Science fiction

  • Brightness reef : Uplift storm trilogy, book 1

    Creator

    Brin, David

    Abstract

    Persecuted refugees from six separate alien races have migrated to the idyllic planet Jijo. And despite their incredible diversity, the inhabitants live together in blissful harmony. However, settlement on Jijo is illegal--and it's only a matter of time before the residents of this forbidden paradise are discovered by the galactic powers-that-be.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Great sky woman : Great sky woman, book 1

    Creator

    Barnes, Steven

    Abstract

    In prehistoric times, Mount Kilamanjaro is known as Great Sky Mountain to the peace-loving Ibandi people. One day, a boy named Frog Hopping on the Inner Boma clan witnesses a savage invasion by a neighboring clan in which many of his people are captured and enslaved. No he and T'Cori, a young woman training in the herbal arts, must scale Great Sky Mountain to consult with mighty Father Mountain--for it is ony he who can protect their future.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Steamed: a Steampunk romance

    Creator

    MacAlister, Katie

    Abstract

    When Captain Octavia Pye discovers people not wearing proper 19th-century fashions aboard her Victorian airship, she wonders if they're pirates. The reality is--they're actually from an alternate universe.

    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Among the hidden

    Creator

    Haddix, Margaret Peterson

    Abstract

    In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, Md.

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    New York, NY : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998

    Not specified
  • Wither : Chemical garden trilogy, book 1

    Creator

    DeStefano, Lauren

    Abstract

    After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Sidekicks

    Creator

    Ferraiolo, Jack D.

    Abstract

    Scott Hutchinson has an alternate identity as Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice. But with the help of his rival sidekick, Monkeywrench, Scott begins to question whether Phantom Justice is really a hero, which leads to a dangerous confrontation.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Carnival

    Creator

    Bear, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    Michelangelo Kisanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen, former abassador-spies, have been ordered to New Amazonia to bring back information about the planet's cheap, renewable energy source. But secretly, one of the men devises other plans.

    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Dust

    Creator

    Bear, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    After her wings are shorn in battle, the angel Perceval is held captive in an aging spaceship, served by her lost sister and servant girl Rien, and the two must escape together if they are to stop a war and save both of their houses.

    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • Counting heads : Counting heads, book 1

    Creator

    Marusek, David

    Abstract

    Life in the year 2134 is nearly perfect, with nanotechnology and medical science granting people near-immortality. But when Sam Harger is flagged as a terrorist, his powerful wife dies in a plane crash, and his daughter's cryogenically frozen head becomes a sought-after prize, Sam must fight to save the human race from a secret cabal.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified
  • The roar

    Creator

    Clayton, Emma

    Abstract

    In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

    Not specified