Fiction - Alternative History

The British author Ford Madox Ford published a book titled ''The Good Soldier'' is a Tale of Passion in 1915. It takes place just before World War I and details the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham's marriage, which on the surface seemed flawless, as well...

In the eighteenth century, Haiti was the richest colony in the new world. This aristocracy, however, dwindled as years went by and the slaves were finally able to exact their freedom. In the present day, lives of the Haitian peasants have become harder and...

Every child has a moment when their parents fall from grace and become fallible humans. For Beth Schmitt, a young German girl, this fall was anything but easy. It is through violence and loss that she is forced to confront what it means for...

What is the connection between bitcoin and the collapse of the Bronze Age in 1177 BC? Between the Temple of Moriah in ancient Jerusalem and the central banks of today? Between the Knights of Templar and the end of civilization? Follow ex-detective Dan Landes...

Stephen Baxter's "imaginative and] bold" (Daily Mail, UK) Stone Spring drew readers into an alternate prehistoric scenario. Now, thousands of years have passed, and a wall that was built to hold back the sea must now hold back the advancing armies of a reviving...

The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy,...

For the last several centuries, the men in the family have been allowed to live as a sort of controlled experiment. Now Barkley Bohner's wife wants to bring that experiment to a precipitous close. Our hero takes the rational course and goes into hiding,...

Though written in the 1930s, Anthem addresses controversial subjects in society that are still relevant today: equality, environment, sexism, mental health, the role of government. In revisiting this book and its many subjects, one keeps catching glimpses of understandings, and connections with our society...

Though written in the 1930s, Anthem addresses controversial subjects in society that are still relevant today: equality, environment, sexism, mental health, the role of government. In revisiting this book and its many subjects, one keeps catching glimpses of understandings, and connections with our society...

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before...

In 1806 William MacKay and his wife, Jane Scobie, together with their six children left the Scottish Highlands for Canada's Prince Edward Island. A reluctant Jane had finally realised that their venal clan chief would betray the MacKays. Little did she know that her...

In January 1890, the island of Heligoland was British. By the year's end the British Government had handed the island over to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in return for transitory advantages in East Africa. Both Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler fortified the island...

SEQUEL TO WITCHY EYE. Next in series, which debuted with the stunningly reviewed Witchy Eye. Butler delivers another brilliant Americana flintlock fantasy novel. TOIL AND TROUBLE Sarah Calhoun paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empire's politics, but she...

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future."A bewitching, thrilling and vibrant novel that had me...

Literary science fiction at its finest, a novel of three alternate histories, from the Civil War to the future. In All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume A Princess of Roumania fantasy, with...

After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag--or worse. Instead, he receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city...

If there is anything most enigmatic and intriguing in this whole wide world, it is the human mind and how it behaves with respect to the situations, experiences, perceptions, its understanding of the situation and many more unfathomable reasons. The Brothers Karamazov, is a...

A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Los Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Peter Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found...

The latest entry in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia go on a quest for...

In Battle for Life, Sam Silver is a sixty-year-old lawyer balancing work and his family after having moved back to his hometown to care for his ailing parents. Now, his ninety-year-old father Max has asked Sam to accompany him to Washington, D.C. for a...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOST IN TIME Quantum Physicist Tyson Klein has spent twelve years on the trail of the Theory of Everything. And he might just have found it. Buried in the data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the...

A witch with no memories - hunted by the Spanish Inquisition...Europe in an alternate reality, in the late 19th century after Buddha: the young Kaura lives as a shipwrecked girl suffering from amnesia in a prosperous Spanish-Ottoman colony on the Baltic Sea. When she...

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. The novel was published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, which was reported on by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis' wife. The novel describes the rise of Berzelius Buzz Windrip,...

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that follows a deaf former student of Alexander Graham Bell as she learns to reclaim her own authentic voice. Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander...

'Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential' Irish Times 'Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story' Olivia...

My name is Nadia, and I'm a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves.I don't have many friends, but I look after the ones I do have...and I pay my debts.So when Hakon Valborg's teenaged granddaughter Lydia is arrested for the murder...

"What would happen, I wonder, if the Armies suddenly and simultaneously went on strike and said some other method must be found of settling the dispute?" --Winston Churchill, November 1914 In December of 1914, soldiers along the battlefront laid down their arms and observed...

Book #24 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, 1636 It's spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinals--of Pope Urban's renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican's would-be usurper...

