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The Magic School Bus Spins A Web: A Book About Spiders by Tracey West, Joanna Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTransported inside a sci-fi movie about giant bugs, Ms... -
Road to Redemption by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBook 4 in the Zombie Road saga. The world is recovering from a near extinction level event. Fortified enclaves and barricaded towns have managed to survive the long winter. Spring brings new hope and new beginnings. One boy, thrust too quickly into manhood, is learning to find his way in the new wastelands... -
The Gate that Locks the Tree by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Minor Melant’i Play for Snow SeasonA cat may look at a tree This is especially true when the winds of change blow through the universe, leaving eddies of luck, uncertainty, and necessity in the strangest places – and surely Surebleak qualifies as a strange place, as Korval’s Tree qualifies as a strange attractor... -
Frontier Defiant by Leonie Rogers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe new-found alliance of Starlyne and human has fought back, but the Garsal invaders are relentless in their desire to conquer Frontier. Once again, Shanna, her fellow cadets, and their starcats find themselves on the front-line... -
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Pirate Spacecat Attack by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe on board computer on spaceship MouseStar 1, Hologramix, is out of order! To fix it, Geronimo Stiltonix must take it to a brilliant inventor who lives on a distant planet... -
The Book of Riley 5 by Mark Tufo, Sean Runnette
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAfter being separated from her pack and left for dead, Riley, a fearless American bulldog, teams up with an unexpected ally on her quest to find the final path home. Together they face the harshness of the wilderness, the rage of the "deaders", and the murderous intent of the "two-leggers". Sometimes, man is far from a dog's best friend... -
The Book of Riley 4 by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen the zombie apocalypse strikes without warning one dog will hold the fate of her pack in her paws. This is the story of Riley, an American Bulldog, follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's younger brother Zachary and Riley's arch-enemy Patches the Cat... -
Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war... -
Leonard (My Life as a Cat) by Carlie Sorosiak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wise, funny and moving story of what it means to find a family, from the best-selling author of I, Cosmo.Leonard has never had a name. Or a body. Or a best friend. But he is excited to try being a human.On their three-hundredth-birthday, every alien from Leonard’s home galaxy gets to spend a month in the body of an Earth Creature... -
Frontier Resistance by Leonie Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe much awaited sequel to Frontier Incursion.The Garsal have landed, the world has changed, and Shanna has gifts that might save everyone. With her starcats by her side and her friends around her, she must try to master her gifts and seek out the alien invaders before they enslave her world... -
Frontier Incursion by Leonie Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Shanna, joining the Scout Corps had been a dream come true. The Scouts were charged with expanding their knowledge of Frontier, a hostile planet their ancestors had crashlanded on 300 years before... -
Adventures on RV Traveler by Craig Martelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Cat and his human minions fight to bring peace to humanity. For readers from 13 to 65, find compelling characters engaged in an adventure of search, conflict, and discovery...Categorized as:
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Strangled in Soho by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes life can feel a bit suffocating... When a woman is found strangled in the London borough of Soho, the police think it's an accidental death, but Violet Despuis knows better, and Cassie knows that if Violet thinks it's murder, it's murder. The two women find themselves needing to prove not only who committed the crime, but also that a crime was committed at all... -
Jurassic World Special Edition Junior Novelization (Jurassic World) by David Lewman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJurassic World is the long-awaited next installment of the groundbreaking Jurassic Park series. T... -
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Super Rooster Saves the Day by Maureen Wright, Rob McClurkan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRalph the rooster has big dreams of becoming a superhero. But the other farm animals aren’t so sure—except for Rosie the pig, that is. She’s Ralph’s best friend, and she believes in him. As Ralph and Rosie hang around the farm, there are just no opportunities to be a superhero and save the day...until the farmer turns on the radio, and the “Chicken Dance” song starts playing... -
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories by Naomi Kritzer
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAcclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are now collected in Cat Pictures and Other Stories. Here are seventeen short stories, including her Hugo Award-winning story "Cat Pictures Please," which is about what would happen if artificial intelligence was born out of our search engine history. Two stories are previously unpublished... -
Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsHonest space trader Haviland Tuf, the owner of the last seedship of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps, comes to the aid of an emperiled colony struggling to cope with a variety of hostile monsters, an obsessed populace, and a dictator who unleashes plagues to get his own way... -
