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Brewer, Gene. Bump, Gabriel Collins, Christina Mastai, Elan Newman, Sandra Robinson, JeremyMastai, Elan
Summary: "There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASBrewer, Gene.
Summary: When a new patient is brought to a hospital claiming to be an inhabitant of the planet, K-Pax, a place of no wars and no crime, a hospital seems to be just the place for him. But how to explain his supernatural powers? Virtually everybody who meets this extraordinarily gentle and empathetic character is changed for the better. Is mad really mad?
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREBump, Gabriel
Summary: "After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUMNewman, Sandra
Summary: "Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCollins, Christina
Summary: In a modern-day utopian community where mirrors, photos, and even words like beautiful and ugly are forbidden, a girl who has never seen her own face harbors a guilty curiosity about the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC COLRobinson, Jeremy
Summary: "A rising talent, Robinson is well-known in the community of action/adventure fans and has received amazing quotes in the past from big name authors like James Rollins, Steve Berry, and Scott Sigler. XOM-B has a great hook that is also an amazing plot twist, and is poised to bring him to the next level. Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCollins, Christina
Summary: Twelve-year-old artist Zailey lives in a utopian community where residents are forbidden from anything that might reveal their image, but when her grandmother discovers her secret collection of portraits, it triggers a chain of events that enables Zailey to view everything in a new way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2023