Miller, Tom
Summary: "In World War I America, magic and science have blended into an extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes, a practitioner of empirical philosophy--an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal, and even fly--dreams of becoming the first male in an elite team of flying medics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILBolander, Brooke
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLFlint, Eric
Summary: "The United Sovereign States of Russia struggles to set in place the traditions and legal precedents that will let it turn into a constitutional monarchy with freedom and opportunity for all its citizens. At the same time, they're trying to balance the power of the states and the federal government. And the USSR is fighting a civil war with Muscovite Russia, defending the new state of Kazakh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Publishing Enterprises 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIKhoury, Raymond
Summary: Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom, naked, covered in strange tattoos, to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for 300 years, ever since its fall, along with all of Europe, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KHOAnderson, Taylor.
Summary: Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS "Walker" find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDChatagnier, Ethan
Summary: The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life are-that's not luck. That's a miracle. It means something. In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHAPardo, Paz
Summary: "In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina's victory in the Falkland's War thanks to their development of "psychopigments." Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARStirling, S. M.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STITurtledove, Harry
Summary: Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and the Middle East. Liberal, tolerant, and above all rich, the countries and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East have dominated the globe for centuries, from the Far East to the young nations of the Sunset Lands. But one region has festered for decades: Europe, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURChess, K
Summary: "Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States--and alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse--she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEFlint, Eric
Summary: In 1636 France, King Louis sends his expectant wife, Queen Anne, into seclusion to keep her safe, while France's foreign enemies as well as traitors within the court make their move, forcing factions both inside and outside of the country to choose sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIFlint, Eric
Summary: Catapulted two thousand years into the past by a cosmic force, the crew and passengers of a cruise ship struggle to survive in Egypt during the war-torn years of the Ptolemaic era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIKhoury, Raymond
Summary: "Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom-naked, covered in strange tattoos-to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall-along with all of Europe-to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KHOPowell, James Lawrence
Summary: "This vivid, terrifying, and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change-perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z. 2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWAnderson, Taylor
Summary: Commander Matt Reddy and his crew are afraid it may finally be the end of the USS Walker. Ever since their ship was transported to another world, and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Lemurians and the vicious Grik, the Walker has been taking a pounding. With Walker out of commission for repairs, Reddy takes command of a different ship and joins a desperate battle to block...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ACE 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDLevine, David D.
Summary: Arabella's wedding plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company are interrupted when her fiancé is captured by the French and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp on swampy Venus. Now, Arabella must find passage to an enemy-controlled planet in the middle of a war, bribe or fight her way past vicious guards, and rescue her Captain.To do this she must enlist the help of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVNewland, Courttia
Summary: "The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off from the world--a world much like our own, but in which slavery has never existed--a chance of survival within the Ark's confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWAnderson, Taylor.
Summary: After the battle in which the men of the destroyer Walker and their Lemurian allies repelled the savage Grik, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is shocked by the arrival of a strange ship captained by one Commaner Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy. As tension between the Allies and the Imperials mount, Reddy will come to realize that his suspicions are not misplaced, and that a greater...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ANDAnderson, Taylor.
Summary: Pursued by Japanese battleships, the USS Walker, a destroyer under the command of Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, tries to lose the enemy by heading into a storm, only to become trapped in a primitive alternate world populated by strange creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ANDFlint, Eric
Summary: It's been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. And Mother Russia is no exception. Inspired by the American up-timers' radical notion that all people are created equal, Russian serfs are rebelling. The entire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIHarris, Charlaine
Summary: "In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMiéville, China
Summary: In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEAnderson, Taylor.
Summary: Pulled into an alternative world, the men and women of the World War II USS destroyer Walker have allied themselves with the mammalian Lemurians against the reptilian Grik. Now that they have located the Mahan, the other destroyer that was shifted with them, they are ready to help the Lemurians make a stand-- but what will they do about the Japanese battleship that has fallen into Grik hands?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ANDAnderson, Taylor.
Summary: Stuck in an alternate universe during World War II, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy of the U.S.S. Walker has found an unlikely but invaluable ally in Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy. And now they are united in their desire to hunt down the traitor who abducted two women both men would die to protect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2011