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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First US edition. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 222 pages : color illustrations ; 26cm | English |
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One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
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©2021. | Viking | 628 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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"The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the dangers that threaten libraries... but not all of the attention...
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[2021] | Graywolf Press | 278 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F GUANZ |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Graywolf Press | English | Available Online
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Evicted from their trailer on New Year's Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior's birthday, and Henry has a job interview tomorrow. To celebrate, Henry treats Junior to...
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition | Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 370 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult New Science Fiction 1 available SF LOSTE |
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"The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four—a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere—is activated for the first time, it’s in crisis mode....
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2021. | First North American edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 282 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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The female narrator falls completely into the power of a male writer. When he suddenly rejects her, she resolves to hang on to him and his love at all costs ... even if it destroys her.
6) Adler
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[2021] | First edition. | Titan Comics | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH TIDHA |
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"For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
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2021. | First edition. | Open Letter | viii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F BESOR |
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"Joan Orpí (Piera, 1593-New Barcelona, 1645) is one of the most unknown characters in Spanish history. In this torrential book we are told the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to Sevilla and finally to America, where he would experience all kinds of outlandish situations. Using historical facts as raw material, and with stellar appearances of characters such as Miguel de Cervantes or the brigand Serrallonga among others, Besora...
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Central - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available
GRAPH JENNI
Glencarlyn - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available
GRAPH JENNI
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2021. | Abrams ComicArts - Megascope | 126 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH JENNI Glencarlyn - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH JENNI |
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After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.” The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her...
9) Afterlift
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2021. | First edition. | Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC | 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH ZDARS |
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"Ride-share driver Janice Chen has enough to deal with, from annoying passengers to overbearing parents. But when she picks up a pair of mysterious passengers who are pursued by otherworldly forces, Janice realizes that her already-terrible day might be headed straight to hell."--
10) Against the law
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Joe the bouncer volume 3
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[2021] | First Mysterious Press edition. | The Mysterious Press | 323 pages ; 24 cm. | English |
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Strip club bouncer and retired Special Forces operative Joe Brody, who moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in New York, must take out a shadowy figure named Zahir who has been invading the mob's territories to sell a powerful new brand of heroin.
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[2021] | First edition. | Tordotcom | 166 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction 1 available F GREGO |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
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It's 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world's hottest boy band, and definitely the world's only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the "boyz" become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot (the cute one), Matt the megabat (the funny one), Tim the Pangolin (the shy one), Devin the bonobo (the romantic one), or Tusk the elephant (the smart one)? Las Vegas Detective...
12) Alec
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©2021. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 340 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult New Fiction 1 available F DICAN |
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"A reimagining and continuation of E. M. Forster's classic novel Maurice, told from the gamekeeper Alec Scudder's perspective"--
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2021. | First US edition. | Erewhon Books | 282 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available
Glencarlyn - Adult New Science Fiction 1 available SF KHAW |
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2021 | OverDrive | Erewhon Books | English | Available Online
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Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through the years of a long, dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy, at least before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her diverse team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade . . . but they're...
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2021. | First Harper Perennial edition, First US edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 434 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult New Fiction 1 available F DALTO |
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"Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages...
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[2021] | Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group | 360 pages : map ; 22 cm | English |
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"Estranged sisters embark on a hiking trip on the tenth anniversary of their parents' deaths in an attempt to reconnect. In the wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula they'll face their deepest fears, question their most dearly held beliefs, and begin to see that perhaps the best way to move forward is the one way they had never considered"--
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[2021] | First edition. | Harper Perennial | 370 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts, All the Children Are Home follows the Moscatelli family-Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon-and the irrevocable changes in their lives when a six-year-old indigenous girl, Agnes, comes to live with them. When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all,...
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©2021. | First edition. | Titan Books | 367 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult New Science Fiction 2 available SF SLATT |
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"Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result....
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | W. W. Norton & Company | 255 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult New Fiction 1 available F RODRI |
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"Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies--Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend--help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them. Recklessly, he confronts the good-ole-boy responsible for Aubrey's...
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[2021] | First edition. | Ballantine Books | 276 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult New Fiction 1 available F NORMA |
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"A dying man brings his oldest friends together for one last beach blowout in this witty, heartfelt novel from the author of Last Couple Standing. At just thirty-five, reclusive billionaire Robbie Malcolm is a renowned financial prognosticator, a celebrated philanthropist, and a mathematical genius. Also, he's dying, which is a fact he's carefully concealing from the world. As he takes stock, Robbie realizes that his wealth means nothing if he can't...
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[2021] | Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group | 362 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her mountain community during the Great Depression. Even the rough people-like ornery Perdita Sweet-have their charms. But can love bloom in such rocky soil?"--
Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. When a charming writer...