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Force & motion / by Lafferty, Peter.(CARDINAL)318740;
Explores the principles of force and motion, describing how they have been applied from ancient to modern times.1110LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Force and energy; Motion;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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The bloodletter's daughter : a novel of old Bohemia / by Lafferty, Linda.(CARDINAL)427027;
In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a golden mecca of art and culture carefully cultivated by Emperor Rudolf II. But the emperor hides an ugly secret: His illegitimate son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the young prince to unspeakable depravity. Desperate to stem his son's growing number of scandals, the emperor exiles Don Julius to a remote corner of Bohemia, where the young man is placed in the care of a bloodletter named Pichler. The bloodletter's task: cure Don Julius of his madness by purging the vicious humors coursing through his veins. When Pichler brings his daughter Marketa to assist him, she becomes the object of Don Julius' frenzied -- and dangerous -- obsession. To him, she embodies the women pictured in the Coded Book of Wonder, a priceless manuscript from the imperial library that was his only link to sanity. Inspired by the true story of a murder that threatened to topple the powerful Hapsburg dynasty.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612; Princes; Mental illness; Revenge;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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The drowning guard : a novel of the Ottoman Empire / by Lafferty, Linda,author.(CARDINAL)427027;
The Drowning Guard explores the riddle of Esma -- who is at once a murderer and a champion and liberator of women -- and the man who loves her in spite of her horrifying crimes.
Subjects: Fiction.; Sultans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Chaos terminal / by Lafferty, Mur,author.(CARDINAL)351233;
"Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her-and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.) Now the law enforcement agent who hounded Mallory on Earth has come to Station Eternity, along with her teenage crush and his sister, Mallory's best friend from high school. Mallory doesn't believe in coincidences, and so she's not at all surprised when someone in the latest shuttle from Earth is murdered. It's the story of her life, after all. Only this time she has more than a killer to deal with. Between her fugitive friends, a new threat arising from the Sundry, and the alarmingly peculiar behavior of the sentient space station they all call home, even Mallory's deductive abilities are strained. If she can't find out what's going on (and fast), a disaster of intergalactic proportions may occur...."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Women detectives; Space stations;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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Infinite archive / by Lafferty, Mur,author.(CARDINAL)351233;
"Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting Station Eternity, she hasn't seen so much as a bar brawl. Used to people dying left and right around her, the lack of murders to solve has left her unexpectedly . . . bored. But humanity's favorite way to waste time is on its way to her sector of the galaxy. A giant, one-of-a-kind data ship called Metis is bringing the entire Internet from Earth-as well as a mystery fan convention. On top of that, Mallory's literary agent is aboard, and he tells Mallory that she's the keynote speaker. It's almost a relief when a killer decides to strike at the convention. When Mallory finds her agent dead, she knows she has to work fast to find the murderer. With a strange new alien with unknown motives, a ship with impossible abilities, a lonely living, comprehensive Internet, and a deadly crime to solve, Mallory has her work cut out for her . . . "--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Space stations; Murder; Women detectives; Extraterrestrial beings; Literary agents; Internet;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Six wakes / by Lafferty, Mur,author.(CARDINAL)351233;
"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently..."--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Space; Cloning;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 21
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Station Eternity / by Lafferty, Mur,author.(CARDINAL)351233;
"Amateur detective Mallory Viridian's talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes. From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn't make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social pariah. So when Mallory gets the opportunity to take refuge on a sentient space station, she thinks she has the solution. Surely the murders will stop if her only company is alien beings. At first her new existence is peacefully quiet...and markedly devoid of homicide. But when the station agrees to allow additional human guests, Mallory knows the break from her peculiar reality is over. After the first Earth shuttle arrives, and aliens and humans alike begin to die, the station is thrown into peril. Stuck smack-dab in the middle of an extraterrestrial whodunit, and wondering how in the world this keeps happening to her anyway, Mallory has to solve the crime-and fast-or the list of victims could grow to include everyone on board..."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Space stations; Human-alien encounters; Homicide investigation; Murder; Extraterrestrial beings;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 25
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Minecraft : the lost journals / by Lafferty, Mur,author(CARDINAL)351233;
"Allison and Max must team up to find his missing uncle Nicholas. Using the journal his beloved uncle left behind as a guide, the duo hurtle headlong into a treacherous and unknown landscape called the Nether. There, they meet a strange girl named Freya and her woefully unheroic wolf, Bunny Biter, who agree to help them in their quest. The group must take on dangerous new foes and unravel the cryptic journal to find Nicholas and reunite this fractured family."--800LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Fiction.; Minecraft (Game); Virtual reality; Doorways; Diaries;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 40
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The lost journals / by Lafferty, Mur,author.(CARDINAL)351233;
Max and Alison are proof that differences don t stand in the way of friendship. Max is always on the lookout for a new adventure even if it means getting into trouble while Alison prefers to follow the rules. But both of them are fascinated by the beat-up old journal Max finds and the strange gate its secretive author, the Enchanter, describes: a portal to an otherworldly realm of danger called the Nether. After they use the journal s instructions to craft the portal, Max and Alison squabble over whether to remain safe in the Overworld or to journey into the Nether to find the Enchanter . . . until a fateful accident makes the decision for them. Trapped in a scary new world, Max and Alison find an ally in Freya, a fierce warrior who has been living in the Nether with her beloved wolf, Bunny Biter. With Freya s help, and with the clues that lie in the pages of the mysterious journal, Max and Alison embark on a quest to find the Enchanter, even as the Nether pushes their skills and their friendship to the limit.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Fiction.; Minecraft (Game); Survival;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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La vie de Guinevere / by Lafferty, Paula,Author(DLC)no2024125975;
After the sudden death of her boyfriend, Vera would have been happy to spend the rest of her days curiously unnoticeable, washing bed sheets and cleaning toilets in present day Glastonbury. But when the strange new guest at her hotel reveals himself to be Merlin and drags her back to seventh century Camelot, a place she knows only from legends, only Vera (or Queen Guinevere as Merlin calls her) can right the course of history and save Arthur's kingdom from the will of a power-hungry mage. There' s one enormous problem: Guinevere was the sole witness to the curse that's now draining the kingdom of its magic, and Vera doesn't remember anything of her supposed life as Queen Guinevere. With Camelot' s peace ebbing ever closer to shattering, the clock is ticking. But working with Merlin' s magic to retrieve her long-lost memories and save the kingdom brings more questions than answers: why is it that King Arthur, who treats his subjects with loving benevolence, can't even stand to look at her? And why does that make Vera' s soul feel like it's splitting in two? What robbed her of her memories in the first place... And most importantly... Why? As Vera is about to discover; in a world of legend and power, the secrets of her memories are only the beginning.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction; Time-travel fiction; Romance fiction; Guenevere, Queen (Legendary character); Merlin (Legendary character); Time travel; Magic; Blessing and cursing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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