Catalog Search Results
Interested in arts and crafts? Science? Gardening? Home improvement? Outdoor adventure? Check out the tools, equipment, and other items in our Library of Things collection!
Author
Appears on list
Description
The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre-receiving wide literary and popular attention.
This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets, who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Gill Scott-Heron, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Tracy K. Smith,...
Author
Description
In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertile women are conscripted to have sex and bear children to the most powerful men, all justified and rationalized by religious fundamentalism....
263) Vanishing Acts
Author
Description
"A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species-be they human or animal, mythical or alien." -Publishers Weekly
In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures...
Author
Description
J.R.R. Tolkien's works have gained global appeal, leading to translations in over thirty languages and a host of stylistically unique illustrations.
As a translator and illustrator himself, Tolkien was acutely aware of the challenges and benefits that both bring to a written text. Translating and Illustrating Tolkien explores what these processes add to, emit from, or complement Tolkien's original text.
Hosted online, the Tolkien Society 2021 autumn...
Author
Description
De la science-fiction à la fantasy en passant par le fantastique, dix auteurs proposent leur vision d'un avenir du passé.
Dans ce rétro-futur haut en couleurs, la vapeur et la voile cohabitent, le chevalier d'Éon use de charmes inattendus, des automates interrogent le tic tac de leur cœur mécanique et des élixirs permettent de changer de sexe à volonté. Embarquez à bord de la Vagabonde ou du Quatorze Sacs à Malice, destination la Russie,...
266) Bridges to hope
Author
Description
This collection of 17 uplifting short stories and poems by 13-18-year old writers from 10 countries is a short read that will give you hope for the future.
In April 2020, the publishers set an open challenge to young people aged 8-18 to craft messages of hope for the COVID era. The task asked them to imagine life thirty years into the future, then send a message back through time to 2020. This anthology is a collection of the creative responses...
Author
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Brave New World tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Aldous Huxley's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Brave New World includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersThemes and symbolsImportant...
Author
Description
How does an immortal deal with death?What can an ancient Time Lord teach us about real human nature?Why does the Doctor say he and Freud "got on very well"?How do the Daleks and Cybermen reflect concerns about losing our humanity?And what new challenges loom ahead when the Doctor regenerates as a woman?Hailed as the "most successful sci-fi series ever made" (Guinness World Records), Doctor Who has been a cult-classic for more than half a century....
Author
Description
In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvel's compelling series of movies:
● Is the Thanos snap truly an answer to overpopulation and famine, or is it simply indefensible mass murder on a cosmic scale?
● Are the Avengers who try to stop Thanos dishing out justice or merely fighting a man who is himself just?
● Captain America or Tony Stark-which leader...
270) Harry Potter
Author
Description
Nineteen years later...⍾⍾Even as a new generation embraces the Harry Potter novels for the first time, J.K. Rowling's world is expanding with “Fantastic Beasts”, “Cursed Child”, and “Pottermore”. There are new mobile games, new toys and, of course, the theme parks. Meanwhile, “Quidditch and the Harry Potter Alliance” stretch from college to college, inspiring each generation. Fans have adapted the series into roleplaying games,...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Flagstaff City Coconino County Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request