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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)
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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
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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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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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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
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In Entropy's Jaws [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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In a far future Earth, John Skein's skills as a Communicator bring him wealth and fame. He uses his mind as a conduit for joining the intellects of his clients to solve business or technical problems ... all for a substantial fee. When he joins his newest clients to solve a problem of matter transportation, the overload jolts Skein into a new perception of time that is driving him slowly insane. (Published: 1971)
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In the Balance [Worldwar Volume 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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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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 & Stripes Forever [A Novel of Alternate History] [Secure Mobipocket]
by Harry Harrison
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On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn... more info>>
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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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Striking the Balance [Worldwar Volume 4] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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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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 United States of Atlantis [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/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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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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The Waitress [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Melissa Nathan
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The Appetizer.... Katie has lofty career aspirations that seem to change almost hourly: writer, film director, teacher, educational psychiatrist. In the meantime, she's waiting tables and waiting for "Mr. Right" to arrive out of the blue--which seems unlikely, considering her romantic track record is as pitiful as her job history. The Main Course.... Still, a girl can dream, even when she's rushing a hot plate of linguini over to the nasty customer at table six. So when gorgeous, sensitive, perf... more info>>
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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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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 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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Worlds That Weren't [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, S. M. Stirling
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In this collection of novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four brilliant excursions into what might have been.
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