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1) The anomaly
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English
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"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna,...
2) Six four
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English
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"The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the...
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Milan and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things--to decide what to keep and what to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
Description
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. And when Penny, a woman with all those atoms in all the right places, moves in across the hall, Leonard and Sheldon's universe begins to expand in ways they never could have imagined.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Season Four finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery facing a threat unlike any they₂ve ever encountered. With Federation and non-Federation worlds alike feeling the impact, they must confront the unknown and work together to ensure a hopeful future for all.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing, in both number and importance. Bruce Lawrence tells the remarkable story of the ongoing struggle to render the Qur'an's lyrical verses into English--and to make English...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The fifth and final season delivers a climactic conclusion. Picking up from events depicted in season four's flash-forward episode, the seemingly peaceful Observers seized control of our universe in 2015. Now, in 2036, they have become ruthless rulers who stand unopposed. What awaits in the future, however, is the Fringe Team's final stand, which will bring together all they have witnessed in preparation for the final battle to protect our world.
12) Mato anomalies
Publisher
Prime Matter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mysterious rifts revealing demonic creatures are opening up across all of Mato - a city already rife with conflict. Our story begins as Detective Doe teams up with the exorcist Gram to investigate these anomalies. It quickly becomes clear that there are much more sinister secrets to unravel at the heart of Mato. Unlikely alliances will form, but what is the price for uncovering the truth?"--Container.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Captain Ed Mercer thrusts into space aboard the explorer ship the USS Orville. Joined by his first office ex-wife and intergalactic crew, he grapples with everything from a planet-absorbing space anomaly to an overly amorous, gelatinous engineer.
15) The anomaly
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
It is the near future, and ex-soldier and PTSD patient Ryan Reeve has a very disturbing type of blackout amnesia: He regains consciousness days or weeks apart for exactly 9 minutes and 47 seconds, only to discover that he is now a lethal operative for a mysterious organization. But as he tries to piece together his past with each reboot, he realizes that the organization now wants him dead.
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Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Skalde writes her thoughts on pieces of paper, making new discoveries and revelations, and finding scraps with which to understand her limited world. Her mother Edith tells her little, preferring the solitude of her room. Their house is full of silence, and secrets. Skalde has only ever known life in the territory, a terrain of farms and forest cut off from the rest of the world. They are isolated further, as decades since Edith's arrival in the...
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Chi's sweet home volume 7
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Evan Cross, a wealthy and brilliant innovator, leads a diverse team that operates from a secret and cutting edge headquarters, named the Tank. From this precinct, the team operates a top-secret warning system that allows them to find anomalies and track prehistoric creatures that come through. Now the race is on to find the creatures before they find the unsuspecting public.
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