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The Einstein intersection
By Samuel R. Delany. 1998
An alien race has settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. One alien, Lo Lobey, faces trouble assimilating the mythology…
of Earth. Nevertheless, he presses on in the search for his lost love, Friza. 1967The great receiver
By Elena Yates Eulo. 2008
Sophomore honors student Joey Eastland messes up during football tryouts and becomes the team water boy. But when the coach…
gives him a second chance, Joey is determined to be the best wide-end receiver ever. For junior and senior high readers. 2008Deck the halls, we're off the walls!: A Christmas Holiday Book For Kids (My Weird School Special)
By Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot. 2013
Oh, Valentine, we've lost our minds!: My weird school special
By Dan Gutman. 2014
The kids at Ella Mentry School are delighted to learn that a French foreign exchange student is coming to class,…
and just in time for Valentine's Day. For grades 2-4. 2014My favorite spooky stories box set: 5 Silly, Not-too-scary Tales! A Halloween Book For Kids (I Can Read Level 2 Ser.)
By Herman Parish, Jane O'Connor, Alvin Schwartz, David Keane. 2013
Five books, written between 1984 and 2013, feature tales of Halloween and creepy things. Includes In a Dark, Dark Room…
and Other Scary Stories, Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia, Flat Stanley and the Haunted House, Monster School: First Day Frights, and Lulu Goes to Witch School. For grades K-3. 2013Bunny double, we're in trouble! (My Weird School Special)
By Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot. 2014
My weird school daze: Books 1-4 (My weird school daze #4)
By Dan Gutman. 2009
Books one through four, written between 2008 and 2009, featuring the third-grade adventures of A. J. and his friends from…
the My Weird School series. Includes Mrs. Dole Is out of Control!, Mr. Sunny Is Funny!, Mr. Granite Is from Another Planet!, and Coach Hyatt Is a Riot!. For grades 2-4. 2009Nancy Clancy, secret admirer (Nancy Clancy 2)
By Jane O'Connor. 2013
Game
By Walter Dean Myers. 2008
Harlem. African American high school senior Drew Lawson aims to go to college and play basketball for the NBA despite…
his mediocre grades. Rivalry begins when Drew's coach favors Tomas, a new white teammate from Prague. For junior and senior high readers. 2008A.J. is not happy about being in the school holiday pageant arranged by his Spanish teacher Miss Holly. Being on…
the stage crew sounds better but leads to disaster. For grades 2-4. 2006Mr. Macky is wacky! (My Weird School Ser. #15)
By Dan Gutman. 2007
While Andrea explains what makes Presidents' Day special, a tall man with a tall hat and a fake beard walks…
into the classroom. Emily recognizes him as Abraham Lincoln, but A.J. knows it is Mr. Macky, the reading specialist at Ella Mentry School. For grades 2-4. 2007The best Halloween ever (The Best Ever)
By Barbara Robinson. 2004
The Herdman children create mayhem every year, so the town mayor cancels Halloween and trick-or-treating. Instead, the principal plans a…
safe, controlled holiday party at school, underestimating the Herdmans, who make their own plans. For grades 3-6. 2004Flip
By David Lubar. 2003
Eighth-grader Taylor and her twin brother, Ryan, are complete opposites. So when trouble-making Ryan discovers mysterious alien disks that enable…
him to become legends from the past--Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, and others--Taylor tries to keep him out of trouble. For grades 5-8. 2003Reckoner rises: Volume 1, Breakdown (The reckoner Rises Ser. #1)
By David Robertson. 2020
Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner…
trilogy. Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg intent on destroying Mihko Laboratories. Their plans change when a new threat surfaces, and Cole has terrifying visions. Are these just troubled dreams or are they leading him to a terrifying truth? Will Eva be able to harness her powers to continue the investigation without him?The Reckoner rises: Volume 2, Version control
By David Robertson. 2022
"With Cole barely clinging to life, Eva fearlessly takes the lead to investigate Mihko's horrific experiments. But where's Brady? After…
learning that Mihko reinstated the Reckoner Initiative, Cole and Eva confront Mihko head-on. But a vicious battle with Mihko's newest test subject leaves Cole close to death, and Eva must continue their investigation without him. With Brady missing and Cole in recovery, Eva is on her own. When Eva stumbles across Mihko's secret laboratory, she finds her worst nightmares come to life. What new terrors has Mihko created? And can Eva find Brady before it's too late?"--Back coverLiminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
By Susan Merrill Squier. 2004
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation--these and…
other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that fiction--particularly science fiction--serves as a space where worries about ethically and socially charged scientific procedures are worked through. Indeed, she demonstrates that in many instances fiction has anticipated and paved the way for far-reaching biomedical changes. Squier uses the anthropological concept of liminality--the state of being on the threshold of change, no longer one thing yet not quite another--to explore how, from the early twentieth century forward, fiction and science together have altered not only the concept of the human being but the contours of human life. Drawing on archival materials of twentieth-century biology; little-known works of fiction and science fiction; and twentieth- and twenty-first century U. S. and U. K. government reports by the National Institutes of Health, the Parliamentary Advisory Group on the Ethics of Xenotransplantation, and the President's Council on Bioethics, she examines a number of biomedical changes as each was portrayed by scientists, social scientists, and authors of fiction and poetry. Among the scientific developments she considers are the cultured cell, the hybrid embryo, the engineered intrauterine fetus, the child treated with human growth hormone, the process of organ transplantation, and the elderly person rejuvenated by hormone replacement therapy or other artificial means. Squier shows that in the midst of new phenomena such as these, literature helps us imagine new ways of living. It allows us to reflect on the possibilities and perils of our liminal lives.Octavia's Brood
By Walidah Imarisha, Adrienne Maree Brown. 2016
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision,…
and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres-sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism-but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas.Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to…
the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries-and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)-captivated readers for nearly three decades.Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The first volume, The Horror on the Links, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from "The Horror on the Links” (1925) to "The Chapel of Mystic Horror” (1928), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg.Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism, & Dragons
By Unknown. 2020
From the great, winged, fire-breathing lizards of the west to the wise, flying serpents of the east, dragons play a powerful…
role in our myths and imaginations. In these fourteen stories and one comic, bicyclists encounter a diversity of dragons, whether foes or friends, hoarders or helpers, powerful symbols or terrifying and very real beasts. Instead of stereotypical tales of heroes saving helpless princesses from cruel beasts, these stories are populated by empowered people facing complicated dilemmas and fantastical quests.