Card, Orson Scott                              Ender in Exile                                        CAR  YA

Sequel to: Ender's game.At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Crichton, Michael                              Sphere                                                            CRI

Four American scientists are summoned in great secrecy to the South Pacific to investigate a giant spacecraft at least three hundred years old

Gilmore, Kate                                    The exchange student                        GIL YA

When her mother arranges to host one of the young people coming to Earth from Chela, Daria is both pleased and intrigued by the keen interest shown by the Chelan in her work breeding endangered species

Goodman, Alison                                Singing the dogstar blues      Goo YA SF

In a future Australia, the saucy eighteen-year-old daughter of a famous newscaster and a sperm donor teams up with a hermaphrodite from the planet Choria in a time travel adventure that may significantly change both of their lives.

Heinlein, Robert A.                Starship Troopers                                    HEI SF

In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War

Lombrdi, David                          My Summer on Earth                                 YA  LOM

Say hello to Clint. He's an alien disguised as a human -- and a fairly outspoken, foulmouthed alien at that. He's got an important mission to complete, but like a typical teenager, Clint gets a bit distracted when he gets here. This distraction's name is Zoë, and Clint has an overwhelming urge to experience earthling love with her, if he could just figure out how.

But if Clint doesn't focus and complete his mission, it could spell disaster for his people. And what teenager wants that on his conscience? Young love, a crappy job, and absolutely clueless -- sounds like a typical summer on Earth. 

Wells, H.G.                             War of the Worlds                                         WEL ppb j    

An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.