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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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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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: 2 / Total copies: 3
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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.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 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;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cable. [graphic novel] / by Pepose, David,author.; Henderson, Mike,1981-illustrator.; Sabino, Joe,letterer.; Prianto, Arif,colourist.;
When a mission in the future goes wrong, Cable is stranded in the dystopian city of Salvation Bay--and caught in the middle of a civil war that will change his life forever!T+.
Subjects: Science fiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Time-travel comics.; Dystopian comics.; Cable (Fictitious character); Antiheroes; Superheroes; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ultimate Wolverine. [graphic novel] / by Condon, Chris(Comics writer),author.; Cappuccio, Alessandro,illustrator.; Lins, Alex,illustrator.; Petit, Cory,letterer.; Lanham, Travis,letterer.; Valenza, Bryan,colourist.;
To maintain control of their corner of the Maker's world, three members of his council--Magik, Colossus and Omega Red--deploy their most lethal asset: The Winter Soldier! But who is the weapon behind the mask ... with the claws?T+.
Subjects: Science fiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Dystopian comics.; Superhero comics.; Wolverine (Fictitious character); Colossus (Fictitious character); Mr. Fantastic (Fictitious character); Antiheroes; Superheroes; Supervillains;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Resident evil. [videorecording] / by Anderson, Paul,1965-film producer,film director.; Bolt, Jeremy,film producer.; Glen, Iain,1961-actor.; Hadida, Samuel,film producer.; Jovovich, Milla,actor.; Kulzer, Robert(Motion picture producer),film producer.; Larter, Ali,1976-actor.; Roberts, Shawn,1984-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin MacKen, Fraser James, Ruby Rose, William Levy.Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began, The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for sequences of violence throughout.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Dystopian films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Biological warfare; Zombies;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The Girl with All the Gifts. by McCarthy, Colm,film director.; Tipper, Dominique,actor.; Arterton, Gemma,actor.; Close, Glenn,actor.; Considine, Paddy,actor.; Nanua, Sennia,actor.; Elevation Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dominique Tipper, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine, Sennia NanuaOriginally produced by Elevation Pictures in 2016.A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Drama.; Science fiction.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.;
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Liberation day [sound recording] : stories / by Saunders, George,1958-author,narrator.; Fey, Tina,1970-narrator.; McKean, Michael,narrator.; Patterson, Edi,1974-narrator.; Slate, Jenny,1982-narrator.; McBrayer, Jack,1973-narrator.; Hardin, Melora,narrator.; Root, Stephen,narrator.; Saunders, George,1958-Liberation day (Compilation).[sound recording].; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by the author, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi Patterson, Jenny Slate, Jack McBrayer, Melora Hardin, Stephen Root."The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. 'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. 'Ghoul' is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his 'reality.' In 'Mother's Day,' two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in 'Elliott Spencer,' our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed--his memory 'scraped'--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Short stories.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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