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Dodge novels volume 1
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When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
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John dies at the end volume 3
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"It's the story "They" don't want you to read. Though, to be fair, "They" are probably right about this one. To quote the Bible, "Learning the truth can be like loosening a necktie, only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached." No, don't put the book back on the shelf -- it is now your duty to purchase it to prevent others from reading it. Yes, it works with e-books, too, I don't have time to explain how. While investigating a...
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John dies at the end volume 4
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FICTION Pargin, J.
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FICTION Pargin, J.
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Rancho Cordova
FICTION Pargin, J.
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FICTION Pargin, J.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn't tip you off, you've just wandered into the city of "Undisclosed". You don't want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave. That hasn't stopped tourists from visiting to check out the unusual phenomena that hangs around our town like radioactive fallout. Interdimensional parasites feeding on human hosts, paranormal cults...
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Three Californias trilogy volume 1
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eAudiobook
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From the author of the award-winning Mars trilogy comes a vision of a radically different alternative future, where every day is a fight to survive.
North America, 2047. For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, that might yet be—and dreams of
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Ashing-Giwa, K.
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION Ashing-Giwa, K.
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Franklin
SCIENCE FICTION Ashing-Giwa, K.
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION Ashing-Giwa, K.
1 available
North Sacramento-Hagginwood
SCIENCE FICTION Ashing-Giwa, K.
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION Ashing-Giwa, K.
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"A diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials--a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence--perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe...
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Gee, A.
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SCIENCE FICTION Gee, A.
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SCIENCE FICTION Gee, A.
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SCIENCE FICTION Gee, A.
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It's 2075 in a post-climate change, post-pandemic, post-peak oil world. Professor Radicand Jones has earned a nice quiet sabbatical in her sister's solar powered airship, floating serenely above it all. Instead, Radicand finds herself: Defending the airship flock against pirates with nothing but her rifle and her wits. Risking her mind every time she goes deeper into the enhanced virtual reality of the aether--just like her father before her. Helping...
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Scalzi, J.
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SCIENCE FICTION Scalzi, J.
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McKinley
SCIENCE FICTION Scalzi, J.
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SCIENCE FICTION Scalzi, J.
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North Natomas
SCIENCE FICTION Scalzi, J.
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SCIENCE FICTION Scalzi, J.
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25 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
8) Gamechanger
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The bounceback volume 1
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Beckett, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Beckett, L.
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Beckett, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Beckett, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Beckett, L.
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION Beckett, L.
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Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback generation. The first to be raised free of the troubles of the late twenty-first century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with antisocial behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. Luce is a firebrand and has made a name for himself as a naysayer. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to...
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Three Californias trilogy volume 2
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“Bold, manic, wonderful,” this dystopian sci-fi thriller imagines ecological collapse in an alternative future California (Los Angeles Times).
2027: Southern California is a developer’s dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy...
2027: Southern California is a developer’s dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy...
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Noumena volume 3
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Ellis, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Ellis, L.
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Ellis, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Ellis, L.
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Galt
SCIENCE FICTION Ellis, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Ellis, L.
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"Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before - to their distant transient...
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Arcade
FICTION Mandel, E.
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FICTION Mandel, E.
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Arden-Dimick
FICTION Mandel, E.
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FICTION Mandel, E.
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Belle Cooledge
FICTION Mandel, E.
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FICTION Mandel, E.
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Arden-Dimick
CD FICTION Mandel, E.
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CD FICTION Mandel, E.
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CD FICTION Mandel, E.
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CD FICTION Mandel, E.
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Carmichael
CD FICTION Mandel, E.
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CD FICTION Mandel, E.
1 available
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Belle Cooledge
LARGE PRINT FICTION Mandel, E.
1 available
LARGE PRINT FICTION Mandel, E.
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Central
LARGE PRINT FICTION Mandel, E.
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LARGE PRINT FICTION Mandel, E.
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Fair Oaks
LARGE PRINT FICTION Mandel, E.
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LARGE PRINT FICTION Mandel, E.
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5 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Goliath
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Onyebuchi, T.
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SCIENCE FICTION Onyebuchi, T.
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SCIENCE FICTION Onyebuchi, T.
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SCIENCE FICTION Onyebuchi, T.
1 available
Southgate
SCIENCE FICTION Onyebuchi, T.
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION Onyebuchi, T.
1 available
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"'Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.'-Leigh Bardugo In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven In...
13) Mind of my mind
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Patternists volume 2
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Arcade
SCIENCE FICTION Butler, O.
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SCIENCE FICTION Butler, O.
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Butler, O.
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SCIENCE FICTION Butler, O.
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Sylvan Oaks
SCIENCE FICTION Butler, O.
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SCIENCE FICTION Butler, O.
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Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield. Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like...
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Great cities trilogy volume 2
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Arden-Dimick
SCIENCE FICTION Jemisin, N.
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SCIENCE FICTION Jemisin, N.
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Jemisin, N.
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SCIENCE FICTION Jemisin, N.
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Courtland
SCIENCE FICTION Jemisin, N.
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SCIENCE FICTION Jemisin, N.
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"Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading--and destroying the entire universe in the process--the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor...
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Central
FICTION Rich, N.
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FICTION Rich, N.
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North Highlands-Antelope
FICTION Rich, N.
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FICTION Rich, N.
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FICTION Rich, N.
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FICTION Rich, N.
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While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
16) Only human
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Themis files volume 3
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Belle Cooledge
SCIENCE FICTION Neuvel, S.
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SCIENCE FICTION Neuvel, S.
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SCIENCE FICTION Neuvel, S.
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SCIENCE FICTION Neuvel, S.
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Elk Grove
SCIENCE FICTION Neuvel, S.
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SCIENCE FICTION Neuvel, S.
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"World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory"--NPR) and Waking Gods ("Pure, unadulterated literary escapism"--Kirkus Reviews). In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together...
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Leicht, S.
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SCIENCE FICTION Leicht, S.
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Leicht, S.
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION Leicht, S.
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Franklin
SCIENCE FICTION Leicht, S.
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SCIENCE FICTION Leicht, S.
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"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about it's proprietary AI's, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch...
18) Cascade failure
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Ambit's run volume 1
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Arden-Dimick
SCIENCE FICTION Sagas, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Sagas, L.
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Carmichael
SCIENCE FICTION Sagas, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Sagas, L.
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Central
SCIENCE FICTION Sagas, L.
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SCIENCE FICTION Sagas, L.
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage; between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table.