Fiction - Alternative History

In the oldest recorded story of the Western world, a wild man is created by the gods to bring down the most powerful king the world had ever seen. And in that tale the wild man, Enkidu, is instead "civilized" and helps the king...

Every century has its oppressors. In a multi-cultural empire with two co-emperors-one a ten-year-old boy and the other a man with a child's mind-a widow struggles to survive against state-sanctioned cruelty.Author: Maeve MaddoxISBN-10: 1839196181ISBN-13: 9781839196188Publisher: Hypatia PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2025Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Kai is a post-human woman who is technologically modified to survive the harsh realities of climate change and works as a "Janie" whose only job is to keep her wealthy clients alive in their simulation pods within Great America. Here, the blurred lines of...

Between outlaws stealing children for the coldbright mines and otherworldly creatures, frontier life on the plains of the Alta Estranyazie isn't for the faint of heart.When Bodie Nine, a meandering robot with no directive, is befriended by a family, his missing code gets overwritten:...

Before he bumbled his way into our hearts in the 1946 movie helping George Bailey know his worth, Clarence OdBody bumbled his way around 17th and 18th century Boston. This Clockmaker had interactions in a pivotal time of the birth of our country. Ben...

In the tranquil waters of Lake Allatoona, where the sun casts shimmering reflections on the surface, a dark secret lies beneath-a secret that has haunted the land since the dam's construction displaced entire communities. When local historian Sarah Miller uncovers chilling connections between mysterious...

Reactive PublishingWhat if everything you've been told about human history is a lie?Deep beneath Vatican City lies a vault so secret, so heavily guarded, that even popes have been denied access. Known as the Apostolic Archive, this hidden chamber is rumored to contain evidence...

The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 families in a country village". The novel was first published...

September 15, 1885, 8:15PM, Saint Thomas, Ontario: Circus workers are loading elephants on the train that will take them to a tomorrow's performances in a nearby town. The workers have ignored simple safety rules and a special freight train piloted by an experienced engineer...

The Gate of Fire continues Tom Harlan's remarkable fantasy epic, following the increasingly dangerous conflicts both military and sorcerous in an alternate ancient Roman Empire. The sorcerer Dahak plots from his hidden citadel to regain the Peacock Throne. Prince Maxian, having raised both Julius...

The story of a young man, not yet out of his teens, who sets off on a trip across the ocean to London in 1751. His aim is simple: to make his fortune. To transform himself from a tradesman surveyor, a younger son of...

Author: Jaquavis ColemanISBN-13: 9798378108053Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2023Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d

Enki: Book 3 - Echoes of EuropaThe past is buried in ice. The future is written in stars. Still 19,500 BC. Earth is scarred by war. Enki's dream of peace teeters on collapse after the devastating rise of the Nephilim. Her enemies grow bolder,...

In Philosophy of Death, timeless questions meet modern minds. This thought-provoking exploration draws from ancient traditions and contemporary thinkers alike, offering readers a clear, profound, and often unsettling meditation on the one certainty of life: its end.Author: Hanna YaranISBN-13: 9798231304486Publisher: Hanna YaranLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2025Pages:...

With the weather in the Arctic Circle rendering flying and fighting impossible, the Misfits leave Muscovy and head home, looking forward to a quiet Midwinter. The Prussians, however, have other ideas.Author: Simon BradingISBN-10: 1917470029ISBN-13: 9781917470025Publisher: Simon BradingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2024Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Shakespeare's twin sister wakes up in the body of a 99-year-old woman in a nursing home in 1987. She has quite a tale to tell: -- her coming-of-age story, posing as a boy to get an education, -- twins separated at birth sorting out...

Seven or eight billion were already dead before Brian caught Gomorrah. Of the additional six billion to contract it in the lead up to Charlie-Fox, no one recovered. While others fell ill, suffered, then died, Brian clutched to life, swaddled in delirium, in pain....

Iris rebels against police and bureaucratic harrassment at her high school, then graduates to more global forms of protest. After an incident with the police, she flees to Mexico. No longer in school, she has time to continue her education. The Pancho Villa Underground...

A fistful of thuggery, an overdose of doctors, a lost memory, a poisonous book of potions, an inspirational blacksmith, a lavish dinner with porky pies, lascivious lawyers, and a dungeon with a view... Emotions spill over like an Icarumban washer girl with a pot...

When Rand sails to 15th-century London, he acquires the first books ever printed in English. Worth millions, he hopes to transport these back to the 21st century, where he will build that multi-billion-dollar app. While there, he hears of the rarely-seen, priceless 2,500-year-old manuscripts...

What if the people love the land and the land loves them back?For eons Margie has tended the land in her quiet glen, deep in the Scottish Highlands. Margie, whose incorporeal self is made of equal parts mist and wonder, has always reveled in...

Russell James delivers a new collection of horror and suspense short stories in Dust and Bones. This collection has all these thrillers set in the past. Some of the tales include: In the frontier West, a prostitute meets a rich client, and sees her...

The stunning conclusion to the duology that began with the internationally bestselling Sun of Blood and Ruin, this Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and sixteenth-century Mexican history into a swashbuckling historical fantasy filled with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance.They call her many things. Witch,...

The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to...

