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A selection of fiction titles set in worlds where history has diverged from the actual history of the world.
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Bear, Erik The Mongoliad. Book One In 1241, warriors try to stop the Mongols from invading Europe; in the nineteenth century, a group of martial artists provide a language expert with lost manuscripts to translate that chronicle their ancestors' thirteenth century battles. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Birmingham, John Angels of Vengeance Traces the efforts of U.S. President James Kipper to rebuild an alternate-world America in the face of a brutal disaster, pirates, and a rogue governor who has proclaimed himself a sovereign power in Texas. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Butcher, Jim Ghost Story : a Novel of the Dresden Files Wizard detective Harry Dresden, murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Conroy, Robert Himmler's War With the specter of a German super-weapon moving closer to completion and the German generals finally allowed to fight the kind of war at which they are masters, the Allies are pushed toward a course of accommodation o r even defeat. Will the soldiers of the Grand Alliance find the courage and conviction to fight on in the face of such daunting odds? 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Cronin, Justin. The Twelve : a Novel Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Drake, David. The Legions of Fire Set in the new world of Carce, based on Europe during the later Roman Empire. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Flint, Eric. 1636 : the Kremlin Games After carving a place among the powers of 17th-century Western Europe, the out-of-time modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, must fight for its life in a war-torn Europe just emerging from medieval skullduggery. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Green, Simon R. Ghost of a Dream While investigating a haunting at the long-abandoned Haybarn Theatre, the Ghost Finders, led by unbearably arrogant J. C. Chance, think this will be an easy assignment until they encounter an ancient evil whose ability to alter reality tests all of their skills. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Greenfield, Jeff. Then Everything Changed : Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics : JFK RFK Carter Ford Reagan Veteran CBS News reporter and commentator Greenfield speculates what would have happened if an actual failed attempt to assassinate JFK before his inauguration instead succeeded; Robert Kennedy isn't assassinated, beats Nixon in 1968, winds down the Vietnam War, and with no Watergate scandal, the cultural changes of the 1970s are averted; and, Ford wins re-election, but in 1980 it's Hart vs. Reagan, and Hart wins. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Harkness, Deborah E. Shadow of Night A follow-up to A Discovery of Witches finds Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont in Elizabethan London, where Diana seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hodder, Mark Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon Investigators Burton and Swinburne return to Africa to seek the source of the Nile, a magic gem, and a way to fix history. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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McDonald, Ian Planesrunner When fourteen-year-old Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett's computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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McOmber, Adam The White Forest Jane Silverlake lives in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret--an unexplainable gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects. Her friend Nathan develops an interest in a cult led by a charismatic mystic popular with London's elite. Day encourages his followers to explore dream manipulation with the goal of discovering a strange hidden world, a place he calls the Empyrean. Nathan has vanished, and Jane realizes she must discover the origins of her talent and use it to find Nathan before it's too late. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Nicholas, Douglas Something Red Leading a troupe of companions across the mountains of 13th-century northwest England to find shelter from the coldest winter in memory, middle-aged Irishwoman Molly gradually realizes that they are being followed by a mysterious evil force that must be faced and defeated if they are to survive. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Novik, Naomi Crucible of Gold A latest installment in the series that includes Tongues of Serpents continues the fantastical Napoleonic War experiences of Captain Will Laurence and his indefatigable fighting dragon, who travel to South America to negotiate with the Incas as part of a plan to stop the Emperor's campaign for world domination. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Palma, Fe´lix J. The Map of the Sky When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Priest, Cherie. The Inexplicables Rector "Wreck 'em" Sherman, a drug dealer haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know, sneaks over the wall into the wasteland of Seattle where he makes a shocking discovery that changes everything. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Sedia, E. Heart of Iron Sasha Trubetskaya, who is attending a university instead of having a debut ball in St. Petersburg, finds herself, and her new British companion Jack, in the middle of a war between three empires. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Sedia, E. (Ekaterina) Heart of Iron "In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt's feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its first female students - an experiment, she suspects, designed more to prove female unsuitability for such pursuits than offer them education. The pressure intensifies when Sasha's only friends - Chinese students - start disappearing, and she begins to realize that her new British companion, Jack, has bigger secrets than she can imagine! Sasha and Jack find themselves trying to stop a war brewing between the three empires. The only place they can turn to for help is the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, newly founded by the Taiping rebels. Pursued by the terrifying Dame Florence Nightingale of the British Secret Service, Sasha and Jack escape across Siberia via train to China. Sasha discovers that Jack is not quite the person she thought he was-- but then again, neither is she"--P. [4] of cover. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Stirling, S. M. The Lord of Mountains : a Novel of the Change Rudi Mackenize, now Artos the First, High King of Montival, and his allies have won several key battles against the Church Universal and Triumphant. But still the war rages on, taking countless lives, ravaging the land once known as the United States of America. Artos and his Queen, Mathilda, must unite the realms into a single kingdom to ensure a lasting peace. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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