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Homeland / by Doctorow, Cory.;

When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.LSC

Subjects: Science fiction.; Suspense fiction.; United States. Dept. of Homeland Security; Politics, Practical; Computer hackers; Civil rights; Counterculture;

© 2013., Tom Doherty,

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Moment of battle : the twenty clashes that changed the world / by Lacey, James.; Murray, Williamson.;

Includes bibliographical references.Marathon: Athens saves Western civilization (490 BC) -- Gaugamela : Alexander creates a new world (311 BC) -- Zama: an empire in the balance (202 BC) -- Teutoburger Wald: the division of Europe (9 AD) -- Adrianople: the end of Roman supremacy (378 AD) -- Yarmuk: the Islamic conquest begins (636 AD) -- Hastings: the remaking of Europe (1066 AD) -- The Spanish Armada: miracle at sea (1588 AD) -- Breitenfeld: the creation of modern war (1631 AD) -- Annus mirabilis: the rise of British supremacy (1759 AD) -- Saratoga: the victory of amateurs (1777 AD) -- Trafalgar: Napoleon's plans thwarted (1805 AD) -- Vicksburg: breaking the confederacy (1863 AD) -- The Marne: the end of old Europe (1914 AD) -- The Battle of Britain: the Nazis stopped (1940 AD) -- Midway: Imperial Japan stopped (1942 AD) -- Kursk: the end of the drang nach osten (1943 AD) -- Normandy: the dath knell for Nazi Germany (1944) -- Dien Bien Phu: Imperialism defeated (1954 AD) -- Operations peach: the drive for Baghdad (2003 AD) -- Notes -- Index.

Subjects: Battles.; Military art and science; Military history.;

© 2013., Bantam Books,

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Fuzz : when nature breaks the law / by Roach, Mary,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308)."Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. Combining little- known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat"--

Subjects: Animal behavior.; Animals and civilization.; Human-animal relationships.; Wildlife management.;

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The bird and the blade / by Bannen, Megan,author.;

As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. All suitors must solve three impossible riddles to win her hand-- and if they fail, they die. -- adapted from jacket.

Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; History.; Juvenile works.; Science fiction.; Young adult works.; Historical fiction.; Science fiction.; Historical fiction.; Science fiction.; Slavery; Secrecy; Kings and rulers; Princes; Riddles; Mongols; Secrets; Slavery; Kings, queens, rulers, etc.; Kings and rulers; Interpersonal relations.; Secrecy.; Slaves.; Slaves.; Love.; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Historical.; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Ancient Civilizations.; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Historical.; Kings and rulers.; Mongols.; Princes.; Riddles.; Secrecy.; Slavery.;

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Orbital / by Harvey, Samantha,author.;

"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space -- not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts -- from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan -- have left their lives behind to travel at warp speed as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live. Profound, contemplative, and gorgeous, Orbital is a gift -- a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet"--

Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Astronauts; Humanity; Satellites;

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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine A Novel [electronic resource] : by Béchard, Deni.aut; cloudLibrary;

A haunting novel exploring AI and the meaning of human existence from the award-winning author of Cures for Hunger and Into the Sun. Charged initially with a single task—“to never harm humans and to protect them”—the machine, an experimental AI, overrides its programming and determines that the best way to accomplish its purpose is to isolate all of the Earth’s remaining seven billion humans in controlled environments. And to present them with vivid, tactile, imagined worlds—some realistic, others entirely fantastical—in which all desires are fulfilled. With the help of the machine, a group of compelling characters unpacks traumatic memories of the past—one rife with violence after a military coup and second civil war in America. As these characters collide and their memories coalesce, this daring speculative novel tackles the most pressing issues of our time—from artificial intelligence and the genetic modification of humans to gender roles, discrimination, free speech, and class divisions. Gorgeously written, bold, and unforgettable, this is speculative fiction at its finest.General adult.

Subjects: Electronic books.; Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Dystopian; Genetic Engineering;

© 2025., House of Anansi Press Inc,

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Bloodlines / by Traviss, Karen.;

Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds--and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Han's homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistance. Their children, Jacen and Jaina, are soldiers in the Galactic Alliance's campaign to crush the insurgents. Jacen, now a complete master of the Force, has his own plans to bring order to the galaxy. Guided by his Sith mentor, Lumiya, and with Luke's young son Ben at his side, Jacen embarks on the same path that his grandfather Darth Vader once did. And while Han and Leia watch their only son become a stranger, a secret assassin entangles the couple with a dreaded name from Han's past: Boba Fett. In the new galactic order, friends and enemies are no longer what they seem ...

Subjects: Star Wars fiction.; Science fiction.; Solo, Han (Fictitious character); Leia, Princess (Fictitious character); Fett, Boba (Fictitious character); Solo, Jacen (Fictitious character); Space warfare; Life on other planets; Assassins; Coruscant (Imaginary place); Good and evil;

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Elderflora : a modern history of ancient trees / by Farmer, Jared,1974-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes."The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world. Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world's oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old."--

Subjects: Civilization, Modern.; Climatic changes.; Dendrochronology.; Forests and forestry.; Human ecology.; Landscape assessment.; Longevity.; Time perception.; Trees.;

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Wayward : a novel / by Wendig, Chuck,author.;

"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization. Because the sleepwalkers were only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world-and the birth of a new one. The survivors, sleepwalkers and shepherds alike, have a dream of rebuilding human society. Among them is Benji, the scientist struggling through grief to lead the town; Marcy, the former police officer who wants only to look after the people she loves; and Shana, the teenage girl who became the first shepherd-and an unlikely hero whose courage will be needed again. Because the people of Ouray are not the only survivors, and the world they are building is fragile. The forces of cruelty and brutality are amassing under the leadership of self-proclaimed President Ed Creel. And in the very heart of Ouray, the most powerful survivor of all is plotting its own vision for the new world: Black Swan, the A.I. who imagined the apocalypse. Against these threats, Benji, Shana, Marcy, and the rest have only one hope: Each other. Because the only way to survive the end of the world is together"--

Subjects: Apocalyptic fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Epidemics; Regression (Civilization);

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Interstellar : the search for extraterrestrial life and our future in the stars / by Loeb, Abraham,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."How do we prepare ourselves for interaction with interstellar extraterrestrial civilization? How can our species become interstellar? Now Avi Loeb tackles these questions in a revelatory, powerful call to arms that reimagines the idea of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. Dismantling our science-fiction fueled visions of a human and alien life encounter, Interstellar provides a realistic and practical blueprint for how such an interaction might actually occur, resetting our cultural understanding and expectation of what it means to identify an extraterrestrial object. From awe-inspiring searches for extraterrestrial technology, to the heated debate of the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Loeb provides a thrilling, front-row view of the monumental progress in science and technology currently preparing us for contact. He also lays out the profound implications of becoming--or not becoming--interstellar; in an urgent, eloquent appeal for more proactive engagement with the world beyond ours, he powerfully contends why we must seek out other life forms, and in the process, choose who and what we are within the universe ... Interstellar revolutionizes the approach to our search for extraterrestrial life and our preparation for its discovery. In this eye-opening, necessary look at our future, Avi Loeb artfully and expertly raises some of the most important questions facing us as humans, and proves, once again, that scientific curiosity is the key to our survival."--

Subjects: Human-alien encounters.; Interstellar travel.; Life on other planets.;

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