O'Flaherty, Dennis.
Summary: The year is 1877, automations and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. All of the country's land west of the Mississippi was sold to Russia nearly fifty years earlier, and Little Russia, as it's now called, is ruled by the son of Tsar Alexander II. The United States is being run as a police state by former secretary of war Edward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFLLand, Jon.
Summary: Detective Ben Kamal and sleuth Danielle Barnea join forces when they find themselves caught up in the violence and terrorism of the diamond-rich West African country of Sierra Leone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANReedy, Trent
Summary: Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REEHerbert, Brian
Summary: "Collected for the first time, these four previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, Sands of Dune is essential reading for any fan of the series. The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERReedy, Trent
Summary: Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REEMosse, Kate
Summary: "Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland and protect astonishing secrets buried in time in France, 1942. In Carcassonne, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSBrown, Skila
Summary: Dissuaded by his mother from confronting soldiers who have murdered a neighbor in his 1981 Guatemalan village, young Carlos joins a band of guerillas in the hope of carrying a warning to his grandmother's mountaintop home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROSanderson, Brandon.
Summary: At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021