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By Catherine Leroux, Susan Ouriou. 2023
Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 • One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC…
Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews' Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Review Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own kingdom in the trees. In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. When a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together.By Isaac Asimov. 1950
Nine short stories about human-like robots and robot-like humans in which two young engineers who work as trouble-shooters on space…
stations have difficulty keeping one jump ahead of their robot chargesBy William W Johnstone. 1997
"To millions of men and women, Simon Border is a saint who has the inside track to God. But to…
Ben Raines, Border is a dangerous hypocrite with an army of true believers who'll do anything they're ordered to do - like go on a holy war against Raines and the SUSA Rebels. Border has condemned Raines as the Antichrist and has vowed to destroy him, his followers and what remains of America. As the rabid religious leader puts into place the final piece of a chilling plan, Raines is going to need a miracle to stop him--and survive." -- Dust jacketBy Sharon Lee. 2013
"Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the…
galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town. Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game. With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be. Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!" -- Provided by publisherBy Sharon Lee. 2015
"Star-trading Clan Korval-known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon Family and to the locals simply as "the Dragon"-has been convicted of…
crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the "crimes" consisted of saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the Council, the Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world: banishment, rather than execution. Now relocated to the free-for-all world of Surebleak, the Dragon is under contract to keep the Port Road open to all traffic, and to back the New Bosses in imposing law and order on a society originally based on larceny and assassination. This modest rustication is going surprisingly well, until Korval discovers that the enemy they'd sought to destroy. . .wasn't quite destroyed, and is more determined than ever to eradicate Korval. While the banishment killed no one initially, many of Korval's trading allies are spooked, and some are reneging on ancient agreements, leaving the Dragon to make its own way. The clan's efforts to stealthily recruit new allies is going haywire, and a secret death toll is rising even as the clan's adherents endure increasing exposure to danger and deceit off-world. To make matters worse, an active portion of Surebleak's native population liked the Old Ways just fine, and are conspiring to take the New Bosses-and the Dragon-down, and are sure they have the firepower and people to do it. The exiled Dragon has to make an urgent choice-accept an alliance with criminals or face down each and every enemy in person, one by one." -- Provided by publisherBy William W Johnstone. 2004
"In a book that forms a coda to William W. Johnstone's "Ashes" series, Jim LaDoux, the grandson of the legendary…
General Ben Raines has seen his grandfather, and the last of his family, die in the beginnings of the plague that sweeps the world, leaving many millions dead and a civilization struggling to survive and re-build after yet another in a what seems like an endless series of crippling blows. LaDoux, having stayed alone for six months in the isolated Idaho cabin built by his ancestors, realizes that he must get out and find life and hope or he will surrender to despair and death. As he starts traveling, he finds a young woman, Bev, who had been on a Believer mission and who has barely survived an attack by Rejects. The Rejects are a chaotic and violent movement of outcasts who have seen all the destruction and horror of the last few years and have formed a single belief: that there can be no God in a world such as they've lived in. As they travel together, they find love for each other and they have to deal with members of both sides of the struggle and then encounter yet a third faction, the Rebels, who believe that Ben Raines's set of beliefs is still alive and that faith, courage and firepower combined can beat back the evil that threatens to end the world." -- Provided by publisherBy William W Johnstone. 2002
"In a shattered world struggling to rebuild, oil is the lifeblood of industry--what remains of it. Now, poised with a…
nuclear dagger ready to cut that vital lifeline, stands El Farrar, barbaric warlord of the Near East. Leagued in global conspiracy with Claire Osterman, power-grasping President of the recently defeated northern USA, he's threatening to contaminate the vast oil reserves with centuries-long lethal radioactivity, throwing civilization back into a new Dark Age. Backed by the still-free Southern United States of America, betrayed by unholy UN treachery, Ben Raines and his army of battle-hardened raiders call on their own raw courage and determination to attack terror-master Farrar where he lives--and set the region ablaze from Baghdad to Tehran!" -- Dust jacketBy William W Johnstone. 1998
"For the first time since the inception of his fictional Tri-States network 15 years ago, bestselling author William W. Johnstone…
delivers a complete guide to the first 24 books in his "Ashes" series. Here is Ben Raines on the IRA, the IRS, racism, the justice system, welfare, the military, politicians, prison reform, capital punishment, and the government. This definitive guide also offers a detailed synopsis of every novel, maps of each journey, and more." -- Provided by publisherBy William W Johnstone. 2003
"Under the command of Ben Raines, the Southern United States of America rose up and crushed a corrupt federal government-and…
