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Bad Axe County 2 Goon Squad 2 Isaac Bell 11 Jeremy Logan 6 Ready player one 2 Silo 3Alderman, Naomi
Summary: "The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AldermanSummary: "Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD QatsiSummary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 954 StoryMcKibben, Bill
Summary: Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 McKibb 2019Harari, Yuval N.
Summary: "One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 HararFriedman, Thomas L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 FriedmanGrippando, James
Summary: Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublsihers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY GrippandoCline, Ernest
Summary: Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless new rival --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Call number: SCI FIC ClineHanson, Victor Davis
Summary: A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization--sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD NinePetersen, David
Summary: Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to enjoy the renowned hospitality of June herself. On one particular evening, the subject of unpaid drink tabs leads to a contest. Whichever patron can weave the best tale for June's ears will have their past tab cleared entirely. With such an alluring prize up for grabs, the eager patrons begin telling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia Entertainment 2014
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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 741.5 PetersenCall number: Y 741.5 Peterson
Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: "What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.9 PrestonHanks, Tom
Summary: "From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HanksHarari, Yuval N.
Summary: "For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Howey, Hugh
Summary: "Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Call number: SCI FIC HoweyChild, Lincoln
Summary: "A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ChildDavies, Carys
Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EganTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: "Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901 TysonCussler, Clive
Summary: In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery. In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION CusslerSmith, Clint
Summary: 'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SmithKurczy, Stephen
Summary: An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the Appalachian Mountains where the last truly quiet town of America exists and where its residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity, challenging us to rethink the role of tech in our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 KurczyHowes, Katey
Summary: Told in rhyming text, a young weaver learns the history and practice of weaving through the centuries and around the world. Includes notes on the history of weaving, and the different kinds of textiles that are woven around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HowesFauci, Anthony S.
Summary: "The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024