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- To place a rabbit / by Anand, Madhur,1971-author.;
"This delightfully clever, artfully layered novel begins when a scientist who has written a popular book of non-fiction attends a literary festival, where she strikes up a friendship with a charismatic novelist. The novelist reveals that her new work is an experiment: a novella she wrote in English only to have it translated and published solely in French -- a language the novelist cannot read. Moreover, she has lost her original English manuscript of this work. Hearing this, the scientist, who is fluent in French, impulsively offers to retranslate the novella back into English for the novelist. As she embarks on this task, the scientist finds herself haunted by vivid memories and distracting questions -- particularly about a passionate affair from her own life with a French lover. These insert themselves into her translation process, troubling it, then disrupting it entirely. She desperately tries to complete her task before losing control of both the work and her well-organized existence -- but soon the novelist and the French lover reappear in the present, further complicating both life and art."--
- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Identity (Psychology); Man-woman relationships; Memory; Scientists;
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- Angelika Frankenstein makes her match : a novel / by Thorne, Sally,1981-author.;
"For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become the exception to this family rule. When assisting in her brother Victor's ground-breaking experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, she realizes that having an agreeable gentleman convalescing in the guest suite might be a chance to let a man get to know the real her. For the first time, Angelika embarks upon a project that is all her own. When her handsome scientific miracle sits up on the lab table, her hopes for an instant romantic connection are thrown into disarray. Her resurrected beau (named Will for the moment) has total amnesia and is solely focused on uncovering his true identity. Trying to ignore their heart-pounding chemistry, Angelika reluctantly joins the investigation into his past, hoping it will bring them closer. But when a second suitor emerges to aid their quest, Angelika wonders if she was too hasty inventing a solution. Perhaps fate is not something that can be influenced in a laboratory? Or is Will (or whatever his name is!) her dream man, tailored for her in every way? And can he survive what was done to him in the name of science, and love? Filled with carriages, candlesticks, and corpses, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is the spooky-season romcom that reminds us to never judge a man by his cadaver!"--
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Frankenstein family; Identity (Psychology); Man-woman relationships; Monsters;
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- A house between Earth and the moon / by Scherm, Rebecca,author.;
"The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love Scientist Alex Welch-Peters has believed for twenty years that his super-algae can reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When Sensus, the colossal tech company, offers him a chance to complete his research, he seizes the opportunity. The catch? His lab will be in outer space on Parallaxis, the first-ever luxury residential space station built for billionaires. Alex and six other scientists leave their loved ones to become Pioneers, the beta tenants of Parallaxis. But Parallaxis is not the space palace they were sold. Day and night, the embittered crew builds the facility under pressure from Sensus, motivated by the promise that their families will join them. Meanwhile, back on Earth, with much of the country ablaze in wildfires, Alex's family tries to remain safe in Michigan. His teenage daughter, Mary Agnes, struggles through high school with the help of the ubiquitous Sensus phones implanted in everyone's ears, archiving each humiliation, and wishing she could go to Parallaxis with her father-but her mother will never allow it. The Pioneers are the beta testers of another program, too. As they toil away two hundred miles in the sky, Sensus is designing an algorithm that will predict human behavior. Tess, a young social psychologist Sensus has hired to watch the Pioneers through their phones, begins to develop an intimate, obsessive relationship with her subjects. When she takes it a step further-traveling to Parallaxis to observe them up close-the controlled experiment begins to unravel. Prescient and insightful, A House Between Earth and the Moon is at once a captivating epic about the machinations of big tech and a profoundly intimate meditation on the unmistakably human bonds that hold us together"--
- Subjects: Science fiction.; Climatic changes; Human behavior; Implants, Artificial; Scientists; Space stations;
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- A-X-L [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Daly, Oliver,screenwriter,film director.; Rosenberg, Tom,film producer.; Lucchesi, Gary,film producer.; Wright, Richard,1960 August 1-film producer.; Reid, Eric,film producer.; G, Becky,1997-actor.; Jane, Thomas,actor.; Neustaedter, Alex,1998-actor.; Global Road Entertainment (Firm),publisher,production company.; Lakeshore Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Phantom Four (Firm),production company.;
Music, Ian Hultquist ; editor, Jeff McEvoy ; director of photography, Tim Orr.Becky G, Thomas Jane, Alex Neustaedter, Dominic Rains, Ted McGinley.After an experiment gone wrong, a robotic dog developed by the military gets stranded in the desert and is found by a kind-hearted man who finds a way to connect with the dog and establish a special friendship with it based on mutual trust and loyalty.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Human-robot interaction; Military robots; Robotic pets;
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- Sight unseen / by Johansen, Iris.; Johansen, Roy.;
