Lyons Regional Library

On board the Jump Station Heimdall, Hanna is the captain's pampered daughter; Nik a member of a notorious crime family. While they are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion. When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together. But alien predators...

A first "person" account of the first spider to spin a web in space, and why the 1973 experiment, suggested by a high school student, was important. Includes a fact sheet.

Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria, where she’s headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that’s been torn by civil and political unrest. After just weeks on the job, she’s called to a scene by railroad tracks--a woman’s body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine--and as Scarpetta begins...

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...

The illegitimate daughter of a commoner and a duke, Synali von Hauteclare, survives an attack by an assassin hired by her father and plans her revenge by riding and fighting on a giant robot. In a massive space station that houses the last of humanity, the king rules. Nobles dance. Commoners starve. And when they aren't starving, they watch the riding tournaments between the giant robots called "steeds"--once used in the war against the enemy, now...

The Trikon is a shared industrial space laboratory that was built in orbit, designed as the only risk-free environment for genetic experiments too controversial or dangerous to be performed on Earth.

Zak and Tash hope to defeat the evil scientist Gog by finding the lost Jedi library on the abandoned space station Nespis 8, but that storehouse of knowledge is supposedly cursed and guarded by the ghost of a Jedi.

Astrophysicist Grant Archer is sent by the reactionary and censorious forces of the "New Morality" coalition to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, charged with spying on his fellow scientists.

Terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X-Pox, on the world. Tad Mikleszewski (called TM by nearly everyone) buys research time on the International Space Station, to work on a cure for X-Pox. But the equipment in the Harmony Laboratory module was salvaged from old Russian military labs, and perhaps TM's skills are a little bit out of date. A tiny leak in the seal of the isolation box where TM is manipulating the X-Pox pathogen,...

General Patrick McLanahan, commander of the new Aerospace Battle Force, ignores directives from the White House and Pentagon to stand down and orders the ABF to attack secret Russian bases in Iran in an attempt to thwart Russian aggression.