Fiction - Alternative History

A new novel by Hollywood's "master of satire." The myth of an epic, public life--its triumphs and tragedies--is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in...

2028A novel by D.H. Robbins It is January 2028. By now, Demagogue-turned-Autocrat Alexander Kenton had forced his win of the 2020 American election through millions of planned, random "voting errors." He soon abolished free elections, along with the bi-partisan Congress and Senate. The Judicial...

In a land where Rome never conquered Britannia... tradition cuts deep.From the moment Emlyn Gwen opened her eyes, she was a slave who served one purpose- a martial bound to protect one mistress- her childhood friend Sylvia Chronister. Emlyn has accepted her role as...

Join our protagonist Prince Braxton as he blazes a sizzling trail from the 1860s to the 1960s, the most dynamic 100 years in history, a century of world wars, engineering marvels, romance defying social morays, death, revolutions, spies, requited and unrequited love.With extravagant literary...

1600 BC: a catastrophic volcanic eruption devastates the Aegean Sea and puts an end to the Minoan civilization... giving rise to the myth of Atlantis.2022 AD: off the coast of Santorini the US vessel Destiny finds a mysterious metal ring... The symbols on its...

Reveling in his unprecedented literary success, George Gordon, the 6th Lord Byron, is less famous than notorious. His all-too-public affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the sexually energetic young wife of a rising Tory politician, is the talk of London; so too the nagging rumors...

When a mysterious explosion occurs aboard His Majesty's Airship Daedalus, Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Roberts, Chief Engineer, finds himself thrust into the role of Captain on a secretive mission to Russia.With an Airship full of British and Russian scientists whose intelligence is matched only by...

As a U.S. Homeland Security investigator becomes ensnared in a thicket of terrorist puzzles and codes unraveling his troubled past, his counterpart in a parallel Earth without Christianity experiences strange visions of our world after meeting a charismatic preacher with a new message of...

As a U.S. Homeland Security investigator becomes ensnared in a thicket of terrorist puzzles and codes unraveling his troubled past, his counterpart in a parallel Earth without Christianity experiences strange visions of our world after meeting a charismatic preacher with a new message of...

The lone survivors of the planet Rel are not the only survivors after all. Rel's other two Archeons are still alive.Rive's fox has been pondering the nature of time and motion. He has figured out how to open portals outside the universe, and he...

Their planet was ripped apart from under their feet. When Deka and Kylac wake up, they discover Archeons are dead, and the portals have closed without warning, leaving hundreds of planets without links to other worlds.Rel's destruction touched every planet in the contacted universe....

Formerly only available as volumes of the individual States, this (Southwest) anthology is one of five (West, Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast are the four others) that combine alternative (wacky/zany) histories of the States of each region, in this case Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and...

"The People Have Spoken" is an alternate history book written by Rebecca Stirling. What if the United States had underwent a socialist revolution, and what would this mean for the world? Complete with dozens of maps and four hundred pages of lore, dive deep...

SHE WAS A BUFFALO SOLDIER, tells the story of Cathay Williams, the only documented female Buffalo Soldier. It is told from the perspective of a former slave, and war veteran during one of the most pivotal conflicts in American History. Cathay was born to...

A hermit, a recluse, a mere poet? We know Emily Dickinson through her poetry, but that is hardly the real story.Emily Dickinson, Ninja Assassin chronicles the life of America's top nineteenth century assassin. Hiding in plain sight as a reclusive poet, she has the...

Prohibition era Chicago. Chance Murdoch is a member of a special task force designed to deal with the out of control crime rates in the city. He has a secret weapon that makes him a valuable government asset...he is a werewolf Luke Murdoch is...

Samuel Richardson was an 18th century British novelist. He is most noted for developing the epistolary form of writing in which letters are used throughout the work. His most famous works are Clarissa and Pamela. In The History of Sir Charles Grandison Richardson provides...

This historical novel traces the storied paths of Bat Masterson, Billy Dixon, and Quanah Parker, all in their youth, along with the grizzled Amos Chapman as they come to Adobe Walls and Buffalo Wallow in 1874. The author has meticulously woven threads of fiction...

Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his actions. With a masterful blend of fact and...

The Heir of Redclyffe By Charlotte M. YongeAuthor: Charlotte M. YongeISBN-10: 1548854077ISBN-13: 9781548854072Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2017Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.45d

"Orphan Angel" is a novel by Elinor Wylie. Wylie was an great admirer of the British Romantic poets, particularly Shelley. In "Orphan Angel", she imagines an alternate death for Shelley who, in her version of events, is rescued at sea by an American ship...

The world changed in 2030, when Swedish scientists discovered the fountain of youth-a vaccine capable of halting and reversing aging. Five years later, a youthful Larry King sits down with a superstar for an interview that he-and the world-will never forget. Larry thinks he's...

When machine murders man, one detective is the world's only hope of preventing an all-out-war...Dhata Mays has become used to living on the fringes. Unlike most of humanity, the detective treats the synth population with the respect they deserve. But when a gruesome murder...

This is another of the good reads in the exciting and action-packed Company of Archers saga about an English villager who rose to become the captain of a company of English archers and fought his way to riches beyond his wildest dreams-and forever changed...

