Fiction - Alternative History

It is 1988. Judit Klemmer is a filmmaker who is assembling a fortieth-anniversary official documentary about the birth of Judenstaat, the Jewish homeland surrendered by defeated Germany in 1948. Her work is complicated by Cold War tensions between the competing U.S. and Soviet empires...

"A delightful romp that shifts seamlessly between thrilling Western and outlandish farce." -- GRAYSON QUAY, Modern Age "Delightfully funny alternative history." --WINSTON GROOM, bestselling author of Forrest Gump and El Paso "Droll satire, this is the West as it might have been if the...

The sweeping chronicle of a great and tragic pharaoh who lost his throne for the love of a god. In the glory of ancient Egypt, an epic of a royal family divided, bloody power ploys, and religious wars that nearly tore apart one of...

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 Alexander. Various...

In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing "what-if" with Roosevelt deciding to "liberate" the native Africans from Belgian rule and to set up a model...

Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands, leading a massive AI -controlled BOLO tank, as they...

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...

Background WWI to 1938Like many books about WWII, the story really begins with the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI. President Wilson's isolationist Congress refused to ratify the Treaty version he had brought back and also refused to have the United States join the...

The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman."Compulsory reading... glorious" Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building...

In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption....

Decades after Hitler won the war, the German Reich remains a well-oiled machine under the military regime. In Bohemia, Annelie - bright, young and hopeful - finds her first job in the Central Museum as a tour guide. A series of chance encounters turns...

A jubilant, slow-burn romance filled with luxury and longing. Library Journal's Best Indie Ebook 2017 Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as Meels, is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the...

Sultana K sem - In the Harem, is the in a series of novels which inspired the hit TV series 'The Magnificent Century.' Follow the struggle for power and love intrigues at the Sultan's court, and a ready-for-anything young Greek girl, an angel and...

It's 1976 and the United States is home to The Giganticos, a football super squad led by the one and only Pearl of Brazil, and more or less the only reason AASSA (American All-Star Soccer Association) exists. Enter Danny Hooper, a third-division English footballer...

A beguiling story of espionage and its relationship with the entertainment industry. Penned in Slovakian, translated to English. This is an extremely interesting glimpse into intrigue and its far-reaching initiatives, such as Elvis. "The Stars We Wrecked," takes readers on a journey through the...

Your grandfather was a coward. That is the angry recollection with which a former Zero fighter pilot greets two Japanese siblings who, typically, despite being educated, know next to nothing about a defining war in the Pacific that took place within living memory. The...

A mystical vision of an airship appears to fifteen-year-old Juanita. The ethereal captain commands her to prevent California's thrown-away people--including young children--from boarding trains to an asylum. That institution's director plots murder to reduce the inmate population. Yet to save innocent lives Juanita must...

One hundred years ago, the vampire Victory retired from a centuries-long mercenary career. She settled in Limani, the independent city-state acting as a neutral zone between the British and Roman colonies on the New Continent.Twenty years ago, Victory adopted a human baby girl, who...

August 1, 1914, Berlin: Kaiser Wilhelm II cancels the German invasion of Belgium over the objections of his generals, sending his armies East against Russia instead of West to France, and sets off a chain of events that will radically change the course of...

A young woman is obsessed and intrigued by an ancient family story of a kidnapping, murder, and deceit.Author: Joanne Kathleen FarrellISBN-10: 1728322677ISBN-13: 9781728322674Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2019Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

Charlie MacLeod, a young and beautiful girl, was gifted at birth with the power to set the world alight; a power she neither wants nor can easily control. A victim of tragedy, Charlie is adopted by David and Catherine McAuliff, a young couple with...

Third in a series of counter-factual historical thrillers from Stephen Baxter, in which someone in the future is desperate to rewrite the discovery of America.Author: Stephen BaxterISBN-10: 0575081546ISBN-13: 9780575081543Publisher: GollanczLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2008Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.75d

"Kline keeps the pages turning... a lively interpretation that will win Oxfordian approval and may even convince Stratfordians to suspend disbelief and enjoy it." --Kirkus Reviews FIRST PLACE WINNER 2014 CHAUCER AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION IN ELIZABETHAN/TUDOR CATEGORYCharged in 1616 by the Earls of...

JIm Huckleberry...A story that sings the soul of a man who will be free by any means...A story that holds the heart of the enslaved who seized the day for their dreams... A story that moves the mind to see the paths and perils...

Who was Fidel Castro? In the summer of 1958, 300 bearded revolutionaries, led by a 30-year-old lawyer named Fidel, turned the tides of war in Cuba by defeating 12,000 soldiers in combat. How was this possible?If you want to understand Cuba of the last...

"Jimmy Dean, clip-on shades and motorcycle boots, walked late onto the set of the General Electric Theater. Cast and crew were there, as was Ronald Reagan, coproducer and actor-host. Jimmy was in character, although not precisely the one he'd signed on to play. He...

