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2021., Adolescent, Scribner Call No: HISTORICAL F DOE Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to 'the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,' Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship--of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--From the publisher's web site.
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2012., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Fic Anderson Edition: [Second paperback edition]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. .
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[2017], Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: SCI-FI F AND Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While their stories span thousands of miles and multiple generations, Lenore, Catherine, and Adri's fates are entwined in ways both heartbreaking and hopeful.
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[2014]., Black Sheep Call No: DYSTOPIA F MIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a future of ecological disaster, the wealthy live so long they choose when to die. On a good-bye trip with their parents, Nat and Sam learn there is more to the world--and their family--than they knew.
