Summary: Set in a blighted Nevada outpost in 2007, a telepathic father and daughter lead a group of media outlaws in resistance against a corporate/governmental "New Electronic Order" that threatens to use the earth's magnetosphere to "bulk erase" the brains of every human on the planet. The only way to save humanity is to uncover a secret lodged in an old episode of the 1950s series Science in Action....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SPEJohnson, Jeff
Summary: "Born in Missouri more than a century ago and raised in a Pentecostal orphanage, the creature now calling himself Gelson Verber has changed his name countless times. He's part-werewolf, and makes his living hunting certain kinds of bad men-criminals, rapists, thugs-in an often grotesque parody of the natural order. Verber is clearly suffering from the kinds of things a werewolf would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHMurray, Diana
Summary: "Someday, Maybe is an inventive and inspiring picture book that imagines the exciting jobs, discoveries, and innovations that children dream of for their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUREason, Lynette.
Summary: Samantha Cash has a skill Connor Wolfe needs - catching killers through computers. When she poses as a target, her virtual world becomes real - and deadly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASIles, Greg.
Summary: Resisting those who would use a revolutionary new technology for unethical purposes, doctor David Tennant and psychiatrist Rachel Weiss run for their lives from ruthless NSA agents and turn to David's unusual dreams for guidance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Summary: "Trudell Becket, book-loving librarian, finds herself in a bind when the library where she works is turned into a state-of-the-art bookless library. In a rare move of rebellion, Trudell rescues hundreds of her library's beloved books slated for the recycle center. She sets up a secret book room in the library's basement and opens it to anyone who shares her love of the printed book. When the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ST. JMullen, 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 MULGodfrey, 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 GODWeinstein, Alexander
Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIWheaton, 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 WHEBeckett, 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 BECCole, Barry Lee.
Summary: When Tom Craft discovers a small wood box hidden in the floorboards of his grandmother's house he discovers details about a new energy technology, designed by his grandfather, that lay hidden for 100 years. A note, in his grandfather's writing, warns the finder that should this technology be revealed the life of this individual is in grave danger. With fossil fuel being king, the largest oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Dog Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLPhillips, Stephanie
Summary: "Social media status determines real world status in this near-future YA coming of age story. Averee is a typical high schooler living in the near future where social media status has real world consequences. The app, Ranked, determines everyone's status, not just online, but in real life; who you can hang out with, what places you have access to, what schools you can get into, and what jobs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World, Inc. 2021
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Summary: Since the day that Ano was born, her heart has been connected to her home. But, this adventurous child has a lot to learn! When Ano begins to dance hula -- a storytelling dance form that carries the knowledge, history, and folklore of the Hawaiian people -- Ano comes to understand the true meaning of aloha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2024
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Summary: A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAVMaddox, Jake
Summary: "Tobias Wilson has a secret. For the past two years, since attending a Choctaw Nation powwow with his family, he's been teaching himself how to hoop dance. But when his best buddy Declan discovers him dancing, it isn't long before his whole class knows. Once the secret is out, Tobias has the opportunity to share his dancing at the spring talent show, but he's not sure he wants that. Is he ready...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADDean, Kim
Summary: "Pete the Cat is learning a new dance -- the Cool Cat Boogie! When he hears a groovy beat, he's full of happy feet. But when Grumpy toad tells him, 'Pete, you dance all wrong!' Pete is determined to become a better dancer. With the help of his friends and some wise words from Owl, Pete learns that he's the grooviest when he's being himself"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE PETAgostini, Alliah L.
Summary: Shane, a boy with big dancing dreams, learns the meaning of courage and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGOYoung, Jessica (Jessica E.)
Summary: Tank is a clumsy, outgoing Great Dane, and Haggis is a bored, curmudgeonly Scottie--so one afternoon Tank suggests they turn the wagon in the backyard into a ship and play pirate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE YOUViva, Frank
Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVNetane, Kealani
Summary: "Learning to siva from the heart... Tala loves watching her Aunty Sina's graceful steps in the taualuga, a traditional Samoan dance, where her hands curl like rolling waves and her feet glide across the floor like canoes. Yet when Tala tries to siva, her legs are too wobbly, her arms are too stiff, and most of all, she doesn't have the same glow as when Aunty dances. Tala tries to muster the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: "Shh! Fancy Nancy and her classmates are planning a surprise party--that means it's top secret! Together Nancy and her friends prepare the treats and decorate the classroom for the party. Everything has to be kept super secret. Even the cupcakes have a surprise inside! Will you be able to guess who the party is for?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOSorell, Traci
Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORO'Connor, Jane
Summary: "Today is Halloween and Nancy can't wait to collect candy from each house she visits. But it's hard to leave all those delectable treats in her pumpkin pail. Is there such a thing as too much candy?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015