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The Sleeping Serpent [MultiFormat]
by Pamela Sargent
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The United States of Atlantis [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Harry Turtledove
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The Winterberry [MultiFormat]
by Nick DiChario
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Alternate history story that appeared in "Alternate Kennedys," an interesting speculation on a dark Kennedy family secret. (Published: 1992) Hugo Award Nominee, World Fantasy Award Nominee
Words: 3100 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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Tilting the Balance [Worldwar Volume 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Harry Turtledove
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World War II screeched to a halt as the great military powers scrambled to meet an even deadlier foe. The enemy's formidable technology made their victory seem inevitable. Already Berlin and Washington, D.C., had been vaporized by atom bombs, and large parts of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Germany and its conquests lay under the invaders' thumb. Yet humanity would not give up so easily, even if the enemy's tanks, armored personnel carriers, and jet aircraft seemed unstoppable. The hu... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 236000 - Reading Time: 674-944 min.
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Witch Way to Murder [An Ophelia and Abby Mystery] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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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1945 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Conroy
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America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to fight.... In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame--their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy's brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito's capitulation is ... 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)
Words: 2568 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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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)
Words: 68699 - Reading Time: 196-274 min.
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Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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The Israelite plausible fabulist Benjamin Rosenbaum is mulling over his latest commission--a story set in a world without zeppelins--when he meets Prem Ramasson, prince of Ultima Thule, and receives another offer. An impovershed practitioner of a half-despised art in the balkanized and oppressed lands south of the Frankish and Athapascan Moeity cannot take lightly patronage from a citizen of the Aryan Raj--but Rosenbaum has no idea what he's getting into by accepting. Part tale of high adventure... more info>> (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 7745 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
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Dirty Girls on Top [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
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The Dirty Girls are back, saucier and sexier than ever...but would it be wrong to ask them to be a little smarter, too?" Especially when it comes to men. And sex. Lauren Fernandez is at the top of her game as the cleverest columnist the Boston Gazette has on board--but she can't quite figure out how to pick a guy or how to eat (and not drink) like a healthy person. Usnavys is still sashaying all over town, 260 pounds of her dolled up in designer duds and ready for action--from anyone except her... more info>>
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Eden's Twilight [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James Axler
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Crawling out of the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, a new reality shapes an unpredictable terrain of human resilience and unabated savagery. Born and bred in Deathlands, Ryan Cawdor has seen the pulsing of its dark heart. And he understands more than most that tomorrow is certain to arrive. But to see it means surviving today--any way he can. Rumors of an untouched predark ville in the mountains of West Virginia lure traders in search of unimaginable wealth. They're coming from all direction... more info>>
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Emperor: The Field of Swords [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Conn Iggulden
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With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to life--the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and glory--and commands... more info>>
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End of the Beginning [Days of Infamy Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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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Fin de Cycle [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop
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1890s Paris: A group of fringe artists, writers, and musicians--headed by notorious oddball Alfred Jarry--use the new technology of filmmaking to expose hypocrisy within the French Military in a new telling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. [This story is also available in Howard Waldrop's collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures]. (Published: 1990) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 15288 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
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Lenin in Odessa [MultiFormat]
by George Zebrowski
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In 1918, Sidney Reilly, who had worked as a British agent against the Germans and Japanese, returns home to the newly formed Soviet Russia. Now he is again working for England and her allies, but this time he was also out for himself, intending to assassinate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and bring himself to power at the head of the regime that he imagined his homeland deserved. (Published: 1990)
Words: 6764 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
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Rebel Nation [MultiFormat]
by Christopher Stires
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In the Confederate States of America, a famed civil rights leader is assassinated and the nation is plunged into rioting and revolution. McKenna Alexander, U.S.-born television reporter, and Cullen Davis, her Southern-born ex-husband, are hunted by the authorities and by assassins as they follow a trail of treachery and deceit to uncover the truth behind the murder. The search will take them from the elite boardrooms of Richmond to the internationally divided city of Little Rock; from the nightm... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Scientific Romance [MultiFormat]
by Kevin J. Anderson
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In the fall of 1884, 18-year-old H.G. Wells and his acerbic professor T.H. Huxley ascend to the rooftop of London's Normal School of Science to observe a meteor shower--and discuss the possibility of life on Mars. (Published: 1998)
Words: 3046 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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Second Contact [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Harry Turtledove
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In the Worldwar tetralogy, set against the explosive backdrop of World War II, master of alternate history Harry Turtledove wove a saga of world powers locked in conflict against a deadly enemy from the stars. Now, with Colonization: Second Contact, Turtledove expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s--when humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. During the Worldwar, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, and dozens of other cities perished in the radioactive ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 243000 - Reading Time: 694-972 min.
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Stars and Stripes Triumphant: A Novel of Alternate History [Secure Mobipocket]
by Harry Harrison
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In England, Irish-born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled destructive force is sailing toward an impregnable city--spearheaded by a daring act of espionage. For U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, Britain's Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston, and a loyal opposition, a day of reckoning is at hand...and so is history's most astounding battle. Harry Harrison'... more info>>
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The Anatomy of Deception: A Novel of Suspense [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Lawrence Goldstone
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A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one of them strongly suspects that he knows the woman’s identity…and the h... more info>>
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The Eighth of December [MultiFormat]
by Dave Smeds
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Vic Standish leads the most popular heavy-metal band in history. But Vic has a secret--one he's tired of keeping. (Published: 1995)
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The Ex-Debutante [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Linda Francis Lee
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When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing left her native Texas to start a new life in Boston, she had no regrets. The former Texas debutante, who never felt at home in her Southern skin, had found liberation--or so she thought. Until the day she gets an urgent call from her mother, reporting that: one, the Symphony Association Debutante Ball, which Carlisle's family has sponsored for years, is about to be called off; Two, her mother's divorce has the whole town talking; And three, the family's good nam... more info>>
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The Invisible Empire [MultiFormat]
by John Kessel
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Suppose the movement for women's rights in the 1800s had adopted the tactics of another minority who felt their rights to be threatened? In desperate circumstances, Susannah and her sisters take the law into their own hands in "The Invisible Empire." (Published: 2002) Sidewise Award Nominee
Words: 5028 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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The Vatican Outfit [MultiFormat]
by Laura Resnick
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 An alternate history story about the death of John Paul I. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4291 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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The Victorious Opposition [American Empire Book 3] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove has been producing an alternative history of the twentieth century for a number of years now, and he is just reaching a major turning point, the outbreak of World War II. In Turtledove's world, the Confederacy won the Civil War and things have been going downhill ever since. Now the Confederacy is in the grips of the fascist dictatorship of Jake Featherston and allied with similar right wing regimes in France, Britain, and Tsarist Russia. The United States swings between laissez... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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