Fiction - Alternative History

Enter a sumptuous world of art and magic in 17th-century Florence as Artemisia Gentileschi fights to make her mark as a painter and exact her revenge - perfect for fans of Alix E. Harrow, Elena Ferrante and Susanna Clarke. When Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2023 PICK A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths...

Even if the allies can win the war, can they win the peace? Hugh Lupus brings his alternative history of WWII to a stunning end with a series of blockbuster set-piece battles on land and at sea with surprising fates in store for Commandante...

Kandella Torentillo is the largest superstar on the face of the planet.But it wasn't always that way. Before the glitz and glamour, the lights and the fame, she was just another girl growing up in D-Block -- a gritty and dangerous neighborhood in the...

In an alternate America that runs on magic, a potential environmental disaster plunges an overworked bureaucrat into a deadly conspiracy of evil gods and darkest sorcery David Fisher pushes paper for the EPA in a world that's a lot like ours . . ....

Author: Dexter PalmerISBN-10: 820011435XISBN-13: 9798200114351Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2010Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs

Mid 1970s. Ex-Praetorian Aurelia Mitela is serving as Roma Nova's interim ambassador in London. Asked by a British colleague to find his missing son, Aurelia thinks it will only be a case of a young man temporarily rebelling. He's bound to turn up only...

She's young, she's beautiful, she's witty. Emma is about the life of a beautiful, clever and rich woman of twenty-one, who lives with her father in their huge estate. The wealthy, and somewhat spoilt Emma Woodhouse has no interest in falling in love or...

The story of a Jewish girl, in the U.S., who was raised in a Catholic convent post WWII, who endured prejudice and antisemitismmost of her life. Despite the constant cruel hatred and discrimination, she manages to survive.Author: J. D. KochISBN-10: 1088047246ISBN-13: 9781088047248Publisher: June McClureLanguage:...

50 years ago, two little boys set out in the world. At the same time, companies begin using computers. Aiden and Stevie don't fit in the grey society of the 1970s, but when punk rock explodes across the land, misfits like them are welcomed...

50 years ago, two little boys set out in the world. At the same time, companies begin using computers. Aiden and Stevie don't fit in the grey society of the 1970s, but when punk rock explodes across the land, misfits like them are welcomed...

50 years ago, two little boys set out in the world. At the same time, companies begin using computers. Aiden and Stevie don't fit in the grey society of the 1970s, but when punk rock explodes across the land, misfits like them are welcomed...

The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final stages of the Second World War. Confidant of Goebbels. Instrument of Stalin. What's the worst that could happen? January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year Reich is shrinking. Even...

What if you were forced to admit you had a favorite child?Grant and Kathryn Taldo had everything they could ever want: a beautiful home, steady jobs, and two beautiful children. But when Grant's job seeking renewable energy sources relocates him to Arkansas, he stumbles...

Three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: What if the race to space had occurred in the early days of World War II? It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his fuhrer to...

The thrilling conclusion to The Traveller's Path - a historical fantasy trilogy set in Dark Ages England! A young man's shadowed destiny leads him to the past... where he could change our world forever. Thomas McCadden is caught in a time not his own,...

In a future shaped by new world wars and advanced facial recognition technology, two agents from rival government entities find themselves working together on a mission to track down the world's most wanted criminals. Roman Grant is an FBI agent and a war veteran...

A Realist in Eden is a work of fiction. At the same time, the author, a lifelong student of history and American politics, offers a future scenario of life in the Pacific Northwest after the overdue mega earthquake and a collapse of American democracy...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin) the scholarly Sostratos, are back in their third adventure. This time around the two cousins end up in the Sacred Land, Jerusalem, where they encounter a strange religion. This fascinates Sostratos, who wants...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures.While they trade in fineries such as wine...

Set in the final years of the reign of Elizabeth I, Nicola Cornick's latest is inspired by the true story of Robert Catesby, leader of the infamous Gunpowder Plot. This intriguing, twisty historical mystery combines a past and present story line that fans of...

"I am dying!" Conan said to the Stranger who had come to him. "No, you are not!" Professor Challenger told him. "This is just the beginning!" In Victorian London, a doctor is dying. And not just any doctor...but the late, great Sir Arthur Conan...

A story of passion and peril in alternative Victorian England. It's the late 19th century. Bold inventions usher in a new age, while genetic and cosmetic sciences reinforce an age-old class system. For the rich, immunity to disability and disease justifies their hold on...

Life is about moments. Can you seize it or let it pass? Can you make the right decision? A final negotiation between two men caused one nation to be divided into three zones that are now, one hundred and fifty years later, gathering to...

Will fame bring their downfall? After several hit tunes, Martin should be ecstatic. But rock-stardom isn't as glamourous as he'd hoped. In fact, constant adulation is nerve wracking and requires real work. Perhaps Jon Swift, front man for All Souls, holds the key to...

