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Characters in literature Fiction FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction FICTION / Technological FICTION / Thrillers / Technological FICTION Dystopian FICTION Science Fiction Hard Science Fiction FICTION Thrillers Technological Railroad stories Space flight Technological innovations FictionGodfrey, Daniel
Summary: In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption. Nick Houghton doesn't know why he's been chosen to be the company's historical advisor. He's just excited to be there....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODWheaton, Mark
Summary: Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHEMullen, Thomas
Summary: "Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULBeckett, L. X.
Summary: "Ruby Whiting has done the impossible. She has proved that humanity deserves a seat at the galactic table. Well, at least a shot at a seat. Having convinced the galactic governing body that mankind deserves a chance at fixing their own problems, Ruby hasdone her part to launch the planet into a new golden age of scientific discovery and technological revolution. However, there are still those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECJeffers, Oliver
Summary: Merging space travel with a road trip, a father drives all over the solar system at 37mph in order to allow his children to view the conflicts of Earth's history in the rearview mirror. Whether it's only been the 78 years it takes to drive to Venus or the 8,000 it takes to get to Neptune, humans have been fighting each other for small pieces of space on our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JEFAmos, Ruth
Summary: "Learn all about the heroes' top secret mission! Travel the galaxy with the Resistance heroes. Discover new planets and new friends. Find out about the First Order's plot to rule the galaxy! Can the heroes defeat the villains?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE AMOOrwell, George
Summary: En un mundo donde la guerra es la paz, la libertad es la esclavitud y la ignorancia es la fuerza, el Hermano Mayor tiene ojos por todas partes. Las vidas de los ciudadanos están vigiladas y cada decisión se analiza al milímetro. Winston Smith, encargado de reescribir la historia para el gobierno, no puede escapar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ORWJones, Matt
Summary: "Meet Grogu, the galaxy's cutest child. Zoom along with him in a starship. Learn about his powerful abilities and loyal friends, including the Mandalorian."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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3 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE JONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE JONMbalia, Kwame
Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MBACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MBACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBACalonita, Jen
Summary: Gilly must face the most evil villain of all in the second installment of this twisted fairy tale series. Gilly's gone from zero to hero at Fairy Tale Reform School, but it's still not smooth sailing. Her new villainous professor is the infamous pirate Blackbeard, and her newfound cool factor might be making her act a bit more royal than she'd like to admit. When 'The Wicked One', aka Sleeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fantasy Calonita 2016Landers, Ace.
Summary: Darth Maul's mission : To defeat the Republic once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC LANColfer, Chris
Summary: "Queen Red Riding Hood from the Land of Stories gives advice and makes observations on how to rule"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION COLForbeck, Matt
Summary: Some Super Villains are just too powerful for one Super Hero alone to conquer -- and this is where The Avengers come in! These brave adventurers have been using their powers to protect the Earth for many years -- but once they join forces, they become truly unbeatable. From Iron Man to the Hulk, meet all the fascinating Heroes that make up Earth's mightiest team of Super Heroes in the new DK...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION FORMeyer, Marissa
Summary: In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MEYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MEYFalconer, Craig A.
Summary: I've made it down from the solitude of the station, all the way to an incredible underground bunker complex. I'm surrounded by secret cutting-edge technologies that almost defy belief. In just three days, the final stage of Ignacio Zola's demented plan to reach a new world will eliminate all life on Earth, unless I can pull off a miracle. I'm the man who uncovered Zola's plan. And now, I'm the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FALRiddle, A. G.
Summary: After a mysterious global event known only as 'The Change,' six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they're part of the Extinction Trials--a scientific experiment to restart the human race. But the Extinction Trials harbors a very big secret. And so does the world outside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIDRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Adeline is an orphan. Her mother died three years ago when she was sixteen, and her father is lost 202 million years ago, in the late Triassic. Adeline knows he sacrificed his life to save hers, but her determination to find the truth reveals more questions. What has unnerved her father's ex-colleagues? What are they secretly digging for in the desert? Adeline will do whatever it takes to get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIDAlpert, Mark
Summary: "Scientists thought we were safe from invasion. The distance between stars is so great that it seemed impossible for even the most advanced civilizations to send a large spaceship from one star system to another. But now, a species - a planet - other than our own has found a way. An unassuming probe from another star system lands in an empty corner of New York City and drills into the ground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPHorowitz, Eli.
Summary: "An innovative literary thriller about a generation of children born unable to create or comprehend language"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORMather, Matthew
Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATSanderson, Brandon
Summary: A one-man team of experts, Stephen Leeds is a genius of unparalleled mental capabilities who can learn new skills or master entire scholarly disciplines in mere hours. However, these skills come at a price. When an unprecedented Internal Revenue Service data breach stumps the FBI, Stephen is brought in to investigate. He must uncover the connection between millions of stolen tax returns, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANSmith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: The country is finally clawing its way back post-disaster, and a new network of rail trains carry supplies and equipment from coast to coast. After raiders steal classified cargo from a train in the New Frontier, retired Marine Sam "Raven" Spears is asked to track them down. What he discovers is beyond anything he expected, and as the trail heats up a mysterious virus starts spreading across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMISmith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: One month after the defeat of a rogue group of terrorists, the United States struggles to maintain control over the New Frontier. An extremist faction of the Navajo Nation called the Rattlesnakes have waited years for this moment. Their leader launches their first, brutal attack on a water treatment and power facility in Colorado. The message is clear to Colorado Sheriff Lindsey Plymouth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Quantum physicist Doctor Ty Vogel identifies a pattern of sub-atomic particles in a data transmission being sent across space and time. That signal, and the message it carries, will change the world forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023