Herbert, Brian
Summary: Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the rise of his son, little is known about the quiet ruler of Caladan and his partner Jessica. Or how a Duke of an inconsequential planet earned an emperor's favor, the ire of House Harkonnen, and set himself on a collision course with his own death. This is the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerbert, Brian
Summary: "In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEROliver, Ben
Summary: "Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLISkrutskie, Emily
Summary: "A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love--only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SKROliver, Ben
Summary: "In the final installment of ... [the] Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet ... [The] escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw[s] nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLIVanderMeer, Jeff.
Summary: "In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Shocking events take place for Donna, Jefferson, Kath, and their tribe as they face their greatest challenge yet--how to hold the new city-state of New York against a ruthless attack from the Old World. Heart-stopping action and exciting new revelations will leave readers hungry for the final installment in the series."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEIWeitz, Chris
Summary: Old friends are separated when Jefferson tries to bring a cure for the mysterious Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe in New York City while Donna faces an unimaginable new world in England, but an even greater disaster than the Sickness looms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEID'Amato, Brian.
Summary: Math prodigy Jed DeLanda uses his divination knowledge to set events in motion to bring about the necessary destruction of humanity, an effort that is countered by the organization that sent him into the world of the ancient Maya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMBradley, Marion Zimmer.
Summary: King Carolin and Varzil Ridenow, a Keeper, join forces to bring peace to Darkover, but an enemy from Carolin's past, caught in the grip of a compulsion spell, is desperate to bring about the death of these two courageous men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRANeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir in Until the Last of Me, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at the 1960s space race with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence. The First Rule is the most important: "Always run, never fight." Over 100 generations, Mia's family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUConnolly, John
Summary: "Following Conquest, the first part in a stunning new science fiction trilogy that "should not to be missed" (The Guardian), Empire continues the journey of Syl and Paul as they fight to regain planet Earth from a ruthless alien species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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Summary: "Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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Summary: "The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palmaas speculative thriller trilogy (which began with "The Map of Time" unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed biologist Herbert George Wells' attempt to create a virus that will allow the residents of his doomed steampunk world to escape to another realm free of threat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALFadugba, Femi
Summary: Today; During arguably the worst week of Esso's life, an accident knocks him into an incredible world--a place beyond space or time, where he can see glimpses of the past and future. But if what he sees there is true, he might not have much longer to live, unless he can use his new gift to change the course of history. Tomorrow; Rhia's past is filled with questions, none of which she expects a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FADWesterfeld, Scott.
Summary: Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: LP YA FIC WESAmish.
Summary: The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path of evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westland
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIShusterman, Neal
Summary: Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, pieces of his Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists, are on the hunt for the pieces, and their leader, Dr. Alan Jorgenson, will stop at nothing to foil Nick and steal the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SHUBuckley-Archer, Linda.
Summary: Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BUCDick, Philip K.
Summary: VALIS is a disorienting and bleakly funny novel about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICGunn, James E.
Summary: "Riley and Asha have been transformed into something more than human by the Transcendental Machine. Now they must save the fringes of civilization. Planets at the edge of the Federation have fallen silent. The arrogant Federation bureaucracy grudgingly allows Riley and Asha to investigate. They join forces with a planetary A.I., a paranoid Federation watchdog, and a member of a splinter group...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2017
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Summary: Seeking a powerful weapon to avenge her broken heart, Esmae tackles threatening elements of her past and an army of supernatural enemies while searching for the truth behind what happened to her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANSmith, Mitchell
Summary: With the peace of the Middle Kingdom shattered by the deaths of the King and Queen and the murder of the crown Prince, Bajazet, the only surviving member of the royal family, becomes a pawn in a twisted game of political intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIWendig, Chuck
Summary: As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance--now a fledgling New Republic--presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2015