Shiga, Jason
Summary: Overview: Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said "Crazy + Genius = Shiga." Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIRollins, James
Summary: An ancient relic, a murdered man, an international think tank of scientists known as the Jasons who have discovered a way to bioengineer autistic children, and a plot to wipe out a quarter of the world's population have two men racing against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history--the Greek Oracle of Delphi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Avon 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ROLWells, Martha
Summary: A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2017
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Summary: "The mighty engines of Anchorage have been rusted and dead for years. The derelict city no longer roams the Ice Wastes, but has settled on the edge of the land that was once America. Tom and Hester are happy in the safety of a static settlement, but their daughter Wren is ripe for rebellion. A dangerously charming submarine pirate offers her escape - but he wants something in return. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REEHeinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)
Summary: Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEIFry, Jason
Summary: Who is Darth Vader? How did the once great Jedi become a fearsome villain? Who are the allies and foes Darth Vader has faced? In this biography -- complete with black-and-white illustrations, timelines, and character profiles -- young readers will delight in learning the complete history of the Sith Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRYBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "In a world that has barely survived an apocalypse that leaves it with pre-twentieth century technology, Lozen is a monster hunter for four tyrants who are holding her family hostage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUStephenson, Neal
Summary: Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBitt, Nate
Summary: Best friends Travis and Journey love going to Arcade World, a mysterious arcade filled with video games no one has ever heard of, and with new friend Devonte they must figure out how to handle the giant robot invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BITMeyer, Marissa.
Summary: Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEYLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: 2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSNiven, Larry.
Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVMeyer, Marissa
Summary: "Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they are plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who has only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she is being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEYAdodo, Edudzi
Summary: After stumbling upon a strange, golden pyramid that imbues him with a legendary power, Zero is recruited to take part in a dangerous, intergalactic quest to track down the infamous mask of the Shaman King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: "In the second installment of The Darkest Minds trilogy, Ruby joins forces with the revolutionary Children's League to find critical information about the epidemic that has torn both her life and America apart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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Summary: A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life, and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe, a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHURollins, James
Summary: A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore leads Commander Gray Pierce into a mystery that is connected to horrific Nazi experiments, an insidious madness affecting Buddhist monks, a possible mythological beast run amok in South Africa, and a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLModesitt, L. E.
Summary: Someone is trying to kill Daryn Alwyn. Born to privilege, with pre-selected genetic advantages and the best nanotech augmentation his father's fabulous money can buy, Daryn spurned the lucrative family Media Network to seek his own path, a crafty raven among soaring eagles. After serving with distinction as a space pilot in the military, he enjoys success as a media consultant. But when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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Summary: The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWBuxbaum, Julie
Summary: When Sky Patel-Baum is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she never imagines she'll end up in Area 51, a top-secret military base. Sky feels like she's landed in a whole new world, even though she hasn't left the planet. Because guess what? Area 51 is full of aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. But something even stranger is happening in Area 51--aliens are going missing. Where could they be?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUXWinick, Judd
Summary: Hilo and his friends learn more about Hilo's past while they battle robots that were buried underground on Earth a thousand years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: Travis and Journey are best friends who love going to Arcade World, a mysterious arcade filled with video games no one has ever heard of, so when they learn the danger of the games coming to life they must save the world from pixelated Minibosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: "When their parents are kidnapped by the Empire while exploring the far reaches of Wild Space, Milo and Lina Graf set out to rescue them. With their monkey-lizard, Morq, and their family droid, CR-8R, Milo and Lina fly their parents' starship, the Whisper Bird, to the remote planet of Thune to ask an old friend for help. But the evil Captain Korda has set a trap for them! Will Milo and Lina be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SCOMikuta, Zoe Hana
Summary: War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords. Their rule is aided by giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When Eris finds herself in a Godolia prison she meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021