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2005., Everyman's Library Call No: Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) Volume: 296.
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2022., Adult, Scribner Call No: Fic Ega Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or zexternalizingy memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious -- that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others -- has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.
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By Eggers, Dave2014., Vintage Books Call No: Fic Egg Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company. The story of one woman's ambition and idealism becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
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2015., Adult, Thistledown Press Ltd. Call No: IND Fic Joh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore Hanson are lawyers who rarely interact with members of the lower classes from the impoverished suburb of Regis and the independently thriving Ashram outside the city. They live in a world of personalized Platforms, self-driving cars, and cutting edge Organic Recreational Vehicles (ORVs), where gamers need never leave their virtual realities. When Lenore befriends political dissenter and fellow war veteran Richard Warner, and George accidentally crash-lands his ORV near the mountain-sheltered haven of a First Nations community, they become exposed to new ways of thinking. As the lives of these near-strangers become intertwined, each is forced to confront the past before their relationships and lives unravel. Taking its title from the Latin name for the Trickster bird of First Nations, Norse, and Christian mythologies, Corvus examines the illusions of security we build through technology and presents a scathing satire of a world caught up in climate change denial and the glorification of war.
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2023., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: NEW QWF Fic Mic Availability:0 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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2012., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Fic And Edition: Second paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its ever-present ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. M. T. Anderson’s not-so-brave new world is a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
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c2011., General, Atria Books Call No: Fic Pic Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryBook Club questions for discussion: Summary Note: Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy turns into love and marriage. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits him against Zoe when she asks Max for permission to use their frozen embryos.
![Sing you home [with CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT72487.JPG "Sing you home [with CD] : a novel")
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2022., Warner Bros. Entertaiment Call No: NEW DVD Fic Westworld 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in the near-future, this series follows employees and patrons of Westworld, a vast theme park modeled after America's Wild West. Over the course of three seasons, Westworld's android "hosts" begin to display aberrant behavior that explodes in violence, and takes the battleground between humans and hosts into the real world.
![Westworld, season 4 [DVD] (2022). The complete fourth season.](/Library/images/~imageCT102785.JPG "Westworld, season 4 [DVD] (2022). The complete fourth season.")