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Author
Publisher
M. Kesend Pub
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This sprawling, adventuresome historical novel examines the life of a Swiss pioneer driven by greed and his downfall during the California Gold Rush.
John Sutter is perhaps best known today for an accidental discovery that occurred on his California property in 1848. When huge deposits of gold were revealed at Sutter's Mill, hordes of would-be miners descended on Sutter's previously unrivaled domain. In Gold, the renowned Swiss poet and novelist...
82) Dominion
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints. But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A young liege goes to battle in a medieval land teetering on the brink of civil war and church-sanctioned genocide in the second chronicle of the reign of King Kelson In troubled Gwynedd, the crown sits heavy on the head of King Kelson Haldane. In a realm historically torn asunder by deep-seated suspicion and fear of the magical Deryni who live among them, young Kelson is both beloved for his humanity and abhorred for his Deryni blood. Now, the traitorous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1929]
Language
English
Description
A charming rogue and a beautiful witch are at the center of a bitter war in this classic fantasy story of chivalry, adventure, romance, and magic.
The second book in Leslie Barringer's beloved fantasy trilogy, Joris of the Rock expands the epic saga first introduced in her previous novel, Gerfalcon. Joris of the Rock is a bandit who fears no law, church, or king. Yet he finds himself at the center of a civil war that will decide the fate of the...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Originally published by McClelland & Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most respected critics in Canada and the US, and compelled The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand to call Glover "one of the most important Canadian writers of his generation." Set on the Niagara frontier in the final days of the American Revolution, The Life and Times of Captain N. sees the revolutionary new world order from the standpoint of the losers. Hendrick Nellis, a Tory...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1913.
Language
English
Description
Written before his masterpiece Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie's novel Sentimental Tommy grapples with a number of the same themes that the author would later so memorably enshrine in his best-known work. Both feature a central character who clings to the vestiges of youth and refuses to grow up -- often with dire consequences.
Author
Series
Publisher
River City Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Came the time when the two travelers knew night would catch them, and shelter must be found. God and Satan are at war in the colonial Carolina town of Fount Royal, and even the citizens suspect that a witch is behind the tragedies that have plagued the town. The chief suspect is the beautiful and haunted widow Rachel. Traveling judge Isaac Woodward and his bright young clerk Matthew Corbett arrive to conduct a trial-and uncover the true evil at work...
88) The rising
Author
Series
Alchemy wars ; 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony has been banished from...
89) Return to Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Eos
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
On Mars a conflict breaks out between two factions of an expedition, led by half-Navajo astronaut Jamie Waterman. One side wants to exploit the planet for commerce, the other to keep it ecologically pure. By the author of Mars.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
This provocative alternative history looks at the Second World War from a new angle - what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic consequences of opportunities taken and examines the grotesque possibilities of a Third Reich triumphant.
On 30 September 1941, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow and the Soviet...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by two of the most beloved works by literary masters, All Men of Genius takes place in an alternate Steampunk Victorian London, where science makes the impossible possible.
Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who has held to his father's...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In the nineteenth century, a small group of American idealists managed to actually build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and use it to develop Cliology, mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. Soon they were working to alter history's course as they thought best. By our own time, the Society has become the secret master of the world. But, no secret can be kept forever, at least not without drastic measures. When her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A powerful cleric plots the ultimate treason against a medieval realm's young king in Katherine Kurtz's breathtaking return to the fantasy world of the Deryni For centuries, a powerful faction of the Holy Church in Gwynedd has been at war with the Deryni, the mysterious race whose magic is despised and feared by those who lack their remarkable arcane abilities. The bloodshed ended with the coronation of the popular young King Kelson Haldane, himself...
94) The tourmaline
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to Park's stunning fantasy debut, A Princess of Roumania.
Teenager Miranda Popescu is at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurers in an alternate fantasy world where "Roumania" is a leading European power. Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world. An American couple adopted and raised her in their quiet Massachusetts college town, but she had been translated by magic back to her own world, and is at...
95) The white tyger
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternative reality where "All the President's men" do not get caught at Watergate, this "shockingly believable" novel presents the frightening scenario of what could happen if a powerful but paranoid American chief executive goes out of control.
98) Pilate's wife
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"We Install offers a showcase of styles, from humor--in "Father of the Groom," a scientist with a penchant for wild experimentation helps his love-struck son by synthesizing a wedding ring out of two carrots--to classic science fiction, as in the Hugo Award-winning "Down in the Bottomlands" and "Hoxbomb," in which a regular guy just trying to make a living selling scooters has to deal with some very odd competition. The alternate history tale "Drang...
100) Taste of marrow
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. Together they conspired to blow the dam that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway. Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: "And not a soul escaped alive."...
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