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1494 : how a family feud in medieval Spain divided the world in half / by Bown, Stephen R.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index.Looks at how a feud between monarchs the Church created the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 and divided the entire world between Spain and Portugal.LSC
Subjects: Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516.; Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504.; John II, King of Portugal, 1455-1495.; Treaty of Tordesillas (1494).;
© c2011., Douglas & McIntyre,
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Sea of tranquility / by Mandel, Emily St. John,1979-author.;
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
Subjects: Epic fiction.; Novels.; Epidemics; Space and time; Space colonies; Women authors;
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Leviathan Falls / by Corey, James S. A.,author.;
"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte's missing daughter ... and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before. As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win. But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Imaginary wars and battles; Life on other planets; Space colonies; Space warfare;
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Tiamat's wrath / by Corey, James S. A.,author.;
"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortazar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father, the emperor, doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose -- seems more and more certain. Because, against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough ..." -- Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Life on other planets; Space colonies; Space warfare; Imaginary wars and battles;
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Jamie MacGillivray : the renegade's journey / by Sayles, John,1950-author.;
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746; Indentured servants; Man-woman relationships; Scots; Lenape;
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Alien. [videorecording] / by Crudup, Billy,1968-actor.; Fassbender, Michael,1977-actor.; McBride, Danny,1976-actor.; Scott, Ridley,film director.; Logan, John,1961-screenwriter.; Harper, Dante,screenwriter.; Waterston, Katherine,actor.; Bichir, Demián,1963-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.; Scott Free Productions,production company.; Brandywine Productions,production company.;
Music, Jed Kurzel ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; director of photography, Dariusz Wolski ; producers, Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, David Giler, Walter Hill ; story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green.Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz, Nathaniel Dean.The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Interplanetary voyages; Space colonies;
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Alien. [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Crudup, Billy,1968-actor.; Fassbender, Michael,1977-actor.; McBride, Danny,1976-actor.; Scott, Ridley,film director.; Logan, John,1961-screenwriter.; Harper, Dante,screenwriter.; Waterston, Katherine,actor.; Bichir, Demián,1963-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.; Scott Free Productions,production company.; Brandywine Productions,production company.;
Music, Jed Kurzel ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; director of photography, Dariusz Wolski ; producers, Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, David Giler, Walter Hill ; story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green.Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz, Nathaniel Dean.The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Interplanetary voyages; Space colonies;
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The knife of never letting go / by Ness, Patrick, 1971- ;
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Subjects: Human-animal communication; Social problems; Space colonies; Telepathy; Human-animal communication; Science fiction.; Social problems; Space colonies; Telepathy;
© 2008., Candlewick Press,
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America, América : a new history of the New World / by Grandin, Greg,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south-no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World Grandin reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest-the greatest mortality event in human history-through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond. Grandin shows, among other things, how royalist Spanish America, by sending troops and supplies, helped save the republican American Revolution; how in response to U.S. interventions, Latin Americans remade the rules, leading directly to the founding of the United Nations; and how the Good Neighbor Policy allowed FDR to assume the moral authority to lead the fight against world fascism. Grandin's book sheds new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain; the Colombian Jorge Gaitán, whose unsolved murder inaugurated the rise of Cold War political terror, death squads, and disappearances; and the radical journalist Ernest Gruening, who in championing non-interventionism in Latin America, helped broker the most spectacularly successful policy reversal in United State history. This is a monumental work of scholarship that will fundamentally change the way we think of slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. At once comprehensive and accessible, America, América shows that centuries of bloodshed and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the United States and Latin America but also the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. A culmination of a decades-long engagement with hemispheric history, drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World"--
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Pathfinder / by Card, Orson Scott.;
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Psychic ability; Identity (Psychology); Secrecy; Time travel; Interplanetary voyages; Space colonies;
© 2011, c2010., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
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