Summary: An irresistible force draws the TARDIS to the barren surface of Frontios, where in the far future the last surviving humans cower amongst the ruins of their wrecked spacecraft. Under constant threat from lethal meteorite bombardments, few of the doomed colony members realize that the ground of Frontios itself opens up and devours the unwary. Not permitted to assist, the Doctor attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: 1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ja 3Summary: The mighty Mads Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed in the Wild West in this white-knuckle tale of revenge. When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down. Exploding with eye-popping action, dazzlingly dramatic frontier landscapes, and a smoldering performance by Eva Green,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2015
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SALCharry, Brinda
Summary: "Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAGreene, Rhonda Gowler.
Summary: Rhyming verses trace the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRESummary: Establishing a home in the New World is by no means an easy task, particularly in the wild backcountry of North Carolina during a period of dramatic political upheaval. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which, as Claire knows all too well, is unwittingly marching towards Revolution. Jamie must now defend this home established on land granted to him by the Crown although this new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OUTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD OUTCopies Available at Woodmere
6 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV OUTDalcher, Christina
Summary: "A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women-only colony, only to find that the safe haven they were hoping for is the most dangerous place they could be. Miranda Reynolds always thought she would rather die than live in Femlandia. But that was before the country sank into total economic collapse and her husband walked out in the harshest,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALGablé, Rebecca.
Summary: Set in northern Europe in the year 850, best friends Candamir and Osmund set out to find new land for their people after their village is attacked, but on their quest they encounter a violent storm and are washed ashore on the island of Catan where they quickly set about building a new society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gable 2011Collins, Ailynn
Summary: When the leaders of Fortuna colony decide they must leave after some human colonists disappear, their alien hosts, who welcomed them but never showed themselves, invite the colonists to a final feast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLSteele, Allen M.
Summary: For the colonists on Coyote, the arrival of additional colonists, along with a repressive government, forces them to flee to new territory, but the harsh regime of the colonial governor threatens to engulf both sides in a full-scale rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESummary: In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun. Hoping for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, the Cylons. But after an act of treachery, the Cylons launch a devasting surprise attack, destroying the Colonies' home planet. A lone flagship, the Galactica, remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATGibbs, Stuart
Summary: In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIBKaufman, Amie.
Summary: Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAUSteele, Allen M.
Summary: A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEHerbert, Brian.
Summary: Transforming a hostile planet decimated by natural disasters into a land of opportunity for desperate colonists, exiled General Adolphus forges alliances as part of a plan to overthrow the tyrannical government and uncovers an ancient civilization whose buried secrets threaten the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HER HH #2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SF Herbert 2011Wells, Martha
Summary: "Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLENewman, Emma
Summary: "From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing ... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWBurke, Sue
Summary: Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: In the not-too-distant future, Todd Hewitt discovers Viola, a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by "the Noise," a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola's life is threatened by the mayor of Todd's town, and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Games, Call number: DVD CHAOnyebuchi, Tochi
Summary: "In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ONYRusch, Kristine Kathryn.
Summary: Captain Kirk and the Enterprise must defend the colonists of Belle Terre from aliens using biochemical warfare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSNiven, Larry.
Summary: The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVKline, Christina Baker
Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kline 2020Niven, Larry
Summary: "Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020