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Summary: "Willow Sparks and her best friend Georgia Pratt are at the bottom of the social ladder at Twin Pines High School, just trying to get through each day relatively unscathed. But when Willow finds a mysterious book that allows her to literally change her life, it feels like her luck is finally turning. Becoming more and more popular with each entry into the book, her old life, including her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OCOHewitt, Deborah
Summary: "Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life...until the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an 'aviarist': capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. When her best friend is hit by a car, only Alice can find and save her nightjar. With Crowley's help, Alice travels to the Rookery, a hidden, magical alternate London to hone her newfound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWWeber, David
Summary: "Doctor Benjamin Schroder was a history teacher until a psychotic episode turned his world upside down. Benjamin now had memories, not just of his own life, but of an entire ghastly world where millions of civilians had been systematically slaughtered in 'extermination camps,' there is still a Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula is divided, thousands of nuclear warheads spread their threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCornick, Nicola
Summary: "Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait--identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORVyleta, Dan
Summary: In an alternate England, where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours from their bodies, Thomas, Charlie, and Livia notice that some people appear to be able to lie without triggering Smoke. As they dig deeper, they discover teachers who have mysterious ties to warring political factions, a sumptuous estate which hides attic rooms and laboratories,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VYLChabon, Michael.
Summary: Chabon crafts a murder mystery based on the premise that a Jewish settlement was created in Alaska following World War II. In the small town of Sitka, Alyeska, Detective Meyer Landsman finds the body of a prominent town figure who has ties to organized crime. As Landsman digs deeper, he discovers that this is only the tip of the iceberg--and all signs point to a greater danger lurking in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHABlanchard, B. L.
Summary: "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 harvest, another woman is slain. His mother’s best friend. This leads to a seemingly impossible connection that takes Chibenashi far from the only world he’s ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BlanchardFlint, Eric
Summary: The inhabitants of Grantville, a modern-day West Virginia town hurtled back in time to Germany during the Thirty Years War, battle the tyrants of seventeenth-century Europe, in a second collection of alternate history tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISummary: A collection of tales set in the universe of Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series includes contributions by Mercedes Lackey, Charles E. Gannon, Tim Roesch, Brad Sinor, Garrett Vance, David Carrico, and Karen Bergstralh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIBaxter, Stephen.
Summary: A mysterious prophecy continues to transform the face of Europe as Christianity and Islam battle for supremacy across Spain, agents from the future use horrific weapons of destruction to change history, and in 1492, a bold explorer seeks funding for his western expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXFlint, Eric.
Summary: Hurtled back in time into the Thirty Years' War by an unknown force, Mike Stearns and his fellow West Virginia coal miners join forces with the king of Sweden to take on the scheming Cardinal Richelieu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIAuster, Paul
Summary: Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSFlint, Eric.
Summary: A third volume in the series of anthologies based on the saga that began in "1632" describes life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIGolden, Bruce
Summary: "Tales of My Ancestors is like watching the History Channel broadcast via The Twilight Zone. It will take you on a journey through time with historical figures like Bat Masterson, Queen Elizabeth, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Cochise, Saint Margaret of Scotland, and players from the last Chicago Cubs team to win a World Series. You'll be there to witness the Salem Witch Trials, the Civil War,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaman Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLGrant, Michael
Summary: During the summer of 1943, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio accompany the American Army to Sicily to fight on the front lines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAFlint, Eric.
Summary: As the Thirty Years War continues to devastate seventeenth-century Europe, the power of the United States of Europe, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the modern-day West Virginians mysteriously swept into the past, flourishes, but a French spy and a vengeful assassin targeting Grantville's Mike Stearns and his wife could destroy everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIAuster, Paul
Summary: It is a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of the night, even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys, in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audiobook 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSGrant, Michael
Summary: After a court decision that makes women eligible for service in the fight against the Nazis, three young women volunteer to serve their country, unaware that their decisions will take them to the front lines of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRATurtledove, Harry.
Summary: Imperialistic England has driven the French from Atlantis and seized the continent's eastern coastal town, prompting Victor Radcliff, leader of the revolutionaries, to preserve the freedom of the Atlantean people at all costs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ROC 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURStirling, S. M.
Summary: Rudi Mackenzie must return to Montival in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest and forge an alliance with old enemies if he is ever going to defeat the minions of the Prophet and assume his rightful place as Artos, King of Montival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STITurtledove, Harry.
Summary: Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country. He becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012