Chandrasekera, Vajra
Summary: "Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHABear, Greg
Summary: When a new information channel that enables the transmission of unprecedented volumes of data is developed, the bandwidth's users begin having strange experiences that lead to the realization that it might be a pathway to the spirit realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAReeve, Philip
Summary: In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REEHutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and July attempt to figure out what's happening, they must also confront why...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUTRobertson, Peter
Summary: "Colin Tugdale has only one year left to live. He has no complaints. He took the government money, and he lived for twenty years in perfect health, never growing one day older, never getting sick. But his time is almost over, and his beloved wife, Ruby, is already gone. Colin needs something to occupy himself. He meets a woman who should be dead. He sees a man who is dead. Is it possible that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibson House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBDoctorow, Cory
Summary: "Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the "Communist parties," techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCHaig, Matt
Summary: "Between life and death there is a library. Up until now, Nora Seed's life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. Each one contains...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAIRajaniemi, Hannu.
Summary: Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAJFlynn, Michael (Michael F.)
Summary: Drawing on themes from classic space opera works, a fast-paced tale follows the adventures of Captain Amos January and a host of rivals struggling to obtain an ancient pre-human artifact of great power that incites murderous actions in those who seek it. By the Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning author of Eifelheim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYHaig, Matt
Summary: "'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIWheaton, Mark
Summary: "A woman tries to find her way home in a world decimated by earthquakes, but there are people determined to stop her and harvest her DNA. Alice wakes up in the Los Angeles Quake Zone in 2025 having no idea how she got there. As her memories slowly return, she finds she's being hunted by several armed groups intent on capturing her alive. At the same time, Este, a survivor of the quakes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020