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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective - Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint - a bewildering, alienating and yet enthralling place. From his rapturously weird takes on contemporary reality to his classic dystopias like The Drowned World and High Rise, Ballard's legacy shaped the future of literature. This...
2) Finna
Author
Series
LitenVerse volume 1
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store -- but not that one -- slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture...
Author
Language
English
Description
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
''For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control. Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
" Our world is full of computers, from simple calculators to the smartphones that keep the internet at our fingertips. This entertaining guide traces the history of these scientific developments and how modern computer systems function today, covering AI,coding, robotics and much more! Big new concepts pop off the page, thanks to vibrant diagrams and an engaging, energetic prose style. Kids will relish sharing them with friends and family!"--
"Children...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Cat partners with Dani to study crop circles, but Dani secretly aims to disprove Cat's theory, and during their investigations they discover a dangerous rival also seeking answers who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
"Cat knows aliens are real, and she’s determined to prove it. By studying the Weston Farm Circles, her town’s legendary crop circle phenomenon, she’ll not only demonstrate the existence of extraterrestrial...
6) In ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Space-obsessed Murphy Shannon is pumped that his 6th grade class is visiting the Rayburne Observatory. Except, being a know-it-all means he's totally bored with the lectures he has to sit through. So when classmates Orly and Cleo say they should exploreon their own, Murphy sneaks out with them. But when they come face-to-face with the strange Dr. Rayburne and his experiments, they realize they may be in way over their heads"--
Author
Series
Book of the new Sun volume 1-2
Publisher
Tor Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume: The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the...
Author
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Ilustraciones claras y fascinantes – y totalmente nuevas, creadas especialmente para este proyecto. - Expone miles de fenómenos y procesos científicos, tecnológicos y naturales: ideal para el aprendizaje STEM. - Información contextualizada y revisada por expertos que explica conceptos clave de un modo claro y fiable. - Interesante y apropiado para niños a partir de 9 años. Enciclopedia increíblemente detallada que te guiará a conocer desde...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1955
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new speculative fiction short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author Wole Talabi"--
""A jaw-dropping collection....Beautiful, vibrant, and electrifying, this has the makings of a modern classic." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Spring 2024 Roundup pick "For fans of Margaret Atwood's dystopian works and P. Dj. Clark's speculative fiction, Convergence Problems provides an Afrocentric...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
To get her best friend back, anxious and inventive eleven-year-old Maple performs a scientific experiment to uncover the secret to becoming fun.
"Perfect for fans of Dork Diaries and Emmie & Friends, this first book in a diary-style illustrated middle grade series follows an anxious, science-minded sixth grader determined to become fun and win back her friend. Sixth grade has been pretty disaster-free for aspiring astronaut Maple McNutt—which...
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In order to help her impoverished sister, Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins agrees to help on a mysterious project aiming to go beyond curing the human body of disease to develop a technology capable of solving the riddle of mortality of the soul.
"Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a severely disabled child. When she receives...
13) Клара и Солнце
Author
Publisher
Эксмо
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Клара совсем новая. С заразительным любопытством из-за широкого окна витрины она впитывает в себя окружающий мир – случайных прохожих, проезжающие машины и, конечно, живительное Солнце. Клара хочет узнать и запомнить как можно больше – так она сможет...
14) Saved
Author
Series
Honor bound (Angel Payne) volume 1
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
''He saved her life…she saved his soul. Garrett Hawkins is the most valuable asset to his Special Forces unit, because, frankly, the guy doesn't care if he lives or dies anymore. Since the love of his life, Sage Weston, was kidnapped and killed with her medical unit a year ago, Garrett has turned the shell of his soul into the armor of a finely tuned fighting machine. Being the first tapped for the unit's craziest missions is just fine by him....
15) Averil offline
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Averil is on a mission to find the creator of the phone app her helicopter parents use to keep track of her.
"A fun, fast-paced story about a girl determined to cut the cord with her helicopter parents. Twelve-year-old coder Averil can't do anything without her parents knowing. That’s because her mom uses the Ruby Slippers surveillance app to check where she is, who she texts, and even what she eats for lunch. Averil wonders how...
16) BRZRKR: Volume 3
Author
Series
Brzrkr volume 3
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the final volume of the record-shattering series, uncover the ancient mysteries of our anti-hero's origins and his final fate! As B.'s full fury is unleashed, a new discovery promises to bring the answers he's been seeking for centuries. But as the team travels to finally uncover the mysteries of B.'s birth, is he finally near the end of his fatal goal, or will his violent efforts be in vain?"--
The final chapter of the epic immortal saga by...
Author
Publisher
Imbrifex Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A time-travel experiment that transported Julius Caesar from his last Ides of March to a covert lab in Pasadena in the year 1999. The plan is for him to stay in the lab for four days and then return to Rome to meet his fate"--
"When 20-something Cassandra Fleury is invited to join an elite team of classicists and scientists to test new technology for dating ancient artifacts, she jumps at what appears to be the opportunity of a lifetime. But after...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse—from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds. "A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at turns ferocious and poetic—and sometimes both at once."—Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones [Those Beyond the Wall] reads like Mad Max: Fury Road...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Lerner
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"A sky full of air, oceans made of water, and the presence of life are some of the things that set Earth apart from other planets. Learn what else makes Earth unique among the planets in our solar system! Access a downloadable 3D printer model from NASA via Page Plus QR codes. Now in Spanish!"--
"Un cielo lleno de aire, oc©♭anos compuestos por agua y la presencia de vida son algunas de las cosas que diferencian a la Tierra de los dem©Łs planetas....
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
"Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy Therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before. Imagine, if you can, a bald-faced hornet of your Earthly experience grown to the size of a prize Hereford bull, and you will have some faint conception of the winged monster that bore down upon me. Frightful...
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