Dick Seaton accidentally discovers a workable space drive in combining pure copper with a newly discovered element "X." Having failed to re-create the effect, Seaton realizes that the missing component is a field generated by DuQuesne's particle accelerator, his arch-enemy, and thereafter sets up...

"Meccania the Super-State" (1918) - Set in future 1970: a young Chinese traveller named Ming Yuen-hwuy enters Meccania for a five-month stay. Ming's diary and notes describe his dreary and dehumanizing sojourn in a country where the militaristic government dominates social life. "Meccania" is...

A man and woman, both tortured by nightmares, work together toward emotional and spiritual healing, and discover shocking truths about the world they thought they knew and about their own pasts.Author: Allison M. AzulayISBN-10: 1989215874ISBN-13: 9781989215876Publisher: Allison Margaret AzulayLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2022Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize:...

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK: A NEW NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM MASTER OF MILITARY SF TOM KRATMAN, JUSTIN WATSON, AND KACEY EZELL. As WWI comes to a close, a German general, an escaped prisoner of war, and the crew of an airship...

ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTER. Best known for his genre-defining Ring of Fire novels, Flint continues his alternate look at Jacksonian America in 1824: The Arkansas War. The relocation of the southern Indian tribes to Oklahoma engineered by Sam Houston following the War of...

If we're not careful, the 2020's will go down in history as being more significant than the extinction of the dinosaurs, the fall of the Roman empire and the Industrial revolution all rolled into one. A handful of families with hybrid alien-human DNA who...

Kat Wallace is on a mission. After escaping tortuous enslavement, she sets her sights on ending the human trafficking that has flourished in 24th century Earth. Adopted by the leader of the pirate nation of Bosch, Kat Wallace is determined to prove herself as...

A gifted slave's dramatic bid for freedom from the cotton plantations of the Deep South leads to far-reaching and unintended consequences in this moving tale. Born enslaved in the eighteenth century, Fella finds no place for his genius, his thoughts, or his humanity in...

An archaeology student is transported back to an ancient Ethiopian kingdom where, reborn as a warrior priestess, she must save their civilization from an evil as old as time Archaeology student and expert in African history Tallahassee Mitford has been asked to authenticate some...

In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy, and family secrets by the author of The Peacekeeper.What if Europe had never colonized the world? It is a world that never...

In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy, and family secrets by the author of The Peacekeeper.What if Europe had never colonized the world? It is a world that never...

Where we go one, we go all!When the Civic Circle tries to embroil the U.S. in a senseless war, Pete must leverage his summer intern position to infiltrate their Social Justice Leadership Forum on Jekyll Island, and disrupt their plans. The danger - and...

In Writers, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their...

There's no partial credit on a question of life and death! Off to Georgia Tech for the education he'll need to defeat the guardians of the hidden truth, Peter discovers the battle for the future is being fought right on campus. Now he has...

Dragon Award for Best Speculative Fiction Nominee.In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy, and family secrets by the author of The Peacekeeper.What if Europe had never colonized the world?...

It's the spring of 2021 and the unthinkable has happened: a certain someone has been elected to a second term as President. Megascreens have metastasized in public spaces, blaring the good news: a red tsunami has obliterated the last remnants of the Resistance, abortion...

While German and Japanese scientists also labored unsuccessfully to create an atomic bomb, by the summer of 1945, the American-led team was ready to test its first weapon. As the clock ticked down to the detonation time of 05.30 hours on 16 July 1945,...

Maxtla Colhua is an Investigator for the Empire--a 21st century Aztec empire that stretches from one end of what we know as the Americas to the other. Maxtla has tracked down all kinds of killers in the past to preserve his Emperor's peace. But...

England, 1193. Guy of Gisburne, knight and agent to Prince John, is all that stands between England and anarchy, fighting a shadow battle to protect the kingdom from those who would destroy it.Returning to England after foiling a plot to destroy Jerusalem, Guy of...

A heart-wrenching tale of love and sacrifice.CONDEMNED AS A WITCH.WILL SHE FACE THE GALLOWS?OR CAN SHE ESCAPE WITH THE WOMAN SHE LOVES?Yorkshire, 1593. Mary Pannell, small-town herbalist, only ever wanted to help. She never meant for anyone to die. But still, they called her...

The Diary of Anne Frank is a seminal piece of twentieth-century literature. It recounts the tragic and moving story of a young Jewish teenager faced with the horrors of Nazism. In it, Anne establishes a bond with her readers that transcends both time and...

Sultan's 70000 troups. With huge siege canon that can knock down Constantinoplis walls and open a breach for the Ottomans to pour through. Despite the great naval battles, the Byzantine forces have won over the Sultan their future still looks very grim.The young Sultan...

A special edition from the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring beautiful, heritage wallpaper patterns from Jane Austen's own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperback editions are a must for...

From the bestselling author of the Chronos series comes a page-turning novel of time travel, fast-paced action, and history-changing events.When two time-traveling historians cross paths during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, history goes helter-skelter. But which one broke the...