An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony.Author: Thomas SowellISBN-10: 8212088138ISBN-13: 9798212088138Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2021Format: CDWeight: 0.44lbs

"After Hastings is a remarkable alternate history novel. A must read for anyone interested in the history of England and the Catholic Church." -MICHAEL A. BURSTEIN, Campbell/Astounding Award Winning WriterOn October 14, 1066, William of Normandy defeated King Harold of England at Hastings and...

Land controversies are as old as humanity itself; wars have been fought over land; countries have been colonised for land; indeed it can be argued that all conflicts in the world are, ultimately, about land. Yet in spite of many years 'experience' in fighting...

Take a gripping journey into Alberta Canada's alternate past with Grouard as the Provincial Capital. Exhaust in the Tin Woods takes us on a trip through a dangerous adventure of mystery and destruction in northern Alberta of the 1895's where science is a strange...

When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already symbol of a great love story, something remarkable was bound to ensue. But Mitchison did not choose to follow her great predecessors Plutarch and Shakespeare, with the tale of Mark...

Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently...

A world ravaged by war. An ancient magic of unspeakable power. A quest for revenge that will change it all.Viktor Koshark was happy to die for his people. A Gorasnian soldier conscripted to fight the Promithean invasion of his home world, Viktor never questioned...

"Chasing Shadows: Adrenochrome Obscura" is a gripping exploration of investigative journalist Tom Jensen's relentless pursuit of truth. Drawn into the enigmatic realm of Adrenochrome following an anonymous tip, Jensen embarks on a perilous quest to unravel the rumored dark secret empowering the world's elite....

"Stretches the boundaries of the genre." --The New York Times 1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt's gang who have stolen her mother's voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with...

Desperation is the most dangerous type of magic.This shouldn't be her problem.Listen. Claire Bishop is Las Vegas's greatest stage magician, and she's perfectly happy with that fame. Ozarik is the next Zaro, the leader of the world's witches, the modern-day Darcy everyone swoons over....

Title: Mea Familia est Omnia (Book Three of the Mea Promissa Patria Series) Synopsis: In the enchanting third edition of the Mea Promissa Patria series, titled Mea Familia est Omnia, author takes readers on a captivating journey through time, destiny, and enduring love. This...

Today business is about eyeballs on the screen. Narcissism is the shiny object that always attracts, and today it drives the bottom line. You have to be the star in your own show, and now, with the Internet social media sensation SwiftPad, there are...

Emerald Hawks, an Appalachian mountain girl, has inherited the Healer's abilities passed down through her mother's generations. Emerald loves her mountain home, and is learning the Healer's ways when her father uproots their large family and moves north to find work. Shy and reticent...

Written in the New Wave Fabulist tradition, these historically-grounded stories blend the fantastic and the macabre in astonishing, unforgettable ways.Author: Adam McOmberISBN-10: 1934414514ISBN-13: 9781934414514Publisher: BOA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2011Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/04/2011Booklist 05/15/2011 pg. 18

Harold Wilson dominated British politics for almost two decades. His political skill saw him make powerful enemies and bitter rivals, both inside the Labour Party and out. Conspiracy theorists, some in very high places, even circulated rumours that he was an agent of the...

Washington, D.C. - It is the summer of 1979. What remains of the United States is reassembling itself after a nuclear war with the now-vanquished Soviet Union. Detective Benjamin Fuller is called to investigate the murder of a U.S. Senator, Graham Collins. One of...

An alternative history, action-adventure. The Confederate States of America, faced with almost certain defeat, embarks on a dangerous and deadly course of action in order to survive. The Phoenix Gambit is a riveting tale of diplomatic intrigue, political assassination, and complex military maneuvers. An...

""Pericles Prince of Tyre"" is a novel written by George Wilkins. The story follows the journey of Pericles, the Prince of Tyre, as he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to various kingdoms and cities, facing challenges and adventures along the way. Pericles is forced...

"Michael Segedy writes with humor and intrigue that completely captivates the reader, and I cannot recommend his writing enough.... His work is a literary treasure that took my reading life by storm." Peachy Keen Reviews "Michael Segedy is a masterful word craftsman. His world-building...

In an alternative reality in which the most significant historical events have culminated in wildly different outcomes, psychic powers have become the norm wherein mad men and monsters seek to use those powers to further their ambitions. From the ensuing chaos a heroine and...

When she won the presidency......the world was in crisis.Would Blain be able to maintain her trust at this crucial hour?The Chinese were driven out of the Caribbean, but Blain knew it was at a terrible cost. There were those in the administration that had...

A semi-documentary novel of "Warrior" spirit in self-reliant communitys, familys and individuals faced with defeating foreign & domestic enemies of the USA Constitutional Republic. Historic battles of a 2nd Revolutionary War coming to your State soon depending on informational warfare and personal faith to...