then beat back enemy assaults from all corners of the world. But while some leaders surround themselves with lackeys and bodyguards, Raines lives the way he always has. And so, when his small plane crashes in Canada's Northwest Territory, Raines is on his own, with the advantage of a survivalist's skills and a couple of disadvantages, including the fact that he doesn't remember his name. Raines had come to Canada on a hunt for a vicious terrorist organization. Now, they have found him. Without a memory, without an ally, and without a gun, he must fight off the men who shot down his plane-and then face the army behind them. On his own private ground zero, Ben Raines is going to learn fast: that only way out is to make his enemies die first." -- Dust jacketBy Jay Hosking. 2017
"After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city…
of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Ever acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says "This is the only way back for us". Soon he embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination. This kinetic novel catapults the classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the twenty-first-century city, where so-called reality crashes into speculative science. Jay Hosking's Three Years with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces we all carry within ourselves." -- Dust jacketBy Michelle Diener. 2021
Rose McKenzie has made a new life and found love since she was kidnapped from earth but can't resist the…
opportunity to breath fresh air and join an exploration team visiting a planet in Grihan airspace. But someone is already on the planet, and they don't want anyone to know what they're up to. Strong language. 2021By David Biedrzycki. 2021
Secret agent Bubble07, who exactly resembles a stuffed toy, is on Earth to assess whether or not the unicorns should…
invade the planet--but despite some bizarre Earth customs like show-and-tell, and annoying Earth dogs, ultimately suggests that Earth would serve as an excellent vacation destination for unicorns. For preschool to grade 2By Sharon Lee. 2011
"Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot-and pure maverick. Her mom is a renowned Terran scholar and her birth father…
is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. Whatever, thinks Theo. She still feels like a socially-challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so complicated before! But for Theo, life is about to get even MORE complicated-and deadlier still. For even though she's survived the Academy and become one of the best pilots in the galaxy, the past is about to blast her with gale-force winds. Theo can run, but she can't hide. Her destiny as master pilot and leader of a powerful Liaden clan calls, and there are LOTS of enemies who will try to make sure she's quite dead before she has the chance to make an answer." -- Provided by publisherBy Sharon Lee. 2007
"This long-awaited culmination of the Locus best-selling Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed Liaden…
Universe® novels, pits unexpected friends and enemies against each other in a war that spans planets and races and threatens to bring interstellar violence to the very surface of fabled Liad. Val Con yos'Phelium-a Scout, former Agent of Change, husband, brother to Turtles, and designated heir to Clan Korval's fortune and mission...whether you considered him respectable or not, no one would call him a gambling man. When he reappears demanding Balance and retribution, on his capable shoulders the fate of his Clan, his world, and his civilization. Pat Rin yos'Phelium-fond father, bon vivant, ne'er-do-well...and a professional gambler. The enemies of Korval have offered Pat Rin the Ring that would make all of Korval's holdings his own and a Juntavas Judge has offered Pat Rin a world.... When he appears with hired guns in tow no one is expecting him and no one knows what he'll do. For you see, Pat Rin is a gambling man." -- Provided by publisherBy Werner Pless. 1989
By Mary Pope Osborne. 2006
"Annie and Jack are transported by the magic tree house to a beach by the ocean. A mini-sub takes them…
underwater to a coral reef where they meet a giant octopus, a shark, and friendly dolphins while looking for the answer to an ancient riddle." -- Provided by NLSBy Mary Pope Osborne. 2004
"Annie and Jack travel to the future to visit a moonbase where they figure out the fourth and final special…
thing needed to free Morgan le Fay from the magician's spell." -- Provided by NLSBy Anya Ow. 2022
"For decades the UN and the Russian military have navigated a tense interstellar Cold War. Lieutenant Kalina Sokolova is aide…
to Counter-Admiral Kasparov, the major strategist for the Russian Navy. She is also an elite spy working for the UN. She is tasked with watching the Counter-Admiral, and assassination is not out of the question. Solitaire Yeung is a corsair, a scavenger, a pirate. In the heart of a destroyed Russian battleship, his salvage crew makes an explosive discovery: the brain of the ship's top secret artificial intelligence. And against their better judgment, they take it and run. The UN wants it, and the Russians want it back, but they're not the only ones hunting it. An even more powerful foe grows in the darkness of space. Now all of humanity has to fight to survive." -- Provided by publisherBy Holand Peterson. 2011
Help Wanted: Brilliant mad scientist seeks unwitting sap to serve as lab assistant at isolated countryside manner. Applicant must be…
comfortable working around hazardous chemicals, large volume of blood/mucus/bodily fluids, frequent explosions and mutant, kleptomaniac tarantulas. Experience in dealing with psychotic hunchbacks, lonely, disembodied brains and unstable goblin barbers a plus. Those afraid to tamper with the laws of the universe or conjure limb severing, tentacle-covered monstrosities need not apply. Individual is required to be vaccinated against goblin dysentery, wraith influenza, harpy herpes and gorgon hives. Position offers competitive pay, free room and board, and onsite medical services (likely to be used frequently). Join Necrosia Enterprises today and enjoy the honor of helping to bring in a new era of progress. Adult. Strong language. ViolenceBy Kage Baker. 2002
Mendoza, une petite fille espagnole, qui vit au temps de l'Inquisition, est sauvée par des agents spéciaux venus du futur…
et immortels. Elle deviendra, elle aussi, un de ces agents spéciaux et comme eux aura pour but de sauver ce qui est menacé de disparaître. Pour sa première mission, elle doit aller dans l'Angleterre de Marie Tudor, où elle rencontrera l'amour.