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1) Ice forged
Author
Series
Ascendant Kingdoms saga volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
583 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Condemned for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh discipline and oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists. Now, as the world s magic runs wild, McFadden and the people...
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English
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Overview: Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered...
5) No escape
Publisher
Unearthed Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Year is 2022. John Robbins, a former Marine Captain, has been sentenced for assassinating his commanding officer and is banished to a secret and remote prison island run by The Warden. In this prison of the future, inhabited by society's most violent and feared criminals, Robbins is left to the mercy of the elements and his fellow man. He finds the island divided into two camps: The Outsiders, led by the brutal and bloodthirsty Marek; and The...
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Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue Tibia?an innovative literary voice working at the height of his powers Jack Glass is the murderer?we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass, the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for...
10) The fatal shore
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1987.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 688 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
11) The dark side
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon." --
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Series
Temeraire volume 6
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.
13) The lieutenant
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
16) Escape from L.A
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English
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Snake Plissken is back, this time in L.A., a gang-infested island. His job is to find a doomsday device and return it to get the antidote for a virus that was injected into him.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (181 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
West of Shanghai: A wily warlord holds a small group of Americans prisoner in a north China mission.
The invisible menace: Army intelligence suspects an ex-con of murdering the ordnance expert who framed him.
Devil's Island: A French doctor wrongly convicted of treason falls victim to the barbaric cruelties of the penal colony's commandant.
Author
Series
Land of the far horizons volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
320 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
20) The secret river
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Series
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English
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WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH OVERALL BEST BOOK AWARD
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife, Sal, and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a whisper that freedom can be bought, an opportunity to start
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