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Monk & robot volume 1
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Chambers, B.
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Chambers, B.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chambers, B.
1 available
Chambers, B.
1 available
South Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chambers, B.
1 available
Chambers, B.
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Klune, T.
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Klune, T.
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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Schwab, V.
1 available
Schwab, V.
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North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Schwab, V.
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Schwab, V.
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever, and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across...
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Weir, A.
1 available
Weir, A.
1 available
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4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Weir, A.
1 available
Weir, A.
1 available
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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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Murderbot diaries volume 2
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Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Wells, M.
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Wells, M.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
7) Kindred
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Butler, O.
1 available
Butler, O.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Butler, O.
1 available
Butler, O.
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then...
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Dean, S.
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Dean, S.
1 available
North Side Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Dean, S.
1 available
Dean, S.
1 available
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"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chambers, B.
1 available
Chambers, B.
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she's never met anyone remotely like the ship's diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy...
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
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"From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past...
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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
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Great cities trilogy volume 1
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Jemisin, N.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Jemisin, N.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
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The burning volume 1
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Winter, E.
1 available
Winter, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Winter, E.
1 available
Winter, E.
1 available
North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Winter, E.
1 available
Winter, E.
1 available
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The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.
15) Legendborn
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Legendborn volume 1
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Deonn, T.
1 available
Deonn, T.
1 available
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"Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and "braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery" (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood...
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
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5 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Alderman, N.
1 available
Alderman, N.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Alderman, N.
1 available
Alderman, N.
1 available
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"In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death....
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Radiant emperor volume 1
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Parker-Chan, S.
1 available
Parker-Chan, S.
1 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Parker-Chan, S.
1 available
Parker-Chan, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Parker-Chan, S.
1 available
Parker-Chan, S.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
19) Nettle & Bone
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East Side Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Kingfisher, T.
1 available
Kingfisher, T.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Kingfisher, T.
1 available
Kingfisher, T.
1 available
North Side Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Kingfisher, T.
1 available
Kingfisher, T.
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"This isn't a fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's one where she kills him. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive new fantasy adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a...
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Legends & lattes volume 1
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start pulling shots instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly...