Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUWalton, Jo.
Summary: Set in an alternate post-World War II London in which an upper-crust political group has overthrown Churchill and negotiated peace with Hitler, Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate conspiracy against the country's fascist dictatorship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalton, Jo.
Summary: Lucy and David Kahn are invited to a country retreat hosted by the well-connected Farthing set, who overthrew Churchill in 1941 and negotiated peace with Hitler; and find themselves involved in a political murder where David becomes the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalton, Jo.
Summary: In this alternative history sequel to Ha'penny, two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest worry until now has been where to find the right string of pearls, and the commander of Britain's distinctly British secret police, the Watch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalton, Jo
Summary: Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles. It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo "the Magnificent," the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Book 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALBarton, Emily
Summary: "In a counterfactual world resembling the 1930s, the state of Khazaria, an isolated nation of warriors Jews, is under attack by the Germanii. Esther, the precocious daughter of Khazaria's chief policy advisor, sets out on a quest to ensure the survival of her homeland"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGrant, Michael
Summary: The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRAMosley, Walter
Summary: Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness – equipped with unprecedented physical strength – to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman – the pale, white-haired embodiment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSSummary: History tells us that Napoleon died in exile on the Island of St. Helena. Or did he? In 1821, a secret network of Napoleonic loyalists hatch an ingenious plot: the Emperor will return to Paris and a double will take his place in exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002