Jack McDevitt
1) Coming home
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English
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Garnett Baylee devoted his life to trying, and failing, to find artifacts of the early space age. In the wake of his death, one was discovered in his home, raising tantalizing questions: Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache?
2) Starhawk
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English
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Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins takes a job on an interstellar starship, working for a corporation that is colonizing two planets and killing off native life forms, sparking outrage from people on Earth who fill her work day with bomb threats and sabotage.
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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs, and jewelery are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend too, a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
4) Firebird
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.
5) Echo
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2010.
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English
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After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
6) Omega
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English
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A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system—and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world—without revealing their existence.
7) Thunderbird
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English
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The Nebula Award-winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic. A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden ; (2)...
8) Octavia gone
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Alex Benedict novels volume 8
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English
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"After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead--just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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339 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history.
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[2018]
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451 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
14) The devil's eye
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2008.
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359 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her life, or of her plea for assistance. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex uncovers a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval.
15) Ancient shores
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[1996]
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397 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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[2015]
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xii, 353 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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"From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular...artificial. It can only be a code. Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scientists discover is destined to shake the foundations of empires around the world--from Wall Street to the Vatican."--
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COPS evaluation brief volume no. 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
x, 94 pages : digital, PDF file.
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English
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COPS evaluation brief volume no. 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 70 pages) : color illustrations.
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English