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Mars Mania

In the wake of Perseverance’s recent touchdown on Mars, we offer some recent books about space travel and the red planet to feed your interest and increase what you know. Click on the title of each book to find it in our online catalog. Happy exploring!

Colonizing and living on Mars:
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen L Petranke
Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go by David A Weintraub
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene

Space travel and exploration:
Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration by Rod Pyle
Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman (Oversize book, means great pictures!)
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration by Buzz Aldrin
The Search for Life on Mars: the Greatest Detective Story of all Time by Elizabeth Howell an Nicholas Booth
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another Planet by Sarah Stewart Johnson

Science Fiction:
Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh
The Last Campaign by Martin Shoemaker
Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet edited by Mike Ashley
Retrograde by Peter Cawdron
Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

DVDs:
2036 Origin Unknown (Feature film)
Life (Feature film)
Mars season 1 (Television program)
Mars season 2 (Television program)
Passage to Mars (Documentary)
The Planets (Documentary)

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