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Wayward children volume 1
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English
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Fantasy for Those Who Don't Like Fantasy (SCPL)
Found Family
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Fantasy for Those Who Don't Like Fantasy (SCPL)
Found Family
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"Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care...
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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English
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Digital Minds: Fictional Tales of AI
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Eisenhower Public Library Staff Picks: 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...