My name's Nadia, and I do favors for the High Queen Tarlia of the Elves. Tarlia is not the kind of woman who accepts no for an answer. So when the High Queen orders me to help a top investigator solve a murder, I...

"Help me!" These words prompt Morpheus, Scanner Prime to the court of Korynthia in Nova Europa, to embark on a jaw-dropping jaunt through multiverses. To prevent the collapse of the social and political order that he has foreseen on Nova Europa, he must rescue...

When Vic Frank is arrested on trumped up charges while Doc Vandal and the team are searching for a kidnapped scientist, explaining it to her mother is the least of Doc's problems.He's also got to deal with... Vic's irate girlfriend Ming... Nazis infiltrating the...

Curiosity can be deadly, but some things are impossible to ignore . . .Sixteen-year-old Michael Harris isn't great at following rules, especially the ones that don't make sense. The basement of his tower has been off-limits for as long as he can remember, but...

In a land torn between loyalty and ambition, a noble daimyo struggles to defend his realm from an ally-turned-rival whose cunning betrayal threatens everything he holds dear. As his sons rise to meet the challenge of leadership, they must balance their duty to their...

And not a lone treasure, I suppose, Will pass grandchildren and to others fling, Again a scald will ancient songs compose, And, as his own, will again them sing. -Osip Mandelstam, 1914 These lines were written by the great Russian poet who was a...

Lady Elizabeth D'Arcy has traveled to London with her Aunt Phillida in the hope of finding love and adventure. She may have found both when she intervenes, with the help of the ever so handsome William Hayward, to help Annis Blanchard escape the clutches...

Trader, a book of short stories based on the theme of A History of Trade, is a portrayal of trade encounters around the world stretching from 10,000 BC to centuries in the future.The stories are fictional yet the author has attempted to set them...

The Second Great War is going poorly for the Kingdom of Britain - the British Isles are under siege and the only thing standing between the all-conquering Prussian army and victory is a thin strip of blue water and the gallant men and women...

The discovery of ancient clay tablets inscribed in an unknown language by a forgotten culture in the Negev desert sets off a race against time to acquire them and decipher their prescient meaning. As translation of the inscriptions begins casting doubt on the origins...

An all-original anthology of fiction stories concerning the Vietnam War, many with alternative endings. Authors include Orson Scott Card, Ann Scarborough, MIchael Brotherton and more.Author: Byron R. TetrickISBN-10: 1684422787ISBN-13: 9781684422784Publisher: Cumberland House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2002Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

"There is something beautiful and moving about holding in one's hand a narrative, gem-like and perfect, that can be read in one sitting, opening its world before you and revealing its secrets in a small pocket of time that allows you to go somewhere...

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class. It is subtitled "A Tale...

For fans of Karen Russell and Carmen Maria Machado, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories. In this bold and enchanting collection Senaa Ahmad takes license with history and its players, sending the reader on...

Lies To Live By brings together two selections of stories by Ojibwe storyteller Lois Beardslee. "Lies to Live By," a series of interdependent tales, reflects the storyteller's role in interpreting traditional stories for contemporary audiences, while preserving traditions based not in mysticism but in...

Summer 1941: The British Isles have been invaded! Germany's conquest of Europe now extends onto British soil. The situation is dire. TheBritish Army is still reeling from its defeat on the continent, the RAF is facing a Luftwaffethat is many times larger and only...

Author: David LawrenceISBN-10: 1964251680ISBN-13: 9781964251684Publisher: Illumify MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2025Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

If Jesus were born into today's world, what would his life be like? This imaginative retelling of the Gospel story offers a glimpse into how his coming might look and how he might be received in modern times.Josué Diéscono Davison, the chosen one born...

The year is 1939. The World rocks with the news of the signing of the Germano-Soviet pact. A dark veil soon falls on Europe as Poland is invaded and destroyed by the overwhelming forces of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. France and the...

Author: Creed Bratton, Nathan EdmondsonISBN-13: 9798318801082Publisher: Meridia BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 380Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d

Malkarai Faerstathe is a skilled agent hunting the most dangerous criminals in the country as a covert enforcer. He was born with black sclera, and has dealt with society's reaction to this mutation since birth - a range from polite curiosity to outright revulsion....

Combining intense theological research with his signature writing style, Gerald Welch crafts the definitive story of the War in Heaven, answering age-old questions: WHO is Satan?WHAT did he exchange for his post in Heaven?WHEN did the War in Heaven occur?WHY are demons always described...

The possibility that Confederate President Jefferson Davis might have sent General Robert E. Lee to aide Braxton Bragg in his battle at Chattanooga is explored in this novel. What might have happened that September 1863 if this had occurred?Author: Dennis P. McIntireISBN-10: 1684424429ISBN-13: 9781684424429Publisher:...

A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific--not two--and when one of them falls into the hands of...

In case you are wondering why I am where I am at this moment - locked up like a caged bird in police custody - I've got to take you to where it all began, that cold New Year's Eve night in Canada... This...

The Vintage Vendetta: A Franc Merlot Investigation introduces readers to the sun-drenched vineyards and shadowy secrets of southwestern France, where wine, wealth, and deception ferment just beneath the surface.Franc Merlot, a seasoned investigator with a refined taste for wine and an aversion to unnecessary...