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Orbit / by Block, Thomas.;
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Hypersonic planes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orbit [large print] [large print] / by Nance, John J.(CARDINAL)172715;
Subjects: Space flights; Space vehicle accidents; Space rescue operations; Large type books.; Suspense fiction.;
© 2006., Thorndike Press,
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Orbit [sound recording] by Nance, John J.(CARDINAL)172715;
Read by John J. Nance.For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's first commercial spaceflight is a dream come true. It's a bittersweet moment of triumph, however, muted by his wife's terror over his acceptance of the prize. A successful launch quickly turns into chaos when a micrometeor punches through the spacecraft, leaving the radios and the pilot dead. Kip is truly alone and has no way to get the ship home, so with nothing to do but wait for the end, he writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer. He is totally unaware of the struggle being made to rescue him or of the audience of millions who are reading his messages and tracking his every word on the Internet.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Space flights; Space rescue operations; Space vehicle accidents;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Orbit [sound recording] / by Nance, John J.(CARDINAL)172715;
Read by the author.For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's first commercial spaceflight is a dream come true. It's a bittersweet moment of triumph, however, muted by his wife's terror over his acceptance of the prize. A successful launch quickly turns into chaos when a micrometeor punches through the spacecraft, leaving the radios and the pilot dead. Kip is truly alone and has no way to get the ship home, so with nothing to do but wait for the end, he writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer. He is totally unaware of the struggle being made to rescue him or of the audience of millions who are reading his messages and tracking his every word on the Internet.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Space flights; Space rescue operations; Space vehicle accidents; Suspense fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orbit / by Nance, John J.(CARDINAL)172715;
The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on one of American Space Adventure's commercial spaceflights is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. It's a bittersweet moment of triumph, however, muted by his wife's terror over his accepting the prize. The day of the launch, Kip tries to reconcile his wife's and daughters' fears and even tries calling his estranged son, to no avail. He sets off, vowing to make amends upon his return. But a successful launch quickly morphs into chaos when a micrometeor punches through the wall of the spacecraft, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot. In the blink of an eye, Kip Dawson is truly alone and has no way of navigating the ship home. With nothing to do but wait for death, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries -- or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.
Subjects: Space operas (Fiction); Thrillers (Fiction); Space flights; Space rescue operations; Space vehicle accidents;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 31
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Orbit : NASA astronauts photograph the earth / by Apt, Jay.(CARDINAL)633968; Helfert, Michael R.(CARDINAL)779830; Ressmeyer, Roger,1954-(CARDINAL)781679; Wilkinson, Justin.(CARDINAL)639669;
Africa -- Europe and Middle East -- Asia -- The aurora -- Pacific -- Middle and South America -- North America.Orbit takes the reader into space for astronaut's views of home: Cape Cod arching into the Atlantic, Mount Everest casting its shadow over lesser peaks, the sands of the Sahara arrayed in endless patterns. Like any travelers, these voyagers in space have aimed their cameras at sights that startled their eyes. They have flown through the aurora and captured its rippling, mystic colors. They have looked down upon storms and volcanoes. And they have documented the human imprint upon the Earth: the scarred forests, the topsoil washing into the sea. As these matchless photos show, we now keep a vigil over our Earth, a vigil that will help us preserve this realm of fragile beauty.
Subjects: Photographs.; Space photography.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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Orbit : poems / by Zarin, Cynthia,author.(CARDINAL)764288;
"The prize-winning poet brings her craft to a new level, turning her lyric lens on the worlds within worlds we inhabit, and how we navigate our shared predicament. Here is the poet who "bartered forty summers for black pearls," whose work is full of such wagers, embodied in playing cards, treble notes, snow globes, the tables of our lives on which is strewn the news of the day: the president speaking to the parishioners in Charleston, the ricochet of violence, near and far. Whether writing about the hairpin turns in the stair of childhood, about the cat's claw of anxiety, the impending loss of a young and gifted friend, or about how "love endures, give or take," Cynthia Zarin reminds us that the atmosphere created by our particular experiences shapes and defines the orbit we move through. A poetic descendant of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Zarin is both witness and, often indirectly, subject--"I do not know how to hold the beauty and sorrow of my life," she writes. This book is an attempt at an answer: a collection that confirms her place as an indispensable American poet of our time"--
Subjects: American poetry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orbiter / by Ellis, Warren.(CARDINAL)530927; Doran, Colleen,1963-(CARDINAL)355048;
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Frozen orbit / by Chiles, Patrick,author.;
"When a tiny space probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, no one could know that its most amazing discovery would remain hidden for years. Only when a long-lost Soyuz is destroyed in the skies above Siberia does the truth begin to emerge. About to embark on NASA's first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission that began before most of them were even born, and the Kremlin believes it drove their most trusted crew mad. During their long race to the Kuiper Belt, astronauts Jack Templeton and Traci Keene unwind a decades-old mystery buried in the pages of a dead cosmonaut's journal. Challenging their own beliefs about the nature of humanity, they will soon confront the question of existence itself"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; Interplanetary voyages; Space flight; Space probes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Low orbit / by Lee, Kazimir,1986-author,illustrator.;
Fifteen-year-old Azar feels stuck. Her mom's job forced them to move to Vermont, where Azar doesn't know anyone. Her only friends are the next-door neighbors: an aging sci-fi writer and his nonbinary teen, Tristan, fellow misfits in the small-town community. For a while, Azar can escape her troubles by disappearing into the pages of her kindly neighbor's epic novel, The Exiles of Overworld. But when her queerness throws her life out of balance, Azar realizes some secrets can't be escaped forever. Somewhere in the abandoned malls, lakes, and comic conventions that fill her new life, Azar fights to find herself. What else will she discover?
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Queer comics.; Coming-of-age comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Teenage girls; Asian Americans; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy; Sexual minorities; Self-acceptance in adolescence;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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