Videssos was not like Marcus Scarus' native Rome. But he found politics and intrigue the same--deadly Book Three of The Videssos Cycle Since the Roman legion had been mysteriously transported to this world of magic, tribune Marcus Scaurus had served the rulers of war-torn...

The SwiftPad Insurgency, the second book in the SwiftPad trilogy, follows the founders and original crew of the Portland-based social media application SwiftPad. Nate Schuette, who wrote a sensational novel thirty years earlier (see Barckmann's novel Farewell the Dragon), shows up in Portland with...

Corky Fitzgerald is the alcoholic son of Robert Kennedy, and is in search of a block buster idea for his next movie. That's how he stumbles across the plot to change the world by transporting nuclear weapons from America 2018 to Hitler's bunker in...

Nelson Mandela buried a gun at his secret hideout shortly before his betrayal by the CIA and capture by the South African Police. The gun has never been found. This tantalizing and historically documented fact is the catalyst for a high concept novel about...

Welcome back to Virgin River with the book that started it all ...Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population six hundred. Make a difference against a backdrop of towering California redwoods and crystal clear rivers. Rent-free cabin included.When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees...

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...

Carter County, Kentucky was blessed with an abundance of diverse natural resources, including timber, iron ore, coal, and limestone. During the Industrial Revolution one of its towns, Olive Hill, became the center of a 600 square mile hotbed of fireclay, a unique heat-resistant clay...

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - In her new historical novel, "Just Passing Through," author Margaret Tutor shares a story of changed lives and healed hearts.The story introduces readers to the Ward family, who traveled from cotton field to cotton field, living out of their covered...

His father is a genius scientist. But is Patrick's future more deadly than his past?America, 1957. Twelve-year-old Patrick Stoodle has never been good at making friends. So when his dad promises a super-exciting surprise for his birthday, he hopes life will change for the...

Patton's War is the exciting third book in the "World in Flames" WW II alternative history series. The action picks up after the dramatic end to Truman's War when General Patton has been named the commander of all Allied Ground Forces...it's his war to...

The war is far from over and the atrocities continue, perpetrated by the SS and their Basque, Asturian, Scots and Gurkha opponents on the French borders with German defeat imminent. Meanwhile under Sergeant Massu's protection his royal charge is endeavouring to unite Italy while...

It's human nature to make mistakes. We learn and grow because of them. What we can't do is go back in time to correct a mistake-that is unless we meet Joseph Vance or his family. When Joe performs Corrections-a gift passed down generation to...

Churchill is trying to persuade the Americans to commit to the war but Rommel has the task of pushing an army deep into the Basque heartlands and is facing a new form of war - barbaric, subtle and bloody guerilla resistance. And meanwhile The...

The battle for Greece is well underway after Allied landings on the mainland and Dodds has the heavy burden of safeguarding all the inhabitants of his bride-to-be's village. Meanwhile in London politicians are turning their minds to creating a post-war Britain fit for heroes,...

Two missions are afoot. The Asturian, Sergeant Massu must seek out a princess in hiding who may hold the key to bringing down the Italian Fascists while Sergeant Dodd and Georgiou are determined to kill the German General Br舫er. On the grander stage the...

An alternative history of WW2 continues with Jorges battling for Asturias, the oncoming battle between The Hood and The Bismarck, and the German invasion of Spain about to commence. Author: Hugh LupusISBN-10: 8201063015ISBN-13: 9798201063016Publisher: APS PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2019Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

From Gibraltar to Crete; the tangled lives of naval officers and their men, Pulver and Stebbings, of marines like O'Flynn, Maori warriors like Lieutenant Ngarimu, the healer 'Ronnie' Prasad and many more, following the orders of their political masters, intent on stabilising the newly-liberated...

Harry Thorne had lost everything: his business, the love of his life, even his own self respect. As he's contemplating suicide he's made an incredible offer. He can go back in time and switch places with a look alike who lived on Mars millions...

The struggle to develop a 2,000-acre pristine university research forest into an ultra-exclusive golf enclave becomes a conflict involving Native Americans who believe the land is theirs, unscrupulous and corrupt people who envision huge profits, and people who live near it and want to...

On 2 August 1939, the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt in which he declared that "it might become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium." He went on to declare that...

The 7th book in the Wild West Exodus seris F.R. Caym did not start out to destroy the US, but he is emerging as more dangerous than Dr. Carpathian and a new foe for the Pinkerton ServiceAuthor: Craig GallantISBN-10: 099036495XISBN-13: 9780990364955Publisher: Zmok BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Mandela Effect can be proven to not be miss-memories. It is like The Matrix, a dark universe pulled over our eyes. Why have only a few people realized the changes, while most have not? A common thread ties together a vast # of Mandelas....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFour presidents of the United States have been assassinated--in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963--each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This is the...

Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA's worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove's...