"She was safe in a world of darkness. Now danger threatens in the cold light of day ... Before the experimental surgery that gave her sight, Kendra Michaels developed her other senses to an amazing capacity. Now she can identify a Nissan by the sound of its engine, a Norelco electric razor by the pattern of stubble it leaves behind, or an obscure colorless fire accelerant by its sweet smell. Law enforcement agencies clamor for her rare powers of perception and observation, too often disrupting the life she has built helping others through music therapy. Because so very often, only Kendra can get the job done. But in this case, it's Kendra who first realizes that the apparent traffic accident on San Diego's historic Cabrillo Bridge is in fact a murder scene, and she rushes to alert the police before crucial evidence is destroyed. As the body count rises and one murder unveils another, a gruesome pattern emerges. Someone is killing people in ways that mirror Kendra's most notorious cases. She has a fan: someone who admires her work and is twisted enough to show that admiration through murder--while naming himself after the biggest art forger of the 20th century. He views himself not as a monster but as an artist. And he is not working alone. As the darkness closes in, near enough to touch Kendra and those she loves, Kendra must come face to face with her greatest fears--and her most ruthless enemy. A man who moves through the shadows, a man she may even know, who hides behind the mask of sanity, sight unseen."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Traffic accident investigation; Women;
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- Where the Axe Is Buried A Novel [electronic resource] : by Nayler, Ray.aut; CloudLibrary;
All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world. As the Federation and the West both start to crumble, Lilia, the brilliant scientist whose invention may be central to bringing down the seemingly immortal President, goes on the run, trying to break out from a near-impenetrable web of Federation surveillance. Her fate is bound up with a worldwide group of others fighting against the global status quo: Palmer, the man Lilia left behind in London, desperate to solve the mystery of her disappearance; Zoya, a veteran activist imprisoned in the taiga, whose book has inspired a revolutionary movement; Nikolai, the President’s personal physician, who has been forced into more and more harrowing decisions as he navigates the Federation’s palace politics; and Nurlan, the hapless parliamentary staffer whose attempt to save his Republic goes terribly awry. And then there is Krotov, head of the Federation’s security services, whose plots, agents, and assassins are everywhere. Following the success of his debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler launches readers into a thrilling near-future world of geopolitical espionage. A cybernetic novel of political intrigue, Where the Axe is Buried combines the story of a near-impossible revolutionary operation with a blistering indictment of the many forms of authoritarianism that suffocate human freedom.General adult.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Science Fiction; Technological;
- © 2025., Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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- Never marry a scandalous duke / by Miller, Renee Ann.;
In the eyes of the ton, Lady Sara Elsmere is so firmly on the shelf, she might as well be nailed in place. Not that Sara minds. She is far more concerned about her study of butterflies than society's gossip. Of course, it's also true that the nervous laughter that ruined Sara's debut--and every social event thereafter--is a bit embarrassing. She can hardly help it--men are quite nerve-wracking. Except for one: the rake who pulls her into a dark room during a costume ball and kisses her senseless. He doesn't make her titter, he makes her burn... Ian McAllister, the Duke of Dorchester, is perfectly satisfied to remain a rogue for the rest of his days. But when he finds he has kissed the wrong shepherdess, albeit a decidedly luscious one, he's faced with a dilemma. His indiscretion with an innocent may cost him a lucrative business arrangement--and his two scapegrace wards need a maternal influence they can't scare away. Promising Sara the use of her dowry to fund her studies seals the pair's businesslike deal. But as they embark on their life together, they discover that their mutual attraction has sparked a desire not easily tamed--and certain feelings each of them are surprised to own. Can their matrimonial experiment possibly end in real love?
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Aristocracy (Social class);
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- Flatliners [videorecording] / by Clemons, Kiersey,1993-actor.; Dobrev, Nina,1989-actor.; Luna, Diego,1979-actor.; Norton, James,1985-actor.; Page, Ellen,actor.; Sutherland, Kiefer,1966-actor.; Oplev, Niels Arden,1961-film director.; Ripley, Ben,screenwriter.; Columbia Pictures,publisher,presenter.; Cross Creek Pictures,production company.;
Music, Nathan Barr ; editor, Tom Elkins ; director of photography, Eric Kress.Elliot Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiersey Clemons.Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience, giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Death; Future life; Near-death experiences;
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- Source code by Anvar, Cas.; Arden, Michael,1982-; Farmiga, Vera.; Gyllenhaal, Jake,1980-; Jones, Duncan,1971-; Monaghan, Michelle.; Peters, Russell.; Ripley, Ben.; Wright, Jeffrey.; Entertainment One (Firm); Summit Entertainment.; Vendôme Pictures.;
Music by Chris Bacon ; edited by Paul Hirsch ; director of photography, Don Burgess.Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Russell Peters, Michael Arden, Cas Anvar.When Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must relive the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even deadlier second terrorist attack.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray; Dolby Digital 5.1; anamorphic widescreen presentation.
- Subjects: Bombers (Terrorists); Bombings; Feature films.; Science fiction films.; Terrorism; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Time travel;
- © c2011., Vendôme Pictures ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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- Frankenweenie [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Abbate, Allison.; August, John.; Burton, Tim,1958-; Elfman, Danny.; Landau, Martin,1928-; O'Hara, Catherine.; Ryder, Winona,1971-; Shaffer, Atticus,1998-; Short, Martin,1950-; Tahan, Charlie.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.;
Director of photography, Peter Sorg ; editors, Chris Lebenzon, Mark Solomon ; music by Danny Elfman.Voices by Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer.Young Victor conducts a science experiment that will bring his dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous consequences.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blue Ray; 5.1 Dolby Digital; DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital ; widescreen presentation.
- Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Dogs; Feature films.; Human-animal relationships; Science; Video recordings for children.;
- © c2013., Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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