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How high we go in the dark : a novel / by Nagamatsu, Sequoia,author.;
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects-a pig-develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Epidemics; Interpersonal relations; Regression (Civilization); Resilience (Personality trait); Virus diseases;
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Transformers. [videorecording] / by LaBeouf, Shia,1986-; Huntington-Whiteley, Rosie,1987-; Dempsey, Patrick,1966-; Tyrese.; Duhamel, Josh,1972-; Turturro, John,1957-; Malkovich, John.; Jeong, Ken.; Nimoy, Leonard.; Bay, Michael,1964-; Industrial Light and Magic (Studio); Dreamworks Pictures.; Paramount Pictures.; Di Bonaventura Pictures.; Hasbro, Inc.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm);
Music by Steve Jablonsky ; cinematography, Amir Mokri ; edited by Roger Barton, William Goldenberg, Joel Negron.Shia Labeouf, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, Leonard Nimoy.The interstellar war between the Autobots and Decepticons shifts into overdrive following the discovery of Sentinel Prime (voice of Leonard Nimoy) in this sequel from director Michael Bay. Only a precious handful of officials in the government and military realize that the 1969 moon mission was the result of an event that threatened profound repercussions for the entire human race. When the Apollo 11 astronauts discover the wrecked remains of Sentinel Prime on the surface of our natural satellite, they bring him back to planet Earth. But Sentinel Prime wasn't the only alien object on the moon, and when a malevolent new enemy makes its presence known, only the Autobots can save humankind from certain destruction.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Transformers (Fictitious characters); Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Good and evil; Robots;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Aeon Flux [videorecording (DVD)] / by Chung, Peter; Csokas, Marton,1966; Dryburgh, Stuart; Kusama, Karyn; Miller, Jonny Lee; Okonedo, Sophi; Postlethwaite, Pet; Revell, Graeme; Theron, Charliz; Paramount Pictures Corporatio;
Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; editors, Peter Honess, Plummy Tucker, Jeff Gullo ; music, Graeme Revell ; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor ; production designer, Andrew McAlpine.Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, Caroline Chikezie, Paterson Joseph, Frances McDormand.400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her life, in dangerCanadian Home Video Rating: 14ADVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, NTSC
Subjects: Disappeared persons; Feature film; Female assassins; Science fiction film; Utopian socialism; Video recordings for the hearing impaire;
© c2006., Paramount Pictures,
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Edge of tomorrow [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Armstrong, Jonas.; Blunt, Emily.; Butterworth, Jez,screenwriter.; Cruise, Tom,1962-; Gleeson, Brendan.; Gurry, Kick.; Liman, Doug.; McQuarrie, Christopher.; Paxton, Bill.; Taylor, Noah.; Way, Tony,1978-; Village Roadshow Pictures.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Music by Christophe Beck ; cinematography, Dion Beebe ; edited by James Herbert.Tom Cruise, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton, Noah Taylor, Emily Blunt, Jonas Armstrong, Lara Pulver, Tony Way, Kick Gurry.In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are one step closer to defeating the enemy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, 5.1 DTS-HD Digital surround.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Death; Extraterrestrial beings; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Science fiction films.; Time travel;
© c2014., Warner Home Video,
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Message in a bottle : ocean dispatches from a seabird biologist / by Hogan, Holly(Biologist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the heart of the Labrador Current to the furthest reaches of our global oceans, Message in a Bottle conjures an exquisite diversity of marine life and warns of a central threat to its survival: ocean plastic. The dovekie is a stocky seabird the size of a child's heart that spends its winters on the coast of Newfoundland, thriving in one of the toughest climates on Earth. The polar bear is an apex predator, designed to persevere in the Arctic's extreme conditions. The North Atlantic right whale outweighs the humpback by more than twenty tons and feeds on enormous quantities of tiny plankton in northeastern waters before migrating south for the winter. In Message in a Bottle, wildlife biologist and writer Holly Hogan brings to extraordinary life the wonder and resilience of these creatures and many other birds, fish and marine mammals she has encountered in sea voyages from the Arctic to the Antarctic oceans. However, in her travels she has noticed a troubling pattern: the constant presence of plastic, in the form of adrift fishing gear ("ghost gear"), garbage and micro-plastics which form an invisible but pervasive smog in our oceans and threaten even the most seemingly resilient forms of sea life. Bringing together nature, science and adventure writing, Hogan shines a light on our plastic-addicted lifestyle and offers a compelling, eyewitness account of its devastating effects on the marine environment--70% of our planet. With lyrical prose and a reverential eye for the majesty and fragility of our natural world, Message in a Bottle is a clarion call to protect global oceans and the life they sustain, including our own."--
Subjects: Marine ecology.; Marine pollution; Marine pollution.; Plastic marine debris; Plastic marine debris.;
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The doors of Eden / by Tchaikovsky, Adrian,1972-author.;
"Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back ... Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor. Dr Khan's research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors crash open, anything could come through."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Missing persons; Women physicists; Extraterrestrial beings; Space and time; Human evolution; Monsters;
