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If you see a title here you would like to borrow, let me know! I'd be happy to share :)
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If you see a title here you would like to borrow, let me know! I'd be happy to share :)
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## How To
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Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure—but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.
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Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure—but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.
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"Joneworld","","2021-12-27T11:43:09-07:00","epub, mobi","","uri:gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/1/~joneworlds/","eng","2021-10-27T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","176391","","Braxon","1412","20f8ceca-e1e1-4ae2-b09c-a8b510973bf8"
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"Strugatsky, Boris","<p>Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings—a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-size mosquito—along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers. First published in Russia in 1965, <I>Monday Starts on Saturday </I>has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions—here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing,...","2022-01-20T17:52:52-07:00","epub","","","eng","2017-01-14T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","6564346","","Monday Starts on Saturday","1413","9529a0bf-ef59-4f57-9703-66a7e64d6bb9"
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"Santos, Marisa De Los","<p><strong>From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.</strong> <br/>Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets a fire in the school's auditorium. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze.</p><p>While many in the town believe a notoriously troubled local teen set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-04-15T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2159489","","I'd Give Anything","1415","c07063d9-7879-4d79-8317-ad625abd917d"
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"Quinn, Kate","<p><strong>""The reigning queen of historical fiction"" — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of </strong><strong>The Lions of Fifth Avenu</strong><strong>e</strong><strong> </strong> </p><p><strong>The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.</strong></p><p>1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-01-15T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","5187007","","Rose Code, The","1416","9d2c6fe3-f615-44b3-a9e6-3333258434bc"
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"Stewart, Matthew","<b>A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.</b><BR>In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What's left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.<BR> <BR>They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-10-11T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2468359","","9.9 Percent, The","1417","57ffbaa7-e348-46d5-b08e-995ee858e2e9"
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"STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR","<p>The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula</p><p>Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, ""Powers of Darkness""), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson's story.</p><p>In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a...","2022-01-23T19:49:05-07:00","epub","9781468313376","isbn:9781468313376","eng","2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3856757","FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics","Powers of Darkness","1418","47c83930-d9fd-4d00-adbc-a87099d80bd1"
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"Chabon, Michael","<b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series</b><br><b> </b><br><b>“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”<i>—The Washington Post Book World</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize<br></b><br>A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (<i>Newsweek</i>), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>), <i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</i> is a triumph of originality,...","2022-01-26T18:02:05-07:00","epub","978-0-8129-9367-7","isbn:978-0-8129-9367-7","eng","2012-06-12T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3282504","","Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content), The","1419","e8855a93-288a-4655-b1af-14f6c3175403"
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"Cole, Adrian & McLain, Bob","## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE
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## IN THE TRADITION OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND LEIGH BRACKETT
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The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. **
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"Kent, William","","2022-02-08T11:37:01-07:00","pdf","","","","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1035898","","Data and Reality","1422","21b2d47d-a554-4c3d-ab63-d6b22320565f"
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"HYDEN, STEVEN","<b>THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, <i>KID A</i>.</b></br> In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.</br> For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was <i>Kid A</i>.</br> Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it...","2022-02-13T20:27:54-07:00","epub","","","eng","2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1212412","","This Isn't Happening","1423","84889468-6ddf-4782-a567-2a292eae8f8b"
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"Beyer, Doug","<b>As a planeswalker investigates an alarming mystery built into the very foundations of Ravnica, he realizes some secrets are better left hidden</b><br> <br>Jace Beleren has the power to travel between planes of the Multiverse, but with this gift comes isolation. He is one in a million. He is a planeswalker. And he is on the edge of a mystery that could alter the face of his adopted home—a vast, world-wide city known as Ravnica—forever.<br><br>Faced with a magical code that is built into the very foundations of the city-world itself, Jace marches into the numinous depths of Ravnica’s underbelly in search of the promise of powerful magic. What he finds is perhaps more burden than boon. Once buried in past, the code resurfaces as Ravnica’s power-hungry mage guilds—unbound by the Guildpact that had once maintained order—struggle for control of the plane. But in the drive for primacy, there is no neutral ground.<br><br>Jace knows that he...","2022-02-13T21:42:49-07:00","epub","978-0-7869-6455-0","isbn:978-0-7869-6455-0","eng","2012-11-27T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","2135369","","Return to Ravnica","1424","07c0acd0-3968-44e4-9fe6-450969b94429"
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The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. **
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