Alien Books

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING HILARY SWANK, EMMY ROSSUM AND JOSH DUHAMEL College student Bec is dangerously adrift. Self-conscious and increa

Now available together for the first time, don't miss the third and fourth books in Jennifer L. Armentrout's bestselling Lux series. "A thrilling ride from start to finish," says RT Book Reviews. No o

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 A USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 Title One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011 What if—whoosh,

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A REAL TOUR DE FORCE [AND] A BEAUTIFUL FABLE...THE READER IS SWEPT ALONG BY SLOAN'S ENTHUSIAM."—GEORGE SAUNDERS, BLIP MAGAZINE"A book about passion—for books, for history, for the future...There is nothing about Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore that I didn't love."—Cory DoctorowThe Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco Web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few and never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Clay concludes the store must be a front for something larger and engineers a complex analysis of the clientele's behavior with the help of his variously talented friends. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far b

The human underground may finally get the chance to defeat the brutal control of the alien Visitors when another alien race answers their call for help, but they must also decide if their new alien al

Alien Hunter: The White House is the electrifying third installment in Whitley Strieber's Alien Hunter seriesThe aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They l

In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To unders

A small-town bookseller in search of a rare Scottish text finds herself in epic danger in Paige Shelton’s Of Books and Bagpipes: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery.Always up for a literary adventure, Delaney

Beyond our modern horizons lie uncountable wars still to be fought by us, by machines, or perhaps even by intelligent alien species we can scarcely imagine.Horizon Wars is the new tabletop wargame tha

The alien Vril are waking, and the Never War is heating up. Colonel Brinkman and his team at Station Z desperately need answers - they have to discover exactly what they are facing and how the attack

It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers,The Autobiogra

Let the secret history of the world be told-of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of the survivors who found they now possessed superhuman powers. Some were calle

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his

From Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder. Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the

Twins and complete opposites, eighth graders Ryan and Taylor discover magical alien disks that allow them to become any character from the past and discover the challenges of being heroes and being th

A diplomatic disaster erupts after a reckless adventurer and media personality is murdered by Ilmatarans, a blind alien race that lives under the ice-covered sea, threatening a new age of human explor

"Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunning

Decades after an alien virus changed the course of history, the surviving population of Manhattan still struggles to understand the new world left in its wake. Natural humans share the rough city with

“A riveting story with characters so finely drawn that I wonder if Dan Krokos actually is an alien.”—Eoin Colfer, New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl seriesThe Planet Thieves is the

Now available together for the first time, don't miss the first two books in Jennifer L. Armentrout's bestselling Lux series. "A thrilling ride from start to finish," says RT Book Reviews.Starting ove

The journey into high adventure soars on!Let the secret history of the world be told—of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of survivors who found they now possess

On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce wi

J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series set in an alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world returns as the children forge deeper into the most dangerous lands in search of The Seve

Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens’ mysterious planEarth h

Collects the full tale of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, who believes that he is engaged in a computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's comp

A compilation of two books previously published in 2009 in which Parker Fadley, a senior at St. Peter's High, and Regina Afton, a senior at Hallowell High, each face emotional problems and a sudden lo

Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien inv

Two hundred and fifty years in the future, extinction threatens mankind. Tampering with dangerous technology from the Black Marker—an ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth eighty years earlier— E

In a future world dominated by a neural-link web where people can tune into live events and revolutions can be instantly sparked, an active alien communication device is discovered in orbit around the

After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book

Just a year into their mission, the crew of Galahad has endured a sabotage attempt, alien encounters, and a dangerous passage through an asteroid belt. Now, as unpredictable waves of radiation threate

An original science fiction manga by the bestselling author of Ender’s Game and his daughterTwenty-five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth. They gave the human race the greatest technology ever

With the help of the mysterious alien force known as the Cassini, the teenage crew of Galahad has managed to navigate safely through the minefield of the Kuiper Belt. But just as they exit the Belt, t

Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a m

In the year 3003, Frek Huggins is warned by the alien inhabitant of the Anvil that he is destined to save the world, a role that makes him the target of Gov, absolute ruler of Earth, and forces him an

At Sector General, anything can happen-and frequently does. In this vast hospital in the depths of space, the thousands of staff, human and alien both, have a single mission: to care for all patients,

Shane, a gifted linguist, has spent his life learning the language of the old and powerful alien race that has conquered Earth. He has learned it so well that the interstellar masters, old hands at en

Jonnie Goodboy Tyler ventures out of the tiny community of humans barely surviving in the Rocky Mountain refuge and finds himself challenging the Psychlos, the malignant and oppressive alien conqueror

The international bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world.Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans:Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiancé was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances - most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the Head of Fiction.Grace Perkins: Married with two sons, she's been working to support her family following her husband's breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams

In the tradition of evergreen books like Robert Cialdini's Influence and Kim Scott's Radical Candor, Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross's Talent offers strategies on how to spot, assess, woo, and retain hig