Search Results: Returned 15 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 15
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2008., William Morrow Call No: Fic Ste Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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2022. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what’s right. One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York—the same night her grandmother dies—or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared. But for our purposes Allie’s story begins at the end, when she is finally ready to tell her version of what happened with a white supremacist named Matthew Strong. From the beginning, Allie had the clues: in a spate of possibly connected disappearances of other young Black women; in a series of recently restored plantation homes; in letters outlining an uprising; in maps of slave trade routes and old estates; in hidden caves and buried tunnels; and finally, in a confessional that should never have existed. They just have to make a case strong enough for the FBI and police to listen. This is when Allie herself disappears. Allie is a survivor. She survived the newly post-Jim Crow south, she survived cancer, and she will survive being stalked and kidnapped by Matthew Strong, who seeks to ignite a revolution. The surprise in this doesn’t lie in the question of will she be taken; it lies in how she and her community outsmart a tactical madman.
![The confessions of Matthew Strong [eBook] : A novel](/Library/images/~imageCT102879.JPG "The confessions of Matthew Strong [eBook] : A novel")
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2022., 06:22:33, Tantor Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, "Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back."
![Dr. No [eAudiobook] : A novel](/Library/images/~imageCT102880.JPG "Dr. No [eAudiobook] : A novel")
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[2015], Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Kun Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An enchanting new novel from one of the most distinguished writers of our time, an altogether serious comedy that is the synthesis and culmination of his oeuvre"--
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By Homel, David2022., Véhicule Press Call No: NEW QWF Fic Hom Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Paul is hired to write a monograph of the Montreal photographer John Marchuk, he assumes he’ll be able to turn over the eccentric project in a matter of weeks. Little does he know that over the next few months his visits with Marchuk, in a house stuffed with boxes stacked floor to ceiling with his life’s archive, will expose an emptiness in his own home.
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-- Questions are foreverc2006., Open Court Call No: 823 J27s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Popular culture and philosophy Volume: v. 23Summary Note: "A collection of philosophical essays about the fictional world of James Bond as seen in Ian Fleming's novels and the ongoing film series. Issues addressed include existentialism and the good life, crime and punishment, gender politics, the cold war and nuclear proliferation, and human interrelation with technology"--Provided by publisher.
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2010, c2005., Adult, MP Publishing Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "An aging Andrew Woodman stumbles through a snowstorm, slowly losing his strength, his language, and his memories of the once-familiar island landscape around him. When Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers Andrew's body frozen in the ice later that winter, the rich narrative tapestry of A Map of Glass begins."--OverDrive.
![A map of glass [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75299.JPG "A map of glass [eBook]")
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2005., Faber and Faber Call No: Fic Asl Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in a Pakistani community in an unnamed English town. Shamas, a social worker, has no need for Islamic orthodoxy. His wife, Kaukub, knows no other way, and her religious fervor has driven all their children away. Shamas' brother has fallen in love with a woman who has been divorced and abandoned by her husbands. When the lovers move in together, they're found murdered by her brothers to protect the family honour because she was living in sin. Maps for Lost Lovers takes place in the next 12 months after the murders, highlighting the claustrophobic society and clash of liberation versus old traditions and hatreds.
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c2013., General, ECW Press Call No: Fic Led Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, while Lilah makes her own subtle and terrifying transformation as she seeks sexual penance under the harsh hand of her boss. Sam and Lilah fall deeper into their separate spiritual paths, and the two hurtle closer and closer to a dark, unknown destiny, one that changes all that they know about life and pain, love and God, and how to find light in the most unforeseen places. Re-examining the traditional roles of priest and prophet, damned and divine, and creating something monstrous and exquisite, this well-crafted novel investigates the so-called truths behind religion and explores the intersection of pleasure and pain.
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2003., Penguin Books Call No: Fic Hes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Penguin classics
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1994., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Gaa Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Fic Joh Edition: 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Freedom, where Thinkers rule and Rules should never be broken, Raine, daughter of the Director, is expected to spy on her roommate, Vi, and report back to him in case heavy brainwashing is not enough to prevent Vi from remembering the secrets he is anxious to keep hidden.
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c2015., General, The Dial Press Call No: Fic Bar Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways. As Layla embarks on this grand adventure to establish historical moments in print, her first friend, the town librarian Ms. Betts wisely cautions: There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity."--Publisher.
