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1) Elysium
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
"This is one of the better action films of the year."--Richard Roeper.
"Elysium" is an action movie made for people thinking about something besides things blowing up. Damon...
2) Elysium fire
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Series
Language
English
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As members of the habitats start dying suddenly and randomly, a charismatic figure begins to sow insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of inhabitants to break away from the Glitter Band.
Author
Series
Elysium cycle volume 1
Language
English
Description
Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests.
A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis—there are no males—and tells of
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Series
Elysium cycle volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Only children can colonize the planet Prokaryon, genetically modified for a world whose chemistry kills unaltered adults. A colony of orphans struggles to survive, and finds the planet hides strange secrets.The Prokaryan landscape is ordered, as if by unseen gardeners, hidden "masters" no human has ever found. The weather behaves as though designed to meet the planet's needs. When fire threatens a forest, a rainstorm appears, only to dissipate when...
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Killadelphia volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021
Language
English
Description
"A new horrifying chapter begins for the critically-acclaimed series from Rodney Barnes, the writer behind such hit shows as Wu-Tang: An American Saga and STARZ's American Gods, and the artist who redefined SPAWN for a new generation, Jason Shawn Alexander! A new vampire king has entered the game and his name is Thomas Jefferson! The third President of the United States plans to (literally) raise hell as he sets forth to craft a new America far more...
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Series
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English
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"One of the most talented story tellers around."
-Associated Press
"Clark has perfected the suspense novel…in classic Christie fashion."
-Booklist
New York Times bestseller Mary Jane Clark introduced readers to professional wedding cake decorator and amateur sleuth Piper Donavan in her acclaimed mystery novel To Have and To Kill. Piper's back in The Look of Love, on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous-where...
7) Wanderlust
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After George loses his high-stress Manhattan job, he and his wife Linda hit the road and wind up crashing at Elysium, a free-spirited community of hippies, tree-huggers, and the occasional nudies.
Author
Series
Killadelphia volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Adams' battle to reshape the United States in his own twisted vision might have been thwarted for now, giving Jimmy Sangster a moment of respite, but the war for a new America rages on! Now, as Abigail steps out of the shadows, she unleashes a new violent terror upon the city some have renamed Killadelphia. But this time, it's about creating as widespread a web of fear imaginable as she rips the beating heart from the city itself. Can Jimmy stop...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth visual guide presenting the captivating creative journeys behind the world's leading videogames. Making Videogames is an unprecedented snapshot of modern interactive entertainment, with insight from true pioneers about the most important games in the world. Illustrated with some of the most arresting in-game images ever seen in print, the book explores the unique alchemy of technical and artistic endeavor that constitutes the magic of...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering...
11) Yosemite
Publisher
Monterey Media Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three fifth grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the threat of a mountain lion looms over the community."--FirstSearch.