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1) In Ascension
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
Author
Series
Monstress volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.
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...
5) 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
Fractalverse volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
7) Giver, The
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
180 p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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.
Author
Series
Forgetting volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
10) Circle of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2088, the world is in chaos as a powerful weapon, Command, is unleashed and Lamont Cranston, also known as The Shadow, and his small group of allies must race to stop the end of the world.
11) After death
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Lazarus is humanity's last hope in a breathtaking novel about the absolute powers of good and evil by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability...
12) 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...
Author
Series
The wild robot volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scott and Hope, along with Hank and Janet, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with bizarre creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.
15) The marvels
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carol Danvers gets her powers entwined with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
538 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the '90s, Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent on their destruction name Scourge.
18) Moongarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
Ages 10+
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, it begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.