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Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Enduring a refugee existence in New York in the wake of a nuclear war, Hel, a woman from a parallel dimension, refuses to acclimate to an unfamiliar culture and obsessively creates a museum in the name of her vanished world.
25) Crusade
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 388 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Hurtled through time and space from the World War II Pacific, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker find themselves in a strange alternate world where they ally theselves with the Lemurians in their battle against the warlike reptilian Grik.
26) Quintessence
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Series
Formats
Description
"Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers...
27) My real children
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,...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
384 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Early fourth-century biblical scholar Brother Barnabas flees for his life while protecting ancient holy texts that reveal Christ's more radical and heretical side, texts that have been denounced and ordered for destruction by the Ecumenical Council of Bishops.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 6
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
274 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.
30) 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.
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 6
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 334 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"A Librarian's work is never done, and once Irene has a quick rest after their latest adventure, she is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew up is in danger of veering deep into chaos, and she needs to obtain a particular book to stop this from happening. No copies of the book are available in the Library, so her only choice is to contact a mysterious Fae information broker and trader of rare objects: Mr. Nemo. Irene and Kai make their...
32) Manifest
Author
Series
Muse duology volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
367 pages
Description
Set in reimagined American monarchy, twelve-year-old Claire Emerson fights for her own freedom while also setting out to change the government from within, or burn it all down.
33) 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...
35) Iron winter
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland's prosperity survived wars and unrest--and brought the whole of Europe together. But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland,...
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
452 p. : ill., col. map ; 21 cm.
Description
After the Mongolian invasion of Europe in 1241, the warrior monks known as the Shield Brethren search for a way to overthrow the invaders as Father Rodrigo, thinking he has received a divine prophecy, takes up arms in the name of his Lord.
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...
Author
Series
Samuel Carver novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 369 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Triumphant and pursue them to their lair over the mountains. There he will finally confront the forces behind the Church, The Powers of the Void. Yet even a victory will not end the conflict forever. The Powers of the Void are...
40) The gladiator
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
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