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Author
Series
Dominion novels (Deas) volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Emperor of Aria has been murdered, the Empire is in crisis, and Dead Men walk the streets...But Myla, Fings, and Seth couldn't care less. They're too busy just trying to survive in the Sulk-struck city of Varr, committing petty violence and pettier crimes to earn their keep in the Unrulys, a motley gang led by Blackhand. When the Unrulys are commissioned to steal a mysterious item to order, by an equally mysterious patron, the trio are thrust...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers, Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran...
23) Valdemar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians: magicians taking advantage of the abundant magical energy...
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Series
Language
English
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"Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by 'Hellboy' artist Mike Mignola. 'Heart of Darkness' is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
27) The Diabolic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter. Raised side by side, Nemesis would give her life for Sidonia-- and take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe. When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion, he summons her to the Galactic court to serve as a hostage. Nemesis must become Sidonia to save her. It's a nest of vipers-- and Nemesis finds within herself...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country's independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Another group of soldiers, completely cut off from the outside world, blindly follow the brutal orders of their commander in the name of serving their...
Author
Series
Age of uprising volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 607 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, and their responsibility is to keep the gears of the empire turning. It's exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military. It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming:...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian and New York Times bestselling author Crowley presents the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers--a tactical advantage no other country could match.
33) Privateer
Author
Series
Dragon corsairs volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The swashbuckling adventures of Captain Kate Fitzmaurice continues in this thrilling continuation of the epic tale of the Dragon Corsairs. Captain Kate soon escapes from prison and saves her crew with the help of Prince Tom. She and her crew are drawn ever deeper into the intrigue and danger of doing business in the kingdom. Running out of allies and with nowhere to turn, Kate and Tom strike out on their own.
Author
Series
American empire volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
20 CDs (24 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.
35) Kindling
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
36) Indochine
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Extended international version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hope, after the events at Dawn?s Light, struggles to understand what it means to be a warrior who has vowed to never again take up a sword while Red finds his loyalties tested in his new role as imperial spy as he tries to rid the empire of biomancery once and for all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government—all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven's expansive book explores...
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