Summary: The Jetsons were the very first family, animated or not, to have a big-screen home entertainment system decades before it became reality. They also had flying cars, floating cities and androids, all commonplace scenery in today's most popular sci-fi blockbusters. Now this beloved series teletransports onto DVD, 75 hilarious episodes plus a bonus movie!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Je 1-3Plato.
Summary: Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. ... These are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Weaver Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAKelley, Margot Anne
Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Collins, Christina
Summary: Twelve-year-old artist Zailey lives in a utopian community where residents are forbidden from anything that might reveal their image, but when her grandmother discovers her secret collection of portraits, it triggers a chain of events that enables Zailey to view everything in a new way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLLowry, Lois.
Summary: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOWPalmer, Ada
Summary: "The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech ... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALGrant, Michael
Summary: The struggle for control between the Armstrong twins and the group known as BZRK continues with the stakes higher than ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAGrant, Michael
Summary: "In the concluding book in the BZRK trilogy, war is again being waged in the macro and the nano, and Lear's identity is finally uncovered"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRACline, Ernest
Summary: Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest, a last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLICollins, Christina
Summary: In a modern-day utopian community where mirrors, photos, and even words like beautiful and ugly are forbidden, a girl who has never seen her own face harbors a guilty curiosity about the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Levin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: The nationally syndicated radio host explores the philosophical basis of America's foundations as well as the crises facing government today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.973 LEVLowry, Lois.
Summary: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LOWMastai, Elan
Summary: "There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASPalmer, Ada
Summary: It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war. In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion--but ecumenical "sensayers" minister in private, one-on-one. In which gendered language is archaic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALMore, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadview Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.02 MORReece, Erik
Summary: "For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335 REEGilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
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Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2008
Bump, Gabriel
Summary: "After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEShawl, Nisi
Summary: Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: "This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems--even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Weaver Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAKapur, Akash
Summary: "A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia -- and the often devastating cost of idealism. It's the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world -- Auroville, an international utopian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.82 KAPPalmer, Ada
Summary: "From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBregman, Rutger
Summary: "A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, with central tenets including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017