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1) Cult classic
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only...
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Captain Underpants volume 12
Description
George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
5) Deep six
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
2006, c1984
Physical Desc
535 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Dirk Pitt is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the president of the United States for their own purposes through mind control.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Project MKUltra is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), some of which were illegal. What was this project really about? And is it still going on today? Lets put on the glasses and see reality with this hard-hitting documentary.
7) Unleashed
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Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 2
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Description
Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
8) Pretties
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Uglies volume 2
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Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
9) Fire
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Graceling Realm volume 2
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In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
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Renowned theater critic John Lahr created a bold reworking of Richard Condon's political thriller, updating the action to the 1990s while retaining the core premise of a brainwashed war hero who's programmed to become an assassin. Kelsey Grammer stars as Raymond Shaw in this co-production with Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre, starring the original cast.
Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Chicago in March 1996.
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12) Shift: [a novel]
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Gate of Orpheus trilogy volume pt. 1
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 71 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment, develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler's heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassi-nate President Kennedy. Chased across America by deadly forces in and out of government, will Chandler be able to harness his "shift" and rewrite history?
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
16) Councilor
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Series
The grand illusion volume 2
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"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor...
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Daniel X volume 4
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Based on the popular children's podcast, follow Eleanor Amplified as she teams up with middle school reporter Miku to get the scoop and save the day! Join world-renowned investigative reporter Eleanor Amplified as she goes undercover to help a student reporter and fan, Miku Tangeroa, expose the corruption at her middle school. Together they discover that the new organic lunch program and tech-based learning systems are doing more harm than good and...
19) THX 1138
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
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