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Our missing hearts [sound recording] : a novel / by Ng, Celeste,author,narrator.; Liu, Lucy,1968-narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Celeste Ng, Lucy Liu."From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Families; Missing persons; Women poets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Blade runner 2049 [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Armas, Ana de,1988-actor.; Fancher, Hampton,screenwriter.; Ford, Harrison,1942-actor.; Gosling, Ryan,1980-actor.; Green, Michael J.,screenwriter.; Villeneuve, Denis,1967-film director.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright.This sequel to Ridley Scott's landmark 1982 science-fiction film picks up the story 30 years later, giving viewers another detailed look at a future in which humanity live in polluted, overcrowded cities and rely on androids known as "replicants" for slave labor. In 2049 Los Angeles, K (Ryan Gosling) works as a "blade runner," a specialized law-enforcement agent dedicated to tracking down and killing rogue replicants. But when he uncovers a shocking conspiracy involving the robot laborers, he searches for the one person who might have answers: a former blade runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who vanished decades earlier.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos True HD, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Dystopian films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department; Artificial intelligence; Missing persons; Androids; Human-robot interaction;
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Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Cloud atlas [videorecording] / by Bae, Doona.; Berry, Halle.; Broadbent, Jim.; Hanks, Tom.; Hill, Grant.; Mitchell, David(David Stephen).Cloud atlas.Videorecording.; Sturgess, Jim.; Tykwer, Tom,1965-; Wachowski, Andy,1967-; Wachowski, Lana,1965-; Weaving, Hugo,1960-; A Company.; Anarchos Productions, Inc.; Ard Degeto.; Cloud Atlas Production.; Warner Home Video (Firm); X Filme Creative Pool.;
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, music ; Alexander Berner, editor ; Uli Hanisch, Hugh Bateup, production designers ; John Toll, Frank Griebe, directors of photography.Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae.An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives with diverse settings, from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Consequentialism (Ethics); Fate and fatalism; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Reincarnation; Science fiction films.;
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Our missing hearts : a novel / by Ng, Celeste,author.;
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Families; Missing persons; Women poets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Thief of the heights [graphic novel] / by Son M.,author.; Yao, Robin,illustrator.;
Lifelong friends Basem, Mustafa, and Aarfah have carved out a place for themselves in their corner of Muqadas, where they dream of climbing from their place in the city's lowest level, above the limb-snatching, disease-infested waters, to the very top of their vertical city. When their inventions catch the eye of a scout who is on the hunt for new talent to bring to the higher tiers, their dreams are suddenly within reach. But as the wonders of the upper tiers enchant, Basem, Mustafa, and Aarfah begin to question why the bounty of Muqadas falls short of reaching Lake Saha's inhabitants.
Subjects: Science fiction comics.; Dystopian comics.; Graphic novels.; Equality; Friendship; Imaginary places; Inventors; Secrecy; Social classes;
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Petrol Head. [graphic novel] / by Williams, Rob(Robert Glyndwr),author.; Parr, Pye,illustrator,letterer.;
In a climate crisis-ravaged future metropolis, an old, grumpy, obsolete, smoke-belching, cigar-chomping, hotrod-racing robot is one 12-year-old girl's only hope. Together, can they outrace the chasing Robo-Cops with an invention that might just save humanity?Rated E/Everyone.
Subjects: Science fiction comics.; Dystopian comics.; Graphic novels.; Automobile racing drivers; Cities and towns; Climatic changes; Fathers and daughters; Girls; Good and evil; Nanotechnology; Robots; Survival;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Our missing hearts [text (large print)] : a novel / by Ng, Celeste,author.;
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; Families; Missing persons; Women poets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Dead in Long Beach, California / by Blackburn, Venita,author.;
"A form-twisting, gut-busting, heart-crushing debut novel following one woman's fraying connection to reality ... Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel, Wildfire, becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination, she doubles--and triples--down on posing as her brother, risking not only her own sanity but her relationship with her precocious niece, Khadijah. As Coral's swirl of lies slowly closes in on her, the quirky and mysterious alien world of Wildfire becomes enmeshed in her own reality, in the process pushing long-buried memories, traumas, and secrets dangerously into the present. A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and somewhere in between."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Brothers; Grief; Impersonation; Lesbians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Zombieland. [videorecording] / by Aykroyd, Dan,actor.; Breslin, Abigail,1996-actor.; Dawson, Rosario,actor.; Deutch, Zoey,1994-actor.; Eisenberg, Jesse,1983-actor.; Fleischer, Ruben,film director.; Harrelson, Woody,actor.; Jogia, Avan,1992-actor.; Middleditch, Thomas,actor.; Murray, Bill,1950 September 21-actor.; Stone, Emma,1988-actor.; Wilson, Luke,1971-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Zoey Deutch, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, Avan Jogia, Jesse Eisenberg, Luke Wilson, Dan Aykroyd, Thomas Middleditch.Through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Dystopian films.; Zombie films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Zombies; Survival;
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Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / by Doerr, Anthony,1973-author.;
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers-another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Libraries; Space; Future, The;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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