Summary: High school science whiz Ben Cooper goes online to win a computerized 'smart house' designed to make life easier. His real trouble begins when the smart house takes on a virtual motherly identity who is smothering, stubborn, and undeletable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SMACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMASummary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODWare, Ruth
Summary: Rowan Caine's live-in nanny position in the Scottish Highlands turns from picture-perfect to a nightmare, leaving her in prison awaiting trial for murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWare, Ruth
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WARChiang, Ted.
Summary: Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2002
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: When Professor Cheesewheel outfits busy editor-in-chief Geronimo Stilton's house with the latest technology to help keep it clean, the intrepid Geronimo is in for a future shock as his house goes haywire, leaving him with a mess bigger than before!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2022