Werlin, Nancy
Summary: Planning is Zoe Rosenthal's superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn't sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to "save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WERHarper, Janelle
Summary: "A picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARBereznai, Steven
Summary: Mad genius Doctor BetterThan is out to finish what the Genetic Wars started-- destroy the world. With his unique time-looping abilities, he has all the do-overs he needs to thrash pesky superheroes-- mere gnats as far as he's concerned-- intent on thwarting him. But on the cusp of victory, she comes along-- fellow mad genius Merry Lynn Monroe. Sparks fly as she and her cybernetic ladymatoms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jambor 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERSmith, Ali
Summary: A girl's friendship with an older neighbor stands at the center of this multifaceted meditation on aging, art, love, and affection.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIWallace, David Foster.
Summary: The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible.--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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Summary: Sandra Foster studies fads, from Barbie dolls to the grunge look - how they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theory scientist studying monkeys' group behavior. They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package brings them together. It's a moment of synchronicity - if not serendipity - and they find themselves in a chaotic system of their own,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILLipsyte, Sam
Summary: Hark Morner, the unwitting guru behind "Mental Archery"--a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga, and archery--is set to be raised to near-messiah status, a role for which he is woefully underprepared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lipsyte 2019Piazza, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIAYu, Charles
Summary: "From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Yu 2020Willis, Connie.
Summary: A romantic comedy on two scientists using the chaos theory to predict fads in our society. They are Sandra and Bennet, working on the premise that a tiny action like the flap of a butterfly's wings in Arizona has an impact on the whole world, perhaps resulting in a hurricane in China. The couple's work on fad-diffusion produces comic as well as tragic results.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILCoupland, Douglas
Summary: "Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 COUBritt, Ryan
Summary: Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The Spice Must Flow brings the true popularity of Dune out into the light for the very first time. With original interviews with the beloved actors and directors behind the films--including Timothée Chalamet, Kyle Maclachlan, Denis Villeneuve, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Newman, and many more-- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2023