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"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his...
2) The bezzle
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Martin Hench volume 2
Language
English
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The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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14 audio discs (17 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harlan Ellison's work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time.
6) In ascension
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS--the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It's personal to her, and when she's assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that crew is hiding something. And Ophelia's crewmates...
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English
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"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the cute outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard. She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like...
9) Scorpio
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Series
Frontlines evolution volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"It's been eight years since an alien invasion drove a small surviving group of settlers to seek refuge in an underground shelter. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the ragtag band has maintained a narrowly functioning colony due to communal effort and salvage runs. Alex Archer has her own duties as a dog handler. While this off-world colony may be harsh, Ash, Alex's black shepherd raised to sense threats, makes living in it a little nicer. But the...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discover awe, wonder, and unexpected adventure in the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore, including how they found their way into every corner of today's pop culture.
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2024]
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403 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe.
Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled the Raven Tower.
Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls.
And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (312 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's nonstop ninja action as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face off against new enemies and old, including the Rat King, Cockroach, Baxter Stockman, and more! All this, leading to the ultimate showdown against the Kraang and the Shredder himself!
Get lean, mean, and green with the Turtles team! Join Leo, Donnie, Raph, and Mikey as they take to the streets of NYC, where every turn yields a new enemy. Get ready for non-stop battles against Kraang-droids,...
13) Big time
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Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken?
Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has...
Series
Fringe volume s. 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 17 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Fringe team escapes from the parallel universe, except for Olivia, trapped in the other world and replaced in ours by her double, who turns Peter and Olivia's tentative relationship into a love affair.
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English
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With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.—an enthralling, history-bending adventure traversing time and space, fact and fiction, magic and science co-written with #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson—a daring young time traveler must return to Jacobean England to save the modern world.
This fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling near-future adventure The Rise and Fall
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Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn--the only one to ever enter the forest and survive--is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past"--
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Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes--literally--when he is yanked 'upstairs' and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite. Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as 'the professor,' a weary idealist and descendant of the Chained who has spent her career...
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces centuries of invention and technological innovation in the Muslim world, revealing how Muslim intellectuals built elephant water clocks, drew detailed world maps, and built colossal architectural structures.
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Publisher
Brown Books Kids [an imprint of Brown Books Publishing Group]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As much as two hundred and fifty-three million years ago, the most incredible beasts roamed this earth. They ruled supreme on the land, under the water, and in the air for some one hundred million years before their time came to an end. Now, all these years later, we study their bones--and the earth's memory of their bones--to learn as much about them as we can. For years, humans have marveled at dinosaurs and have strived to learn more about these...
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