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1) Deuces down
Series
Wild cards volume 16
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces, or people with minor superpowers. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new light, such as John Jos. Miller's exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael Cassutt's first moon landing, when the world wasn't watching; Walter Simons' Great...
2) 11/22/63
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
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...
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"In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his...
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"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...
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"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards...
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Atlantis trilogy (Harry Turtledove) volume 2
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In the sequel to Opening Atlantis, an imperialistic England has driven the French from Atlantis and seized the continent's eastern coastal town in an attempt to bend the colonists to their rule, prompting Victor Radcliff, leader of the revolutionaries, to preserve the freedom of the Atlantean people at all costs.
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Series
The war that came early volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 25 cm.
10) The masked city
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"Librarian-spy Irene and her apprentice Kai are back in the second in this "dazzling"* book-filled fantasy series from the author of The Invisible Library. The written word is mightier than the sword--most of the time... Working in an alternate version of Victorian London, Librarian-spy Irene has settled into a routine, collecting important fiction for the mysterious Library and blending in nicely with the local culture. But when her apprentice,...
11) Rising tides
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Series
Destroyermen volume 5
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
x, 480 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Description
Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy works with Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy to foil the New Britain Company's plan to overthrow the Imperial throne and find Princess Rebecca and Reddy's love, Sandra Tucker.
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Series
Invisible library volume 1
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"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative...
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Series
Invisible library volume 5
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"When Irene returns to London after a relatively straightforward book theft in Germany, Bradamant informs her that there is a top secret dragon-Fae peace conference in progress that the Library is mediating, and that the second-in-command dragon has been stabbed to death. Tasked with solving the case, Vale and Irene immediately go to 1890s Paris to start their investigation."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
483 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Charles Carter--a.k.a. Carter the Great--is a young master performer whose skill as an illusionist exceeds even that of the great Houdini. But nothing in his career has prepared Carter for the greatest stunt of all, which stars none other than President Warren G. Harding and which could end up costing Carter the reputation he has worked so hard to create."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
532 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Surviving a failed assassination attempt, the ruthless Reinhard Heydrich, the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the Holocaust, conceives a conspiracy designed to keep the German war machine alive, long after the supposed end to hostilities.
16) Reign
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Series
American royals volume 4
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In an alternate America, Beatrice, Samantha, and Jefferson struggle to determine what they really want and how much it is worth when weighed against the crown.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
784 pages
Description
"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...
18) Halcyon: a novel
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he...
19) Into the storm
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Series
Destroyermen volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 386 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Pursued by Japanese battleships, the USS Walker, a destroyer under the command of Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, tries to lose the enemy by heading into a storm, only to become trapped in a primitive alternate world, populated by strange creatures.
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Series
Invisible library volume 3
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Librarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai return for another "tremendously fun, rip-roaring adventure," (A Fantastical Librarian) third in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Masked City. Never judge a book by its cover... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious...
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