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1) Synapse
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Thirty years in the future. When Kestrel Hathaway, a pastor in Cincinnati, witnesses a terror attack, she's drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her cognizant robot, have to untangle before it's too late. With the help of counterterrorism agent Nick Vernon, she needs to stop a second, more brutal attack, that could leave thousands dead. And the clock is ticking.... -- adapted from back cover
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxii, 177 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a "clockwork man" appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match in a small English village. Considered the original cyborg...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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390 pages ; 22 cm
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It's been weeks since Mena and the other girls escaped Innovations Academy. Traumatized by the violence and experimentations that occurred there, Mena quickly discovers that the outside world can be just as unwelcoming and cruel. The girls have a revenge-fueled desire to shut down the corporation that imprisoned them. They enroll in Stoneridge Prep, a private school with suspect connections to Innovations, to identify the son of an investor and take...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
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The girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved, learning learn to be the best society has to offer for their sponsors and investors. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians they are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance, defiance, or opinions... until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears. Uncovering the dark secrets of what's actually happening -- and who they really...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
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Eighteenth-century Ohio: two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they plan for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken. In the second half of the twenty-first century: climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company...
7) Cress
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Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Working to overthrow Queen Levana, a fugitive Cinder and her companions search for Rapunzel-like hacker Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood and who has received orders from Levana to foil Cinder's efforts.
8) War girls
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm
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The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect them from the harsh, radiation-heavy climate. Across the nation, as the years-long civil war wages on, survival becomes the only way of life....
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 23 cm
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Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during a long, dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen. They were the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy-- until their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, Maya and her team of broken outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission, and to rescue a missing comrade. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy have their own agenda....
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One-Punch Man volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
191 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Class-S hero King is known as the strongest man on earth, but when a mysterious organization sends an assassin after him, the shocking truth about King is revealed.
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One-Punch Man volume 7
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
204 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem-he just can't seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! When aliens invade Earth, a group of Class-S heroes finally finds a way to fight back and go on the offensive. Inside the enemy mother ship, Saitama fights Boros. Faced with...
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One-Punch Man volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem--he just can't seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! For three years, Saitama has defeated countless monsters, but no one knows about him...That's because he isn't in the Hero Association's registry! Together with Genos, Saitama...
13) Noor
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was "wrong." But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views...
14) No guns life: 1
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun! With no memory of his previous life--or who replaced his head and why--Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver, taking on cases involving the Extended. When a fellow Extended showed up in Inui's office--on the run from the Security Bureau with a...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
669 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Alita wakes up alone in the sky city of Tiphares, her brain and body reconstructed by the mad scientist Desty Nova. There's no time to wonder why Alita's greatest enemy would resurrect her, though - the royal city has been thrown into chaos by Nova's revelation that the Tiphareans have had their brains replaced by bio-chips! Everyone needs answers - and Alita will fight to get them.
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Series
One-Punch Man volume 14
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem--he just can't seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! The monster Goketsu appears at the martial arts tournament, and in an attempt to turn its participants into monsters, he gives them monster cells. Tournament champ Suiryu...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
238 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold, takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity.
18) Automatic reload
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Former drone operator Mat, now more machine than man, is obsessed with preventing casualties on his oft-violent missions. Despite his reluctance to work for the shadowy International Access Corporation, Mat accepts a lucrative job protecting one of its packages in transit. But when he discovers the package is Silvia, a woman experimented on against her will and transformed into a monstrous killer, Mat turns on his employers to rescue her. As the...
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Series
One-Punch Man volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
188 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem-- he just can seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! To stop a Demon-level crisis, Saitama and company head toward the action. However, even Class S heroes prove to be no match for the Deep Sea King! In order to protect the...
20) Cinder
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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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