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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
Author
Description
"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as thedominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Description
It?s 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. “Confused today,” read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know?what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963,...
4) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
5) Hystopia
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans...
Author
Series
Great library volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly, but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden ... When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe...
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Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 1
Description
"In this alternate history where the US has collapsed during WWII and been split into five different countries, including the southwestern territory of Texoma, Gunnie Lizbeth Rose is hired by two Russian magicians to find Alex Karkarov, and his family, as they need to bring them back to the New Russia-held west coast states for the blood of the Karkarov line is healing to the ruling family. Little do the magicians know that Lizbeth is Karkarov's daughter,...
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 7
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
421 p.
Description
Matt Reddy sets off in pursuit of a rogue Japanese destroyer, the Hidoiame, while the invasion of Grik "Indiaa" begins with the Human-Lemurian Alliance fighting against the Dominion.
12) Straits of hell
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 10
Publisher
ROC, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xix, 420 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Matt Reddy?s old Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Walker has been mysteriously transported to an alternate version of earth. Here WWII is no longer raging, and Reddy and his crew have been trying to find a new place for themselves in this strange new world. Now, along with the felinoid Lemurians and Imperial allies, they fight to keep the reptilian Grik, a race growing in supremacy, from reconquering the Lemurians? ancestral home on Madagascar.
13) Bronze summer
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
454 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability to the Eastern civilizations.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral history describes in graphic detail the irreversible effects the Great Warming has had on humankind and the planet. In short chapters about topics like sea level rise, drought, migration,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts of artwork by da Vinci, Boticelli, and other master artists" --
16) Alien secrets
Author
Series
Solar warden volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
Follows U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter as he travels across the stars to help humanity stake its claim among greater intelligent life in the universe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Guy Saville's The Madagaskar Plan imagines a disturbing alternate history in which Nazi victory in World War II brings their "Final Solution" ever closer. The year is 1952. There is peace in Europe, but a victorious Germany continues to consolidate power in Afrika. The lynchpin to their final solution is Madagaskar. In order to permanently contain the undesirable race, Hitler has approved the resettlement of European Jews to the remote island. Odilo...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages : map ; 25 cm
Description
"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"Set during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha's Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices. France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Marchand has important secrets to keep. Her role as a spy has made her both feared and revered, but it has also put her in extreme danger from the approaching German army. American soldier...
Author
Publisher
TOR Essentials
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate. A noble Byzantine mercenary . . . A female Florentine physician . . . An ageless Welsh wizard . . . And Sforza, the uncanny duke. Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester--and make him Richard III. Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction...
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