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21) Piranesi
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Adult Stacks Display
NOVEL CLARKE
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NOVEL CLARKE
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
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Roots of chaos volume 1
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The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL WEIR
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TEEN NOVEL WEIR
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
LARGE TYPE SCI-FI WEIR
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LARGE TYPE SCI-FI WEIR
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"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions...
24) Ready player one
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Ready player novels volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
SCI-FI CLINE READY 1
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SCI-FI CLINE READY 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
SF/F CLINE READY 1
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SF/F CLINE READY 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
CD SCI-FI CLINE READY 1
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CD SCI-FI CLINE READY 1
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"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...
25) Red rising
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Red rising novels volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
SF/F BROWN RED 1
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SF/F BROWN RED 1
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations...
26) Spinning silver
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
SCI-FI NOVIK
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SCI-FI NOVIK
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Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty -- until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk -- grim fey creatures who seem more ice than...
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Sandsea trilogy volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
SF/F ABDULLAH SANDSEA 1
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SF/F ABDULLAH SANDSEA 1
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"Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land-at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son...
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1932
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Biologist Julie E. Czerneda's new standalone science fiction novel, To Each This World follows a desperate mission to reconnect with long lost sleeper ships, sent centuries earlier from Earth to settle distant worlds. A trio of Humans must work with their mysterious alien allies to rescue any descendants they can find on those worlds. Something is out there, determined to claim the cosmos for itself, and only on Earth will Humans be safe. Or will...
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Fractalverse volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Lobby Display 1
SCI-FI PAOLINI
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SCI-FI PAOLINI
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
CD SCI-FI PAOLINI
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CD SCI-FI PAOLINI
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A space voyager, living her dream of exploring new worlds, lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization, before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, xenobiologist Kira Navarez finds an alien relic that thrusts her into the wonders and the nightmares of first contact. Epic space battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
SF/F LECKIE IMPERIAL 5
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SF/F LECKIE IMPERIAL 5
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"The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across galaxies in this powerful new book by one of the masters of modern science fiction. Translation State is at once a sweeping space adventure and a brilliant exploration of how in order to belong, we must first become. When Enae's grandmaman passes away, Enae inherits something unexpected: a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive...
31) Uprooted
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"Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. "Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. Uprooted is such a novel. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching."--Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked...