Fiction - Alternative History

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

In 1865, the frontier was a dark and foreboding place. For settlers and pioneers, there was danger at every turn. It took a special breed to tame this land and face the threats that lurked just outside the firelight. To help with this task,...

If you loved Ken Follett's "A Column of Fire," take another journey into 17th-century England with the 5-star reviewed alternate historical fiction novel, "Blood and Ink." History shows Kit Marlowe died in a tavern brawl in Deptford in 1593, but did he? England is...

Beware the Ides of March Caesar failed to take heed, but faithful Marc Anthony did-and paid the ultimate price for his loyalty, forever altering the destiny of the Eternal City. Twenty years after the Soothsayers whispered their dire warning, Caesar still reigns over the...

An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, following a surprising cast of characters seeking a better future as Saint Petersburg struggles in the wake of Napoleon's failed invasion. Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon...

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...

In December 1967, an unconfirmed sighting of a WW2 German U Boat in the Southern Ocean by a New Zealand fishing trawler was officially dismissed and forgotten. No report of any kind has ever come to light on the incident, but this story will...

Set in a past that never was, five tales of adventure and excitement from the pen of five completely different authors sharing a single world. The Haemophage by Rob Harkess: On a mining base in the Asteroid Belt people start dying by having their...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the...

In 1666 a fire swept through London, England, destroying 70,000 homes, leaving 80,000 homeless, and killing 6. That is the official story. History was re-written to cover up an occult event that threatened to destroy the worldAuthor: Graham Michael WilliamsISBN-10: 1456423932ISBN-13: 9781456423933Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Jack Reacher meets the Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series! Thomas Nelson has traveled back in time to help George Washington survive the beginning of the American Revolution and change the course of history for the better. And he accomplishes that...

Historian Maggie Winegarden decides she needs to spend some time away from her partner Bethany, who is upset over Maggie's desire to be a painter. Maggie visits the seaside town of Hastings and while in St. Clement's Church discovers that poet Christina Rossetti and...

A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, the up-timers and their allies take on continental America and...

The British Empire is teetering on the brink of war with France. A war that may, for the first time, see magicians in the ranks on both sides. The Royal Sorceress, Lady Gwendolyn Crichton, will be responsible for the Empire's magical resources when the...

After the uprising in London, Lady Gwendolyn Crichton is settling into her new position as Royal Sorceress and fighting the prejudice against her gender and age that seeks to prevent her from fulfilling her responsibilities. But when a senior magician is murdered in a...