Summary: The Broken Frontier Anthology unites 50 of the most innovative talents in contemporary comics to share new visions of breaking boundaries and exploring the great unknown. From multiple award winners to the brightest up-and-coming voices, these creators have come together from all over the world to bring you 27 amazing stories about time travel, dystopian deserts, the edges of the universe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROPohl, Frederik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHPosey, Rafe
Summary: "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSRavn, Olga
Summary: "Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAVMartin, Rafe
Summary: Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MartiGave, Marc.
Summary: Rhyming text relates the antics of monkeys that play all day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1993
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Summary: For Simyon Smin, Deputy Director, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was a source of great pride. For Leonid Sheranchuk, engineer, it was a place where he could put his vast skills to the best use. For Tamara Sheranchuk, doctor, it was a place where she longed to work in order to be closer to her husband. But on April 26, 1986, Chernobyl forever became someplace very different for these three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHHoward, Ravi.
Summary: An indelible portrait of prejudice and promise, friendship and loyalty, a daring look at race and class in pre-Civil Rights America, played out in the lives of two remarkable men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOWPohl, Frederik.
Summary: The inhabitants of a future world find almost a thousand abandoned starships programmed for travel to distant parts of the universe, but the destination is unknown and can lead to immense wealth or death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1978
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Summary: The Heechee gateways, remnants of an ancient civilization, provide instantaneous passage to the far reaches of the universe but do not ensure destination, return, wealth, or survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHPohl, Frederik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orb 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHPohl, Frederik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHGregory, Raven
Summary: Tired of fleeing from Wonderland, Calie and Violet begin to search for answers by delving into Charles Dodsgon's past. But a mysterious force from Wonderland might have other, darker plans in mind for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zenescope Entertainment 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavalier Communications 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 398.2 WHIPohl, Frederik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1984
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Summary: On a near-Utopia planet, two humans fight each other over the future of the alien inhabitants. One man immigrated to the planet for the quality of life, the other is there to exploit it and make money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHPohl, Frederik.
Contents: Introduction / by James Frenkel -- The merchants of Venus -- The things that happen -- The high test -- My lady Green Sleeves -- The kindly isle -- The middle of nowhere -- I remember a winter -- The greening of Bed-Stuy -- To see another mountain -- The mapmakers -- Spending a day at the lottery fair -- The celebrated no-hit inning -- Some joys under the star -- Servant of the people --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHCave, Nick
Summary: Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wife's ghost, seems only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan (Faber & Faber) 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAVRabe, Jean.
Summary: Fallen hero Dhamon Grimwulf seeks to atone for past misdeeds and clashes with the agents of a mysterious dragon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAGregory, Raven.
Summary: The moment of truth has arrived as the girl who became a woman now sets out to become a hero. The one person who can prevent pure insanity from escaping into this world must now find a way to defeat madness itself. The final chapter of the most intense, riveting and addictive comic book series you have read in years has arrived and this time around there may be no escaping Wonderland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zenescope Entertainment 2011
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Gregory, Raven.
Summary: After defeating the malevolent spirit of her long-dead brother and escaping the terror of a town possessed by the insanity of the Mad Hatter, Calie and her daughter, Violet, disappear into the city of Los Angeles hoping to evade Wonderland's ever-extending reach. But the duo is fast to learn that no matter where they run, or where they hide, Wonderland will find them! From the writers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zenescope Entertainment 2013
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Summary: A modern, illustrated retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 RAVLankford, Raye
Summary: Molly and her family take a trip to their favorite berry-picking spot, but their fun is cut short by a swarm of pesky bugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LANLeilani, Raven
Summary: "Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020