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Coulter, Catherine

Summary: "Galactus, France's answer to SpaceX, has just launched a communications satellite into orbit, but the payload actually harbors a frightening weapon: a nuclear-triggered electromagnetic pulse (EMP). When the satellite is in position, Galactus's second-in-command, Dr. Nevaeh Patel, will have the power to lay waste to the world with the EMP. A former astronaut, Patel believes she is following the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COU

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COU

Felix, Rebecca

Summary: Readers will examine the history of artificial intelligence, leading scientists in the field, the Three Laws of robots, the singularity, Sophia the robot, and more before deciding for themselves!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 006.3 FEL

Anthony, David

Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009

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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANT

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANT

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANT

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANT

Wells, Martha

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2017

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Parcak, Sarah H

Summary: "A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when new technologies developed for use in space allow an anthropologist a new perspective on earth's ancient histories and new ways of coping with those"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 PAR

Wells, Martha

Summary: "Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Rankin, Ian

Summary: In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, at English...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAN

Wells, Martha

Summary: "Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Anderson, AnnMarie

Summary: "In another installment of The Magic School Bus Rides Again Branches series, Keesha will do whatever it takes to nail her space camp application. In her efforts to get the perfect picture on the class outer space field trip, she accidentally disrupts satellites in orbit!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018

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Crichton, Michael

Summary: "A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003

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Sonneborn, Scott

Summary: On the day the orphanage where he has grown up closes, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, so he sets out to find the people that all the mismatched parts that he inherited came from--and do it before Frankenstein's creepy daughter, who wants to outdo her father, can find them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SON

Montague, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MON

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MON

Dickson, Paul.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 629.46 DIC

D'Antonio, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.43 DAN

Hirsch, Rebecca E

Summary: "Find out the latest discoveries in space vehicles with animated 3D models that bring space alive in augmented reality."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.44 HIR

Dickson, Paul.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.46 DIC

Bear, Greg

Summary: "The Gurus made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago. Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond mankind's capability, they became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts. But they were followed by mortal enemies from sun to sun, planet to planet, and now the Gurus are stretched thin-- and they need humanity's help"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Buolamwini, Joy

Summary: "Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art-disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Wells, Martha

Summary: It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Joyce, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOY

James, Hollis

Summary: "Michelangelo discovers an amazing creature in the sewer. Is it a friend, an enemy, or a monster?"--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

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Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDS

Franklin, Ruth.

Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FRA

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