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Summary: Seeking refuge in fantasy novel worlds throughout a youth under the shadow of a dubiously sane half-brother who dabbled in magic, Mori Phelps is forced to confront her mother in a tragic battle and gains unwanted attention when she attempts to perform spells herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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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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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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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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Summary: "More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries before the Trojan War, populating it with teachers and children from throughout human history, and committing it to building a society based on the principles of Plato's Republic. Among the City's children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in human form. Sixty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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Summary: Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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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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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Generations of the Roux family have learned this lesson the hard way. Foolish love appears to be the family birthright, in fact, which casts an ominous fate for its most recent progeny: twins Ava and Henry Lavender. Henry is mute for much of his young life, and Ava -- in all other ways a normal girl -- is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WALContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRETalton, Jon
Summary: "Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALSaxton, Jo.
Summary: "In Snail Trail, children follow a colorful snail's silvery trail as he slides through eight modern pictures while searching for his very own "snail-portrait" - a piece of art that represents him. As he glides past famous works such as Pablo Picasso's "Maya in a Sailor Suit," Jackson Pollock's "Number 20," Mark Rothko's "White Centre," Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory," and Henri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAXTalton, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2007
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Summary: Private detective David Mapstone's first case goes sour as his client ends up murdered, and he travels from Phoenix to San Diego to investigate, leading him down the trail of a murder spree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2013