Todd McLaren
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
From the author of the runaway bestselling novel Best Friends comes a smart, touching novel about the intimate yet fragile relationships among five very different people, thrown together in a small medical office, and how each life affects the others. Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCs-three close friends who have been brought together while working at the cozy medical practice of Drs. Markowitz and Strub in Midburg, Ohio. But when Alicia and...
Author
Series
Atlantis trilogy (Harry Turtledove) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country. he becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created this cinematic masterpiece. Regarded as a masterpiece today, 2001: A Space Odyssey received mixed reviews on its 1968 release. Despite the success of Dr. Strangelove,...
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling's The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn't suspect this until the twentieth century, but when the first probes landed on our sister worlds, and found life--intelligent life, at that--things changed with a vengeance. By the year 2000, America, Russia, and the other great powers of Earth are all contending...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney and his infantry platoon were caught in a deadly firefight with al-Qaeda fighters, when a message came over the radio: one of his soldiers had been killed by the enemy. Mullaney's education, the four years he spent at West Point and the harrowing test of Ranger School, readied him for a career in the Army. His subsequent experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford...
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England"--
67) Black chamber
Author
Series
Tales from The Black Chamber volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"An alternate history of World War I novel"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Rudi Mackenize, now Artos the First, High King of Montival, and his allies have won several key battles against the Church Universal and Triumphant. But still the war rages on, taking countless lives, ravaging the land once known as the United States of America. Artos and his Queen, Mathilda, must unite the realms into a single kingdom to ensure a lasting peace. If the leaders of the Changed world are to accept Artos as their ruler, he will need...
Author
Series
Shadowspawn volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Part Shadowspawn, but living as an ordinary man, Adrian Breze must now battle the dark forces of the world and within his own blood to save humanity.
Author
Series
Island in the sea of time series volume 1
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
During a perfect spring evening on Nantucket, a violent storm erupts and a dome of crawling, colored fire blankets the island. When the howling winds subside and the night skies clear, the stars appear to have shifted. The mainland has become a wilderness of unbroken forest, where tools of bronze and stone litter the beaches, and primitive natives scatter in terror.A startling phenomenon has occurred: The island of Nantucket has been swept into the...
71) Theater of spies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back. After foiling a German plot to devastate America's coastal cities from Boston to Galveston, crack Black Chamber agent Luz O'Malley and budding technical genius Ciara Whelan go to California to recuperate. But their well-deserved rest is cut short...
72) The sky people
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In a world in which Mars and Venus were found to be teeming with life--even human life--Louisia-born Marc Vitrac has been assigned to Jamestown, the U.S.-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers. But there are flies in this ointment--and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with...
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Series
Unincorporated volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
After the world's economic collapse, civilization requires the incorporation of every individual at birth. Most people spend most of their lives gaining control of the majority of their own shares. The arrival of a cryogenically preserved man from the 21st century?who's obviously unincorporated?creates a social anomaly.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear, their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown-until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their...
Author
Pub. Date
1995, 1994
Description
War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever-widening ripples of destruction: Britain, Italy, Africa...The fate of the world hung in the balance. Out of the dark of night, out of the soft glow of...
76) Personal demon
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Series
Women of the Otherworld volume 8
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"New York Times"-bestselling author Armstrong follows "No Humans Involved" with the eighth sexy, action-packed Women of the Otherworld novel featuring a wickedly beautiful, supernaturally gifted heroine who may love danger a bit too much.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day. In frank and compelling detail, he discusses his parents and his childhood, his earliest influences, the beginnings...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Will Stark is a self-made multibillionaire, happily married and a proud father. He arrives home to find his house destroyed and his family murdered, and is himself rescued from certain death by a mysterious trio. His rescuers are part of a splinter faction of a centuries-old secret society that has developed incredible technological advances and unlocked the method to release humanity's innate potential. Will was mistakenly believed to be a key dissident...
Author
Series
Island in the sea of time series volume 3
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
The premise is that Nantucket has been tossed back to about 1400 B.C., with the Coast Guard tall ship Eagle in tow just offshore. From this, a new and different time line commences, one complicated by outbreaks of measles and smallpox, the inhabitants' shrewdness, stark treason on the part of one of the time-displaced band, thuggish genius William Walker, and the parallel introductions of diversity and women's rights with those of the steam engine...
Author
Series
Island in the sea of time series volume 2
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Against The Tide Of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire...