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Summary: An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURTurnbull, Cadwell
Summary: "One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURSchwab, Victoria.
Summary: "Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy is more sober, and Kell is now plagued by his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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Summary: "It's been seven years since Kell, Lila, and Holland defeated the evil force known as Osaron. Lila has spent those seven years as captain of a ship, exploring her new magical world and occasionally spying for the Crown. Kell has spent them learning to fight with ordinary weapons now that wielding his magic causes him intense pain. Holland, of course, gave his life to defeat Osaron. But now a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: "From V.E. Schwab, the critically acclaimed author of Vicious, comes a new universe of daring adventure, thrilling power, and parallel Londons, beginning with A Darker Shade of Magic. Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes--as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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Summary: Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erewhon 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANMin, Dolki
Summary: "The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MINContents: Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson -- Mozart in mirrorshades / Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner -- Interview with the crab / Jonathan Lethem -- El pepenador / Benjamin Parzybok -- Down and out in the year 2000 / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Getting to know you / David Marusek -- User-centric / Bruce Sterling -- The blog at the end of the world / Paul Tremblay -- Memories of moments, bright as falling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underland Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CYBMatheson, Richard
Summary: "The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle. Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018