Stefan Rudnicki
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When Special Crimes Division Detective Yiannis Kouros is summoned from Athens to the Mani by his uncle, Kouros fears his loyalty to his boss, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis, is about to be tested by family pressure on the detective to act in some new vendetta, for this uncle once headed the Mani���s most significant criminal enterprise.
82) The Hittite
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Brun Bicek, a would-be pub from Chicago's Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from the six-time winner of the Hugo Award Frontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits ofthe human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe, while exploring thought-provoking new...
85) Empire Builders
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first century privateer, Randolph broke the stranglehold on space exploration, and opened the solar system to all mankind, becoming one of the world's wealthiest men in the bargain. Now a greater crisis threatens humanity. An ecological catastrophe...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When his old childhood friend, King Philip of Arentia, enlists his help to unravel a scandalous mystery surrounding the brutal death of the young royal heir, LaCrosse accepts only to encounter a deity who forces him to come to grips with the horrific events of his youth.
Author
Series
Marie Antoinette series volume 2
Pub. Date
[1904?]
Description
The Queen's Necklace dramatises an unsavoury incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning-points of public opinion against the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution.
88) Covenant of war
Author
Series
Lion of war volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In a time of Israel's greatest need, an elite band of King David's warriors known as the Mighty Men are all that stands between their people and destruction at the hands of the ruthless Philistines. Part two of the Lion of War series brings the actions of those heroes and the terror of the ancient battlefields to life.
89) Lion of the sun
Author
Series
Warrior of Rome volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The shame of the vanquished beats down mercilessly, as the frail old emperor prostrates himself before Shapur, King of Kings. Ballista looks on helplessly, but vows under his breath to avenge those who have brought the empire to the brink of destruction with their treachery. But first, he must decide what price he will pay for his own freedom. Only the fearless and only those whom the gods will spare from hell can now save the empire from a catastrophic...
90) Earthborn
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Description
The conclusion to a religious saga about humans who return to Earth after an absence of 40 million years. They are all dead except for Shedemi who is orbiting the earth in a spaceship with Oversoul, the computer on board, seeking the Keeper of Earth, the supreme being.
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
After Dan Randolph's Astro Corporation loses its experimental space plane on re-entry to the atmosphere, Dan discovers that the plane was destroyed by a terrorist conspiracy headed by "tall, bearded Saudi" Asim al-Bashir, who wishes to sabotage Astro's plans to put satellites in geosynchronous orbit capable of beaming solar energy in microwave form to earth.
92) Earthfall
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Two brothers return to an Earth their ancestors left 40 million years earlier. They are Nafai and Elemak of the planet Harmony, and they are seeking help for their ruling computer which is breaking down. The brothers arrive to find Earth inhabited by winged angels. By the author of The Ships of Earth.
Author
Series
End series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Set in the near future, describes the events that lead up to the Apocalypse which were prophesized in the book of Revelation.
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
In a universe where information flows freely, lack of knowledge can be cataclysmic With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a dim-witted slave-suitable only for the most brutal work. But the tragedy of Rat Korga is the prologue to the story of Marq Dyeth, an "industrial diplomat," who travels from world to world in this exciting, sprawling future, solving problems that come with the spread of "General Information."...
96) Nova
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
"Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Sheriff's deputy Alex Brady, who still grieves his father's death on September 11, concentrates on fighting crime in Los Angeles, until the worst fire season in California history sends him in pursuit of environmental terrorists."
Author
Series
End series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Joshua Jordan's new weapons defense system will secure America against its enemies, but as world events herald the "end of days" told in Revelation, Jordan weighs the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves.
100) The call of earth
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 2
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Teenagers are at the heart of the story featuring a sentient computer whose plans involve a return to Earth.