Anderson, Gillian
Summary: "Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India's ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father--a shooting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon451 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDPalmer, Ada
Summary: "The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech ... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSummary: Babylon 5 is an outer-space way station, a port-of-call for diplomats, entrepreneurs, and scalawags of all species. Commander John Sheridan -- aided by chief security officer Michael Garibaldi, Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, and resident telepath Talia Winters -- tries to keep apprised of all the intrigues swirling around his little corner of the galaxy, but things invariably spiral out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BABBarnes, S. A.
Summary: While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAnderson, Gillian
Summary: "After discovering the secrets to the Gaalderkhani tiles -- ancient computers that house not just memories, but untold destructive force -- Caitlin O'Hara's son gets accidentally thrust back in time. In order to save him she must master the power of the tiles and figure out what the Gaalderkhani's modern relatives are searching and killing for. Can she put the pieces together and bring her son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon451 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDNguyen, Lena
Summary: The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUPalmer, Ada
Summary: "From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBourne, Brianna
Summary: Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: "Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUMFinley, Jeremy
Summary: "Anchor and investigative journalist for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Jeremy Finley's debut thriller explores what happens to people's lives when our world intersects with the unexplainable. When four-year-old William vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, "The lights took him," and then never speaks again. With these words, the boys' grandmother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINPatterson, James
Summary: In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see. For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings. But Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from each other, and they argue more than they agree. As the dead begin to outnumber the living, a mother's experience and a daughter's instinct can make one powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATBeukes, Lauren
Summary: "Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie - all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEUMcCarthy, Cory
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ace Wells's dream has finally come true: he is a new cadet in the B.E.S.T. (Biological Enhancement Systems Technology) Program. Until now, he's been living in the shadow of his superstar brother, Finn--but not for long. This is new Ace! He knows he can make his mark on the world with SuperSoar wings, but on day one, nothing goes as planned. The antagonistic elevator AI Otis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCCReeve, Philip.
Summary: "The mighty engines of Anchorage have been rusted and dead for years. The derelict city no longer roams the Ice Wastes, but has settled on the edge of the land that was once America. Tom and Hester are happy in the safety of a static settlement, but their daughter Wren is ripe for rebellion. A dangerously charming submarine pirate offers her escape - but he wants something in return. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REEZhao, Xiran Jay,.
Summary: "The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHAAlpert, Mark
Summary: Discovering that his estranged hacker daughter is being targeted by an assassin determined to stop her from exposing Chinese secrets, Jim Pierce learns that the Chinese military has developed an artificial life form that is threatening humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPBarenbaum, Rachel
Summary: "In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARKing, Stephen
Summary: In the middle of the night, in a house in suburban Minneapolis, intruders murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. Other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- are also here. Some, like Luke, are in Front Half, while others graduated to Back Half. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thordike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KINGreen, Evie
Summary: "A suspenseful, cutting-edge novel about two parents who finally get the daughter they've always wanted-it's too bad she isn't real. From the author of We Hear Voices. For Tamsyn and Ed, life is tough. They both work long hours for very little money and come home to their moody, rebellious daughter, Scarlett. After a tragic accident leaves Scarlett comatose and with little chance of recovery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRERobb, J. D.
Summary: No affairs, no criminal connections, no DNA and no clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The only survivor is the daugther Nixie, who was in the kitchen when the murders happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: "Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean who became Ender's right hand, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARFinley, Jeremy
Summary: This follow-up to Finley's The Darkest Time of Night continues the alien abduction story of William Chance and his grandmother Lynn Roseworth. It's been 15 years since Lynn brought young William home to safety, but the alien enemy is still out there, and the emotional scars and family rifts have not healed. When the true nature of the power William and others who have been taken reveals itself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINLowry, Lois.
Summary: Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LOWFlint, Eric
Summary: "The newly formed United States of Europe, created by an alliance between the time-displaced Americans from the town of Grantville and the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, decides to send an embassy to the Chinese empire. One of the main purposes of the embassy is to establish trade in order to gain access to critical resources. The mission is a gamble--some might say, a long shot. The Ming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019