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Scholastic Audiobooks
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, Wonderstruck and The Marvels, which together with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy!
2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick!Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks--like...
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Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
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Series
The team volume 1
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Language
English
Description
Harvey's team is on a losing streak until Professor Gertie, Harvey's neighbor, introduces them to Mark 1, the Soccer Machine, a robot programmed to win.
Author
Series
Robot volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw are sent to the Spacer world of Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide.
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Language
English
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
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Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after robots designed to fight wars abandoned the battlefields and turned their weapons against humans, siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass must risk everything when the wilderness community where they have spent their lives in hiding is discovered by the bots.
Author
Series
Robot makers volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Language
English
Description
"La Ion just wants to play soccer, but he accidentally joins a robot soccer club. Along with the story of La Ion's mix-up, this graphic novel explores the history of robots and key ideas in robotics"--
12) Humans, bow down
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English
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The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
13) Tightrope
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Series
Burning Cove California volume 3
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English
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Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath, Amalie watches Matthias Jones disappear...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
This collection includes the first volume in the Foundation trilogy, a landmark in imaginative science fiction, and winner of a Special Hugo Award as Best All Time Series in the realm of science and fantasy fiction. In Foundation, Asimov has conceived a whole new world for mankind set far in the future and spanning a period of more than a thousand years. He tells of life in the Galactic Empire, and of Hari Seldon's battle to prevent tens of thousands...
15) Exit strategy
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Series
Murderbot diaries volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah--its former owner (protector? friend?)--submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending...
16) Rogue protocol
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"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."
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Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergallactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
18) Mighty Merc
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
When the Callisto family gets Axel, the latest model robot, Miles will lose his favorite companion, Merc, a robot shaped like an ostrich, unless he can prove that Merc is worth keeping, even though Axel seems to do everything better.
19) Defy the worlds
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. When a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi is the only soldier to have ever left the planet. It's up to her to save its people -- if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap. On the run to avoid his creator, Burton Mansfield, Abel hears that Noemi has been captured -- by Mansfield....
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English
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Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles
At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past—including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica—to use their special talents
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