Alternate History

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Maybe Jake Epping can....

World War Z: The Complete Edition is a new recording of Max Brooks’ best-selling novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War....

The seventeenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series follows Amelia Stonehold and Serena Meleva as they navigate property acquisition, marriage proposals, and other ancient horrors in Regency England, but with the help of elemental magic.

Stranded tells the gripping story of brothers Ben and Barney Pepper as they embark on a daring journey through a mysterious portal to a completely new and uncharted world.

When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction....

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war....

I was the Rift Magus—master of space and time, protector of worlds. For decades, I defended my realm with unmatched power. But when I was reborn in the body of Lucian, a young noble in a different world, I had to start again.

A blazing novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a remarkable evocation of feeling in exile at home and introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times....

When the Ring of Fire drags Grantville, West Virginia, back to seventeenth-century Germany, down-time veteran Edgar Neustatter finds himself among the survivors of a unit devastated by the up-time Americans and their Swedish allies....

In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler....

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement....

Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy...their doctors. Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience and to maintain her sanity in the asylum for wayward Victorian girls. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman, imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.

At the height of the Vietnam War, a search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon....

A multigenerational saga traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz....

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon's egg, Captain Will Laurence unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire....

Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England's shores....

Glorious Exploits is an unforgettable ode to the power of art in a time of war, brotherhood in a time of enmity, and human will throughout the ages.

A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Black Mirror.

Ed is living life to the fullest. Having been given a second chance, he's determined to seize every opportunity.

Colin is a druid on a mission. Namely, traveling to an alternate dimension where technology rules, to snag the tech he needs to save his friends in the Hellpocalypse timeline.

Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain....

They tried to kill or capture Yozef Kolsko. The possibility that Caedellium could have peaceful years going forward is refuted. The key is bringing down Narthon....

A sweeping historical saga that traces five generations of fiercely powerful mothers and daughters—witches whose magical inheritance is a dangerous threat....

It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service....

In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret US undersea lab vanishes . . .At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA and overseen by Kurt Austin is attacked and becomes stranded half a mile below the surface.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

In a riveting blend of adventure, discovery, and moral reckoning, Stranded is a thrilling exploration of human nature set against the backdrop of a world beyond imagination. Will the group find a way to return from this Lost Eden, or will their conflicting agendas lead to irreversible consequences?

What would happen if Imperial Rome never fell? Roma Eterna, spanning fifteen hundred years of global history, follows the reign of the Roman Empire from its inception to the present day. Empire continues to expand, creeping across the globe and through the annals of history from the conquest of the Mayans to the first circumnavigational voyage, and finally the attempt of the Hebrews to flee Rome’s tyranny by escaping to another planet.

Post-Roman Britain. Thousands of desperate Saxon refugees are flooding the island, fleeing their homelands as the whole world warms and the waters rise, and worse, the mighty dragon Cythraul from the once-frozen North has been awoken by an evil sorceress. His lust for human flesh is insatiable, and he threatens to extinguish all human life.

Ava is a Grim Reaper...a special forces soldier patrolling an earthquake flattened London. John is a citizen who has lost his wife and child when the largest earthquake in the world flattened London. Ava battles a group of terrorists called "The Red Hand," when she and her team mates are ambushed. Ava escapes, but is badly wounded. John discovers her in a broken alley, where his grief is broken by the sudden attraction he has to this soldier, who if he is not careful, will kill him if he unmasks her. But he has to unmask her to save her. What happens next will change everything..for both of...

In 1944, a secret Nazi experiment split the universe in two. In our universe, we won. Hitler died. Freedom prevailed. But in a parallel universe, the Nazis discovered the atom bomb first... and conquered the world. The light of freedom perished, and the Nazi shadow spread across Earth, the solar system, and the stars. In 2207, a portal opens between our two universes. One universe of freedom. One of tyranny. And through this portal flies the Weltraumwaffe, the space fleet of the Third Reich.

Cam Stassen, a coming-of-age young man. He always thought that he would join the family guild. It wasn’t meant to be. On the summer solstice, the day where all those that turned eighteen throughout the year received their Class. Young Cam was given a unique Class. A crafting Class. Everything changed. He would no longer be the fighter that he grew up training for. He would no longer be able to join the family guild and rise high in the ranks. No, not anymore.

It’s 2059 and Jud Elliott—former law clerk and failed Harvard history student—is at loose ends. Having left his previous job out of boredom, he finally takes a position as a Time Courier showing tourists around medieval and ancient Byzantium. Maybe that unfinished Masters degree will come in handy after all … Jud is careful and he (mostly) plays by the rules, not wanting to get on the wrong side of the Time Patrol. But, on one trip up the line, he meets and falls in love with his great-great-multi-great grandmother and suddenly the rules don’t seem as important anymore.

