Mary Robinette Kowal
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Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
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Language
English
Description
"T. Kingfisher's A House With Good Bones is a contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house....
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes inhabitable.
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 1
Publisher
Tor/Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written
Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer: Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality.
Jane and her sister Melody vie for the attentions of...
5) Seveneves
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Language
English
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A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain ... Five thousand years later,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named...
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process"--
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Jane and David Vincent travel to Belgium for their honeymoon, where Jane uses the glamour at her disposal when the trip is disrupted by Napoleon's escape and her husband's capture for his spy activities.
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Regency-era glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth, while visiting Jane's family, hope to bolster Melody's chances for a good marriage by accepting a commission from a prominent London family, a job that embroils them in an international crisis.
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Robinette Kowal's Valour and Vanity is a Regency version of a heist movie with a healthy dose of magic sprinkled in. After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on the their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved,...
11) Of noble family
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 5
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen walked on the grimmer side of the Regency"--
"Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overwhelmed, and no one else in his family can go. Grudgingly, out of filial duty the couple decide to...
12) Ghost talkers
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Molly lives with her mother and baby brother in an underground room on the Moon, and there is very little room for toys; Molly is good at making things for herself, but her brother is too young, so she has to learn to share.
14) I am Princess X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, sixteen-year-old May is shocked to see stickers, patches, and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing around Seattle.
15) The Original
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, humans choose life - for a price. Injectable nanite technology is the lifeblood that flows through every individual wishing to experience the world through the lens of their own theme. While death from mortal wounds is still possible, life is made easier in a socially liberated society where automation and income equality allow passion pursuits to flourish over traditional work. Renewal stations are provided to every law-abiding...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2012.
Language
English
Description
In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin's secret police. Intrigued by Olena's story, Daryna sets out to make a documentary of the woman's extraordinary life and death, and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future. Spanning sixty tumultuous years of contemporary Ukrainian history, this multigenerational...
17) Mystic
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Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mystic is the start of an enchanting new epic fantasy series from Jason Denzel, the founder of Dragonmount. I called to the Myst, and it sent us you. For hundreds of years, high-born nobles have competed for the chance to learn of the Myst. Powerful, revered, and often reclusive, Mystics have the unique ability to summon and manipulate the Myst: the underlying energy that lives at the heart of the universe. Once in a very great while, they take an...
18) Amberlough
Author
Series
Amberlough dossier volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party--nicknamed the Ospies--is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is...