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Oblivion [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Coster-Waldau, Nikolaj,1970-; Cruise, Tom,1962-; Freeman, Morgan.; Kosinski, Joseph,1974-; Kurylenko, Olga,1979-; Leo, Melissa.; Riseborough, Andrea,1981-; Relativity Media.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Composers, Joseph Trapanese and Anthony Gonzalez ; music by M.8.3 ; director of photography, Claudio Miranda.Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo, Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman.In the distant future, Earth has been decimated by an intergalactic battle against an alien race known as the Scavs. The majority of mankind has been evacuated, leaving just a few solitary drone repairmen remaining on the planet's surface. Their job is simple -- stand guard over the ruins of a once-great empire by patrolling the skies, and ensuring the drones continue to function. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is nearing the end of his mission to extract resources essential to the survival of the human race when he witnesses a spacecraft fall from the sky. Upon investigating, Jack discovers the capsule contains a mysterious woman. With mission control watching his every move from high up above the clouds, Jack embarks on a spectacular adventure that will not only challenge everything he's been taught about mankind's most defining battle, but perhaps alter the entire course of human history as well.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.BluRay.
Subjects: Dystopian films.; Extraterrestrial beings; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Man-woman relationships; Natural resources; Science fiction films.; Space vehicles; War;
© c2013., Universal,
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UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here-and out there / by Graff, Garrett M.,1981-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'UFO' by Garrett M. Graff is the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of the American government's decades-long quest to solve one of humanity's greatest mysteries: are we alone in the universe? For as long as we have looked to the skies, the question of whether life on Earth is the only life to exist has been at the core of the human experience, driving scientific debate and discovery, shaping spiritual belief, and prompting existential thought across borders and generations. And yet, the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence has been largely seen as a joke, banished to the realm of fantasy and conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the full story of our national obsession with UFOs-and the covert, decades-long search by scientists, the United States military, and the CIA for proof of alien life-is told by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff in a deeply reported and researched history. Drawing from original archival research, declassified documents, and interviews with senior intelligence and military officials, Graff brings every moment of this extraordinary quest to life, transporting readers from secret military meetings and congressional hearings, where the validity of the search is debated, to the cluttered offices of UFOlogists and hoaxers determined to see the truth revealed, remote observatories where astronomers monitor the stars, and even the halls of the White House, where staffers and presidents alike eagerly await answers. Filled with twists and turns, and populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, UFO is a thrilling story of science, national security, the secrets of space, and the enduring mysteries of the universe.
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings.; Government information; Human-alien encounters.; Unidentified flying objects.; Unidentified flying objects; Unidentified flying objects;
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Men in black. [videorecording] / by Brolin, Josh.; Clement, Jemaine.; Cunningham, Lowell,1959-; Jones, Tommy Lee,1946-; Smith, Will,1968-; Sonnenfeld, Barry.; Thompson, Emma.; Columbia Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Music by Danny Elfman ; cinematography, Bill Pope ; edited by Don Zimmerman.Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson.The Men in Black are back, and this time Agent J (Will Smith) must take a trip into the past in order to save both the future and his taciturn partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in the third installment of the hit sci-fi comedy series. After 15 years of working with aliens from all across the cosmos, Agent J is sure he's seen it all. But just when he's getting the hang of the game, he learns that history has inexplicably been rewritten. In this new timeline of events, Agent K has been dead for 40 years, and Earth will soon come under attack from an extraterrestrial force with the power to claim the entire planet. Now, in order to set the past straight and head off an invasion of epic proportions, Agent J must travel back to the year 1969, when Young Agent K (Josh Brolin) was just a fresh new face on the force. But Agent J only has 24 hours to find the source of the coming catastrophe and discern how his longtime partner ties into the situation -- should he fail he'll be stuck in the past forever.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Male friendship; Men in black (UFO phenomenon); Science fiction films.; Time travel;
© c2012., Columbia Pictures : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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In Putin's footsteps : searching for the soul of an empire across Russia's eleven time zones / by Khrushcheva, Nina L.,1962-author.; Tayler, Jeffrey,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades. With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1983, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin's fabled New Year's Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones. After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia's eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year's Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia's eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country's outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage. Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence"--
Subjects: Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962-; Tayler, Jeffrey; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Regionalism;
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