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Author
Language
English
Description
An epic story of the greatest guitar player to ever live, and the six lives he changed with his magical blue strings.
"The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie's talent is touched by the...
2) Glitch
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
376,15 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers--people who travel through time to preserve important historical events. But everything changes when they find a letter from Regan's future self, warning them about an impending disaster that threatens them and everyone they know. Will they be able to set aside their past in order to save the future?--Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father's fox and rabbit sermon--once a parable...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world - rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (675 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years in the future, after a universal civil war, a lone organization known as The Alliance controls the world, except for a small band of people running a transport ship called Serenity.
6) Gamechanger
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
572 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. 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 bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery...
8) Agency
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. 'Eunice,' the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly...
10) Dragon City
Author
Series
Dragon realm volume 3
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Chan and his friends have been transported 5,000 years into the future where the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it's no different for Billy, Charlotte, Dylan, and Ling-Fei. After losing contact with their own dragons, they're determined to track them down in this new city, even if it means putting their own lives at risk. But one dragon has turned to the dark side and...
11) Soul
Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
12) Vigil Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
13) The lovely bones
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (375 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are four cosmically bound friends in the fight for their eternity, alongside their former torturer, Michael. Michael, in a fit of panic, had relinquished his role as the Architect to Eleanor, so that she and the gang could help four new residents become better people. Unfortunately, the Bad Place doesn't exactly make their task easy, and its latest move places Chidi in a dire situation, putting his relationship with...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (375 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place who doesn't know he's made a mistake, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome, or at least the pretty good, person within.
17) Hereafter
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Troubled because her brother has told her that the future of Earth is bleak, a little girl goes to her grandmother who assures her that there are many possible futures and encourages her to use her imagination to explore some of the alternatives.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true account and New York Times best-selling book comes the feature film adaption. Don Piper experienced love, joy and life like he'd never known during the 90 minutes he was declared dead after a traffic accident. But when he finally wakes in the hospital, Heaven's bliss was replaced by excruciating pain and emotional turmoil. With the support of his family and community, Don clings to his faith and fights to recover the life he's lost....
20) Flatliners
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience, giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.