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41) River of teeth
Author
Series
River of teeth volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Following the murderous events of Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband's younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia's burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother's family of high-powered wizards in Mexico. Yet bad news has traveled ahead of them, as...
44) Witchy eye
Author
Series
Witchy volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Calhoun is the 15 year old daughter of the elector Andrew Calhoun, one of the electors who gets to decide who will ascend as the emperor of the New World. None of that matters to Sarah. She has a natural talent for hexing and one bad eye, and all she wants is to be left alone. But then a Yankee wizard-priest tries to kidnap her. Sarah fights back with the aid of a monk named Thalanes, who is one of the not-quite-human Firstborns. It is he that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London, most of its members returned to the continent. But some remained behind in Britain: Oliver Cromwell, sharpshooter Julie Sims, her Scot husband Alex Mackay, and Cromwell's Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl McCarthy. Soon the hunt is on for the most notorious rebel in English history, with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell's head. To make...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Autumn 1943. Since the rout at Stalingrad, Hitler has known he cannot win the war - known, too, that the upcoming Allied conference in Teheran will set the ground rules for the peace to come. Realizing that the unconditional surrender Roosevelt has demanded will leave Germany in ruins, he has put out peace feelers. (Unbeknownst to him, so has Himmler, who is prepared to stage a coup to reach an accord.) FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate. Only...
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling alternate history novel by the breakout author of WW II era alternate history Himmler's War and Rising Sun. The British win the American Revolutionary War, and a desperate Washington and the American founders must make a last stand in an enclave called Liberty. In 1781, George Washington's attempt to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown ends catastrophically when the French fleet is destroyed in the Battle of the Capes. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the...
50) Smoke and iron
Author
Series
Great library volume 4
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire,...
51) Civilizations
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history by Laurent Binet, the author of the international bestseller HHhH"--
52) The Iron Codex
Author
Series
Dark arts volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1954: In Southeast Asia, Cade Martin, hero of the Midnight Front during World War II, chases ghosts and flees his past. In the United States, Briet Segfrunsdóttir heads the Pentagon's top-secret magickal warfare program. And In South America, Anja Kernova hunts fugitive Nazi sorcerers with the help of a powerful magickal tome known as the Iron Codex. In an ever-more dangerous world, a chance encounter sparks an international race to find Anja and...
Author
Series
Artillerymen volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On their way to fight in the Mexican-American War, a group of American soldiers are swept away to a strange and deadly alternate Earth in this thrilling new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. The United States, 1847. A disparate group of young American soldiers are bound to join General Winfield Scott's campaign against Santa Anna at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War. They never arrive. Or rather...
54) Everfair
Author
Series
Everfair volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 from invasion by the Zunghars, building a tech base and...
56) 1633
Author
Series
Assiti Shards volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Eric Flint's 1632 showed listeners a fascinating alternate history of the Thirty Years' War through the eyes of a West Virginia community tossed back in time to 17th-century Germany. Here Flint teams up with acclaimed science fiction author David Weber to continue his epic tale. In 1633, the West Virginians attempt to use their modern-day knowledge to build a resistance against the forces of France, Spain, and England.
57) Himmler's war
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"With the specter of a German super-weapon moving closer to completion and the German generals finally allowed to fight the kind of war at which they are masters, the Allies are pushed toward a course of accommodation o r even defeat. Will the soldiers of the Grand Alliance find the courage and conviction to fight on in the face of such daunting odds?"--Jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo...
59) The phantom tree
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait--identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary ... more than four hundred years ago. The painting of...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell,...
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