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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Summary: In the mountains at the southern edge of Wyoming Territory, three families banded together in the mid-1800s and formed a community, raising livestock and garden produce. The founding family, the Welles, took excess livestock to trade with the pioneers along the Oregon Trail. This is the story of those families and the young people that are coming of age. Central to the story is Jake Bates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hildebrand Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBVandever, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVanderMeer, Jeff.
Summary: Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's tiesto an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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Summary: "Tom and Daddy are home today. Daddy wants to clean the house and do the dishes, but Tom wants to play. Quickly they come up with a solution: together they'll try to conquer the dish monster and go on a quest in the jungle of socks. A funny and recognizable story about doing chores with Dad, which doesn't have to be boring at all."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Annihilation, comes a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VANVanderMeer, Jeff.
Summary: "In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANCohn, Rachel.
Summary: It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band's show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City--and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date. This he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2007
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Summary: Thirty-year-old Matthias, a self-effacing gardener in Stavanger, Norway, is content to be what he calls a cog, idolizing Buzz Aldrin as the second man on the moon, but he drifts farther and farther away from other people until one day he wakes up on a road in the Faroe Islands with a pocket full of money, and no memory of how he got there, and must begin to rebuild his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2011
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Summary: It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUNSohn, Emily
Summary: "Astro the Alien and his friends Ben and Eva visit and learn about ocean animals, including animals that live near coral reefs, in the deep ocean, and in tide pools. Includes reading activities and a word lis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2019
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Summary: Twenty years after Jens disappeared without a trace from the island of Oland, a package is mailed to the boy's grandfather that contains the worn and mended shoe of a child, prompting the grandfather to contact the child's mother, resume the hunt for the boy, and make a shocking connection between Jens's disappearance and the island's most notorious murder case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THECohn, Rachel
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Lily left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to find the notebook and rise to its challenges. What follows is a whirlwind romance as the two trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2020
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Summary: Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing parties for their friends--and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation. The rules are simple: each twin gets to invite three guests, and the other twin doesn't know who's coming until the partiers show up at the door. With Sam and Ilsa, the sibling revelry is always tempered with a large...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COHSohn, Emily
Summary: "With help from his friends Ben and Eva, Astro the Alien learns about patience when he waits in line to ride a roller coaster. Includes a note to caregivers, reading activities, and a word list"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2020
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Summary: "Astro the Alien and his friends Ben and Eva visit and learn about desert animals, including lizards, birds, and spiders. Includes reading activities and a word list"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2019
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Summary: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps must join forces with their rivals of the other colors to battle the Black Lanterns, an army of undead superheroes and villains--all their deceased friends and foes--who are out to destroy all life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHJohns, Geoff
Summary: Twelve superheroes brought back to life by White Lantern rings must come to terms with the horrors they committed as Black Lanterns and discover why they have been resurrected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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Summary: The United States government creates an answer to the Justice League by bringing together the world's most dangerous heroes to form the Justice League of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dc Comics 2013
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Summary: "Malaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was a just a baby and who shared her love of carnival. Malaika dreams about a man with a basket of fruit and guesses that the dream is about her father. Mummy explains that her daddy passed away long ago, and Grandma decides it's time Malaika knew more about her father's life. The family drives to a far-off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2023