Howey, Hugh
Summary: Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hugh Howey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHowey, Hugh
Summary: The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand. In this barren home, siblings Conner, Rob, Palmer and Violet daily carve out a future. They live in the shadow of their father and oldest sister, Vic, two of the greatest sand divers ever to comb the desert's depths. But these branches of their family tree are long gone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHowey, Hugh
Summary: "In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: In post-apocalyptic Colorado, a state now covered in sand, one family struggles to survive and stay united after the father leaves. Wife and mother, Rose, has only a whore house and as her income dwindles, she finds she must work in the establishment she runs. Her children, Palmer, Victoria, Rob and Conner, all take on the dangerous job of being sand divers, hoping to help their mother with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHowey, Hugh
Summary: "A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: "The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "In a world run by computers, hackers have power--and awkward, homeschooled Colt is among the best. But when Colt secretly submits his mother Naomi's breakthrough research to a biotech conference, and it is immediately shut down, mother and son are forced to go on the run. Now Colt is coding for his life. As the military, and Colt's father, hunt them through a Las Vegas of self-driving cars and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUSummary: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LOGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOGHuff, Tanya.
Summary: When former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds out why space pirates needed salvage operator Craig Ryder, she calls in the Marines to get him back--and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHough, Jason M.
Summary: How long must I wait for the sequel!?"--Raymond Benson, former James Bond novelist and author of the Black Stiletto series Praise for Jason M. Hough's The Darwin Elevator "A hell of a fun book."--James S. A. Corey, New York Times bestselling author of Abaddon's Gate "Hough's first novel combines the rapid-fire action and memorable characters associated with Joss Whedon's short-lived Firefly TV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUWaugh, Sylvia.
Summary: Upon suddenly learning that her parents are researchers from another planet and they must leave in seven days or risk discovery, twelve-year-old Nesta decides to stay in their York, England, home, whether or not her parents go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2006
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Summary: Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marine's marine. She's survived more deadly encounters--and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive--than anyone in the Corps. Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all will to escape. Now, Torin must fight her way not only out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2008
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Summary: Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFRudnick, Elizabeth.
Summary: While battling the Absorbing Man, the Incredible Hulk is captured and brought to the Cube after saving two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2013
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Summary: In this graphic adaptation of a story by Stanislaw Lem, a meteoroid damages astronaut and space traveller Ijon's spaceship, and he finds himself caught in a time loop, contending with past and future versions of himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MUTWolff, Tracy
Summary: The sun is dying. The Nine Planets' only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it's carrying. When some jackass that doesn't want the universe saved blows up that space station, seven strangers with deadly secrets escape in a stolen, busted-ass spaceship. Now every faction in the galaxy is hunting this ship, and apparently the only thing standing between a dying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOLHughes, Rian
Summary: At Jodrell Band in England Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin--a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGFlint, Eric.
Summary: Struggling to adjust to civilian life in a postwar seventeenth-century alternate-history Russia, ex-soldier Bernie Zeppi is hired by a government emissary to help usher in a new era of slavish serfdom to Moscow, where Bernie becomes an unexpected advocate of social progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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Summary: Catapulted two thousand years into the past by a cosmic force, the crew and passengers of a cruise ship struggle to survive in Egypt during the war-torn years of the Ptolemaic era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIAmos, Ruth
Summary: "Learn all about the heroes' top secret mission! Travel the galaxy with the Resistance heroes. Discover new planets and new friends. Find out about the First Order's plot to rule the galaxy! Can the heroes defeat the villains?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE AMOLauren, Ruth
Summary: "When thirteen-year-old Valor is arrested, she could not be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's sister Sasha is already serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape ... from the inside"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Lauren 2017Lauren, Ruth.
Summary: When Princess Anastasia goes missing the queen asks Valor to find and bring her home, and unless she succeeds, Valor and her new friends will be sent back to Tyur'ma prison.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018