Sun of Suns : Virga, Book One

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Gri…

The Good Luck of Right Now

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780062326324

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

808.07 QUI g

The Iliad

Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls … Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wres…

Race to Witch Mountain

Cabdriver Jack Bruno (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is about to go on the ride of his lifetime. When he picks up two teenagers named Seth and Sara (AnnaSophia Robb), he quickly discovers that there teenage angst is far from ordinary. Seth can pass through objects and Sara can move items with her mind (when she's not reading yours). The reason? They are from another planet and have crash-landed on …

The Sirens of Titan

Life. Don't talk to me about life. We all get a little Marvin-ish at times. But if we're going to talk about life — the whys and the wherefores and the whither-thou-goests — we might as well do it with a smile and an understanding that, perhaps, it really isn't so difficult to work out after all. Socrates famously told us that the unexamined life is not worth living. But in The Sirens of Ti…

Cloud Atlas

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780812984415

Collation

514p; bw; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

823.92 MIT c

The Host

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy that takes over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. But Wanderer, the invading "soul" who occupies Melanie's body, finds its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who lives in hiding, Wanderer…

Galapagos

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all …

Tiger Stone

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781742032399

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

823.99222 MAN t

Countdown: M Day

War is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He ought to. He was once one of war's most brutal practitioners & not to mention one of its most effective and least bloody. Now, not only must Stauer command his crack outfit of former comrades and pull off yet another miracle mission, he must also harness and direct the brute within himself