Summary: Presents stories about mechanistic golems, infernal machines, airships, alternative history, other planets, and how the genre has influenced movies, television, comics, and the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STETolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOLGilman, Felix.
Summary: This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name its most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. If youre reading this in the future, Ransom City must be a great and glittering metropolis by now, with a big bronze statue of Harry Ransom in a park somewhere. You might be standing on its sidewalk and not wonder in the least of how it grew to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILPriest, Cherie.
Summary: Rector "Wreck 'em" Sherman, a drug dealer haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know, sneaks over the wall into the wasteland of Seattle where he makes a shocking discovery that changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRITolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SA TOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction TolJemisin, N. K.
Summary: In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the city's Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2012
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Summary: Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight ...On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their sense of direction, their place of work. Meanwhile, Jake, a young boy whose father brings him to London...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Friday Project 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMontague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONAbraham, Daniel
Summary: "Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and the weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent war of all against all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRCarey, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Small town Pemkowet, Mich., is a popular tourist destination for humans. It's also home to a thriving 'eldritch community' of supernatural entities, thanks to the presence of the local underworld controlled by the Norse goddess Hel. Daisy Johanssen, a half-demon trying to dodge her innate attraction to the 'Seven Deadlies' while functioning as Hel's agent on Earth and the local link between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: A dramatized radio production adapted from Tolkien's classic work.--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLLawrence, Mark
Summary: "Hailed as "epic fantasy on a George R. R. Martin scale, but on speed,"* the Broken Empire trilogy introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath's devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince... The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2014
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Summary: Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMSchwartz, Leanne
Summary: "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa as a haven for his followers, but to keep the devil at bay, the church sends a child sacrifice to hell's entrance every season--often poor or plain girls just like Alesta. With a head full of ideas for inventions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine; fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has pored through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Solaris 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESHimekawa, Akira
Summary: "Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards' power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the Twilight Realm beyond the Mirror of Twilight. Now, an evil menace is trying to find Midna, Princess of the Twilight Realm, and the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power to rule over both the Twilight Realm and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "A collection of fairy tales for young wizards and witches. Each story is followed by observations on Wizarding history, personal reminiscences, and information on the story's key elements by Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROWSummary: "From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AFRTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Frodo Baggins and his companion Sam Gamgee, set off along the same road down which Bilbo the Hobbit had accompanied Thorin Oakenshield and his dwarves all those years ago. Much danger and many strange encounters await them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC TOLFlynn, Kathleen
Summary: "Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flynn 2017Mews, Melody
Summary: Itty Bitty Princess Kitty helps her new friend, Bree, to find her true fairy calling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MEWJohnson, Jennifer L.
Summary: "Psy-bye-bye! When Psyduck evolves into Golduck, Misty is thrilled! Golduck is the fastest swimmer of all. Besides, training Psyduck was one big headache. Psyduck was totally clueless and clumsy, except when it got a headache. Then its attacks were unstoppable--especially against Team Rocket! But is Golduck about to give Misty a big surprise? Get the inside scoop on Misty and Psyduck from their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POKEmelụmadụ, Chịkọdịlị
Summary: Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2023