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Contents: After its own death -- Walking ub a spiral towards the house
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.25th 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NIVChibber, Vivek
Summary: "Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society? Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of how capitalism works, how it limits the power of working and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.12 CHIRamaswamy, Vivek
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture." -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 RAMNiven, Larry.
Summary: A tale set ten years after the events in "Juggler of Worlds" traces the reluctant efforts of the Puppeteers to counter onrushing alien refugees who are ransacking the planets they pass on their way toward the Fleet of Worlds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: In the 28th Century, a war breaks out on Ringworld, a conglomeration of nations and cultures occupying 600 million miles of space. The hero is Louis Wu, a 200-year-old human scientist attempting to mediate the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVRamaswamy, Vivek
Summary: "A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAMShraya, Vivek
Summary: "A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited 2018
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Summary: "A playful story ... about a young boy's fascination with the dot on his mother's forehead"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHRShraya, Vivek
Summary: "In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's responses to them to startling life in "Death Threat", a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, "Death Threat" is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHRShraya, Vivek
Summary: "Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini's star rises and Neela's stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRNiven, Larry.
Summary: Contains two novels, including "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring," in which the crew of the spaceship "Discipline" inexplicably abandons the craft for a life on the Smoke Ring, a gaseous envelope encircling a neutron star, where they and their descendants remain for five hundred years while the emotionless computer intelligence Kendy waits for them just outside the ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: This book collects a dazzling assortment of Niven's most eclectic work into one captivating volume. Here are hand-selected excerpts from his novels as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, collaborations, and correspondence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiver, Heather Moore.
Summary: Learn about the history and design of the Corvette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2222 NIVNiven, Jennifer
Summary: "A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIVNiven, Jennifer.
Summary: "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIVNiven, Larry
Summary: "Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
Summary: Presents a collection of twenty-seven short science fiction stories that were written over a period of thirty-five years, including Neutron Star, The Magic Goes Away and The Borderland of Sol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1991
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Summary: When Louis Wu returns to Ringworld as a captive of the Hindmost, he discovers the world is no longer stable, and he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who first built the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Jennifer
Summary: "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school-- both teetering on the edge-- it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: When her college ambitions are upended by her father's sudden abandonment, an aspiring writer relocates with her mother to a mosquito-infested island off the coast of Georgia, where her efforts to rebuild are complicated by a local photographer's complicated secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Rick Schumann builds a tavern catering to visiting aliens, an interplanetary gathering place situated in Siberia that is known as Draco Tavern, in an anthology of short fiction that includes the previously unpublished "Losing Mars."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2006