After years of struggle by Blanchfleur to maintain its independence, the idyllic walled city of Aahimsa, a community of girls and women dedicated to making a life of peace free of the brutality and aggression of outsiders, and its...
Science fiction
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Author:MacDonald, HughSummary: - Author:Colfer, Eoin ; Adams, DouglasSummary:
In this sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth, only to discover that it is about to be blown up ... again. What could a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's...
- Author:Jones, NickSummary:
More than twenty years after Amy Bridgeman disappeared, Joseph Bridgeman still grieves for his lost sister. When a friend talks Joseph into visiting a hypnotherapist, the experience unlocks an unexpected Pandora's box: time travel. Soon...
- Author:LePan, DonSummary:
More than 100 years in the future, the horrors of factory farming, combined with the widespread abuse of antibiotics, have led to mass extinctions. As paranoia about the food supply spreads, a forceful new logic takes hold. In the blink...
- Author:Underwood, Michael R.Summary:
Max is a cheery xeno-archeologist from Earth, stranded and trying to find a way home. Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race, searching for her people's heir. Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot, running from her past and...
- Author:Cazeault, PatriceSummary:
Annika Aralia est une Tharisienne. Et elle les déteste tous. Les Humains, les Amiraux, le Conseil, les crétins de monarchistes... Elle vit avec son oncle tyrannique, un dignitaire du régime qui se prend pour un monarque tout-puissant,...
- Author:Kuper, TonyaSummary:
Worst. Birthday. Ever. My first boyfriend dumped me, my dad is who knows where, I have some weird virus that makes me want to hurl, and now my ex is licking another girl's tonsils. Oh, and I'm officially the same age as my...
- Author:Rand, AynSummary:
He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the...
- Author:Soule, CharlesSummary:
Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge-and wariness-of technology to his sophomore novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness...
- Author:GREEN, R. MSummary:
Two science fiction stories. Walton returns to his childhood home to try to find the reason for his hallucinations. A young couple produce a type of glass to help solve their problem.
- Author:Singh, KomalSummary:
This is a STEM book and more! An inspiring, inclusive, whimsical way to learn about computers and technology from real-life trailblazers. Ara is a young girl who loves BIG numbers. She wants to count all the stars in the sky... but how...
- Author:Meyer, MarissaSummary:
Nova's double life is about to get a lot more complicated: As Insomnia, she is a full-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of powerful and beloved superheroes. She works with Adrian's patrol unit to protect the weak...
- Author:VanderMeer, JeffSummary:
This collection includes all three novels in the epic Southern Reach trilogy. Dive into the mysteries of Area X, a remote and lush terrain that has inexplicably sequestered itself from civilization. Twelve expeditions have gone in, and...
- Author:Bancroft, JosiahSummary:
The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt to rescue Senlin's lost...
- Author:Cline, ErnestSummary:
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible,...
- Author:Nowlan, Philip FrancisSummary:
The groundbreaking novella that gave rise to science fiction's original space hero, Buck Rogers. In 1927, World War I veteran Anthony Rogers is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating strange phenomena in...
- Author:Simmons, KristenSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever...
- Author:Wells, MarthaSummary:
A USA Today bestseller. "I love Murderbot!" —Ann Leckie. Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red. It has a dark past—...
- Author:Wells, MarthaSummary:
Artificial Condition continues. The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M....
- Author:Anders, Charlie JaneSummary:
"A perfect listen for anyone looking for a quick dabble in the author's writing style or in science fiction." - AudioFile Magazine. From the author of the Hugo-winning "Six Months, Three Days," a new wrinkle on...
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