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Books to use for alternative projects in Astronomy with Mrs. MacIntosh
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T-Minus: The Race to the Moon
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Jim Ottaviani (Goodreads Author)
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The Martian
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)
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A Brief History of Time
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A Briefer History of Time
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell
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Cosmos
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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The Right Stuff
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 32,023 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 202,304 ratings
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,943 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
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Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 3,239 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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The Planets
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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The Revelation Space Collection
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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Physics of the Impossible
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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The Case for Mars
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Contact
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty
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Dave Goldberg (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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Homer Hickam (Goodreads Author)
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The Three-Body Problem
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Silent Sky
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,661 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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Nathalia Holt (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 9,315 ratings
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