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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
3) Silver stars
Author
Series
Front lines volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1943, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio accompany the American Army to Sicily to fight on the front lines.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of life's certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
These four stories, along with fourteen other pieces, have one thing in common: They're short, sharp, and to the point—science fiction in miniature, with none of the stories longer than 2,300 words. But in that short space exist entire universes, absurd situations, and the sort of futuristic humor that propelled Scalzi to a Hugo with his novel Redshirts. Not to mention yogurt taking over the world (as it would). Spanning the years from 1991 to...
Author
Series
Noctis magicae volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sophie and Gray Marshall must save the Kingdom of Britain from a tide of dark magic...
9) Storm surge
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 8
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Language
English
Description
Aboard the USS Walker, Matt Reddy plans a raid against the Grik Empire while the Alliance fights their enemies' new weapons and tactics.
10) Foulsham
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 2
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed into a gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form? --Provided by publisher.
11) Devil's due
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 12
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Captain Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have been fighting for their lives ever since their ship was swept from the Pacific to another world and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between their Lemurian allies and the ravening Grik. But things are about to get worse. With Reddy's family and allies held prisoner by the mad General Kurokawa, the mysterious League and evil Dominion plotting schemes of their own, and the Grik trying...
12) Aces high
Series
Wild cards volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others.
Author
Series
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"S. M. Stirling's Novels of the Change are a "truly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy"* about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one.... The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess orlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yellow Raja and his servant, the Pallid...
14) Rodham: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection...
15) Iron gray sea
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 7
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2012, 2013
Language
English
Description
Matt Reddy sets off in pursuit of a rogue Japanese destroyer, the Hidoiame, while the invasion of Grik "Indiaa" begins with the Human-Lemurian Alliance fighting against the Dominion.
16) The kingdoms
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. Written in illegal English-instead of French-the postcard is signed only with the letter “M,” but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows...
17) Of better blood
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics--the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding--has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda. After years of being confined to hospitals,...
18) The Russian cage
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose volume 3
Language
English
Description
Lizbeth Rose takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he's being held for murder. Russian Cage continues to ramp up the momentum with more of everything...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2023, and things are bad -- bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they're leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it's Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends. Hestia has left journalism (too much war reporting)...
Author
Series
Last binding volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating...
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