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1) Dragondrums
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2003, c1979
Physical Desc
243 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans,...
3) Dragonsong
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 3
Harper Hall trilogy volume 1
Harper Hall trilogy volume 2
Harper Hall of Pern
Harper Hall trilogy volume 1
Harper Hall trilogy volume 2
Harper Hall of Pern
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Language
English
Description
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own "psi" powers--including...
5) Beautyland
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
131 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Having removed one President from office, only to make an instant mortal enemy of the new incumbent, Spider Jerusalem continues to investigate the death of his friend, campaign director Vita Severn. With the help of his filthy assistants, Spider discovers that the truth leads right to the top.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
142 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's election time, and that's bad news for Spider Jerusalem, the journalist who's returned to a bleakly funny future world from self-imposed exile. On one hand, there's incumbent President and Jerusalem's old bete noire, the Beast; on the other, smiling, vacuous Gary Callahan.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 pert 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
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 personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted...
12) Womb city
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
13) Catfish rolling
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years after a major earthquake in Japan creates different zones in which time passes differently, Sora and her father secretly investigate the off-limit zones in order to find the answer behind the time anomalies and the disappearance of Sora's mother.
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves. In "An Arc of Electric Skin," a roadside mechanic seeking justice volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical...
Author
Series
Heirloom books volume 1
Publisher
Aqueduct Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
359 pages : facsimile ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
136 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Prepare to be shocked as Spider Jerusalem takes us on another tour of the city's underbelly, turning over stones and generally stirring up wasp's nests. This story sees Spider, Channon and Yelena on the trail of a vicious gang of killers who are targeting the genetically "unclean".
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
139 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, determined to expose the misdeeds of a president that sent professional assassins after him, is diagnosed with a deadly brain infection as he and his crew of assistant investigators follow the trail of corruption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped pillars: politics, religion, and television. When Spider tries to shed light on the atrocities of these institutions, he finds himself fleeing a group of hitmen/kidnappers in possession of his ex-wife's frozen head, a distorted creature alleging to be his son, and a vicious talking police dog.
19) Gone wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen...
20) Defiant
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
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