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5) Heartfire
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
6) Charity girl
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history of the creation of the atom bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944. Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and...
10) Alvin wandering
Author
Series
Publisher
Science Fiction Book Club
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
613 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
11) The black rose
Author
Publisher
One World / Ballantine
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
Author
Series
The University of Tennessee record volume 56, no. 6
Publisher
University of Tennessee
Pub. Date
[1953]
Physical Desc
v, 17 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Author
Language
English
Description
"Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age's greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb. As he performs that work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brenda--unaware of the true...
15) No country
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
553 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of a young freedom fighter in mid-nineteenth-century Dublin whose best friend and daughter escape the potato famine by moving to America before their respective descendants move toward a fateful convergence.
16) The fiery cross
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
In 1771, Scotsman James Fraser and his wife Claire Randall, a time-traveler from the twentieth century, have emigrated to the Royal County of North Carolina. Dissidents are stirring throughout the colonies. Claire forewarns James of the impendng war and the dangers it may bring them. Will her knowledge of America's tumultuous revolution be enough to guide them through a dangerously uncertain future?
17) Yonder: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors? tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, Cannonball Greene, they never know what harm may befall them: inhumane physical toil in the plantation?s quarry by day, a beating by night, or the sale of a loved one at any moment. Their relationships begin to fray...
18) Traces of Mercy
Author
Series
Medallion trilogy volume 1
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Civil War ends, a young woman suffers an accident that leaves her unconscious and alone in St. Louis. Waking up with amnesia, she takes the name Mercy because of the mercy medallion found around her neck. A handsome stranger may hold the key to everything she has forgotten. But will the knowledge help her, or devastate her future ... and perhaps even end her life?
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country. "JB & FD" reimagines conversations between...
Author
Series
Donovan and sons volume 6
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Temptation this hot is worth the sin... After avenging the murders of his family, Gareth headed west to put his demons to rest. There he shattered Portia's hopes of a future together. Nine years later, he blackmails her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.
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