In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system...
Civil War
- Author:NIVEN, LarrySummary:
- Author:Street, Emily JuneSummary:
After being kidnapped from her stark existence on the cold island of Gante, Leila must learn to survive in a southern culture her native people disparage. She has no choice but to follow the creed of her clan, flow like water, and adapt...
- Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:
A lyrical, heartbreaking story of ardour and devastation
In this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break...
- Author:Waller, Jae, McArthur, Sera-LysSummary:
A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller's stunning debut fantasy. Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn't want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only...
- Author:Bear, ElizabethSummary:
In a world where wizards are unable to procreate, Temur, heir to his empire's throne, flees to avoid assassination. Once-Princess Samarkar, formerly heir to her own empire's throne, gives up everything to seek the wizards...
- Author:Jones, LloydSummary:
Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great...
- Author:Diamond, LynnSummary:
Portrait en mosaïque d’un groupe de militants qui s’engagent en Amérique centrale au début des années 80. Ces hommes et ces femmes se recroisent à Montréal, Paris ou New York. La narratrice, Leslie vivra avec Josua, un ancien du Vietnam...
- Author:Brown, PierceSummary:
Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling...
- Author:Mitchell, MargaretSummary:
Gone with the Wind, published on June 30, 1936, is a romantic novel and the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the...
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The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Lasting 13 years from 1979-1992, the...
- Author:Ross, OrnaSummary:
A historical murder mystery of love and revenge against the background of intimate war. It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995, and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San Francisco, though the time for...