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1) Severance
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Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads....
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Mandel, E.
2 available
Mandel, E.
2 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Mandel, E.
1 available
Mandel, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Mandel, E.
1 available
Mandel, E.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Mandel, E.
1 available
Mandel, E.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Mandel, E.
1 available
Mandel, E.
1 available
East Side Library - Audiobooks - Adult
Mandel, E.
1 available
Mandel, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
Mandel, E.
1 available
Mandel, E.
1 available
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
3) The road
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
McCarthy, C.
1 available
McCarthy, C.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
McCarthy, C.
1 available
McCarthy, C.
1 available
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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
4) The seep
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Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Porter, C.
1 available
Porter, C.
1 available
South Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Porter, C.
1 available
Porter, C.
1 available
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"Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's utopian influence-until Deeba begins to imagine what...
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Carey, M.
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Carey, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Carey, M.
1 available
Carey, M.
1 available
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Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.
6) Sorrowland
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Solomon, R.
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Solomon, R.
1 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Solomon, R.
1 available
Solomon, R.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Solomon, R.
1 available
Solomon, R.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Solomon, R.
1 available
Solomon, R.
1 available
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Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong, not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's not normal. To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate the secluded religious compound from which she fled and the violent history of dehumanization, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the...
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Sworn soldier volume 1
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Kingfisher, T.
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Kingfisher, T.
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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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"From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
Moreno-Garcia, S.
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find -- her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family's youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Whitehead, C.
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Whitehead, C.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
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Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Brooks, M.
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Brooks, M.
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North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Brooks, M.
1 available
Brooks, M.
1 available
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men...
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
579.5 Sh
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579.5 Sh
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
579.5 Sh
1 available
579.5 Sh
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
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Wanderers volume 1
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Wendig, C.
1 available
Wendig, C.
1 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Wendig, C.
1 available
Wendig, C.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Wendig, C.
1 available
Wendig, C.
1 available
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A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is...