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The United States of Atlantis [Atlantis Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Harry Turtledove
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England has driven the French from Atlantis, giving King George leave to tighten his control over the colonies. The Redcoats have seized the continent's eastern coastal towns, depriving the Atlanteans of the markets where they sell their goods as part of a strategy to bend the colonists to their will. Instead, England's tactics have only strengthened the Atlanteans' resolve to be free. As leader of the revolutionaries, Victor Radcliff will make the English pay for each and every piece of land th... more info>>
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Other Earths [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Nick Gevers
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One world among many... eleven stories about them all What if Lincoln never became president, and the Civil War never took place? What if Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologically advanced empire? What if magic was real and a half-faerie queen ruled England? What if an author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself? These are just some of the possible pathways that readers can take to explore the Other Earths that may be waiting jus... more info>>
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In the Balance [Worldwar Volume 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in a titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever-widening ripples of destruction: Britain, Italy, Africa ... the fate of the world hung in the balance. Then the real enemy came. Out of the dark of night, out of the soft glow of dawn, out of the cl... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 237000 - Reading Time: 677-948 min.
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Opening Atlantis [Atlantis Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Harry Turtledove
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New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove has intrigued readers with such thought-provoking "what if..." scenarios as a conquered Elizabethan England in Ruled Britannia and a Japanese occupation of Hawaii in Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning. Now, in the first of a brand-new trilogy, he rewrites the history of the world with the existence of an eighth continent... Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity lured dreamers ... more info>>
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Anglomerika [MultiFormat]
by Zane Smith
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Zane Smith gives us a United States after the attacks on The World Trade Center. In this alternate reality, the US swings to an ultra right-wing political position in which personal freedoms have been suspended. Interwoven with newspaper excerpts to portray the growing political and social atmosphere, Smith places his characters in a time and place that could frighteningly become reality. (Published: 2002)
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Da Vinci Rising [MultiFormat]
by Jack Dann
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Young Leonardo da Vinci experiments with his flying machine in the politically charged atmosphere of late 15th century Florence. He dreams of soaring into the heavens, but Lorenzo de Medici is eager to use this new invention to his advantage on the battlefield. (Published: 1995) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 23859 - Reading Time: 68-95 min.
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Everything But Honor [MultiFormat]
by George Alec Effinger
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A complex alternate history story, "Everything But Honor"--a Hugo Award finalist for best novelette--is the tale of Dr. Thomas Placide, a Black physicist in 1938 Germany, who travels back in time to alter the outcome of America's War Between the States to better the plight of Southern Negro slaves, but with dire consequences. (Published: 1989) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 11384 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
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Jihad [MultiFormat]
by Mercedes Lackey
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What if "Lawrence of Arabia" had turned his back on his native England and the Western world and instead chosen Allah and the Arab world? What would that have done to the Middle East? (Published: 1993)
Words: 5822 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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1824: The Arkansas War [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Eric Flint
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In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession. Buffered by Spanish possessions to the south and by free states and two rivers to the north, Ark... more info>>
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Being Elizabeth [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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The number-one bestselling author delivers her most provocative, sizzling novel yet--a story of money, power, love, and betrayal that only Barbara Taylor Bradford could write. At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family's history, and she knows the price that man... more info>>
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Striking the Balance [Worldwar Volume 4] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination. With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan, and the United States were not easily cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pres... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 233000 - Reading Time: 665-932 min.
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We Could Do Worse [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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The election of 1956 is at stake and the remorseless thug known as the President has his operatives out in the field making sure there are no surprises. (Published: 1988)
Words: 1992 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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Witch Way to Murder [An Ophelia and Abby Mystery] [Secure Adobe PDF]
by Shirley Damsgaard
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Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch. Thirty-something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She's created a comfortable existence with her kooky, colorful grandmother Abby, and if it were up to her, they could live out their days--along with Ophelia's dog Lady and cat Queenie--in peace and quiet. But, to Ophelia'... more info>>
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1901 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Robert Conroy
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The year is 1901. Germany's navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. President McKinley indignantly refuses, so with the honor and economic future of the Reich at stake, the Kaiser launches an invasion of the Uni... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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1942: A Novel [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Conroy
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December 7 is "the date which will live in infamy." But now Japan is hatching another, far greater plan to bring America to its knees.... The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding success--except for one detail: a second bombing mission, to destroy crucial oil storage facilities, was aborted that day. Now, in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history, Robert Conroy reimagines December 7, 1941, to include the attack the Japanese didn't launch, and what follows is a ... more info>>
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A Green Thumb [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" (Published: 2002)
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American Front [The Great War Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces with their longtime allies, Britain and France. But it soon became clear to both sides that this fight would be different--that war itself would never be the same again. For this was to be a protracted, global conflict waged with new and... more info>>
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Argonautica [MultiFormat]
by Walter Jon Williams
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Confederate naval forces are reduced to the defense of Vicksburg, and an enterprising young captain plots a rescue mission to sail north and recover $65 million in gold coins buried near a Mississippi plantation. (Published: 1999) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 34477 - Reading Time: 98-137 min.
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Canals in the Sand [MultiFormat]
by Kevin J. Anderson
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It's the end of the nineteenth century, and astronomer Percival Lowell is smarting from the ridicule heaped upon him for theorizing that Mars is covered with canals built by the locals. To prove he's right, Lowell signals the Red Planet with a network of oil-flamed canals dug in the Sahara. The venture is a success: Martian spacecraft are seen heading for Earth, and a reporter named Herbert George Wells is about to get a scoop for the ages. (Published: 1996)
Words: 5762 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Days of Infamy [Days of Infamy Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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It is December 7, 1941, and the Japanese launch an attack against United States naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor. The Japanese follow up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii. With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using the islands' resources to launch an offensive against America's western coast.
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Down to Earth [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved. A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope, Colonization takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 244000 - Reading Time: 697-976 min.
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End of the Beginning [Days of Infamy Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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In this alternate history of World War II, the Japanese follow up their Pearl Harbor attack with the successful occupation of Hawaii. Now America is marshaling its military forces--from East Coast to West--to reclaim the islands from the enemy.
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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
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Millions visit Gettysburg each year to walk the fields where Joshua Chamberlain made his legendary stand and Pickett went down to a defeat which doomed a nation. It is a battle which, even before the guns fell silent, was the focal point of endless debate. As the years passed the battle has become the great "what if" of American history. "Gettysburg: Lee's Greatest Victory" unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia the victor... more info>>
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Graveyard of Dreams--Science Fiction Stories [MultiFormat]
by H. Beam Piper
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This new collection of H. Beam Piper's shorter work includes five of his finest stories: "Graveyard of Dreams," "Genesis," "Operation R.S.V.P.," "The Answer," and "Last Enemy." (Published: 2006)
Words: 47611 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
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In at the Death [Settling Accounts #4] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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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 compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war of secession has triggered a generation of madness. The tipping point has come at last. The third war in sixty years, this o... more info>>
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