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Summary: When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments, which they hope to keep secret, they propose an experiment that will upend the human race as we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hutchinson Heinemann 2023
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Summary: "An adventure story that examines consent and privacy in a way that books have not had to before this generation where everything is online. As much as Paige hates the word normal, it's a pretty good word to describe her life, and the kind of night she was having just before a single email turned her world upside down. In an effort to better understand and communicate with their autistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILSummary: When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray Movie Circle 2017Summary: A look at the world's water crisis and how the causes of the depleting water supply is connected to pollution, human rights, and even politics. Features interviews with scientists and activists. Includes commentary, expanded interviews, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2008
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLOSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESummary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMMohamed, Premee
Summary: "Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In post-apocalyptic Seattle, a genetically engineered female bike messenger joins forces with a crusading journalist to expose corporate corruption and find fellow superhumans like herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESGrumley, Michael C.
Summary: After surviving a bus accident, veteran John Reiff awakens in the hospital alive and suspicious that the doctors aren't telling him something.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRU1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GRU
Summary: "Last season, Dolores sacrificed herself to free humankind from the grip of an artificial intelligence. Season Four picks up seven years after the protracted war. Humanity is finally free...or so it seems. Maeve and Caleb suspect that Hale and a host version of the Man in Black are seeding a conspiracy to regain control"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESSummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIRSummary: Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BORSteel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Matios, Maria
Summary: "The best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCohen, Joshua
Summary: "The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHSummary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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Summary: "From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022
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Summary: After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2009
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICSummary: Two men in New York's Washington Heights district wrestle with ambition and identity. They fight to overcome the violence of their neighborhood and their struggle to find a better life is fueled with brutality and disappointment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WASSummary: This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010