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Summary: "In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMStrugatsky, Arkady
Summary: Originally written in 1974, Definitely Maybe is here presented in its first ever unexpurgated edition. Its protagonist, Dmitry Alekseyevich Malyanov is an astrophysicist; just as he begins to realise that he is on the verge of a revolutionary discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize, his life becomes plagued by strange events. Malyanov suspects that his discovery is in the way of someone (or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRGreenberg, Louis
Summary: When Lucie Sterling's daughter is abducted, she knows it'll be no easy feat to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move. Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Greenberg 2019Lowry, Lois.
Summary: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LOWLowry, Lois
Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOWBujold, Lois McMaster.
Summary: When a Kibou-daini cryocorp--an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan to check it out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJBujold, Lois McMaster.
Summary: "Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJLessing, Doris May
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESBujold, Lois McMaster
Summary: "Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission, into a mystery he never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJBujold, Lois McMaster.
Summary: Agent Miles Vorkosigan investigates terrorism and financial speculation on the planet Komarr. The story is told through the eyes of Ekaterin, the unhappily married wife of a government official with whom Vorkosigan falls in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJBujold, Lois McMaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJBujold, Lois McMaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SFBC Science Fiction 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJFlint, Eric
Summary: In 1636 France, King Louis sends his expectant wife, Queen Anne, into seclusion to keep her safe, while France's foreign enemies as well as traitors within the court make their move, forcing factions both inside and outside of the country to choose sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISummary: One evening everyone in a part of the English town of Midwich falls unconscious, and upon waking, every woman has fallen pregnant. The spawn of these pregnancies are The Midwich Cuckoos, a group of strange "children" who will change the town forever. Based on the iconic novel by John Wyndham comes the spine-chilling first season of The Midwich Cuckoos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSpurrier, Simon
Summary: "One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Vertigo, DC Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DRESummary: A must have, one of a kind, definitive space opera anthology with 15 new stories by top contemporary authors in top franchises as well as classic genre defining tales dating back over 60 plus years. With an introductory essay on space opera by Grand Master Robert Silverberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INFSummary: "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 ASHLewis, Linden A.
Summary: "First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars - the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain - Saito Ren - whom she knows nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books/Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023