Summary: Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMorrell, David
Summary: Before I Wake is a thriller fan's dream, a rich, resonant collection that reminds us, once again, of its author's enduring and unmistakable importance. This is popular fiction as it should be written. It doesn't get better than this. Before I Wake shows us Morrell at the top of his game. Each of the stories gathered here is a compelling, beautifully crafted gem. Each is the clear product of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORGenhart, Michael
Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENScott, Caroline
Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Contents: 1. Fiction in the 1740s: backgrounds, topics, strategies -- 2. Romance and the "new" novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett -- 3. Fiction as contemporary history -- 4. Fiction as contemporary biography: tales of low life -- 5. Fiction as contemporary biography: records of spiritual life -- 6. "Novelistic" fiction in the 1740s -- 7. Fiction as artifice: the achievement of Henry Fielding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1982
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 823.5 BEAHibbert, Talia
Summary: "She wants a fake relationship. He needs something real. If there's one thing Rae can't stand, it's pity. She's forty, frazzled, and fed up - so attending an awards ceremony alone while her ex swans about with his new wife? Not an option. To avoid total humiliation, Rae needs a date of her own. And her young, hot-as-hell new best friend is the perfect candidate... Zach Davis, king of casual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nixon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBSummary: A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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Summary: "For film buffs and literature lovers alike, this is an essential guide to 52 great reads, and the cinema classics they inspired"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LOPHajaj, Claire
Summary: "Who decides what is right? How do we judge our actions? And how do we live with ourselves when things go wrong? Following his father's death, troubled idealist Nick abandons his safe London life for a remote desert village in Africa, lending his engineering skills to build a children's hospital. Adrift from the world he knows, dangerous currents soon pull him in: a simmering family conflict,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2018
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Summary: Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life forever. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILMendelson, Edward.
Summary: An exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portray the essential experiences of life. For Mendelson--a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University--these classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers who are thinking about the course of their own lives. Looking beyond theories to the individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Lit MendelsonMills, Magnus
Summary: A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In is Magnus Mills's most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar and disturbingly close to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILPalmer, Diana.
Summary: Rugged ranchers Mack Killain and Gil Callister meet their romantic matches in this collection of two previously published novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALHoby, Hermione
Summary: "New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBOsborne, Lawrence
Summary: In order to escape his boring English life, Robert, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, re-imagines himself in Cambodia where he befriends an unstable American, falls in love with a wealthy young woman, and is threatened by the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSBTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: A dramatized radio production adapted from Tolkien's classic work.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLSummary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAAdams, Douglas
Summary: In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre. For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections. comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERSummary: "Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinventing of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventures, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nonstop Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ASHSummary: Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine; fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has pored through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Solaris 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMatthews, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vega 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 MATCussler, Dirk
Summary: "In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023