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 OLDFrumkin, 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 FRUKollin, Dani.
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 KOLEmrys, 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 EMRMbue, 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 2020Mbue, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MBUBell, 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 BELFinder, 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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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 OLDEdelman, David Louis.
Summary: The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from Margaret Surina's unscrupulous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC EDE J2 # 3Haig, Brian.
Summary: After Jack Wiley rallies corporate giant Capitol Group in an attempt to take over a small company that has developed an armor-reinforcing polymer that could change the course of modern warfare, he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal ever seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIScalzi, 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 SCAFinder, Joseph.
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 FINKollin, Dani.
Summary: Exiled hero Justin Cord works to outmaneuver a power-hungry corporate Earth society that has launched an interplanetary war in order to regain control over the outer planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOLOlder, Malka Ann.
Summary: "It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLDRocha, Kit
Summary: "Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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Summary: A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANWells, 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 TITLEHart, Rob
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMuller, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MULNayler, Ray
Summary: "Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction NaylerVaca, 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 VACFinder, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FINKollin, Dani.
Summary: Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, O'Toole has become a powerful political figure determined to win the civil war against the inner planets at almost any cost, although the war has been going badly, nothing is predictable, even the behavior of artificial intelligences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012