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With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. . . .
“A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The...
“A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The...
7) The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
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xvii, 364 pages ; 24 cm
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English
12) The last hours
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Last hours (Minette Walters) volume 1
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English
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When the Black Death enters England in 1348, no one knows how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable. With her brutal husband absent when news of the pestilence reaches her, and being well-versed in the importance of...
14) The Black Death
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Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
ix, 69 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
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English
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Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and changed the course of European history.
15) Doomsday book
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Oxford time travel novels volume 2
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English
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Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the...
“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the...
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2018.
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English
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Two brothers escape the Black Death by skipping forward in time, experiencing six centuries of change in six days.
December 1348. The country is in the grip of the Black Death. Brothers John and William are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries- living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine years after the last. They choose...
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Chronicles of the scribe volume 2
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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