Kevin R. Free
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"Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington's departure after two terms made him "the greatest character of the age." But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might "[wander] among the people like ghosts." They were both right. Life After Power tells the stories of seven former presidents, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide...
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Murderbot diaries volume 7
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"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
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Murderbot diaries volume 6
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Audiobooks "Find Your Voice" 2023
Illinois Libraries Present Season 3 (Winter/Spring 2024)
Scifi by Women Authors
Illinois Libraries Present Season 3 (Winter/Spring 2024)
Scifi by Women Authors
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"The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today. No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot...
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OBD Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Century (So Far): Fiction - Adult
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
Pulitzer Prize Fiction
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
Pulitzer Prize Fiction
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping...
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"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
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Murderbot diaries volume 2
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All Staff Favorites GHPLD
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Staff Favorites Adult Books GHLPD
Illinois Libraries Present Season 3 (Winter/Spring 2024)
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It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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Love Murderbot? Try these!
A Book with a Color in the Title
Adult Summer Reading and Activity Challenge 2025 Science Fiction
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A Book with a Color in the Title
Adult Summer Reading and Activity Challenge 2025 Science Fiction
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A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
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OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
OBD Reading Is Sweet (November December 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Shrimp-ly Amazing Books (Spring 2026)- YOUTH
OBD Reading Is Sweet (November December 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Shrimp-ly Amazing Books (Spring 2026)- YOUTH
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"After Mrs. Seahorse lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse's belly, he drifts through the water, greeting other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs"--Provided by publisher.
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1,000 Books before Kindergarten Book Recs
Babies
Bugs & Critters Books for Young Children
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Babies
Bugs & Critters Books for Young Children
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Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
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OBD Rad Reads (1990s) FALL - YOUTH
OBD Reading Is Sweet (November December 2024) - YOUTH
SGD Wonderbooks
OBD Reading Is Sweet (November December 2024) - YOUTH
SGD Wonderbooks
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"One day a tiny cricket is born. He meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but he cannot make a sound. And so the cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets him with a cheery hello."--Page 4 of cover.
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Bugs & Critters Books for Young Children
CSPL Books Just Right For 1st Graders
OBD Reading Is Sweet (November December 2024) - YOUTH
CSPL Books Just Right For 1st Graders
OBD Reading Is Sweet (November December 2024) - YOUTH
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"The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen."
13) Rogue Protocol
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Illinois Libraries Present Season 3 (Winter/Spring 2024)
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"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good."
14) Exit strategy
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Murderbot diaries volume 4
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"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation,...
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"Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command; but the devious gods haven't given them time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, a training ground for young magicians. And now their most threatening enemy yet--the Chaos snake, Apophis--is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking...
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2024 Unlock the Mystery Summer Reading Young Readers List
Dog Days (WPL-Youth)
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Dog Days (WPL-Youth)
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King's human, Kayla, has baked some treats for a friend's new puppy, Thor, but some go missing and it is up to King to find the culprit.
17) King of the ice
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Miles Lewis volume 1
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"When his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong."-- Provided by publisher.
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LGBTQ+ (SCPL-YA)
Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
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Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
OBD Dark Academia - ADULT
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Arek has managed to fulfill the prophecy and save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler, but the quest is not over because until they free the princess locked in one of the towers he has to assume the crown himself; only the princess proves to be very dead, and Arek is stuck as king; then he discovers that magic requires him to find a bride before his eighteenth birthday or wither away--but none of his female companions are interested, he does not...
19) Ali: a life
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"Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.
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"Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare--based in part on newly declassified sources--by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter"-- Provided by publisher.
The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of American history. Now, for the first time in a generation, Red Scare presents a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War...










