Katie Slivensky

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ambassador, you are go for launch in T- minus 5…4…3…2…. Get ready to blast off with this high-action, high-stakes middle grade adventure that’s perfect for fans of Chris Grabenstein and Peter Lerangis! Miranda Regent can’t believe she was just chosen as one of six kids from around the world to train for the first ever mission to Mars. But as soon as the official announcement is made, she begins receiving anonymous threatening messages…and when the training base is attacked, it looks like Miranda is the intended target. Now the entire mission—and everyone’s lives—are at risk. And Miranda may be the only one who can save them. The Martian meets The Goonies in this out-of-this-world middle grade debut where the stakes couldn’t be higher.

The Countdown Conspiracy

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

A Novel

Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.)

Ready Player One

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Andy Weir

Oregon

The Martian (Mass Market MTI)

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Only some very minor damages to corners and edges

Michigan

Dark Energy

Anthony Burgess

New Jersey

Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence, and includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition.

A Clockwork Orange

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Frank Herbert

Opposing forces struggle for control of the universe when the archenemy of the cosmic emperor is banished to a barren world where savages fight for water

Dune

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Kurt Vonnegut

Had gotten this at a discount book store for a college course read. Has a tear at the front cover, and some markings in the book that were previously there. Hoping another person will need this for their class or just as a good read

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties. “Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement.”—The Boston Globe

Slaughterhouse-Five

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John Vornholt

Star Trek 

Captain Picard and the Enterprise, disgraced in the eyes of Starfleet, find themselves trapped between two factions in an interplanetary civil war.

A Time to Be Born

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David Mack

On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise™ has never been told. UNTIL NOW. At the height of the Dominion War and unknown to all save those in the highest levels of command, the Federation secretly armed the neutral planet Tezwa with devastating weapons -- part of a contingency plan against the Dominion if the front lines collapsed. But Tezwa also lies near the border of the Klingon Empire...making the Federation's covert strategy in direct violation of their fragile peace treaties,and creating the potential threat of scandal and all-out war. Now Tezwa's power-hungry prime minister is all too eager to flex his newfound military muscle, menacing a nearby Klingon border world. Sent on an urgent diplomatic mission, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew are caught in the crossfire as the crisis quickly escalates. With time running out and billions of lives at stake, only one man can avert the looming disaster -- Ambassador Worf, who must choose between his oath to the Federation and his loyalty to Martok, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire....

A Star Trek: the Next Generation: Time #7: a Time to Kill

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Kevin Dilmore

Dayton Ward

In the fourth of the thrilling A Time to... series, the untold story of what compelled longtime and trusted members of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's crew to seemingly abandon the USS Enterprise on the cusp of an epic battle--perfect for longtime and new fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Still reeling from the disastrous events that have rocked all of Starfleet and tarnished the career of one of the Federation's most decorated captains, Jean-Luc Picard and his crew must now endure scandal, ostracism, and an uncertain future. But despite all that has occurred, none aboard the USS Enterprise have forgotten their duty as Starfleet officers.

Assigned to assist a small colony of refugees who maintain a precarious existence on a rapidly disintegrating asteroid, Picard's crew must somehow aid this alien race in terraforming a nearby planet into a new home for their kind. But violent acts of sabotage soon turn a humanitarian crisis into a deadly confrontation. To save the them from extinction, Picard must uncover the presence of an old adversary and prevent a catastrophic disaster.

Time #4: a Time to Harvest

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Robert Greenberger

Star Trek

Commander William Riker is reunited with his estranged father, Kyle Ryker, when he journeys to the remote planet Delta Sigma IV, a world populated by two alien species who have lived in harmony for generations.

A Time to Love

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With Captain Jean-Luc Picard's Starfleet command in ruins following the loss of the U.S.S. Juno with all hands, Acting Captain William Riker and the crew of the Enterprise brave the perils of an interstellar hot zone to uncover the truth about the event and search for a mythical menace that could have destroyed hundreds of powerful starships. Original.

A Time to Die

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Michael Jan Friedman

After the defeat of the Romulans and the creation of the Neutral Zone, the United Federation of Planets and its combined forces, Starfleet, are formed to keep the peace, but as the fledgling fleet begins to take shape, it faces a new challenge, an unknown alien race that is destroying the bases of the Oreias system. Original.

Starfleet Year One

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On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise(tm) has never been told.
UNTIL NOW.
A cataclysmic war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been miraculously averted, and a new government is finally in place on the planet Tezwa. But deadly secrets still threaten the fragile peace accord.
Rebels still loyal to the old Tezwa regime have captured Commander Riker and are willing to kill to achieve their goals...the Orion Syndicate is interfering in the rebuilding -- and may also be involved in much more than that. But the most devastating revelation of all threatens the very foundations of the Federation itself -- leaving Captain Picard to possibly face the very conflict that he labored so hard to prevent....

A Time to Heal

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Christopher L. Bennett

Star Trek Titan

As the USS Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew, are overwhelmed by an alien cry of distress which leads the crew to a scene of shocking carnage. The crew discover an uncharted region of space and face a complex ethical dilemma.

Orion's Hounds

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Geoffrey Thorne

Sword of Damocles

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On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told.
Until now.

