Search Results: Returned 6 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 6
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2012., Adolescent, Egmont USA Call No: Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.
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2013., Adolescent, Egmont USA Call No: Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The struggle for control between the Armstrong twins and the group known as BZRK continues with the stakes higher than ever.
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2021., Lost Books Call No: QWF Fic Bou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Conspiratopia is a utopian satire that takes place in a parallel universe where conspiracy theories have won. Inspired by classics such as Gulliver's Travels, Erewhon, and Thomas More’s Utopia, it tells the story of a really smart (and really high) conspiracy dude who travels to a strange new world to live out his wildest conspiracy fantasies IRL.
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-- Map maker's warc2013., General, Atria Books Call No: Fic Dom Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In an ancient time, in a faraway land, a young woman named Aoife is allowed a rare apprenticeship to become her kingdom's mapmaker, tasked with charting the entire domain. Traveling beyond its borders, she finds a secretive people who live in peace, among great wealth. They claim to protect a mythic treasure, one connected to the creation of the world. When Aoife reports their existence to her kingdom, the community is targeted as a threat. Attempting to warn them of imminent danger, Aoife is exiled for treason and finds refuge among the very people who had been declared her enemy. With them, she begins a new life surrounded by kindness, equality, and cooperation. But within herself, Aoife has no peace. She cannot share the grief she feels for the home and children she left behind. She cannot bear the warrior scars of the man she comes to love. And when she gives birth to their gifted daughter, Aoife cannot avoid what the child forces her to confront about her past and its truth. On this most important of journeys, there is no map to guide her.
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-- Ready player 1.2011., Broadway Books Call No: Fic Cli Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review.
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By Pick, Alison2017., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Pic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "This spare, beautifully written, shocking and timely novel whisks us back to 1921 Palestine, when a band of young Jewish pioneers, many escaping violence in their homelands, set out to realize a utopian dream: the founding of a kibbutz on a patch of land that will, twenty-five years later, become part of the State of Israel. Writing with tightly controlled intensity, Alison Pick takes us inside the minds of her vastly different characters--two young unmarried women, one plain and one beautiful, escaping peril in Russia and Europe; one older man, a charismatic group leader who is married with two children; and his wife, Hannah, who understands all too well the dark side of "equality"--to show us how idealism quickly tumbles into pragmatism, and how the utopian dream is punctured by messy human entanglements. This is also the story of the land itself (present-day Israel and Palestine), revealing with compassion and terrible irony how the pioneers chose to ignore the subtle but undeniable fact that their valley was already populated, home to a people whose lives they did not entirely understand. Writing with extraordinary power, Pick creates unforgettably human characters who, isolated in the enclosure of their hard-won utopian dream, are haunted by ghosts, compromised by unbearable secrets, and finally, despite flashes of love and hope, worn down by hardship, human frailty, and the pull of violent confrontation. The novel's utterly shocking but satisfying conclusion will have readers flipping back to the first page to trace patterns and wrestle with the question of what is, or is not, inevitable and knowable in the human heart."--From publisher.
