Fiction - Alternative History

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...

FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS HIS NAME WAS UNKNOWN. HIS STORY WAS UNTOLD.When members of Rome's most despised religious minority are accused by Emperor Nero himself of starting the Great Fire, will any man have the courage to stand up for them?ONE MAN WILL.His name...

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 vein of Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West: Just because you are off the grid doesn't mean you're not a target.Author: Todd BergerISBN-10: 1682300668ISBN-13: 9781682300664Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2016Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50dReview Citation(s):...

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...

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 fAuthor: Harry...

An apparent time anomaly cuts World War II Europe off from the wartime US and makes an infant America the prize in a scramble between the warring powers. Trapped in Northern Iran, US Army Engineer Jim Edwards flees from both the Germans and Soviets,...

Haunted by the legend Lord Francis Lovell starved to death while trapped in an underground vault, Richard risks his future to save his dearest friend. "The Cat, the Rat and Lovel our Dog "Doe rule all England under a Hog"-William Colyngbourne The Rat, Richard...

Vicente Blasco Ib ez was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) It is a tale of the Valencian...

Stranded on a remote country road, Jessie and her Native American friend, Rose Mary, seek shelter from a storm in an old abandoned house. But, this house has a past, a spirit and a voice. After a rocky introduction, the house shares the story...

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 must-read non-science fiction story with all the action and fury of the best narratives in the XXI century. A best-seller declaration, a reflect of an innovative age, all presented with a powerful and original perspective.Author: Andrew SpielmannISBN-10: 1540323374ISBN-13: 9781540323378Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

While on a pilgrimage to London to visit his first wife, Anne's tomb in Westminster Abbey, Richard III is arrested for a 500 year-old murder. He must now protect his blended family and defend himself without revealing his true identity.Author: Joan SzechtmanISBN-10: 1539860302ISBN-13: 9781539860303Publisher:...

Ten year old Princess Iryna Alexandrovna Romanov is sent to England in 1910 under an assumed identity. She suspects the Tsar, her uncle plans for her to one day be Queen of England. But when War breaks out, Iryna is kept in hiding for...

First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conflict between forces of destructive evil and the benevolent Deity which controls the world.Author: Daniel DefoeISBN-10: 1539049248ISBN-13: 9781539049241Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

A forbidden love. A daring escape. A gathering storm. Forty years have passed since the Empire was restored. Emperor Kiva the Golden, his wife Jala Parishid, and his brother Marshal Quintillian have together overseen decades of peace and prosperity, a time when the horrors...

Two of the most controversial events in the history of Vernon County, Wisconsin -the 1946 speech by Gerald L. K. Smith and the 1888 lynching of mass murderer Andrew Grandstaf (both events taking place in Viroqua, near the courthouse) are linked, psychologically, in this...

North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the...

Scorpio Valentino, a sexy-diva beauty-salon owner, is used to having her way with any and every man that she meets. She's a master at playing head-games and also possesses a curvaceous body that'll have any man's tongue watering. But when one man (Jaylin) has...

Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 - March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", Browne also played in public performances. He is considered...

2023 Update - Second Edition AvailableVisit https: //amzn.to/3qJuMDN for the SECOND EDITION In describing the Second Edition the author writes, "One point of great gratitude I must express is to someone I do not even know. In fact, this person, A. Kracht, gave a...

Without his Talent to foresee mortal danger, Calypto would have been dead years ago. Now a grizzled agent with The Order, he does whatever is needed to protect a homeland engulfed in a brutal and endless war. Calypto's new mission leads him to the...

In the 20th century, Jimmy Hoffa was a man obsessed with power. The mob wanted him dead, and on July 30, 1975, they hired his friend to do it. But Hoffa was never murdered that night...and the mob didn't know about time travel. Every...

Amelia Earhart, the famed aviatrix, vanished somewhere in the south Pacific during her attempt to fly around the world in her specially modified Lockheed Electra in July 1937. "Lost at sea" is the official story. The U. S. Navy was not convinced. The director...

April 1794: The Reign of Terror has been striking France like a plague for half a year. Daily, hundreds have followed King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the guillotine-some guilty of real crimes, some completely innocent. George-Jacques Danton has just met his own...

IN THE WILDS of southeastern Africa more than half a million years ago sits the village of Kura, a matriarchal society of Homo erectus. Snap--a young, passionate woman--is destined to lead her people, and this year she must select a mate for the first...

When Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel decode a mysterious message in a runic manuscript, they start off on one of the most thrilling adventures in science fiction--a journey to the earth's core. This is the 1877 translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson--the most faithful...

The canvas of history provides a complex pattern of culture, change, and conflict. Colorful individuals were often the driving forces behind the progression of history. Was there a grander purpose behind these developments, beyond the individual people, locations, and events? History often turns on...

Action packed from the first page, Illuminati and New World Order expert Bo Bently uses a fictional character, ex-Marine Bret Hazen, to uncover real events at our doorstep according to the Illuminati's own timetable. Underground experimental genetic mutation labs using abducted children, reverse-engineered flying...

JULY 1969. Apollo 11's lunar module Eagle has crashed against the Sea of Tranquility killing astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. As Michael Collins returns to Earth alone, the country mourns and then demands answers; NASA and the United States space program is thrown...

On a strange night of falling stars, Aria is called to learn who she is and why. Coerced by a grandmother to leave her desert home in California, Aria embarks on an adventure of discovery. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities,...

The Fallen Cloud Saga: Book I The year is 1886...in an America that never was. George Armstrong Custer, Sr., is President of the United States, and his son, George, Jr., a captain in the U.S. Army, is about to fly an experimental dirigible out...

100 years after the most infamous shipwreck in history, imagine: What If Titanic Didn't Sink? Perhaps no disaster in history has endured the scrutiny reserved for the sinking of the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. Yet nearly a century...

For the first time in paperback, the culminating novel of Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Jo Walton's stunning Small Change trilogy. Following the award-winning Farthing and its sequel Ha'penny, Half a Crown is an amazing alternate-world noir tale of resistance to encroaching fascism, from the...