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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
2) Persuasion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant...
Author
Series
Sunrise at Normandy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France--including those of her own family's summer home--in order to create accurate maps of Normandy. Maps that Wyatt will turn into naval bombardment plans. As the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After twelve years in Her Majesty's Navy, Griffith Davies must leave his sea-going life of outrageous freedom behind, forced to rejoin London society as the heir to the Duke of Northam. But though he is now shackled to the land, he has no desire to wed some innocently dull young thing. Who best to shield him from the matchmakers than a woman as notorious as he? Lady Della Howlett's reputation was tattered years ago, so entering into a false engagement...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 9
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other, combining the high-flying appeal of Anne McCaffrey's Pern saga and the swashbuckling derring-do of Patrick O'Brian's historical seafaring adventures. Now, with League of Dragons, Novik brings the imaginative tour de force that has captivated millions to an unforgettable finish. Napoleon's invasion of Russia has been roundly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1200L
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
2011 Del Rey mass market ed.
Lexile measure
1180L
Physical Desc
355 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales, Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, encounter complications after the colony's governor, Captain William Bligh, is overthrown.
10) Black powder war
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
1170L
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of their adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his dragon, Temeraire, are sent on a mission to protect three valuable dragon eggs on a trip back to England from the Ottoman Empire, but the vengeful Chinese dragon Lien allies herself with Napoleon to stop them.
11) Crucible of gold
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 7
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Del Rey mass market ed.
Physical Desc
369 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
12) Throne of jade
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces. When China discovers that their rare gift, meant for Napoleon, is now in the hands of the British forces, they demand the return of the dragon.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship with an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence forms an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature, the dragon Temaraire, and must match wits with Napoleon's dragon-borne forces.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Del Rey mass market edition.
Lexile measure
1100L
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dragon Temeraire, after learning his captain Will Laurence has been sentenced to death for treason, leads other uncaptained dragons of Britain's Aerial Corp into battle during the Napoleonic War and eventually reunites with his commander and demands freedom, pay, and a voice in the war counsel for dragons.