Powell, Gareth
Summary: The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWPowell, Gareth
Summary: "From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge abroad an abandoned, slower-than-light generation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWDuPrau, Jeanne
Summary: In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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Summary: In 1943 Tunisia, Major Robert Bellmon, a tank commander, is captured by German enemies, in a harrowing American saga that views the terrifying and triumphant side of the war through the eyes of one man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIJefferies, Dinah
Summary: "What price will they pay for their bravery? In an old stone cottage, on the edge of a beautiful French village, three sisters long for the end of the war. Hélène, the protector, vows to keep her sisters safe. Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost. And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for a world where France is free. When the Allies come knocking for help,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Canada, Limited 2021
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Summary: In the basement of his family's junkshop, Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie discover a trunk full of old military stuff. Including a battered navy peacoat from World War II. When Anderson puts it on he finds a mysterious letter in the pocket. Curious, he takes the coat and letter home. But that's not all he brings home. Later that evening the ghost of a World War II sailor appears in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DANKaufman, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: "Responsible for raising her siblings, Lazarus and Mary, after her mother's untimely death, Martha finds solace in friendship and the beginnings of first love, until adversity strikes again. Many years later, a life-changing encounter with Jesus of Nazareth reawakens Martha's heart, even as she faces an unknown future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUSalvatore, R. A.
Summary: In the wake of the demon uprising and two years of peace, a Civil war is in the offing, and Jarlaxle and a small group of friends go on an expedition in search of Doum'wielle, the last wielder of the powerful sword known as "Cutter", in hopes that she may be the key to unlocking the sword's potential.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALWeis, Margaret.
Summary: The start of a new epic trilogy set in the world of Dragonlance. The War of Souls The people of Krynn have known war in past ages. Some are still alive who remember the triumph of good at the conclusion of the War of the Lance. Still more remember the devastation of the Chaos War, which ended the Fourth Age of the world. But now a new war is about to begin, more terrible than any have known....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal line, the House of York, begins their quest to oust him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Summary: In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start and joins a band of soliders led by a warlord named David. Some are loyal to David, but others are only with him for the promise of captured wealth. Over the course of ten days, from snowy mountain passes to sword-wracked battlefields, Benaiah and his fellow mercenaries must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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Summary: After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal line, the House of York, begins their quest to oust him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGPerry, Anne.
Summary: In the fifth and final entry in Perry's World War I series, the war is drawing to a close. British intelligence officer Matthew Reavley has received word that a high-ranking German defector is willing to identify the Peacemaker, the man who has been undermining Britain's war effort and is responsible for the death of Reavley's parents. As Matthew travels to Ypres, his brother, Joseph, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Contents: Developing a New York State research strategy -- Major research centers in New York State and elsewhere with Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in New York State suggested sources for New York georgraphy to help determine place of residence of individuals -- Pre-revolutionary events in the province of New York -- General histories of the American Revolution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 GrundsetDavis, Bryan
Summary: Fifteen years after Billy and Bonnie Bannister helped expel the demonic assault on heaven, they and Ashley Foley are in a maximum security prison where the authorities conduct experiments on them to learn the secrets of long life. Meanwhile, an ancient demon locates the Bannister's daughter and plans to use her to find and control the most powerful ovulum in the world. The fate of two worlds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Living Ink Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION DAVShusterman, Neal
Summary: A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life, and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe, a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2017
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Summary: ""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomesa scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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Summary: "A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. These teens must master the 'art' of taking life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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Summary: A captured soldier must escort a mysterious girl to a distant city to broker peace between two peoples poised on the brink of war. Left to die in a deep chasm, his commander stumbles on to a dark and powerful secret: how to harness the energy of men's souls and bend them to his will. Is this the secret that Goblinkind has been hiding from the race of men? That all the shiny trinkets of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rare Bird Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOChupeco, Rin
Summary: Everyone in Southridge knows about the legend of the Gravemother. They know how to leave offerings by the abandoned house she was supposedly murdered in to pacify her. They know better than to trespass on her property. But not everyone believes in the tale--especially not fourteen-year-old Rhett, who lives around the corner from the old mansion. Then it's announced that the Gravemother's place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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Summary: When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2008