Catalog Search Results
1) Gated
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lyla feels ambivalent when the charismatic leader of her isolated suburban community is told that the end of the world is near and when it arrives they must all be ready to defend themselves against the unchosen.
3) Player piano
Author
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1999, c1952
Description
Vonnegut's first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. A human revolt against the machines which control life was arranged by the machines themselves to prove the futility of such resistance.
4) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Description
Meet young Matty, a boy whose role for Village is more profound than he thinks. Fraught with the same tension and subtle complexities of the previous novels, Lowry's third episode follows Matty -- who lives with Seer and doesn't yet have his true name -- as he keeps busy running errands through Forest and otherwise lives a youthful, carefree life. But Matty also has a power he can't explain, and when he understands that local attitudes are becoming...
Author
Series
Ready player volume Book 1
Description
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity,...
Author
Series
Poseidon's Children volume Book 1
Formats
Description
One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile...
Author
Series
Bzrk Trilogy volume Book 2
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The struggle for control between the Armstrong twins and the group known as BZRK continues with the stakes higher than ever.
Author
Series
BZRK Trilogy volume Book 3
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"In the concluding book in the BZRK trilogy, war is again being waged in the macro and the nano, and Lear's identity is finally uncovered"--
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request