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Summary: Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF ADAAdams, Douglas
Summary: In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out on a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Summary: In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2005
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Summary: Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way thru comic misadventures throughout the Universe. In this installment Dent now seeks a decent cup of tea, while Prefect is after a good gin and tonic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Summary: The show that began with the end of the world at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe continues with Arthur Dent and friend Ford Prefect stranded on prehistoric Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008
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Summary: This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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Summary: Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way through comic misadventures throughout the Universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dove Audio 1993
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Summary: In this third of galactic adventures of Arthur Dent, he is transported from a prehistoric Earth through time to a crickett match at Lords Crickett Ground, two days before the earth is to be demolished by the Vogens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: SF AdamsAdams, Douglas
Summary: Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Summary: Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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Summary: A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world ... or save it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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Summary: NASA is designing a probe-raft-which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. A NASA team led by Melissa Veld develops a powerful, AI software program to operate the raft autonomously. As the probe is being tested an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the raft, called 'Jane,' flees into the Internet. Wyman Ford is tapped by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: NASA is designing a probe-raft-which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. A NASA team led by Melissa Shepherd has developed "Dorothy," a powerful, self-modifying AI software program to operate the raft autonomously. As the probe is being tested an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2014
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Summary: When a brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast, and NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars, it's just the start of the adventure for a former CIA operative, technicians, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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Summary: That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2016
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Summary: A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during the testing of an artificial intelligence designed for a NASA probe, the AI escapes to the internet. Now the programmer who created "Dorothy" must team up with former CIA agent Wyman Ford to locate her before something devastating happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2014Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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Summary: Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Preston 2016Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now ... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2016Marillier, Juliet
Summary: Harp of Kings begins with a sister and brother arriving on Swan Island to compete for permanent places among the island's team of elite warriors and covert operatives. Over a lengthy training period, Liobhan and Brocc will not only be assessed against each other, they will need to prove themselves against the sons of chieftains and war-leaders. The competition is fierce; only two or three out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Summary: Time Lord Professor Chronotis, having since retired to Cambridge University, absent-mindedly lends a very powerful book to clueless graduate student Chris Parsons, and must retrieve it from him before the evil Time Lord Skagra steals it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012