The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution by Dougal Dixon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution, 1988, by Dougal Dixon and with a forward by Desmond Morris. Illustrated hardcover book with dust jacket, 120 pages, published by Salem House Publishing... -
Whose Moon Is That? by Kim Krans
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us "own" nature? When a curious cat asks the question, "Whose moon is that?," a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their reasons, but the moon ultimately answers for herself -- her light is meant to be shared by everyone... -
Beast Master's Ark by Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first new exciting Beast Master adventure in decades!Danger on ArzorBeast Master Hosteen Storm has endured great perils to carve out a life for himself on Arzor, the colony planet he's called home since the destruction of Earth by the alien Xik... -
Abominable by Alan Nayes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mysterious unidentifiable object is discovered buried deep in an isolated glacier in Alaska’s rugged Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is composed of materials unknown to science and the mystery only deepens when the large unidentified object is determined to be twenty-eight thousand years old. Who left it there so many thousands of years ago? Why? Dr... -
Wed to the Lynx by Cara Wylde
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'll do anything to make her believe in us.I can't survive another mating season without a mate. For a Lynx as old as I am, I should've been mated years ago, but I haven't had the luck to find my one and only in my community. Lynxes mate for life. I know she's out there, and if she's not of my species, then she must be human... -
Jurassic Park III (Junior Novelization) by Scott Ciencin
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAction-packed prose will thrill young readers in this exciting adaptation of the third Jurassic Park movie, written by a noted fantasy author who has become an expert in creating scientifically accurate dinosaur fiction for children... -
Chanur's Legacy by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNational best-selling author C.J. Cherryh continues her highly acclaimed series with a new generation of alien encounters.A game of interstellar politics in which Hilfy Chanur and her vessel Legacy are commissioned to transport a small, mysterious religious object. The price is extremely generous, perhaps too generous.Praise for the Chanur series: A tour de force...quintessential SF... -
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Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . .Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him . . . .The taMings. A cyber-augmented, DNA-incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer's target... -
The Kif Strike Back by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of The Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat, and human... -
Chanur's Venture by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and gained the Chanur clan the enmity of half a dozen races as well as their own. But Tully is back, bringing with him a priceless trade contract with human space. A contract which would mean vast power, riches, and a new hornet's nest for Pyanfar and the Pride... -
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Sing Along with Iza and Friends and Read Along with Page-Tur) by Iza Trapani
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe spirited and irresistible itsy bitsy spider has captured the hearts of generations of children by climbing up that water spout... -
Changer of Worlds by David Weber, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONORLady Dame Honor Harrington—starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess—has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest . . -
Engine Summer by John Crowley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn into the community of Truthful Speakers one thousand years after the Storm, he was raised on stories of the old days -- a world filled with saints, a world in which all things were possible, a world which finally destroyed itself. In love with a beautiful woman, Rush journeys far and learns much. Taken into the society of Dr... -
It's Only Stanley by Jon Agee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFans of Jon Klassen and Oliver Jeffers will love this mischievously funny read-aloud from award-winning author/illustrator Jon AgeeMysterious noises keep waking up the Wimbledon family. "That's very odd," says Mr. Wimbledon each time, but when he returns from checking on the sounds, he's always reassuring: "It's only Stanley; he's fixing the oil tank... -
The Christmas Cat by Julie Beard, Jo Beverley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFour heartwarming tales of Christmas cheer--and cats who play Cupid! These stories include: Julie Beard's "My True Love Gave to Me" in which a woman spends Christmas Eve searching for her black cat and finds a tall dark knightJo Beverley's "A Gift of Light" which tells of a tenacious tom courting a fiery feline at Christmas, as his master and her mistress follow suitBarbara Bretton's "Home for... -
Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the hilarious follow-up to Llama Destroys the World, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox give Llama another shot at saving the world…from himself, in Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse. Llama’s back and ready to destroy the world AGAIN… this time with his best camelid, Alpaca!Llama loves cooking. And baking. And, above all, eating... -
Callahan's Key by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he's back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga -- an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.The universe is in desperate peril... -
