Berquist, Emma
Summary: "Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you. The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox-- call her Willie-- and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history about a young woman fighting to survive the unthinkable will keep fans of 'Westworld' and 'The Walking Dead'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERMiller, 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 MILBolander, Brooke
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLKhoury, Raymond
Summary: "Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom-naked, covered in strange tattoos-to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall-along with all of Europe-to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KHOKhoury, Raymond
Summary: Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom, naked, covered in strange tattoos, to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for 300 years, ever since its fall, along with all of Europe, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KHONewland, Courttia
Summary: "The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off from the world--a world much like our own, but in which slavery has never existed--a chance of survival within the Ark's confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWFlint, Eric
Summary: In 1636 France, King Louis sends his expectant wife, Queen Anne, into seclusion to keep her safe, while France's foreign enemies as well as traitors within the court make their move, forcing factions both inside and outside of the country to choose sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIChatagnier, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHAAnderson, Taylor
Summary: Commander Matt Reddy and his crew are afraid it may finally be the end of the USS Walker. Ever since their ship was transported to another world, and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Lemurians and the vicious Grik, the Walker has been taking a pounding. With Walker out of commission for repairs, Reddy takes command of a different ship and joins a desperate battle to block...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ACE 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDFlint, 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 FLIPardo, 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 PARFlint, Eric
Summary: Catapulted two thousand years into the past by a cosmic force, the crew and passengers of a cruise ship struggle to survive in Egypt during the war-torn years of the Ptolemaic era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIPowell, James Lawrence
Summary: "This vivid, terrifying, and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change-perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z. 2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWTurtledove, Harry
Summary: Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and the Middle East. Liberal, tolerant, and above all rich, the countries and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East have dominated the globe for centuries, from the Far East to the young nations of the Sunset Lands. But one region has festered for decades: Europe, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURChess, K
Summary: "Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States--and alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse--she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEAnderson, Taylor.
Summary: Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS "Walker" find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDStirling, S. M.
Summary: Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Triumphant and pursue them to their lair over the mountains. There he will finally confront the forces behind the Church, The Powers of the Void. Yet even a victory will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STISummary: "The next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THRHarris, Charlaine
Summary: "In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARAnderson, Taylor
Summary: "Taylor Anderson's enthralling New York Times bestselling series of alternate history continues as game-changing revelations upend the Grand Alliance in a potentially cataclysmic war. Ever since the USS Walker came from another world war to defy the terrifying Grik and diabolical Dominion, Matt Reddy and his crew have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians. But with the Walker in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSummary: "In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces, or people with minor superpowers. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new light, such as John Jos. Miller's exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael Cassutt's first moon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUSawyer, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANMosley, 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