Summary: "26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. The Best of World SF draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction - expect robots, spaceships and time travel, as well as some really weird stuff - representing twenty-one countries and five continents."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse. Each book in the collection takes them to different places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC OSBAnderson, Kevin J.
Summary: The conclusion to the Saga of Seven Suns series features a final stand in an epic clash against galactic civilizations that pits the factions of humanity against one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDColumbus, Chris
Summary: "With their last adventure just barely over, the Walker kids thought life would finally go back to normal. But things don't remain calm for long... especially when the colossus Fat Jagger turns up in San Francisco Bay--and he's in danger! With the police closing in, the Walkers must figure out how to save their giant friend. When a frost beast is spotted in Santa Rosa--and more mystical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLBerlin, Eric.
Summary: Puzzle-crazy, twelve-year-old Winston and his ten-year-old sister Katie find themselves involved in a dangerous mystery involving a hidden ring. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERSkogen, Jennifer
Summary: "After an unthinkable tragedy on Halloween, Jackson must decide if he should stay in Grey Hills, or pack up everything and leave with Sam and the others. ... When Jackson starts sleepwalking and hearing voices, he isn't sure if he is going crazy, or if he has inherited an unspeakable power. Meanwhile, Claire is determined to find out exactly what happened on Halloween, which brings Jackson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKOPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Join Thor, the Warriors Three, and Lady Sif as they render order across the cosmos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALJordan, Robert
Summary: In the Third Age, an age of prophecy when the world and time themselves hang in the balance, the Dark One, imprisoned by the Creator, is stirring in Shayol Ghul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tom Doherty Associates 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JORWeinstein, Alexander
Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIRiordan, Rick
Summary: Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and imaginative new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RIOWeber, David
Summary: A collection of short fiction presents the dangerous and multifaceted world of Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, and interstellar heroine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBKutner, Rob
Summary: Mucus monsters! Rock-and-rollin' trolls! All-powerful rotting cat-mummies! What would YOU do if your boogers tried to take over the world? What if teen-girl ghosts unleashed an army of pooping cockroaches on you? You've got a front-row seat to see kids (and trolls, and vampires) just like you taking on the GROSSEST challenges IN THE WORLD! So hold your nose, grab your stomach, and get ready for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Summary: Stories dealing with human relationships. In Star Baby, a homosexual man caring for a nephew treads softly lest he be mistaken for a pedophile, Beating is on the making of a racist, while Saturn is on the perils of self-improvement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GATRiordan, Rick
Summary: "Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIOQuinn, Jordan
Summary: Lucas and Clara are floating on a raft when a wave casts them into the sea, where Lucas catches a glimpse of a coral kindom and a dark-haired mermaid helps him, but when his father, King Caleb, hears of this, he scolds Lucas and tells him he has broken anage-old pact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUIEliot, Hannah
Summary: "Set to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus," this sweet and funny board book shows how mommies keep their kids entertained on the bus! While a child might only think of how a bus's wheels go round and round, round and round, round and round, mommies know to be prepared with "snacks, snacks, snacks." And she'll have to remind her child "here's our stop, here's our stop, here's our stop!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024
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Summary: Journeying to the small kingdoms of the Isles, Prince Garric and his companions find themselves threatened by fantastic forces from all angles trying to keep them apart and unable to continue the reunification of the Isles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DRA CI #2Le Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: The author's first three novels--City of Illusion, Rocannon's World, and Planet of Exile--are included in an omnibus edition, all set in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness, as her characters battle forces in society that seek to tear them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orb 1996
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Contents: Coming of age in Karhide -- The matter of Seggri -- Unchosen love -- Mountain ways -- Solitude -- Old music and the slave women -- The birthday of the world -- Paradises lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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Summary: Efforts of the three grandchildren of royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a master mapmaker whose unparalleled magical ability allows him to reshape the landscape of reality, to save their world from destruction. Major threats include an undead, soulless prince hell-bent on usurping the crown from his empress stepmother and a vengeance-obsessed elder god determined to undo all of creation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAKaufman, Amie
Summary: "Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something--someone--behind. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. In their desperation to reunite and save their people, Nimh and North face one ultimate question: can they defy their love and their destiny to save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Journey to Oz, a faraway land of magic, mayhem, and danger in this fantastical trilogy by L. Frank Baum. The Library Congress calls this "Americas greatest and best-beloved homegrown fairytale," and the stories will spark the imagination and wonder as you enter the wondrous Land of Oz."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation-material, emotional, sexual-but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023