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2023., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: QWF Fic Mic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Dear Marian, the letter from the Company begins. You are one of the great writers of this century." At 75, Marian Ffarmer is almost as famous for her signature tricorn hat and cape as for her verse. She has lived for decades in the one-bedroom New York apartment she once shared with her mother, miles away from any other family, dedicating herself to her art. Yet recently her certainty about her choices has started to fray, especially when she thinks about her only son, now approaching middle age with no steady income. Into that breach comes the letter: an invitation to the Silicon Valley headquarters of one of the world's most powerful companies in order to make history by writing a poem. Marian has never collaborated with anyone, let alone a machine, but the offer is too lucrative to resist, and she boards a plane to San Francisco with dreams of helping her son. In the Company's serene and golden Mind Studio, she encounters Charlotte, their state-of-the-art poetry bot, and is startled to find that it has written 230,442 poems in the last week, though it claims to only like two of them. Over the conversations to follow, the poet is by turns intrigued, confused, moved and frightened by Charlotte's vision of the world, by what it knows and doesn't know ("Do you remember being born?" it asks her. Of course Marian doesn't, but Charlotte does.) This is a relationship, a friendship, unlike anything Marian has known, and as it evolves-and as Marian meets strangers at swimming pools, tortoises at the zoo, a clutch of younger poets, a late-night TV host and his synthetic foam set-she is forced to confront the secrets of her past and the direction of her future. Who knew that a disembodied mind could help bend Marian's life towards human connection, that friendship and family are not just time-eating obligations but soul-expanding joys. Or that belonging to one's art means, above all else, belonging to the world.
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2023., 09:43:22, Random House Canada Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Sean Michaels' luminous new novel takes readers on a lyrical joy ride—seven, epic days in Silicon Valley with a tall, formidable poet (inspired by the real-life Marianne Moore) and her unusual new collaborator, a digital mind just one month old. It's both a love letter to and an aching examination of art-making, family, identity and belonging. Dear Marian , the letter from the Company begins. You are one of the great writers of this century. At 75, Marian Ffarmer is almost as famous for her signature tricorn hat and cape as for her verse. She has lived for decades in the one-bedroom New York apartment she once shared with her mother, miles away from any other family, dedicating herself to her art. Yet recently her certainty about her choices has started to fray, especially when she thinks about her only son, now approaching middle age with no steady income. Into that breach comes the letter: an invitation to the Silicon Valley headquarters of one of the world's most powerful companies in order to make history by writing a poem. Marian has never collaborated with anyone, let alone a machine, but the offer is too lucrative to resist, and she boards a plane to San Francisco with dreams of helping her son. In the Company's serene and golden Mind Studio, she encounters Charlotte, their state-of-the-art poetry bot, and is startled to find that it has written 230,442 poems in the last week, though it claims to only like two of them. Over the conversations to follow, the poet is by turns intrigued, confused, moved and frightened by Charlotte's vision of the world, by what it knows and doesn't know ("Do you remember being born?" it asks her. Of course Marian doesn't, but Charlotte does.) This is a relationship, a friendship, unlike anything Marian has known, and as it evolves—and as Marian meets strangers at swimming pools, tortoises at the zoo, a clutch of younger poets, a late-night TV host and his synthetic foam set—she is forced to confront the secrets of her past and the direction of her future. Who knew that a disembodied mind could help bend Marian's life towards human connection, that friendship and family are not just time-eating obligations but soul-expanding joys. Or that belonging to one’s art means, above all else, belonging to the world.
![Do you remember being born? [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT103899.JPG "Do you remember being born? [eAudiobook]")
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2011, p2011., Paramount Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Hugo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
![Hugo [DVD] (2011). Directed by Martin Scorsese](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Hugo [DVD] (2011). Directed by Martin Scorsese")
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2006., Tor Call No: Fic Her Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dune series.
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1963 [c1950], Doubleday Call No: Fic Asi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Doubleday science fiction
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2004, p1999., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic IronG Edition: Special ed., widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryRead a Review Summary Note: A young boy meets a 50 foot tall, steel-eating giant who he tries to keep secret from everyone, including a nosey government agent.
![The Iron Giant [DVD] (1999). Directed by Brad Bird.](/Library/images/~imageCT71403.JPG "The Iron Giant [DVD] (1999). Directed by Brad Bird.")
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2021., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Ish Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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2021., Penguin Random House Audio Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
![Klara and the sun [eAudiobook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT101617.JPG "Klara and the sun [eAudiobook] : a novel")
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2021., Penguin Random House Audio Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
![Klara and the sun [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT101616.JPG "Klara and the sun [eBook] : a novel")
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[2018]., Adult, Del Rey Call No: QWF Fic Neu Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Themis files Volume: Book threeSummary Note: "In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from geopolitical conflict and alien invasion alike. Now, after nearly ten years on another world, Rose returns to find her old alliances forfeit and the planet in shambles. And she must pick up the pieces of the Earth Defense Corps as her own friends turn against each other"--From publisher.
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c2012., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Fic Wel Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
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2014., General, Doubleday Call No: Fic Wil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.
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2015., General, Random House Canada Call No: Fic Ins Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "For floundering 34-year-old Ben Chambers the answer is obvious: find out where it came from and take it there to be fixed, even if it means risking his marriage in the process. Determined to achieve something for once in his life, Ben embarks on a journey that takes him and the endearing robot, Tang, to the far side of the globe...and back again. Together they will discover that friendship can rise up under the strangest circumstances, and that Artificial Intelligence can teach a man what it is to be human."--Publisher.
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[2016], Adult, Del Rey Call No: QWF Fic Neu Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Themis files Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: "17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of interviews conducted by a mysterious and unnamed character, this is a unique debut that describes a hunt for truth, power, and giant body parts."--Publisher.
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By Levin, Ira[1972], Random House Call No: Fic Lev Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Dark fate2020., Adult, 128, Paramount Call No: DVD Fic TerminatorD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: More than two decades have passed since Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day and rewrote the fate of the human race. Dani Ramos is living a simple life with her brother and father when a deadly new Terminator, a Rev-9, travels back through time to kill her. In order to survive, she joins forces with Grace, an enhanced super-soldier from the future, and a battle-hardened Sarah Connor. As the Rev-9 destroys everything in its path, the three are led to a T-800 from Sarah's past as their last hope.
![Terminator [DVD] (2019). Directed by Tim Miller. : dark fate](/Library/images/~imageCT100889.JPG "Terminator [DVD] (2019). Directed by Tim Miller. : dark fate")
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2017., Adult, Del Rey Call No: QWF Fic Neu Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Themis files Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: "26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every question answered about the mysterious contraption raises two more. But the team behind the greatest discovery of the last millennium might be out of time when a second robot suddenly appears, looming over downtown London."--From publisher.
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2008., Juvenile, Walt Disney Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic WALL-E Edition: [Widescreen version]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
![WALL-E [DVD] (2008). Directed by Andrew Stanton.](/Library/images/~imageCT69626.JPG "WALL-E [DVD] (2008). Directed by Andrew Stanton.")
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-- Le dernier pub avant la fin du mondec2013., Adult, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic World's Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on doing it again. They are convinced by mate Gary King, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown to once again attempt to reach the fabled pub called The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching the pub is the least of their worries.
![The world's end [DVD] (2013). Directed by Edgar Wright.](/Library/images/~imageCT81366.JPG "The world's end [DVD] (2013). Directed by Edgar Wright.")