Kunstler, James Howard.
Summary: "Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNTaylor, Sara
Summary: "A stirring and ambitious debut that traces the history and future of a small group of islands off the coast of Virginia through the lives of generations of the women who live there" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSparks, Amber
Summary: "Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose that shimmers and stings, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Now, she reaches new, uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In "Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy," a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in "Everyone's a Winner at Meadow Park," a teen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPADavid, Erica.
Summary: "Mr. Peabody is an inventor, a scientist, a genius, and ... a dog. Using his most ingenious invention, the WABAC time machine, Mr. Peabody and his adopted boy, Sherman, witness world-changing events firsthand. But when Sherman breaks the rules of time travel, they find themselves in a race to repair history--and save the future! Retells the story and features eight pages of full-color scenes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DAVCahn, Jonathan.
Summary: "The Harbinger opens with the appearance of a man burdened with a message he has received from a mysterious figure called The Prophet. The Prophet has given him nine seals, each containing a message about America's future ... As the story unfolds, each revelation becomes a piece in a greater puzzle -- the ramifications of which will even alter the course of world history."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FrontLine 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAHDoeden, Matt
Summary: A choose-your-own-adventure in which the reader can proceed as a knight facing a female beast, explore the future with an android prince, or chase super-stardom in a modern version of the classic fairy tale. Includes a history of Beauty and the Beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DOENewitz, Annalee
Summary: "1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOFFHerbert, Brian.
Summary: Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune saga sprawls across countless planets and tens of millennia. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have written thirteen international bestselling novels set in this epic universe. But the wealth of material leaves many side tales or interesting ideas that can be told, hors d'oeuvres to accompany the exotic main course. Sometimes, a short story is exactly what's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordFire Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERGillen, Kieron
Summary: "When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring King Arthur back from the dead, retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary threat. Now the two must navigate the complicated history of the McGuire family, all while combating the deadly secrets of England's past that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ONCEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "This much is history: On Christmas Eve, 1800, an "infernal machine" exploded in one of the busiest streets in Paris, France, destroying buildings and killing innocent civilians. It wasn't the first attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consulof the newly minted Republic of France. This much is exclusive to our story: Upon the failure of the Christmas Eve plot, the conspiracy takes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTSummary: Having spent last season trying to track down the Loom of Fate, the Legends must now save history from a foe like none they've encountered in the past or future. The timeship Waverider's crew have dealt with monsters, time anomalies, and most recently, villains from Hell, but this season they will face something even more challenging and bizarre: space aliens!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEGGoodnight, Linda
Summary: Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presley, though tragedy took away both years ago. Finding comfort in the routine of running the Peach Orchard Inn, she lets the historic, mysterious place fill the voids of love and family, until a stranger with a young boy and soul-deep secrets shows up in her Tennessee town and disrupts the loneliness of her world. Julia suspects there's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOOWinslow, Don
Summary: "In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Now, in his high-octane prequel, The Kings of Cool, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms--fathers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINOza, Janika
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZANeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUSummary: 1926. H.P. Lovecraft comes calling to warn of imminent doom. But the Shadow From Beyond Time escapes into the future. The history of the universe is hanging in the balance as Atomic Robo teams up with Atomic Robo in a last ditch effort to protect reality itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red 5 Comics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLEFlores, Francesca
Summary: Pulled from the streets at age twelve and trained to become one of the most powerful assassins in Sumerand, Aina Solís discovers a conspiracy that could rewrite the kingdom's history and her own future. After the murder of her parents, Aina Solís takes a job as an assassin to survive. She finds a new family in those like her: the unwanted and forgotten. Diamond City was built by magic, and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLOLunde, Maja
Summary: From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNMascarenhas, Kate
Summary: In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project--and future of time travel--in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team--erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mascarenhas 2019Ruiz Zafón, Carlos
Summary: "The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale--a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018