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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader...
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Language
English
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Description
A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers.
The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But, from the beginning the American...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
64) Angelmass
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced action ... first-rate sf space adventure" ( Library Journal ) from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn . Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying -- which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When a young man is found strangled outside an Indian restaurant in England, Charlie Peace travels to a nearby art colony to see if he can identify the body and find the killer, but when he arrives he discovers the colony's residents will do anything to keep him from snooping around.
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Language
English
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Description
Thomas H. Cook's mesmerizing novels have attracted many Edgar Award nominations, and his Chatham School Affair won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Filled with the haunting characters that have become Cook's trademark, Instruments of Night creates a fusion between past and present that is unique and chilling. Author Paul Graves has achieved modest popularity for a crime series that pits a perceptive detective against his nemesis, a mastermind of evil....
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This prize-winning study examines the nightmarish effects of the so-called "wonder drug" in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa. After the Second World War, French colonial health services set out to eradicate sleeping sickness in Africa. The newly discovered drug Lomidine (also known as Pentamidine) promised to protect against infection, and mass campaigns of "preventive lomidinization" were launched across Africa. But the drug proved to be both...
70) Sea venture: shipwreck, survival, and the salvation of the first English colony in the New World
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
71) Moonfall
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
73) Thetis
Author
Series
Deep sky saga volume 2
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Blind and broken, orphaned teenager Jonah Lincoln reluctantly boards a rescue ship bound for the planet Thetis, but not before it picks up a few more surprising and dangerous survivors from the massacre on the moon Achilles. After regaining his sight, Jonah sees the gated colony on Thetis is just as he feared -- cloaked in mystery and under an oppressive rule with no one to trust -- and that outside the walls, it's even worse. Surrounded by terrifying...
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Language
English
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Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
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Language
English
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Description
It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and crime was on the rise. Even the hulks sifting at anchor in the Thames were packed with malcontent criminals and petty thieves. So the English government decided to undertake the unprecedented move of...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stuart Stirling tells the history of the Inca princesses and of their conquistador lovers and descendants. The story begins with the early days of Pizarro's conquest at Cajamarca in the 1530s, when the emperor Atahualpa gifted his young sister wife Quispe Sis Huaylas to Pizarro. This was the beginning of the distribution and rape of the princesses among the conquistadors - a practice which was in many ways a distillation of the tragedy of the Spanish...
78) Rolling Thunder
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The third book in the Thunder and Lightning Series is "a smashing success ... [with] action-packed, science-packed homages to Heinlein's best work" (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing ). Navy lieutenant Podkayne, daughter of Ray Garcia-Strickland, is tired of her job as Martian consul in California -- and Earth's oppressive gravity. So she's OK with getting called back to Mars even if it's because her great-grandmother is sick and being put into suspended...
79) Achilles
Author
Series
Deep sky saga volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young colonists find themselves stranded on an unpopulated moon -- and not as alone as they thought -- in a series debut from the author of The Red Bishop . The year is 2221, and humans have colonized a planet called Thetis in the Silver Foot Galaxy. After a tragic accident kills dozens of teenage colonists, Thetis's leaders are desperate to repopulate. So Earth sends the Mayflower 2 -- a state-of-the-art spaceship -- across the universe to bring...
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