Urlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and Hasso Pemsel, a Wehrmacht officer, when fleeing a sniper's bullet stumbles into a world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns where he allies himself with the Lenelli. While there he learns to question everything he was taught and believed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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Armstrong, Kelley.
Summary: "Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Minotaur 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFlint, 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: 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 FLIMalmont, Paul.
Summary: A sequel to "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" finds Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and their literary associates confronting a powerful adversary who threatens to tip the balance of power during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALFlynn, Michael (Michael F.)
Summary: Tom, a contemporary historian and his physicist girlfriend Sharon become interested in a one small town in Germany that disappeared in 1349 and was never resettled. Father Deitrich the priest of the village is the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest in 1348, the year the Black Death spread across Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Book 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYMcMann, Lisa.
Summary: "Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC INFKhoury, 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 KHOKhoury, 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 KHOFlint, Eric
Summary: "The emperor is dead; long live the emperors! The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag the Mughal Empire into a three-sided struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne. The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe is openly siding with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. The mission, made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIFlint, Eric.
Summary: In Rome in 1635, Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, has come to a standstill in their negotiations with Pope Urban VIII, while mysterious agitators are stirring up trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FLI RF #7Flint, Eric.
Summary: "A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia take on a murderous conspiracy of operatic proportions in Magdeburg, the capital of the United States of Europe.New York Times Best Selling Series Eric Flint and David Carrico serve up the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIFlint, 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 FLIFlint, 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 FLIMcLaughlin, Rhett
Summary: "It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town's cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLawson, Jessica
Summary: One day, something starts tugging at Ben, telling him to hurry to Augusta, Georgia. As he makes his way to Augusta, Ben embarks on a strange journey full of surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction Lawson 2016Kowal, Mary Robinette
Summary: "Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOWPohl, Frederik.
Summary: For Simyon Smin, Deputy Director, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was a source of great pride. For Leonid Sheranchuk, engineer, it was a place where he could put his vast skills to the best use. For Tamara Sheranchuk, doctor, it was a place where she longed to work in order to be closer to her husband. But on April 26, 1986, Chernobyl forever became someplace very different for these three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHFay, Shannon
Summary: "London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It's not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Colfer, Eoin.
Summary: Chevie returns to modern-day London after her time-trip to the Victorian era, and finds the present much changed. Chevie's memories return to her in bits, and, as she learns about the WARP program, time machine inventor Professor Charles Smart is killed by police. They come after Chevie, too, and she escapes to the past. She finds Riley, and together they resolve to find the mysterious Colonel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLPulley, Natasha
Summary: Joe Tournier, suffering from a form of epilepsy that causes amnesia, leaves the French-ruled London for the rebel land of Scotland to search for answers about his identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULDahl, Michael
Summary: Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020