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Dorothy Gentleman volume 1
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""Near the top most deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn't hers--just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship's detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fair weather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies, but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot. Dorothy suspects the misfortune...
2) The Original
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Hugo Award-winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this sci-fi thriller set in a world where one woman fights to know her true identity and survive the forces that threaten her very existence.In the near future, humans choose lifefor a price. Injectable nanite technology is the lifeblood that flows through every individual wishing to experience the world through the lens of their own theme. While death from mortal wounds...
3) High Life
Publication Date
2019.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives—has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole. Official Selection at the **Toronto...
Publication Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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On the brink of separation, Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage.
5) Gamer
Publication Date
2009.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Set in a future-world where people pay to “play” convicts in virtual war games, Kable (Gerard Butler) is a star player. Imprisoned for life, Kable could win his freedom if he survives a total of 30 games. Operated by a wealthy teenager (Logan Lerman) but up against unforeseen odds, Kable’s success and defeat is a mission for many… strings attached.
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1997.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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César (Eduardo Noriega) is a rich womanizer who prowls the parties and bars of Madrid, intent on bagging chicks. But when César falls for the beautiful Sofía (Penélope Cruz), he's the one who's bagged. After he is placed in a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he does not remember committing, his only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies in his dreams.
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Astra Black volume 2
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Beyond the Orun Gate, Epyc Ro and her elite soldiers are stranded. Capturing an alien ship and searching for a way home, they discover a stowaway who may be the key to overcoming the alien forces swarming all around them. On board the Cypher, Captain Stacia Chikeke is struggling to keep her ship and its fractured crew together. But the discovery of an interstellar phenomenon and the opportunity to explore unites them in a singular purpose, for now....
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Four years after the Rending, Mira's best friend, Lana, announces her pregnancy, the first since everything changed and a new source of hope for Mira. But when Lana gives birth to an inanimate object--and other women of Zion follow suit--the thin veil of normalcy Mira has thrown over her new life begins to fray. As the Zionites wrestle with the presence of these Babies, a confident outsider named Michael appears, proselytizing about the world beyond...
9) Splinter
Publication Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A young couple and an escaped convict find themselves working together to survive and escape from a vicious parasitic monster that transforms people into bloodthirsty hosts.
10) Lamb
Publication Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to raise her as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her.
11) Knowing
Publication Date
2009.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Nicolas Cage (National Treasure) stars in this edge of your seat sci-fi thriller as John Koestler, a professor who deciphers a coded message with terrifying, accurate predictions about every major world disaster. Looking to protect his family and prevent future calamities, he enlists the reluctant help of Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), daughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies. His quest to understand the message ad his own family's involvement...
12) Take me with you
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United by the requirement to take care of a mysterious, electronic cube, Eden, Eli, Marwan, and Ilanka are driven ever further apart, and disobeying the device has life-threatening consequences.
13) Bastion Boga
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Czy we wszechświecie istnieje siła wyższa? A jeśli tak, to czy ma wobec nas dobre zamiary?
Jest rok 2144. Załoga ziemskiej misji dociera do mgławicy LDN 63 – tajemniczej struktury położonej w głębi kosmosu. Na jej czele stoi astronomka Celia Baron, wspierana przez zaawansowaną sztuczną inteligencję. Ich zadanie: zbadać obłok ciemnej materii i wrócić z odpowiedziami. To, co zastają, nie przypomina żadnego znanego zjawiska. Obiekt...
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2011
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A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite a war so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the Decepticons' all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
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DISCLAIMER Thirteen and Drinking Blood does not contain detailed sexual scenes, violence, or vanity. It does suggest drug use and sexual acts may or may not have occurred. *At no point does this book represent an erotica title or any variation of descriptive illegal acts- It simply is a fictional story with an underlying message to young adults to be aware of sexually active minors that do not disclose their age in settings such as college house parties.
Clara,...
16) Stop
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Twenty years ago, his father vanished. Now, with the passing of his mother, Jake returns to his childhood home, where he finds his dad's old films connected to his scientific research. One reel is still wrapped inside the evidence bag. Longing for answers, he threads the film into the old projector and makes a bewildering discovery.To his horror, he watches himself as the adult he is now, attack his own father. Turning to the camera , he holds up...
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Former resistance fighter and prison escapee Kharman Black finally finds peace on the seemingly progressive, civilised world of Kyliea. Once there, he embarks upon an illegal relationship with his native guide, Evree Nuarn. But as a pawn-spy operative to a demanding Takion called Drakral whose race are ancient enemies with the Kyliean Union, Kharman can never be free, and trouble is never too far away …From retrieving lost artefacts to spying, he's...
19) Coolhunting
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Steffie makes her living as a coolhuntersomeone who discovers an interesting look and makes it fashion, often overnight. She managed to escape her stifling upbringing, but her sister KDgenetically altered to remain a childremains trapped.Steffie left KD behind once. But when KD asks Steffie to help her run away from home, Steffie must decide whether to help or to abandon her sister for a second time.A Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Science...
20) Starburst
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Exploring the vastness of space: The mission of the massive Starburst ships.Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures.And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine.Starburst takes the vast Seeders Universe and expands it yet again beyond where humans dare go.





