Summary: Set in a blighted Nevada outpost in 2007, a telepathic father and daughter lead a group of media outlaws in resistance against a corporate/governmental "New Electronic Order" that threatens to use the earth's magnetosphere to "bulk erase" the brains of every human on the planet. The only way to save humanity is to uncover a secret lodged in an old episode of the 1950s series Science in Action....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Johnson, Jeff

Summary: "Born in Missouri more than a century ago and raised in a Pentecostal orphanage, the creature now calling himself Gelson Verber has changed his name countless times. He's part-werewolf, and makes his living hunting certain kinds of bad men-criminals, rapists, thugs-in an often grotesque parody of the natural order. Verber is clearly suffering from the kinds of things a werewolf would be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press 2016

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Murray, Diana

Summary: "Someday, Maybe is an inventive and inspiring picture book that imagines the exciting jobs, discoveries, and innovations that children dream of for their futures"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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Mullen, Thomas

Summary: "Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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Eason, Lynette.

Summary: Samantha Cash has a skill Connor Wolfe needs - catching killers through computers. When she poses as a target, her virtual world becomes real - and deadly.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2010

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Iles, Greg.

Summary: Resisting those who would use a revolutionary new technology for unethical purposes, doctor David Tennant and psychiatrist Rachel Weiss run for their lives from ruthless NSA agents and turn to David's unusual dreams for guidance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003

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Beckett, L. X.

Summary: "Ruby Whiting has done the impossible. She has proved that humanity deserves a seat at the galactic table. Well, at least a shot at a seat. Having convinced the galactic governing body that mankind deserves a chance at fixing their own problems, Ruby hasdone her part to launch the planet into a new golden age of scientific discovery and technological revolution. However, there are still those...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021

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Cole, Barry Lee.

Summary: When Tom Craft discovers a small wood box hidden in the floorboards of his grandmother's house he discovers details about a new energy technology, designed by his grandfather, that lay hidden for 100 years. A note, in his grandfather's writing, warns the finder that should this technology be revealed the life of this individual is in grave danger. With fossil fuel being king, the largest oil...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Dog Publishing 2015

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Phillips, Stephanie

Summary: "Social media status determines real world status in this near-future YA coming of age story. Averee is a typical high schooler living in the near future where social media status has real world consequences. The app, Ranked, determines everyone's status, not just online, but in real life; who you can hang out with, what places you have access to, what schools you can get into, and what jobs...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World, Inc. 2021

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Godfrey, Daniel

Summary: In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption. Nick Houghton doesn't know why he's been chosen to be the company's historical advisor. He's just excited to be there....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2016

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Weinstein, Alexander

Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016

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Wheaton, Mark

Summary: Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018

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Summary: A rare glimpse of early Japanese anime and prewar Japanese culture, The roots of Japanese anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's sea eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan's first feature anime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zakka Films 2008

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Kerr, Philip.

Summary: A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister ... close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the Propaganda Minister's command.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015

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Summary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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Martini, Steve

Summary: Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Gable, Michelle

Summary: "1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotnà is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others--now nicknamed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022

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Summary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Macaulay, Rose

Summary: "A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022

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Singer, P. W. (Peter Warren)

Summary: "What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in theair, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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Smith, Nicholas Sansbury

Summary: From his throne in Salt Lake City, Rattlesnake leader Eddy "Ahiga" Nez rules the wild lands through terror and violence despite a ceasefire he signed with the newly inaugurated American President. As more blood spills, Raven, Calvin, and Lindsey band together in one last effort to save their home. But to do that, they must stop the source of the evil destroying the New Frontier. Eddy Nez must die.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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