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41) Smoke and iron
Author
Series
Great library volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"S. M. Stirling presents the stunning and epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Change series. Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. In this new world of emperors and kings, new leaders emerged, making the world their own. Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess Órlaith struggles to preserve...
43) Red prophet
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Alvin Maker has discovered his own unique talent for making things whole again. Now he summons all his powers to prevent the tragic war between Native Americans and the white settlers of North America.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate universe where the Nazis are the good guys, Daniel Carter begins working for a German secret security service to uncover a conspiracy behind a major scientific project, in the second novel of the series following Carter and Lovecraft.
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 5
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
In the latest novel in Genevieve Cogman's historical fantasy series, the fate of worlds lies in the balance. When a dragon is murdered at a peace conference, time-travelling Librarian spy Irene must solve the case to keep the balance between order, chaos...and the Library. When Irene returns to London after a relatively straightforward book theft in Germany, Bradamant informs her that there is a top secret dragon-Fae peace conference in progress that...
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Following the murderous events of the “gripping…thrill-ride” (Karin Slaughter) 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...
Author
Series
The war that came early volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An alternate history of World War II continues to explore what would have happened in the lives of leaders, soldiers, and civilians had Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain not appeased Hitler.
Author
Series
Alchemy wars volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he finally makes it across the border to New France. There he begins his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster for the King of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony has been banished from her homeland and captured by...
50) Council of fire
Author
Series
Arcane America volume 2
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The passage of Halley's Comet in 1759 is catastrophic. The comet appears to strike the Earth, sundering the New World from the Old. A chain of mountains rises in the Mid-Atlantic. No ship from the Old World arrives in America. No ship from the New World can find a passage to the Old-and most who try simply disappear. The comet has also unleashed magic forces, which soon spread everywhere. Slaves begin using powers derived from African witchcraft,...
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series. Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter...
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
Series
American people volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact , Larry Kramer completes his radical reimagining of his country's history. Ranging from the brothels of 1950s Washington, D.C., to the activism of the 1980s and beyond, Kramer offers an elaborate phantasmagoria of bigoted conspiracists in the halls of power and ordinary individuals suffering their consequences. With wit and bite, Kramer explores (among other things) the sex lives of every recent...
Author
Publisher
Borgo Press/Wildside
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
56) Rodham: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine 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. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and...
59) Hominids
Author
Series
Neanderthal parallax volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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Description
In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 1
Language
English
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Books About Libraries
Portal Fantasies
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
Portal Fantasies
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
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Description
"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative...
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