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81) Keyhole factory
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic poetry conference, the novel moves on to encompass the stories of a poet-astronaut, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job...
82) The poison flood
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hollis Bragg lives on the fringes. The hunchbacked son of a West Virginia hill preacher, he now resides in rural isolation next to the burned-out husk of his father's church, and earns his living ghostwriting songs for a popular band that left the poverty and corruption of Appalachia and never looked back. It's the life he prefers, free from the harsh glare of the spotlight and attachments that lead only to heartbreak. Then, much to his consternation,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In "Alone Together, " MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A latest collection of 10 high-seas and "dark continent" adventures by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Caprices is inspired by the ambitions and controversies surrounding some of history's most intrepid pioneers, including Ferdinand Magellan and Zimri Coffin. Original.
87) Bertolt
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a charming, touching story about an imaginative boy whose best friend is an oak tree named Bertolt. The boy admits to being an outlier among his peers, but insists that while he is alone, he is never lonely. Being independent suits him, and he considers his difference to be his advantage.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When she receives a shattering call that threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard for, Anna must confront her tumultuous past dealing with her mercurial mother and the darkness that constantly threatened to consume her.
90) All the rage
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everything -- friends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romy's only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past...
Author
Publisher
Prime Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or federal government and minimal public services. Russ meets an interesting young woman, Pendra, but before he can get to know much about Freedom or its people, a savage tsunami strikes the West Coast. The wave of...
93) 56 days
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 days ago. Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 days ago. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in with him. She sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. He sees it as an opportunity...
97) Reign over me
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alan Johnson runs into his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman, on the streets of New York City. He is suprised to find that Charlie does not remember him at all. Alan later learns that Charlie is suffering with grief over the loss of his family on 9/11. Flooded with grief, Charlie quits his job and isolates himself from everyone around him. Alan attempts to help Charlie get over his grief by rekindling their friendship. As Alan spends a lot of...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.
99) Pulse
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Setting his story in the burgeoning internet and social media scene in Japan, Kurosawa's dark and apocalyptic film foretells how technology will only serve to isolate us as it grows more important to our lives. A group of young people in Tokyo begin to experience strange phenomena involving missing co-workers and friends, technological breakdown, and a mysterious website which asks the compelling question, "Do you want to meet a ghost?"
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her...
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