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1785151630 
Book 
Year: 2018
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: F
Publisher: William Heinemann
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781785151637
Note: Nine strangers, each in different ways, become summoned by trees, brought together in a last stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. 'The Overstory' unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late-20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own - vast, slow, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world, and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Target audience: Adult
502 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
This started so well, but became increasingly disappointing. It feels heavily overwritten (Powers never uses a simple sentence when he can write a complex paragraph). The separate stories are woven together, but the connection between them feels increasingly laboured. But my greatest reservation is that it's so derivative of Edward Abbey's brilliant 'The Monkey Wrench Gang' (first published 1975), which is so much more economical, and has far stronger characterisation.
23/10/22
1784709719 
Book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Science fiction
Class Number: SCI-FI
Publisher: Vintage Books
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781784709716
Note: After years of living abroad, a young writer, Richard, returns to the United States to take up the position of Humanist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he encounters Philip Lentz, a brilliant and outspoken cognitive neurologist who involves him in an outlandish and irresistible experiment: to train a neural net of computers - Helen - to model the human brain through reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until she demands to know her own age, sex, race and reason for existing.
Target audience: Adult
352 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
BX00103444 
Large print
Year: 2014
Language: English
Type: Large print
Subject: Large type books
Class Number: F
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781471276439
Note: Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab: the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear, has come to the attention of Homeland Security.
Target audience: Adult
1 volume (large print) (pbk)
1784709727 
Book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Romance fiction
Class Number: F
Publisher: Vintage Books
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781784709723
Note: Originally published: New York: William Morrow, 1991 This novel is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of 25-years. Stuart Ressler, a young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes - social, moral, musical, spiritual - and he falls in love with a member of his research team.
Target audience: Adult
640 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1785152637 
Book
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: F
Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781785152634
Note: Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.
Target audience: Adult
278 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
1529115256 
Book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: F
Publisher: Vintage
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781529115253
Note: Originally published: London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2021 Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.
Target audience: Adult
326 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1784708240 
Book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: F
Publisher: Vintage
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781784708245
Note: Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2018 Nine strangers, each in different ways, become summoned by trees, brought together in a last stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. 'The Overstory' unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late-20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own - vast, slow, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world, and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Target audience: Adult
625 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
1471277259 
Talking book - CD
Year: 2014
Language: English
Type: Talking book - CD
Subject: Audiobooks
Class Number: CD SPOKEN WORD
Publisher: Clipper Audio
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781471277252
Note: Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab: the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear, has come to the attention of Homeland Security.
Target audience: Adult
12 CDs
0500293945 
Book
Year: 2018
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 728.370904
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9780500293942
Note: Previous edition: 2009 'The Iconic House' features 100 of the most important and influential architect-designed houses from around the world. It includes works from such icons as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, as well as modern-day architects including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron.
Target audience: Adult
375 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm (hbk)
0007303718 
Book
Year: 2013
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Fantasy fiction
Class Number: FANTASY
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9780007303717
Note: The bloodthirsty Jit is dead, and against all odds Richard and Kahlan have survived. But a new menace has attacked them in the Dark Lands. Infected with the essence of death itself, robbed of his power as a war wizard, Richard must race against time to uncover and stop the infernal conspiracy assembling itself behind the wall far to the north. His friends and allies are already captives of this fell combination, and Kahlan, also touched by death's power, will die completely if Richard fails. Bereft of magic, Richard has only his sword, his wits, his capacity for insight - and an extraordinary companion, the young Samantha, a healer just coming into her powers.
Target audience: Adult
Series: A Richard and Kahlan novel
527 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
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