Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Call No: Fic Wil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a near-future world where technologically enhanced humans are governed by a strict set of conduct laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a persecuted underclass that is planning to change, or destroy, the world.
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2016., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Cro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the wake of the battle against The Twelve, Amy and her friends have gone in different directions. Peter has joined the settlement at Kerrville, Texas, ascending in its ranks despite his ambivalence about its ideals. Alicia has ventured into enemy territory, half-mad and on the hunt for the viral called Zero, who speaks to her in dreams. Amy has vanished without a trace. With The Twelve destroyed, the citizens of Kerrville are moving on with life, settling outside the city limits, certain that at last the world is safe enough. But the gates of Kerrville will soon shudder with the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and Amy--the Girl from Nowhere, the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years--will once more join her friends to face down the demon who has torn their world apart... and to at last confront their destinies."--From publisher.
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2016., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Deadpool Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
![Deadpool [DVD] (2016). Directed by Tim Miller.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Deadpool [DVD] (2016). Directed by Tim Miller.")
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2003., 83, Madacy Entertainment Group Call No: DVD Fic Dr. Jekyll (1920) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Horror ClassicsSummary Note: Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
![Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [DVD] (1920). Directed by John S. Robertson.](/Library/images/~imageCT99778.JPG "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [DVD] (1920). Directed by John S. Robertson.")
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-- Une vie en hauteur2019., Adult, 113, Lionsgate Call No: DVD Fic HighL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
![High life [DVD] (2018). Directed by Claire Denis.](/Library/images/~imageCT100708.JPG "High life [DVD] (2018). Directed by Claire Denis.")
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[2017]., Adult, HBO Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic Immortal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.
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2020., Adult, 517, HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program-and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world-but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family. Provocative and thrilling, Lakewood is a breathtaking novel that takes an unflinching look at the moral dilemmas many working-class families face, and the horror that has been forced on black bodies in the name of science.
![Lakewood [eAudiobook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT101068.JPG "Lakewood [eAudiobook] : a novel")
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c2012., G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: Fic Coo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.
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c2010., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Cro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
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2007., General, Universal Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Serenity Edition: 2-disc collector's ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative to make sure that what River knows doesn't get out.
![Serenity [DVD] (2007). Directed by Joss Whedon.](/Library/images/~imageCT75320.JPG "Serenity [DVD] (2007). Directed by Joss Whedon.")
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-- Piel que habito2012., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Skin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a driven plastic surgeon haunted by personal tragedies. After many years of trial and error, he finally perfects a new skin - a shield which could have prevented the death of his wife in an accident years earlier. His latest 'guinea pig' is a mysterious captive whose true identity masks a shocking mystery. The Skin I Live In is a masterful tale of secrets, obsession and revenge from Oscar-winning writer/director Pedro Almodovar (Best Original Screenplay, Talk to Her, 2002)."--Container.
![The skin I live in [DVD] (2011). Directed by Pedro Almodovar](/Library/images/~imageCT74924.JPG "The skin I live in [DVD] (2011). Directed by Pedro Almodovar")
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Cro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A literary thriller revealed in multiple time frames, 'The Twelve' is a suspenseful tale of the human capacity for sacrifice and the transformative power of renewal. In the present day: As three strangers attempt to navigate the chaos cast upon civilization by a U.S. government experiment gone wrong, their destinies intertwine. More than a hundred years in the future: Amy, Peter, Alicia and the others introduced in 'The Passage' pinpoint the weaknesses of the twelve original vampires . . . even as they confront a betrayal by one of their own."--Publisher.
