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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A "novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world who find resilience, hope, and story ... [They] are trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril"--
2) Sabotaged
Author
Series
The missing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
4) Influx
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale set in a world in which technological advances have been suppressed finds particle physicist Jon Grady helping to innovate a device capable of reflecting gravity only to be targeted by a shadowy organization from the future.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.
Author
Series
Beyonders volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jason and Rachel's adventures and friendships have made Lyrian more of a home to them than they could have imagined, so now, armed with the prophecy of a dying oracle, they are ready to become Lyrian's heroes whatever the cost to themselves.
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported back to Pangaea, the strange world of lost civilizations, they must find the truth behind the mythic Fire Opal Eye in order to survive.
10) Firewalker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Back in her own universe and ready to start a new life with Rowan by her side, Lily finds she has more difficulties ahead than just keeping her magic hidden. Lillian, ruthless ruler of the Thirteen Cities, is determined that Lily will come back to the alternate Salem, no matter what it takes.
11) The last Emperox
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Emperox Grayland II has finally wrestled conrol of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of the collapse. But "control" is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people from impoverished isolation as possible, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world"--...
13) The race
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a future scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, Jenna Hoolmans world is dominated by illegal smartdog racing: greyhounds genetically modified with human DNA. When her young niece goes missing that world implodes... Christy's life is dominated by fear of her brother, a man she knows capable of monstrous acts and suspects of hiding even darker ones. Desperate to learn the truth she contacts Alex, who has his own demons to fight. And Maree,...
14) The becoming
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two--including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh with her friend Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm, a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In Talamh, Breen is not the ordinary young schoolteacher he knew her as. Here she is learning to embrace the powers...
16) Sent
Author
Series
The missing volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An official novel set in the world of Magic The Gathering--the collectible card game played by millions--featuring iconic characters on an Avengers-style mission. Planeswalkers, powerful mages from many disparate realities, must unite against the elder dragon Nicol Bolas, who has claimed dominion over Ravnica and is perilously close to completing the spell that will grant him godhood. Now, as dozens of Planeswalkers fight alongside the Gatewatch--led...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting-waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing just long enough to drop tantalizing clues before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. The one who's a walking anachronism, with her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model-A Ford. The one who's being pursued bysomething. So...
19) The long Utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
20) The long war
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
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