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Space Cat by Ruthven Todd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"An amusing combination of comical cat story and science fiction for the youngest fans, made even more amusing by the artist's interpretation of a cat in a space suit... -
The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn all-new Star Trek e-novella featuring the Department of Temporal Investigations!The dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations have their work cut out for them protecting the course of history from the dangers of time travel. But the galaxy is littered with artifacts that, in the wrong hands, could threaten reality... -
The Free Trader of Warren Deep by Craig Martelle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing the civil war on the human colonized world of Cygnus VII, humanity and its creations rise again. Free Trader Braden and his mindlinked Hillcat are plying the trade routes of Warren Deep when things start to get hot... -
The Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFuture humanity has found the secret of faster-than-light travel, but it comes with great dangers. To minimize these dangers, man can pilot ships through the up-and-out with cats as their partners. Underhill shares his mind with his cat-partner, the Lady May, and must travel to the terrible open places between the stars... -
Cat's Meow by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a year of hell, Dani Summerland's life is just getting better when she's tossed unceremoniously a few hundred years into the future with her orange Persian cat, Charmin Marvin, in her arms. With no way to fight it, no way to go back, things are only looking to get worse fast. Breaking protocol is cause for severe consequences in the time and world Levi Blackburn lives... -
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a handsome, limited edition collection of the best work by one of the finest short fiction writers in science fiction. There are 14 stories in all, ranging from straight SF to tales that stray into the fantasy and horror genres... -
Future Remains by Robert Jack
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA small team of paleontologists has just laid eyes upon an impossible discovery. Now, at the behest of a mysterious stranger and his robotic companion, the team is being drawn into a desperate quest: to rescue a child trapped in the most dangerous environment the earth has ever seen. For former paleontologist Tess Creegan, the stakes couldn't be higher... -
Smilodon by Alan Nayes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJason Bristol, ex-prize fighter and expert animal tracker, and part-time drunk, teams up with beautiful wildlife biologist Norah Phelps as they pursue a man-eating predator that threatens to derail her father's prize real estate development project in north central Idaho. Against the majestic pristine backdrop of Idaho's Bitterroot Wilderness Area, the adventure unfolds... -
Zig Zag: N� 18 - Zig Zag Et Les Marzziens by Tedd Arnold
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSee below for English description.Biz tourne un film sur l'espace: les superh ros, Zig Zag et Biz Biz, prot gent un fort secret dans le ciel lorsque des Martiens les attaquent et capturent Biz Biz. Zig Zag la mouche doit alors user de son intelligence pour aider son ami. Elle fera aussi appel ses acolytes, Zazie et Diego le Dragon... -
Junkyard War by Faith Hunter, Kristine Hvam
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s find retribution or die trying in Shining Smith’s ultimate challenge, from the author of the “Jane Yellowrock” and “Soulwood” series.Shining Smith and her crew have obtained the weapons they need to rescue one of their own from the grips of their mortal enemy, Clarisse Warhammer. But to mount an assault on her fortified bunker, they have to cobble together an army of fighters... -
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Wildcat Blues Part 1 by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart I of Zara & Tanner's story. Timeline: Takes place around the same time as Alpha Night.The story can be found in Nalini Singh's January 2021 newsletter... -
Beast Master's Circus by Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSomeone is kidnapping the animals of beast masters' teams. On planet after planet, telepathically gifted people are being attacked-some of them murdered-by a conspiracy to take their precious animals. Laris, an orphan who trains exotic alien creatures for an interstellar circus, knows that somehow her employer is connected to the deadly plot... -
Checking Out Crime by Laurie Cass
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLibrarian Minnie Hamilton and her clever cat Eddie solve a purr-fect murder, in the newest installment of the delightful Bookmobile Cat Mystery series.Minnie and her rescue cat Eddie can often be found out and about in their bookmobile near Chilson, Michigan, delivering great reads to grateful patrons all over the county... -
SCat by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Dick White set out to discover the origins of the ship's new cat, he certainly never expected to find himself involved with the Drug Interdiction group of the Patrol... -
A Tail of Two SKittys by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDick White, cat handler for the space ship Brightwing, knew that his shipscat was intelligent, but he hadn't expected her to come to the rescue when he and his shipmates were kidnapped... -
Pete the Cat: Robo-Pete by James Dean, Lewis Grosso
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Pete's friends don't want to play the same games as he does, Pete has a great idea—he'll build a robot that will do whatever he tells it to. But when Robo-Pete gets a little out of control, Pete learns an important lesson about friendship...
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