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161) The second sleep
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to...
162) The map of stars
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea what the photo they found in Greenwood Cemetery means,...
163) An affair of poisons
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Levins are a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey in an Alternate America during WWII, observing the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
Series
Chronin volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Japan's history will never be the same. With the unexpected deaths of several major historical figures, the country's time line has veered off course. The Meiji Restoration will never happen. Mirai Yoshida, college undergrad turned wandering samurai, is unable to go back home. Unless a high-stakes plan is enacted to realign the past. To succeed, she and her newfound friends must face a dangerous and powerful enemy - a time traveler who glimpsed Japan's...
167) Dust of the damned
Author
Publisher
Berkley Trade
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The Hell's Angels are a gang of werewolves who have escaped from Hellsgarde Penitentiary. Originally they were recruited out of eastern Europe by Abraham Lincoln to mercilessly tear the Confederates into submission at Gettysburg, thus ending the Civil War. But the Hell's Angels never returned home. They headed west--to join the legions of other ghouls... Armed with an arsenal of weapons, the deadliest being Deputy Marshal Angel Coffin, notorious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
Author
Series
Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 14
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"St Mary's is under investigation. Their director has been shot and Max is Number One Suspect. Can things get any worse? We all know the answer to that one. Max needs to get away -- fast -- and a Brilliant Idea soon leads her to a full-scale uprising in twentieth-century China. If she can come by a historical treasure or two in the process, even better. That is, if she makes it out alive. Then there's the small matter of Insight -- the sinister organisation...
170) The rift: frequency
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
To save her love and unlock the mystery of who she is, a brave young woman must travel between alternate realities in The Rift Frequency, the second book in Amy S. Foster's The Rift Uprising Trilogy. Teenage super-solider Ryn Whittaker started an uprising. For three years Ryn was stationed at The Battle Ground Rift site--one of the fourteen mysterious and unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths--and...
171) Devil's battle
Author
Series
Artillerymen volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After being stranded on a very different and more perilous Earth, Colonel Lewis Cayce led his small army of displaced Americans, natives of the Yucatán, and Jaguar Warriors to defeat the biggest host the Dominion general Agon could assemble. Most unexpectedly, General Agon came to recognize the inherent evil of the Dominion and its depraved Blood Priests and turned on his former leaders. Awkwardly at first, Lewis Cayce and Agon join forces to press...
172) The wages of sin
Author
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. A patriarchal society reacts to this devastating disease in the only way it knows how: it sequesters women as much as possible, limiting contacts between the sexes except for married couples. While imperfect, such drastic actions do limit the spread of the disease. The 'Wasting' (HIV) has caused devasting...
Author
Series
Good lands series volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don't exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the village of Baawitigong, a Peacekeeper confronts his devastating past. Twenty years ago to the day, Chibenashi's mother was murdered and his father confessed. Ever since, caring for his still-traumatized younger sister has been Chibenashi's privilege and penance. Now, on the same night of the Manoomin...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Hidra
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"1828. El Instituto Real de Traducción de Oxford, también conocido como Babel, es la institución mágica más importante del mundo. La magia con plata capaz de revelar significados ocultos perdidos en la traducción que allí se practica le ha otorgado al Imperio británico un poder sin parangón. Robin, un huérfano cantonés que ha terminado siendo alumno en Babel, se ha dado cuenta de que servir a Babel significa traicionar a su país de origen....
Author
Series
Manhattan Projects volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?
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