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9/13/2019 Bibliography for Christine Parente Bibliography Sorted by Call Number / Author. EBOOK FIC STE Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. McHenry, Ill. : Follett Digital Press, 2005. Dr. Jekyll, a genteel, respectable London physician is transformed into Mr. Hyde, a foul-tempered, uncouth degenerate. FIC ADA Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. 1st Ballantine Bks. ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1995. Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy. FIC ADE Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of blood and bone. 1st ed. 2018. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2018. Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy. FIC ASI Asimov, Isaac, 1920-. Foundation. New York : Bantam Books, 1991, c1951. FIC ASI Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992. The gods themselves. Bantam ed. New York : Ballantine, 1990. In the twenty-second century, Earth obtains limitless, free energy from an alien source. But the process will eventually lead to the destruction of Earth. FIC ATW Atwood, Margaret, 1939-. The Handmaid's tale. New York : Knopf, 2006. Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed. FIC BAR Bardugo, Leigh. Six of crows. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2015. "Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--Provided by publisher. FIC BEA Beagle, Peter S. The last unicorn. New York : Penguin Books, [1991]. With the assistance of Schmendrick the Magician, an immortal, beautiful unicorn searches for her lost fellows. FIC BRA Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. Fahrenheit 451. 1st Simon & Shuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012, c1951. After learning that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, a book-burning official in a future fascist state clandestinely pursues reading until he is betrayed. FIC BRA Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. The Martian chronicles. 1st ed. New York : Avon Books, 1997. The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind. FIC BRA Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. Something wicked this way comes. 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. October 2017. New York : Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2017. Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town. FIC BRA Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The mists of Avalon. 1st Ballantine Bks. trade ed. New York : Ballantine, 1984. A re-creation of the Arthurian legend following the clash between Christianity and paganism that led to the demise of Camelot. FIC BUR Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993. A clockwork orange. New York : W.W. Norton, [1986]. In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains. destiny.roslynschools.org/cataloging/servlet/presentbibreportform.do?reportTitle=Bibliography&sort=18&listID=336837&showNotes=true&collectionTyp… 1/7 9/13/2019 Bibliography for Christine Parente FIC BUT Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Boston : Beacon Press, 1988. A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past. FIC CAR Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; : and Through the looking glass. New York, N.Y. : Race Point Pub., [2016]. Two stories describe the adventures of Alice, a little girl who encounters many unusual situations after finding strange worlds down a rabbit hole and on the other side of a mirror. FIC CHA Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, [2007]. An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death. FIC CLA Clark, P. Djèlí. The Black God's Drums. 1st ed. New York : A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2018. "Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart--Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants her divine powers. And Oya has her own priorities...."--Back cover. FIC CLA Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008. 2001 : a space odyssey. New York : ROC, [2000]. The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior. FIC CLA Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2004. Magician, Mr. Norrel of Hurtfew Abbey, uses his powers against Napoleon and the French in 1806 and is soon challenged by Jonathan Strange, a novice magician, who becomes obsessed with the Raven King, the twelfth-century founder of English magic and bizarre forms of magic. FIC CRI Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008. The Andromeda strain. New York : Avon Books, [2003], c1969. For five days, American scientists struggle to identify and control a deadly new form of life. FIC CRI Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008. Timeline. New York : Knopf :, 1999. When a group of scientists learns how to travel through time, they enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world. FIC DAN Danvers, Dennis. The watch : being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's Memoirs of a revolutionist--as imparted to. 1st ed. New York : EOS, c2002. In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future arrives at Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin's deathbed and offers him the chance to lead a new life in the future, but after Peter is reborn, he learns that his new beginning comes with substantial risk. FIC DIC Dick, Philip K. Do androids dream of electric sheep? 1st Ballantine Bks. trade pbk. ed.: June 1996. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1996. In January 2021, years after World War Terminus has destroyed the planet, bounty hunter Rick Deckard remains on the Earth pursuing his vocation of hunting down and killing rogue androids. FIC DIC Dick, Philip K. The man in the high castle. 1st Mariner Bks. ed. Boston : Mariner Books, 2011. An alternative history in which Germany and Japan jointly occupy the defeated United States twenty years after World War II. FIC FAR Farmer, Nancy, 1941-. The house of the scorpion. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2002]. In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. destiny.roslynschools.org/cataloging/servlet/presentbibreportform.do?reportTitle=Bibliography&sort=18&listID=336837&showNotes=true&collectionTyp… 2/7 9/13/2019 Bibliography for Christine Parente FIC GAI Gaiman, Neil. American gods : a novel. 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2003, c2001. Shadow sets out on a journey across America fighting old myths and the gods of modern technology and material obsession when he takes employment with a man named Wednesday-- otherwise known as the god Odin--after his release from prison and his wife's sudden death. FIC GAI Gaiman, Neil. Anansi boys. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, [2005]. Charlie Nancy was leading a comfortable life until his father died and discovered that dear old dad was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he had a brother, Spider, who inherited some of his father's godlike abilities. FIC GAI Gaiman, Neil. Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch. 1st William Morrow TV tie-in ed. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. When Agnes Nutter predicts that the end of the world is days away, the demon Crowley and his angel friend, Aziraphale, team up to save humankind. FIC GAI Gaiman, Neil. Stardust. New York : Spike, [2000], c1999. Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved. FIC GIL Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. Herland. New York : Pantheon Books, [1979]. Feminist novel, written in 1915, tells the story of three male explorers who discover an all-female society and have trouble understanding how it can work so well without men. FIC GOO Goodkind, Terry. Wizard's first rule. 1st mass market ed. New York : Tor, 1995, c1994. Richard Cypher, a woodsman, saves Kahlan, a beautiful woman who is fleeing the evil mage Darken Rahl's assassins as she tries to find Zedd, the last of the great wizards, who can anoint a Seeker of Truth to fight Rahl's evil. FIC HEI Heinlein, Robert A.