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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil"--
Author
Series
comet cycle volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. It brought a powerful new metal to the once-declining Midwest; alien fungus to the forests of the Pacific Northwest; and now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds itself in the atmosphere. The National Weather Service dismisses the anomaly. Then, an hour outside of Fairbanks, a plane shudders...
3) Like thunder
Author
Series
Desert magician's duology volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor's Shadow Speaker contains the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a star of the literary science fiction and fantasy space and put her at the forefront of Africanfuturist fiction"--
Author
Series
Probability trilogy volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Humans, having gained the ability to travel through space via a network of stargates left behind by vanished aliens, discover the planet World, inhabited by humanoids that have a shared reality, possibly caused by a huge alien artifact orbiting the planet.
5) Bridge
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with...
6) Calico
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When chef Owen Slader vanishes driving through the Mojave desert, the case is assigned to disgraced former LAPD detective Beth McDade. Beth might be searching for a way out, but all roads lead to local ruins known as Calico Ghost Town . . . and to a conclusion that will shake not just her entire existence, but will unbalance the world"--
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"--
8) The sandbox
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the CEO of the world’s leading artificial intelligence company is found murdered in his home, former Army CID officer Valerie Marks is thrust into her first case as a homicide detective. Valerie has a gift for reading people, a gift that has never failed her before. But that gift is put to the test when her instincts point her to an impossible suspect—an AI born from a secret venture with the Pentagon known as Project Nomad.
To learn the...
Author
Series
Bleach volume Vol. 1
Language
English
Description
Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy.
...10) Counterweight
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 160 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to the ire of the Patusan natives--the Korean conglomerate...
Author
Series
Zoey Ashe volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she's trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a criminal empire is navigating a futuristic world of high-tech liars and cutthroats, forced to learn the rules of a devious game she never asked to play. Now she's facing a crisis that is both bigger and stranger than all that came before: The gleaming new city of Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual...
12) The Loudness
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
330 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry Long doesn't have a heart. He doesn't go to school. He doesn't have a girlfriend. He doesn't have a clue. Two of those things are about to change.
Since the Tragedies, Henry Long doesn't have much: just an annoying low-watt buzz from his makeshift heart transplant, skinny arms, and a dusty library attic, from which he charts the reconstruction of the Green Zone, the last habitable neighborhood of his ruined coastal city. While his parents work...
Author
Series
Pegasus landing volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Graham dies when the world ends. Then he wakes up on a space station on the other side of the galaxy, and the adventure begins. Jason and five hundred million other humans have been resurrected (and rejuvenated to young adulthood) by alien benefactors in orbit around an Earth-like world that is abundant in natural resources and totally untamed. For the newly awakened humans, this is a chance to start society with a clean slate and a bright...
14) The deep sky
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind--except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
15) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
608 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world’s best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they’ve sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren’t responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It’s a time when the entire crew should...
Author
Series
Star Trek Prodigy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
139 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling through the Delta Quadrant, the Protostar crew discovers a worn transporter coil on their ship. Fortunately, there's a marketplace nearby to pick up supplies for repair Unfortunately, the crew has no chimerium left to trade. Is there something else of value they might be able to barter? And in a marketplace teeming with seedy traders, will Dal and his crew manage to stay out of trouble?
17) Starter villain
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.
Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.
But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...
19) Unravel Me
Author
Series
Shatter Me volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
461 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her--people with gifts--and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch.
Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible.
Haunted by her past and terrified of her future, Juliette knows...
Author
Series
Star Wars The Old Republic volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After hundreds of years, the Sith Empire has returned to the galaxy, determined to crush the Republic that sent them into exile. For young Sith Teneb Kel, this is his only chance to rise above his lowly beginnings as a slave and prove his worth to the Dark Council. Yet the mission for him is unexpected. He will not hunt Jedi, but rather a fellow Sith who has betrayed the Empire--the Emperor's apprentice!