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A better world : a novel / by Langan, Sarah,author.;
"You'll be safe here. That's what the greasy tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. On a very trial basis, the company offers to hire Linda Farmer's husband, a numbers genius, and relocate her whole family to this bucolic paradise for the .0001%. Though Linda will have to sacrifice her medical career back home, the family jumps at the opportunity. They'd be crazy not to take it. With the outside world literally falling apart, this might be the Farmer-Bowens last chance. But fitting in takes work. The pampered locals distrust outsiders, cruelly snubbing Linda, Russell, and their teen twins. And the residents fervently adhere to a group of customs and beliefs called Hollow ... but what exactly is Hollow? It's Linda who brokers acceptance by volunteering her medical skills to the most powerful people in town with their pet charity, ActHollow. In the months afterward, everything seems fine. Sure, Russell starts hyperventilating through a paper bag in the middle of the night, and the kids have drifted like bridgeless islands, but living here's worth sacrificing their family's closeness, isn't it? At least they'll survive. The trouble is, the locals never say what they think. They seem scared. And Hollow's ominous culminating event, the Plymouth Valley Winter Festival, is coming. Linda's warned by her husband and her powerful new friends to stop asking questions. But the more she learns, the more frightened she becomes. Should the Farmer-Bowens be fighting to stay, or fighting to get out?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Company towns; Elite (Social sciences); Families; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Before We Forget Kindness A Novel [electronic resource] : by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu.aut; cloudLibrary;
In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: The father who could not allow his daughter to get married A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents A wife holding a child with no name . . . They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future. Catch up on the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:  Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe Before Your Memory Fades Before We Say GoodbyeGeneral adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Magical Realism; Time Travel; Contemporary;
© 2024., Hanover Square Press,
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center. by Rovin, Jeff,author.; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013,creator.; Pieczenik, Steve R.,creator.;
"In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation. Military veterans and high-tech specialists, they've begun a savage war from public assassinations of politicians and celebrities to high-profile bombings, striking without warning or mercy. The Black Order wants nothing less than complete capitulation from the US government, giving them free rein to make their ideologies the law of the land. Only Op-Center's Black Wasp, a skilled team of military operatives answerable to the President, can defeat these militant revolutionaries. But even as Admiral Chase Williams and his agents force them on the run, the Black Order possesses a weapon of mass destruction that they will not hesitate to unleash against millions of innocent civilians"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Special forces (Military science); Terrorism; Domestic terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A Palace Near the Wind Natural Engines [electronic resource] : by Jiang, Ai.aut; CloudLibrary;
From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao’s The Surviving Sky. Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and, bound by duty and tradition, the next bride to the human king. With their bark faces, arms of braided branches and hair of needle threads, the Feng people live within nature, nurtured by the land. But they exist under the constant threat of human expansion, and the negotiation of bridewealth is the only way to stop— or at least delay—the destruction of their home. Come her wedding day, Lufeng plans to kill the king and finally put an end to the marriages. Trapped in the great human palace in the run-up to the union, Lufeng begins to uncover the truth about her people’s origins and realizes they will never be safe from the humans. So she must learn to let go of duty and tradition, choose her allies carefully, and risk the unknown in order to free her family and shape her own fate. From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Asian American; Dark Fantasy;
© 2025., Titan,
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Ghostbusters : a paranormal picture book / by Berrow, G. M.; Kehoe, J. M.; Burdett, Forrest.;
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Subjects: Ghost stories.; Schools; Science clubs; Parapsychology; Ghosts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Coldwire. by Gong, Chloe.;
From #1 NYT bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the start of a daring new dystopian series where humanity has moved to virtual reality to flee their deteriorating world, following two young soldiers who must depend on unlikely allies in their fight for survival.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Dystopian; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science Fiction / Romance; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Thrillers & Suspense / Espionage;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The deserter : a novel / by DeMille, Nelson,author.; DeMille, Alex,author.;
"A taut, psychologically suspenseful military thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille--writing with his son, screenwriter Alex DeMille--about two army investigators on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon operation"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Military deserters; Special operations (Military science); Missing persons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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If You Were the Last. by Mercado, Kristian,film director.; Mackie, Anthony,actor.; Stults, Geoff,actor.; Pyle, Missi,actor.; Morales, Natalie,actor.; Chao, Zoe,actor.; Photon Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Anthony Mackie, Geoff Stults, Missi Pyle, Natalie Morales, Zoe ChaoOriginally produced by Photon Films in 2023.Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Romance.; Science fiction.; Outer space.; Science fiction films.; Astronauts.;
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After Blue. by Mandico, Bertrand,film director.; Löwensohn, Elina,actor.; Luna, Paul,actor.; Pons, Vimala,actor.; Altered Innocence (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Elina Löwensohn, Paul Luna, Vimala PonsOriginally produced by Altered Innocence in 2021.In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called AFTER BLUE, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison. Roxy and her mother Zora are held accountable, banished from their community, and forced to track down the murderer named Kate Bush. Haunted by the spirits of her murdered friends, Roxy sets out on a long and strange journey across the supranatural territories of this filthy paradise. The newest vision from Bertand Mandico plays like a lesbian El Topo (in space!) with stunning 35mm in-camera practical effects, otherworldly set pieces, and a dazzling score by Pierre Desprats.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Cult films.; Fantasy fiction.; Science fiction.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.;
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The Pied Piper. by Barta, Jirí,film director.; Lábus, Jirí,actor.; Kaiser, Oldrich,actor.; Deaf Crocodile Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Jirí Lábus, Oldrich KaiserOriginally produced by Deaf Crocodile Films in 1986.Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half-CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half-Jan van Eyck. The money-obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble (invented by Barta himself) are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words. The rats are far more organic and sympathetic, made of real fur and whiskers, constantly tunneling and burrowing under the towering arches and cobblestone streets above. (In one of the film’s many surreal moments, a rat emerges from a gargoyle’s gaping maw.) Fans of fellow Czech animation legend Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay will adore Barta’s weird Expressionist gem.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Science fiction.; Fantasy fiction.;
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