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Dodger / by Pratchett, Terry.;
"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Adventure and adventurers; Conduct of life; Love; Todd, Sweeney (Legendary character); Humorous stories.; JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Europe.; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General.; JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories.; Young adult fiction.;
© c2012., HarperCollins,
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Orange for the sunsets / by Athaide, Tina.;
Includes bibliographical references.In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.Ages 8-12LSC
Subjects: Amin, Idi, 1925-2003; Friendship; Social classes; Ethnic relations; East Indians; Family life; Forced migration;
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The midnight ride [sound recording] / by Mezrich, Ben,1969-author.; Carthew, Corey,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Corey Carthew.From the New York Times best-selling author of Bitcoin Billionaires, a commercial thriller that connects the Gardner Museum heist with a tantalizing alternate history of New England's founding fathers and introduces a woman with a dark past who's stumbled upon the most fascinating secret in American history.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thrillers (Fiction); Cardsharping; College teachers; Ex-convicts; Murder; Women graduate students;
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When we had wings / by Lawhon, Ariel,author.; McMorris, Kristina,author.; Meissner, Susan,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells an amazingly moving story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The last magician / by Maxwell, Lisa,1979-;
In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.Ages 14 up.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Magic; Magicians; Time travel; Thieves;
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The court of miracles / by Grant, Kester,1984-;
Les Misérables In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger--the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh--Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice--protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Government, Resistance to; Revolutions; Sisters; Thieves; Imaginary wars and battles;
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The midnight ride / by Mezrich, Ben,1969-author.;
'The Midnight Ride' is a commercial thriller that connects the Gardner Museum heist with a tantalizing alternate history of New England's founding fathers, and introduces a woman with a dark past who's stumbled upon the most fascinating secret in American history. From the author of 'Bitcoin Billionaires', 'The Accidental Billionaires' (adapted by Aaron Sorkin into the David Fincher film 'The Social Network') and 'Bringing Down the House' (adapted into the #1 box office hit film '21').
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Cardsharping; College teachers; Ex-convicts; Murder; Women graduate students;
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Sunset empire / by Weiss, Josh,author.;
"December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody conflict, a Korean-American man by the name of William Yang suddenly blows himself up in the middle of a Los Angeles department store just before Christmas, which leads the U.S. government to reopen the internment camps used during World War II. President Joseph McCarthy's America has never been more on edge, paranoid, and above all, dangerous. Several weeks later, a woman hires Morris Baker, now working as a private investigator, to track down her missing husband - Henry Kissinger - who may have a shadowy connection to Yang's purported terrorist attack. The ensuing investigation for the missing State Department consultant working for Vice President Richard Nixon sends Baker on another thrilling adventure of deceit, intrigue, sex, murder, and conspiracy where the safety of the entire world may hang in the balance"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Conspiracies; Missing persons; Private investigators;
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The peacekeeper : a novel / by Blanchard, B. L.,author.;
"North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don't exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the village of Baawitigong, a Peacekeeper confronts his devastating past. Twenty years ago to the day, Chibenashi's mother was murdered and his father confessed. Ever since, caring for his still-traumatized younger sister has been Chibenashi's privilege and penance. Now, on the same night of the Manoomin harvest, another woman is slain. His mother's best friend. This leads to a seemingly impossible connection that takes Chibenashi far from the only world he's ever known. The major city of Shikaakwa is home to the victim's cruelly estranged family--and to two people Chibenashi never wanted to see again: his imprisoned father and the lover who broke his heart. As the questions mount, the answers will change his and his sister's lives forever. Because Chibenashi is about to discover that everything about their lives has been a lie."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Alternative histories (Fiction); Novels.; Brothers and sisters; Dysfunctional families; Families; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Secrecy; Ojibwe;
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A history of what comes next / by Neuvel, Sylvain,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and discography."Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race. But Mia's family is not the only group pushing the levers of history: an even more ruthless enemy lurks behind the scenes. A darkly satirical first contact thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Space race; Women in aeronautics; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Rockets (Aeronautics);
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