More than two centuries ago, the Dokaalan sent an unmanned probe into the void, bearing a distress call for anyone who could save their doomed world. But the message reached Federation space too late to save the planet or its people.
Or so it was believed....
Generations later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E are stunned to discover the last of the Dokaalan -- now only a colony fighting to stay alive in a decrepit asteroid mining complex. Although their home planet was destroyed long ago, the survivors hope to someday transform a nearby planet into a new home for their people. But bitter divisions exist among the Dokaalan, sowing the seeds of sabotage and terrorism -- and placing Picard and the Enterprise in the middle of an escalating crisis that can only lead to total destruction!

A Star Trek: the Next Generation: Time #3: a Time to Sow

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Andy Mangels

Michael A. Martin

After the wholesale assassination of the Romulan senate in the feature film Star Trek: Nemesis, the Romulan Empire is in disarray, with rival factions fighting to pick up the pieces and seize the reins of power. After several factions separately contact the Federation Council - each laying claim to legitimate political power - Starfleet Command sends Captain William Riker and the USS Titan to Romulus to set up a forum for power-sharing talks. But even as the factions take their first faltering steps towards building a new Romulus, civil war looms. Meanwhile the remnants of the Romulan intelligence service, the dreaded Tal Shiar, are regrouping behind the scenes, taking advantage of the political vacuum to mobilize ships and soldiers, threatening to touch off a conflict that would tear Romulus apart. With no other help available, Riker and the Titan crew are all that stands between the shattered Star Empire and a bloodbath.

Taking Wing

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Keith R. A. DeCandido

Lost Era 2328-2346

The never-before-told story of the Betraka Nebula "Incident"--the 18-year cold war between the Klingon Empire and the Cardassian Union--is revealed as the Federation attempts a dangerous diplomatic solution. Original.

The Art of the Impossible

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As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, theEnterprise TM and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the planet Ssan, a world where assassination is a time-honored tradition, and McCoy is surprised to learn that his ex-wife, now remarried, is one of the mediators. And before he can come to terms with his conflicted feelings for his former love, she and Captain Kirk are trapped on Susan, and McCoy is caught in an explosive civil war, the only one with the power to save the woman who once nearly destroyed him.

Shadows on the Sun

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Jack Finney

Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to 1880s New York

Time and Again

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Lynsay Sands

An Argeneau Novel

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns in this latest chapter of the Argeneau series with an immortal who is having a bit of bad luck while trying to woo his life mate... Alasdair MacKenzie has never once considered himself unlucky in all the centuries he's been an immortal rogue enforcer. Not until he meets Sophie. Finding the beautiful, smart, and funny woman who is his life mate is great luck, actually. But meeting her at a wedding full of Argeneaus, not to mention his own busybody uncles determined to "help him claim his woman," is bad luck. And the fact that Sophie is someone else's date? Well that's just the next level of unlucky. From the way her gaze travels over his body like a caress to the electric zing whenever they innocently touch...he wants her for all eternity! He'll keep his hands off Sophie until her date is over. After that all bets are off and he'll pull out all the stops to win her. Great plan--until he gets hit by a car. And then he's poisoned. Is his luck that bad, or is someone out to stop this immortal from claiming Sophie as his life mate?

Bad Luck Vampire

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L. E. Modesitt

Professor Johan Eschbach's lovely wife, Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous vocalist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household.

Johan accompanies her, allowing him to work on the oil concession in Russian Alaska that Columbia so desperately needs and do some spying on the side. Johan's espionage is carried out against the backdrop of the famous white nights of St. Petersburg, the nearly Arctic midsummer when the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky seems to dissolve in ivory light. But even the oil shortage will fade to insignificance when Johan discovers what new weapons technology the Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary.

Set in a fascinating alternative world in which ghosts are real, the United States never came into existence and Russia is still ruled by the Romanovs, this sequel to Of Tangible Ghosts and The Ghost of the Revelator continues the adventures of semi-retired spy Dr. Johan Eschbach. His lovely wife Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous novelist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household. Johan accompanies her, allowing him to work on the oil concession in Russian Alaska that Columbia so desperately needs and do some spying on the side. Johan's espionage is carried out against the backdrop of the famous white nights of St. Petersburg, the nearly Arctic midsummer when the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky seems to dissolve in ivory light. But even the oil shortage will fade to insignificance when Johan discovers what new weapons technology the Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary. Working in the tradition of Gordon R. Dickson and Poul Anderson for hard-edged adventure with sophisticated social and political dimensions, Modesitt provides a unique blend of speculation and intrigue that brings the trilogy to a rousing end.

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Katie Slivensky

The Countdown Conspiracy

Ernest Cline

Ready Player One

Andy Weir

The Martian (Mass Market MTI)

Robison Wells

Dark Energy

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

Frank Herbert

Dune

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

John Vornholt

A Time to Be Born

David Mack

A Star Trek: the Next Generation: Time #7: a Time to Kill

Kevin Dilmore; Dayton Ward

Time #4: a Time to Harvest

Robert Greenberger

A Time to Love

John Vornholt

A Time to Die

Michael Jan Friedman

Starfleet Year One

David Mack

A Time to Heal

Christopher L. Bennett

Orion's Hounds

Geoffrey Thorne

Sword of Damocles

Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

A Star Trek: the Next Generation: Time #3: a Time to Sow

Andy Mangels; Michael A. Martin

Taking Wing

Keith R. A. DeCandido

The Art of the Impossible

Michael Jan Friedman

Shadows on the Sun

Jack Finney

Time and Again

Lynsay Sands

Bad Luck Vampire

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

L. E. Modesitt

Ghost of the White Nights