Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas.
From the...
23) Festung Europa
Author
Language
English
Description
1942. Stalingrad falls, and with it, the Soviet war effort. A victorious Third Reich turns its attention west and enters a stalemate with the Western Allies. An uneasy truce begins, but it will not last forever.
Starting with an overview of the world leading up to the resumption of all-out war between the Allies and Nazi state, we see the all-too possible results of the Nazi Party in control of Europe for an additional decade and longer. This is...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Resumen Según una antigua teoría, el hombre solo se encontrará en armonía con el mundo y actor de su época en el trascurso de tres existencias: el alma vegetal, el alma animal y el alma racional. A comienzos del siglo XXI, entre los numerosos individuos que no habían encontrado su lugar en este mundo, pero que pretendían hacerlo, Niels, entonces un joven arquitecto griego atormentado por los mitos griegos del pasado, fue internado en un hospital...
25) Virtual Fire
Author
Language
English
Description
Four Who Changed History: Meet the Narrators of VIRTUAL FIRE
Paul Simmons: Computer Nerd
In 1970, Paul "Tesla" Simmons and his best friend Toby Jessup were college seniors more interested in computers than politics. President Nixon's escalation of the Vietnam War and their friendship with student activist Meg Wells drew Paul and Toby into the antiwar movement and a choice between violent and non-violent protest. Today, Paul is a leading software...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Después del fin del mundo, el planeta nació de nuevo, partiendo de pequeños microorganismos hasta la creación de criaturas complejas, como hombres y dinosaurios. En su nueva estructura orgánica, los seres humanos se volvieron dependientes de la carne como alimento, y la buscan en las fieras, como llaman a lo que, hoy, llamamos dinosaurios.
Rangel Connor es un militar en su primera caza en el territorio de las fieras. Sin embargo, la embestida...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Le doux parfum du champ de marguerites de Grand-mère Louise, fleurs qui, paradoxalement, comme tout le monde le sait, n'a pas de parfum, a jeté à tout le village un étrange sortilège. À la lecture, la frontière entre le magique et le réel se dissipent presque de la même façon que le souvenir d'un rêve au moment du réveil. Dans cet ouvrage, des crapauds mystérieux, une rigueur séculaire et ridicule d'écouter des coquillages, la fin du...
Author
Language
English
Description
You don't wake up one day and become a Mafia hit man. It doesn't happen overnight. This is a story about how a young football-loving American boy could end up a calculated killer, 'strictly business.' It tells of a long and dangerous journey to becoming an assassin. A successful professional killer is made, not born. You get to experience his thoughts as he tries to justify the world of blood, sex, and death.
Author
Language
English
Description
Harold Wilson was launched into the spotlight as the darling of Labour's modern left in the leadership election of 1960, challenging Gaitskell and making himself the de facto leader of the Labour Left. His was the promise of a modernising party, committed to shaping Britain into a progressive and technocratic nation, and this promise would be put to the test when he became Prime Minister in 1964. Sadly, it was a test he did not pass and the failures...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1971, strange things were afoot at the centre of the People's Republic of China. With the Cultural Revolution still under way and Mao Zedong at the height of his power, China and the world were shocked to find late in the year that assassination and coup had been in the air, and had subsequently come crashing down in eastern Mongolia. Lin Biao, Marshall of the People's Liberation Army, and Mao's constitutionally designated successor was dead in...
31) A Southern Yarn
Author
Language
English
Description
The book starts at the Battle of Spotsylvania with Grant attacking the salient. It traces through the remainder of that battle, then the march south to the North Anna River. Here Lee devises a trap by deploying his forces in an inverted V with the head against the river at Ox Ford. Grant was forced to divide his army into three separate depositions, two of which were south of the river. The actual history sees Lee falling violently ill with a severe...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And, a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army.
Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Harry Turtledove's The House That George Built is an astonishing short story set in an alternative world, a Tor.com Original. One February morning, the famous newspaperman H.L. Mencken walks into a Baltimore restaurant to have a bite and talk baseball with the owner, a has-been player named George...
Author
Language
English
Description
In August 1945, Japan was hit with two nuclear weapons. This, along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, caused the government to surrender.
What if it had not?
Paul Hynes imagines a world in which a fanatical junta takes over Japan and pledges a fight to the bitter end. Using real-world plans relating to the invasion of the Home Islands, along with an extensive knowledge of American, British, Soviet and Japanese attitudes and capabilities at...
Author
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to save the world? When physicist Jacob Newman is pulled from his family, his job, and his whole life to investigate a strange vessel discovered at the bottom of the South Pacific, he finds evidence of time travel, along with implications that a judgment day against mankind is imminent. But it isn't until he cracks the time travel technology and uncovers a startling link to his own family history that he undertakes a dangerous...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sun Tzu, the Master of War, once said, "Those who are skilled in producing surprises will win. In conflict, surprise will lead to victory." Here are four stories about the history of the world IF wars we know about happened differently or IF wars that never happened actually took place. Including:
1. The Hostage, in which, Abraham Lincoln is kidnapped by the rebels.
2. The German Invasion of America of 1889, in which Germany unexpectedly launches...
Author
Language
English
Description
Travel to an alternative and parallel Earth, to an era in which Donald Trump has proclaimed himself emperor of the Union of Trump States of America (UTSA). During the 100th anniversary of women attaining the right to vote, the emperor has rescinded all rights and privileges that women have attained. And to top it all off, the emperor has opened internment camps for dissidents.
Now imagine undocumented extraterrestrial aliens have breached Trump's...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Vancouver's legendary Penthouse nightclub, founded in 1947 and active to this day. In its heyday, acts like Sammy Davis Jr and Nat King Cole performed, and stars like Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper visited; in the 1970s, the club became infamous for its exotic dancers and a lurid history that included vice squads, politicians, and con men.
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).