Landvik, Lorna
Summary: " A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum--or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering the human who best personifies their mission--in this case, the deeply serious pursuit of fun. Ejected from the boring comfort of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANHamilton, Peter F.
Summary: The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel - self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMHowey, Hugh
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 HOWDuvall, Dianne
Summary: After a spaceship is attacked, an Earthling survivor, Eliana, is finally rescued by Commander Dagon. As he and Eliana hunt for her missing friends, a bond grows between them, until Eliana becomes the hunted one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUVMone, Gregory
Summary: Kaya, raised in the undersea, high-tech world of Atlantis, has always been fascinated by the legends about life above the water. Despite the government's insistence that they're only stories, she can't help but dream about the Sun People, and when a group of officials known as Erasers move to bury those legends for good, Kaya sets out to the surface to uncover the truth once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MONMone, Gregory
Summary: After their daring escape from Atlantis, Lewis, Hanna, and their resourceful Atlantean friend, Kaya, find themselves pulled between two worlds. Trapped on the surface under the watchful eyes of government officials, the three adventurers receive an urgent call to return their stolen warship to Atlantis, or risk starting an all-out war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC MONCampbell, Jack
Summary: As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. Presented with orders to carry out actions he believes not only are mistaken but would be contrary to the ideals of the Alliance, Geary has to decide whether he must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMCampbell, Jack
Summary: Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary is ordered to undertake a perilous new mission outside of the reaches of human-occupied space. Geary's warships must escort a diplomatic and scientific mission across the dangerous, disintegrating remnants of the Syndicate Worlds empire. But even if he can make it to Midway Star System, the gateway to alien-controlled space, Geary will face former Syndicate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: "A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluentlymixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mitchell 2014Mann, George
Summary: Travel to the far reaches of the Star Wars universe-- including to the remote outer rim world of Batuu from Galaxy's Edge-- with this unique treasury of in-world space tales. Featuring lush illustrations, this beautiful collection includes nine original fairy tales, myths, and fables. Passed down through generations, spanning millennia, carried from planet to planet, these are the legends that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Mone, Gregory
Summary: Lewis, Hanna, and Kaya, their resourceful Atlantean friend, embark on an all-new journey through Atlantis, from the sunken underwater world of Evenor to the tunnels below Ridge City. Bonus content includes science and robotics concepts in the story, and a scientist's take on the curious biology of mermaids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONRoth, Veronica
Summary: On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not--their gifts make them vulnerable to others' control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world? Cyra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROTDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOEMafi, Tahereh
Summary: With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette must navigate relationships, both old and new, as she continues her mission to take The Reestablishment down once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Riddle, A. G.
Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIDMaberry, Jonathan.
Summary: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are back in a chilling collection of all-new tales of dark secrets, alien agendas, terrifying monsters, and murderous madmen.Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, The Truth Is out There features original stories by bestselling authors Rachel Caine, David Wolverton, Hank Philippi Ryan, Kelley Armstrong, Kami Garcia, Greg Cox, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MABBujold, Lois McMaster.
Summary: "Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJConnolly, John
Summary: "Following Conquest, the first part in a stunning new science fiction trilogy that "should not to be missed" (The Guardian), Empire continues the journey of Syl and Paul as they fight to regain planet Earth from a ruthless alien species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Quantum physicist Doctor Ty Vogel identifies a pattern of sub-atomic particles in a data transmission being sent across space and time. That signal, and the message it carries, will change the world forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIDRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Adeline is an orphan. Her mother died three years ago when she was sixteen, and her father is lost 202 million years ago, in the late Triassic. Adeline knows he sacrificed his life to save hers, but her determination to find the truth reveals more questions. What has unnerved her father's ex-colleagues? What are they secretly digging for in the desert? Adeline will do whatever it takes to get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIDRingo, John
Summary: "With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINMiéville, China
Summary: In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIERingo, John
Summary: "With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde of zombies but also holds the flickering hope of survivors. Now Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINVarley, John
Summary: "On a voyage to New Earth, the starship Rolling Thunder is powered by an energy no one understands except for its eccentric inventor, Jubal Broussard. Like many of the ship's inhabitants, Jubal rests in a state of suspended animation for years at a time,asleep yet never aging. The moments when Jubal emerges from suspended animation are usually a cause for celebration for his family, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014