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A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons, including grokking, watersharing, and love. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 60,000 words cut. Here at last,...
2) Dune
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
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The fantastic foursome encounters paraniod androids, existential elevators, improbability drives, and kill-o-zap blasters on an interstellar romp that takes them from a thirty-megaton rock concert on Kakrafoon to Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the Universe, where the main dish of the day introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday. How will it all end? Will they discover the origin of the bathtub? Will they find the significance of gin...
4) Earth
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Describes the surface features, interior, atmosphere, magnetic field, and single satellite of the earth.
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
6) Mercury
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Discusses the orbit, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mercury.
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Vascillating between two realities--one in which Earth exists and one in which it has been destroyed by the Vogons--bizarre adventures arise for Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, including Ford's discovery that the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" headquarters have been overtaken, and Arthur's discovery that he has a teenage daughter.
8) The sun
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Discusses the rotation, interior, surface features, atmosphere, and exploration of the Sun, including solar wind and the Sun's place in the solar system.
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Galaxy Zack volume 4
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Zack is shocked to find a large, green, six-eyed creature sitting in his place at school one morning, but soon learns that he and the "monster" have a lot in common.
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Guardians of the galaxy films volume 1
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[2014]
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Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
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[2018]
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This title will cover how asteroids and meteoroids came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and what happens when they collide with planets, like Earth! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.--
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Sentinels of the galaxy volume 1
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2018.
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"'The answer is no, Lyra,' my mother utters her--I swear--phrase.No means I have to travel with them to another planet--again.No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein.Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can't truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It's all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible--with one big caveat:...
13) Venus
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Discusses the orbit, atmosphere, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Venus.
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Guardians of the galaxy films volume 2
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[2017]
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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.
15) Jupiter
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Describes the planet Jupiter and its surface features, atmosphere, rotation and orbit, moons, and more.
16) Comets
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[2018]
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This title will cover how comets came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and why we can sometimes see them as beautiful bright streaks in the sky! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.--
17) Mars
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1998, 2000
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Discusses the surface features, atmosphere, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mars.
18) The Moon
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[2018]
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This title will cover how scientists think our moon came to be, what it looks like, its size, its orbit and phases, and how it interacts with Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.--
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This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with the words...
20) Saturn
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Discusses the orbit, atmosphere, rings, moons, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Saturn.