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Harris, Charlaine

Summary: #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author returns with the fifth installment in the bestselling Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia as well as brothers Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma only to break apart before the Wizard’s Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates. Following the murderous events of the “gripping…thrill-ride” (Karin...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Miller, Tom

Summary: "In World War I America, magic and science have blended into an extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes, a practitioner of empirical philosophy--an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal, and even fly--dreams of becoming the first male in an elite team of flying medics"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIL

Steinbeck, John

Summary: Collects six short novels from one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Carey, C. J.

Summary: "To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. The year is 1953. Edward VIII and Wallis are preparing for their coronation, and the country is tense with expectation. In honor of the event, Adolf Hitler will be making his first visit to the UK since its surrender to the Germans in 1940. One oppressive change conforming with Nazi ideology is the strict...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR

Chatagnier, Ethan

Summary: The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life are-that's not luck. That's a miracle. It means something. In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHA

Weiss, Josh

Summary: "USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely-concealed anti-Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House of Unamerican Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Carey, C. J.

Summary: "The thrilling sequel to Widowland, a feminist dystopian novel set in an alternative history that terrifyingly imagines what a British alliance with Germany would look like if the Nazis had won WWII. London, 1955. The Leader has been dead for two years. His assassination, on British soil, provoked violent retribution and intensified repression of British citizens, particularly women. Now, more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Flint, 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 Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLI

Pardo, Paz

Summary: "In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina's victory in the Falkland's War thanks to their development of "psychopigments." Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

McEwan, Ian

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McEwan 2019

McGee, Katharine

Summary: In an alternate America, Beatrice, Samantha, and Jefferson struggle to determine what they really want and how much it is worth when weighed against the crown.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCG

McGee, Katharine

Summary: In an alternate America, Beatrice, now queen, and her sibilings Samatha and Jefferson struggle to untangle their personal lives and settle into their new political roles while the country hosts the world's monarchs at the League of Kings conference.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCG

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCG

Harris, Charlaine

Summary: Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Brashares, Ann

Summary: Told in alternating voices and timelines, twelve-year-old Henry and his two friends unknowingly alter the outcome of World War II when they communicate over radio with three kids from 1944 and must now work together to change it back.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRA

Mosley, Walter

Summary: Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness – equipped with unprecedented physical strength – to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman – the pale, white-haired embodiment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOS

Park, Ed

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Newman, Sandra

Summary: "Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEW

Evans, Jon

Summary: "When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence. Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

Grillo, Christine

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Harris, Charlaine

Summary: Lizbeth Rose reluctantly teams up with her sister and navigates her growing Grigori powers to rescue her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from an alternate-world Holy Russian Empire.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAR

Shawl, Nisi

Summary: Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Pink, Randi

Summary: Told in alternating timelines, African American Atlas learns of her ancestral powers and their connection to the Great Dismal Swamp which shielded her grandmother as a formerly enslaved girl in the 1700s.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends

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Yanagihara, Hanya

Summary: Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

Ellis, Lindsay

Summary: "Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

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