Older, Malka
Summary: The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLDMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mbue 2020Finder, Joseph.
Summary: Nick Heller comes to the aid of family friend Marshall Marcus, whose daughter Alexandra, has been kidnapped and held captive in an underground crypt, but as Nick digs deeper into Marshall's life, he finds that his criminal activities have left behind scores of enemies that reach to the highest levels of government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY FINBell, Matt
Summary: "In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELGrisham, John.
Summary: When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 FIC GRIFrumkin, Rafael
Summary: "At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He's also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRUMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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Summary: Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in middle age. Once the company's hottest mergers and acquisitions executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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Summary: Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn, the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases, has slipped into a coma, Avery's life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ABRFinder, Joseph.
Summary: Private investigator Nick Heller returns home to Boston to start up his own business. His first job is to quickly find Alexandra, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a hedge fund tycoon who has been kidnapped. Worse, Alexandra, who Nick has known since she was a baby, is buried alive and the entire ordeal is being streamed over the Internet. As Nick investigates, he discovers Marshall Marcus,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: Despised after a massive layoff at his company, corporate CEO Nick Conover protects his two children from local hostilities but finds things spinning out of control when a stalker threatens his family and Nick is blamed for a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FINVaca, Julian R.
Summary: "In a gripping and stunning coming-of-age novel, Julian R. Vaca reimagines a 1987 world where memories are as valuable as gold. In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. To fight memory loss, men and women rely on artificial recall by storing memories on tapes and playing them back. Society's elite, dubbed recollectors, are able to retain "three-quarter memories" on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VACMuller, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MULWells, 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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Summary: When Alpine's newspaper, "The Advocate," narrowly escapes a potential hostile takeover, Emma Lord finds herself on the top of the suspect list when the person behind the bid turns up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma"-- Avery Keene, a law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to excel in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the news breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Abrams 2021Frey, Stephen W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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Summary: Zinnia never thought she'd be infiltrating Cloud. But now she's undercover, inside the walls, risking it all to ferret out the company's darkest secrets. And Paxton, with his ordinary little hopes and fears? He just might make the perfect pawn--if she can bear to sacrifice him. him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2019
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Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: Brilliant 21st century tycoon Justin Cord was brought from cryogenic storage into a 24th-century society where people own stock in one another, safeguarding each other's welfare only out of economic self-interest. This is anathema to the defiantly individualistic Cord, who leads the outer edges of the solar system to form a new government and revolt against the core worlds of Earth and Mars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOLScalzi, John
Summary: "Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCAOlder, Malka
Summary: "After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLDEmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EMRRotella, Sebastian
Summary: Valentine Pescatore returns from Buenos Aires to American soil, investigating the merciless killing of a group of women in a motel room. At first, the crime seems to be a straightforward case of gangsters battling for territory. Soon, however, the motive is revealed to be much deeper and more sinister: a single witness who knows too much is being hunted, at any cost. His case converges with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018