Fiction - Alternative History

Rose Calamia is a first generation Italian American working girl in a 1945 aircraft plant, when she meets Iowa farm boy, Jack Conner. Jack has recently been discharged from the Army and is still licking his wounds from an all too familiar war time...

**the awakening epic novel of our times** A fast-paced epic of suspense, mysterious clue solving, political intrigue, terrorist plots of bombings and nuclear poisonings, romantic entanglements of strong women, a legal adventure of The Trial of the Century: this is the historical thriller intertwined...

I am a Nigerian journalist educated in Nigeria and England in the 1960's where I practised briefly and had the privilege to cover the Nigerian constitutional conference for a local newspaper. That period can now be described as the golden period in Nigerian history....

Rome unlocks a continent.Eighty years have passed since General Gnaeus Pompey and the Optimates of the Senate took refuge on the shores of Nova Roma. In that time, the new Roman Republic has grown steadily and is now ready to explore the great expanse...

Award-winning novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the Cold War as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero: Richard Nixon. Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the...

Lords and Knights of the Canadian Frontier is a dynamic narrative that highlights the careers of three impecunious young men of English, Scottish, and Irish immigrant families who were molded in the austerity of Atlantic Canada during the years of the industrial revolution (1897-1941)....

She dared to break the rules. But in 1961 Fellowship America, the rules aren't optional.Miranda yearns for a life of her own. Yet as an elite member of the Fellowship, she must marry the man her parents choose. Live in his shadow. Be his...

Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America--set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks...

A Philadelphia newspaper reporter tries to find an elusive film that proves JFK's assassination was a conspiracy. Reporter Sean Dublin travels to Washington, D.C. with college intern Kathy Cooper in search of a home-movie that contradicts the Warren Commission's report on President John F....

Superhuman-enhanced Heka assassins?Near-immortal Facetakers who can swap bodies at will?Sarah should have run when she had the chance.Instead, she is swept into a secret war that has been raging in the shadows through the ages. And now the conflict takes an unprecedented turn as...

"Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation."--The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the...

Author: Richard A. GregoryISBN-10: 1456860275ISBN-13: 9781456860271Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2011Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 07/25/2011

It is January 1879, and the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom are at war. Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about federation in Canada in 1867, had believed a similar scheme would work in South Africa. But...

The Ring of Fire Series Continues! The United States of Europe finds itself embroiled in international intrigue, as the uptimers attempt to establish an embassy in Ming Dynasty era China. VENTURE TO SAVE AN EMPIRE The newly formed United States of Europe sends an...

Ten-year-old Russian piano prodigy, Alexis Koryavin, is completing his fifth year at the Institute for Gifted Children in Moscow, unaware that the school's hidden agenda is to train its students as espionage agents. General Petrov, former head of the KGB and current director of...

My name is Sedrick. I'm a man-size, space-faring rhat. I'm also executive officer for an interstellar cargo ship-the Granum. My captain and I are in a wee bit of trouble. We've been summoned by the Emperor's auditors. Now, That doesn't sound ominous. But, believe...

It's 1831, and Lady Gwendolyn Crichton has been appointed Royal Sorceress following the tragic events known as the Swing. Although unleashed by the rebel master magician Jack in battle with Gwen's mentor Master Thomas, the popular press firmly laid the blame at the feet...

Prodded by a childhood haunting, an ostensible descendant of KING ROBERT I, the Bruce of Scotland, takes a side road to his mother's family burial ground at the Dunfermline Abbey in Scotland to pay homage. Enlightenment prompts him to join in the seven-century-old debate...

London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black...

It is the year 2030, and the Roman Empire never fell. Emperor Nero II rules half the world, but half the world is not enough for the unpredictable Emperor. Britannia is a Roman outpost. London Bridge is lined with crucified bodies. The streets are...

General Pat Wilson has been chosen to command a desperate mission. In this alternate timeline, the Soviet Union has nearly conquered the United States. A technology has been developed to send a modern American Army unit back in time to a critical battle of...

A WWII vet finds himself trapped inside a sinister military experiment in this historical thriller based on true events and sequel to Under False Flags.Hawaii, 1948. In World War II, Wendell Lett was considered a hero before he became a deserter. Now he's looking...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination.Author: Charlotte Perkins...

A chilling novel set in an alternate version of America's recent past--about two self-made men confronting a world that seems to be moving on without them ("An expert juggling act . . . Idiosyncratic and engrossing throughout." --Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review)...

In 1818, in the foothills of present-day Marin County, lived the Miwok. They were peaceful hunter-gatherers who had many villages in the land stretching from Sonoma County to San Francisco. They possessed a vast knowledge of their environment.Tamalpais and Falling Rock were childhood friends...

Swayamvar of Sita is about to commence in Mithila. Ram, fighting for his people, is about to receive an invitation to attend.- A sage wants to hand over a divine weapon to the prince of Ayodhya.- A king wishes to own anything considered precious.-...

Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880) is a children's book set in a small New England town after the Civil War. They tumble down a hill in a sledding accident, just like their famous characters in the Mother Goose rhyme, and are bedridden...

SAWDUST CAESAR From London's sleazy Soho to Afghanistan, around the Cape of Good Hope and back to Istanbul, this is one young man's epic journey in a life of violence, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.An alternative, gritty take on the 60s youth movement...

"Mea Amissa Patria- My Lost Homeland" is a captivating book that seamlessly weaves together elements of historical fiction and science-fiction, offering readers an enthralling narrative that traverses both time and space. The story follows the archaeologist, Sarah, as she undertakes a daring mission to...

The year is 1992.The Soviet Blitzkrieg in Germany has been beaten to a bloody halt along the Rhine River. The Reds rush masses of teenage conscripts and rusty reservists to the front, while NATO scrambles to mount a killing blow against their reeling nemesis.The...

"I loved it. Great 'hard' science fiction with convincing space battles. "-Larry Niven, Grand Master (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association) and author of RingworldTwo-time Sidewise Award-winning author, Alan Smale, brings us an exciting alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent...

"Heartfelt tales of jazz across the 20th century, clearly in love with the subject and wanting to share." -- Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine) Writers KYLE HIGGINS and JOE CLARK (RADIANT BLACK) are joined by an ALL-STAR CAST OF ARTISTS for an...

When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood is over. A delicate meditation on the nature of ghosts, belief, and how the future is shaped by the past. When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood...

From the author of the bestsellers The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, an electrifying and provocative historical novel set in an alternate history in which Abraham Lincoln survives assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. In this gripping legal and...

December 1943. Adolf Hitler is dead. Queen Elizabeth II reigns on the Commonwealth throne while a usurper sympathetic to the Nazis inhabits Buckingham Palace. Having turned aside the Soviet Union's initial assault into the Greater Reich, the Wehrmacht is now stymied at the gates...

After narrowly escaping the horrors of the Salem witch trials, Lilly Parris comes of age in 18th Century France, where she is pampered by Louis XVI and pursued by one of history's greatest fiends: Maximilien Robespierre, the monster who sent thousands of innocent men,...

IN AN AGE OF WONDERS...An unlikely friendship arose between one of America's greatest scientists, and one of her most influential writers. Great fans of each other's work, Sam Clemens and Nikola Tesla's relationship was one of great humor and mutual respect.In this novel, the...

The year is 1886...in an America that never was. Soon after George Custer, Jr., President Custer's only son, falls into the hands of the Cheyenne people, he decides to fight side by side with them - against his own father's army. As the Americans...

In 1880s London, in the notorious Whitechapel slum, a serial killer preyed on women, murdering them with a brutality that earned him the terrifying nickname of Jack the Ripper. His identity was never discovered...until the 1970s, when Michigan state police investigator Doug Emery is...

He was dragged off in silver chains, his skin burning, giving off smoke. Even in his torment and anguish, he keep repeating, "I harmed no mortal. I am innocent." Count Dracula is dragged into the deepest bowels of the Black Tower, screaming, "I didn't...

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when she learns that Windsor is...

Jack Jones, National Treasure and the backbone of radio schedules and British resolve, has disappeared. Needless to say the powers that be are in something of a tizz, fearful of the disquiet this seems to be causing across the country. Although everyone is trying...

"[A] much-anticipated, wickedly funny and sharply observed political satire...This novel of politics and family brings readers to the fault line of American politics." --The New York Times Book Review "Beyond being good or bad, the characters in this impressive book are, above all things,...

The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world -- where one choice will determine their future.Author: Robert L. WiseISBN-10: 0446691631ISBN-13: 9780446691635Publisher: FaithwordsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2004Pages: 305Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 11/17/2003 pg. 38Christian Retailing 03/01/2004...

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from...

1982: For nearly a century, large weapons supplies have been mysteriously vanishing all over the Earth. As a result, numerous wars have been nipped in the bud, altering the course of history in ways both known and unknown. And the Beatles are about to...

The second novel in the Will James Mystery Series, the anti-establishment private investigator and his crew are asked to help unravel a mystery that begins in a Brooklyn antique store and ends in the most unlikely of locations. Every Sunday morning, precisely at 10:30...

The Adventures of Robyn Nudd Part I A Whole Heap o' TroublesThe empire stretches across the world map, pink like the blotches on a drunkards face.' Young Robyn Nudd is a smuggler and apprentice witch. She plies here trade on the canal and waterway...

Before history there were infinite possibilities. The year was 1989 - the year everything unexpected happened: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the beginning of the end of an era, but Professor...

A rogue government agency bent on protecting a terrible secret plot chases a band of guerilla video journalists in a race against time and a life-or-death imperative to make the secret public. Davis Falk's first novel is a thrill ride of speculative alternate recent...