe when the conflict ended. Getting home means going through the hell: Escaping shipwrecks, beating a vicious opponent wearing a cycloptic combat armor...and resisting the siren's call of a predatory society....
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Driven by unearthly visions, a convicted killer escapes from a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Days later a woman is ritualistically murdered in the grounds of a mysterious London church. When a Roman coin is discovered under the victim's skin, Vincent Blake - London's leading stolen-art investigator - is called in to assist the police with their investigations.A series of copycat murders, all carried out within the vicinity of connected London...
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