They've been in love all the years they've worked together, making musical motion pictures at Hollywood's grandest studio, but will they ever be able to shed their erroneous spouses and merge their lives without scandal? Follow America's Singing Sweethearts, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy,...

Lois the Witch is a classic historical novel by Elizabeth Gaskell which is a fictionalised account of the 1692 Salem witch trials.Author: Eliabeth GaskellISBN-10: 1517397375ISBN-13: 9781517397371Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2015Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d

Winston Churchill remains one of the most famous figures in modern history. But if you had asked about Churchill in the late nineteenth century, another political giant would come to mind, one almost entirely forgotten today. Like Winston, he had the ability to coin...

What if. . . Branwell Bronte had not died before Emily?What if. . .Charlotte was able to marry her "Mr. Rochester"?What if. . .the Misses Bronte's Establishment actually found a pupil: one who is taught by three geniuses?Meet Maria Shelby, spoiled - and rich...

The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist-together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted...

It is November 1864 and General Sherman's army is marching through Georgia. Sherman has recently burned much of Atlanta and meets very little opposition as his 60,000-man army aims for Savannah. General Hood's Confederate army will soon be defeated in Tennessee by General Thomas's...

Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!It is early April 1853. Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness. The Vice President,...

When William Came (1913) is a novel by Saki. Considered a masterpiece of invasion literature, When William Came indulges in the paranoid atmosphere of the leadup to the Great War to weave a sinister tale of espionage, survival, and conspiracy. Keenly aware of the...

"Boris Godunov" from Alexander Pushkin. Russian author of the Romantic era one of the greatest Russian poet and founder of modern Russian literature (1799-1837).Author: The Perfect Library, Alexander PushkinISBN-10: 1512255041ISBN-13: 9781512255041Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2015Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x...

Unwittingly, Bradley Gordon and his brother, Quentin, possess latent, innate talents through a diverse international lineage. Those with these special abilities and the elite amongst them, the Arcanums are managed via a global network led by the Vener , and overseen by the Chivalran...

A historical romance set in the horrific era of an Indian uprising during British colonial times. A good read. (Katie Hilton)BioDora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in...

This is the story of German General Horst von Halen, as he recalls for us the invasion of Great Britain in 1940. He tells us of the landing at Dover and drive north to London against fierce resistance, and the battles for London and...

Novel by Damian Forest Light "The Pirate Dunn: A Memory" Each chapter is a different phase of the pirate's life, the story progressing slowly; Thinking he is insane, Timothy Dunn tries to differentiate between the world in his life and the one in his...

Daniel Case suddenly has the opportunity to travel back in time, armed with all the knowledge he now possesses. Daniel is unhappy with his life. His home, his job, his trophy wife, all the trappings that go with his successful career as an insurance...

Back to his normal life, Larry Barnes thinks he'll never again see the Portal-a strange device that took him to a parallel universe-until a beautiful woman appears and begs for his help. The mysterious preacher Larry previously encountered in the parallel universe is in...

This murder story set in the great but run-down and second-rate East Coast city of D___, against the backdrop of 1960s counterculture, political activism and revolutionary violence, chronicles the intent of a drug-dealing hippie, who doubles as a police spy, to cash in on...

This tale covers several very different time periods. - The story contains some real history within the part that came from my imagination. A terrible wrong must be put right. A smart, heartless queen must be destroyed. A man comes close to killing someone...

In the Footsteps of Rome is an epic tale that validates the United States' vulnerability to a major attack by its enemies. The gripping story begins on the battlefields of the Middle East and Africa, where independent groups are fighting for the overthrow of...

This literary novel explores the passions and motivations of the protagonists and the events of the Trojan War without the machinations of imaginary gods driving their behaviors and actions. Who were the lovers whose coupling ignited the clash of civilizations immortalized by Homer's Iliad?...

In this book, Cyrus the Great and His Empire, author F.G.Ghamsari writes the story of equality, freedom, and the establishment of human rights (600-530BC). Two thousand five hundred years later, equality remains a conflict and justice does not exist. Unfairness is the way of...

There was once a time when J.P. and Nola Girdner must have felt that their entire lives had become unraveled. Confused, saddened, disappointed, and frightened, the couple discovered a serious health problem that would shake up their lives forever. The Girdners, along with their...

In a world of steam and clockwork, evil forces are at work.Jackson Thwaite is unaware of the constant battles fought to keep Norlandia safe. After the accident that took his parents lives, he's just another poor soul in Makewright Orphanage.Surviving the day is the...

London. 1588. England is in danger. In his second perilous mission, Jack Christie travels back to an Elizabethan England riddled with treacherous plots. Following encounters with Mary Queens of Scots, Williams Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, Jack must save Queen Elizabeth 1st from assassination and...

"Another solid entry in an entertaining series." -Booklist "Good pacing, a light touch, and a genuine feel for the period."-Kirkus Reviews Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin) the scholaAuthor: Harry TurtledoveISBN-10: 1649730462ISBN-13: 9781649730466Publisher: Phoenix PickLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight:...

"A tale of high adventure, rich in historical lore and erudite in the telling. Of Mr. de Camp's ... novels, this may well be the most ambitious and quite possibly the best."-Publishers Weekly *** The Golden Wind is the last of the five classic...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure. xxx Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of AlexandeAuthor: Harry...