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Author
Series
Library of America volume 173
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war-and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction...
4) Ink and bone
Author
Series
Great Library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
"Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly, but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden ... When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe...
5) Wolf by wolf
Author
Series
Wolf by Wolf volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a duology about an alternate version of 1956 where the Axis powers won WWII, and hold an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents to commemorate their victory"--
Author
Series
Todd Family volume 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards...
Author
Series
Great Library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"In Ink and Bone, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library--and rewrite history ... With an iron fist, the Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion and in the name of the greater good forbidding the personal ownership of books. Jess Brightwell has survived...
10) My real children
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Remembering two different pasts that reflect contrasting historical events and relationships with different people, an elderly Patricia Cowan wonders about her identity while gazing at a moon that might house benign or malicious technologies.
Author
Series
Invisible library novel volume 1
Language
English
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 London....
13) Firestorm
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Mapmakers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped.
16) Relativism, alternate history, and the forgetful reader: reading science fiction and historiography
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
17) Ash and quill
Author
Series
Great Library volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealousy guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny ... Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales, Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, encounter complications after the colony's governor, Captain William Bligh, is overthrown.
20) Rising tides
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 5
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Reddy and Jenks are united in their desire to hunt down the traitor who abducted two women both men would die to protect-- but first they have a new battle to win. They must navigate a tempest of politics, deception and betrayal when it becomes obvious that the ruthless Company is attempting to overthrow the Imperial Throne.
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