A bizarre strain of zombies roam the streets of Victorian London, infecting all they touch with the Clockwork Plague. While most victims die painful deaths, a few become Clockworkers, geniuses who create the greatest inventions of the age—right before going insane. The plague has also taken its toll on the life of twenty-two-year-old Alice Michaels. After her mother and brother die from the disease because of her, she feels obligated to ensure her father's happiness. Unfortunately, that means ignoring her passion for automatons and instead, pursuing the wealthiest man possible.

In Roots & the Remittance Man, a captivating historical fiction, we follow a diverse family tree as its branches converge in the Carrot River Valley of the Northwest Territories in 1902. From Sweden, Muskoka, and Iowa, these intrepid settlers make their way to homestead near Melfort, Saskatchewan. A Scottish family, burdened by loss from an epidemic, travels by wagon train, finding salvation in a Cree chief. In Sweden, tragedy strikes, and a widowed wife and her daughters board a cattle ship for Halifax.

Deep in the vastness of the great plains, fate brings together a reclusive chemist and a mysterious woman who emerges from the boundless forest surrounding his mountain cabin. Their lives intertwine as they discover a connection to the power of nature and a shared past far more improbable than they had ever imagined.

Robert Netboxer awoke slowly. A telephone was ringing in the darkness—a tinny, unfamiliar ring. He fumbled for the bedside lamp and turned it on. Squinting at his surroundings, he saw a plush Renaissance bedroom with Louis XVI furniture, hand-frescoed walls, and a colossal mahogany four-poster bed. Where the hell am I? The jacquard bathrobe hanging on his bedpost bore the monogram: HOTEL RITZ PARIS. Slowly, the fog began to lift. Netboxer picked up the receiver. "Hello?" "Dr. Netboxer, would you be interested in playing chess at les Ritz Cafe in one hour?" It was a woman's voice, possibly...

People may not have heard of Robert Leroy Parker or Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, but everyone in America—and most of the rest of the world—have heard of their better-known aliases: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This infamous duo carved out their place in American history stealing horses and cattle, and ingeniously robbing numerous banks, stagecoaches, and trains.

MURPHY'S ELEVENTH BOOK SHOWCASES HIS FLAIR FOR TURNING ESTABLISHED GENRES INSIDE OUT AND ON THEIR HEAD. WHERE THIS BOOK STARTS IS NOWEHERE NEAR WHERE IT FINISHES, WITH AN ENDING GUARANTEED TO SURPRISE YOU AND TERRIFY YOU WITH IT'S IMPLICATIONS. EQUAL PARTS SUSPENSE AND PHILOSOPHY MIXED WITH PSYCHOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS TALE IS A ROMANTICIZED IDEALIZATION OF SIMPLER TIMES AS WELL AS A WARNING AGAINST WHERE HUMANITY IS HEADING.

William Shakespeare, lasciati momentaneamente moglie e figli nell’amata Inghilterra, è in missione per conto della Corona. La missione è segreta, segretissima, e lui, che non sa ancora di essere poeta, sbarca nelle terre della Serenissima e si stabilisce a Padova, dove c’è un inglese da trovare e riportare in patria. Padova è il centro della Repubblica di Venezia e della vita intellettuale, politica e mondana, affollata di preti, nobili, mezzane, medici, maghi o sedicenti tali, studenti, teste calde, uomini d’arme e uomini che hanno abbandonato le armi.

Frankie Walker is lost. A single father who has recently made a career move, he feels burnt out from the daily grind of life and distant from his magical heritage as a witch. So when he is approached by Zanabar, a mysterious sorcerer who asks him for help retrieving a genie lamp from 1924 before it falls into the wrong hands, Frankie accepts.

Глобальная война началась на три года раньше, чем в реальной истории. Истории, из которой принесла нелегкая нашего попаданца в 1917 год, в самый разгар Февральского мятежа в Петрограде. И теперь это уже новая История – История, в которой революция случилась сверху, в которой Россия не проиграла Первую мировую, в которой не случилось революций на улицах столиц и Гражданской войны, в которой сохранилась Империя, императором которой вот уже два десятка лет работает наш попаданец - Михаил Александрович Романов.

Blending historical intrigue with supernatural elements, Confessions of a Knife weaves a tale of love, loss, and redemption. From the soot-streaked alleys of London to the mystical twilight realms of ancient beings, this gripping story explores the fragile line between light and darkness and the sacrifices made to preserve balance.

Сознание военного летчика после авиакатастрофы переносится в прошлое, в тело молодого дворянина. За окном весна, на дворе конец явно чужого девятнадцатого века, а он прикован к постели после неудачного падения с крыши дворовой постройки. Окружающая реальность подкидывает загадки одна удивительнее другой, с которыми ему предстоит разобраться. А еще тут до сих пор правит страной Александр III, потерявший сына в Японии. Несмотря на предстоящее лечение и восстановление, о том, что делать дальше, вопрос не стоит.

Семёну Чеботарёву, попаданцу в самого себя, но в мире сохранившегося Советского Союза, снова повезло. После операции КГБ хозяева онлайн-казино притихли, а может, и сбежали. Племянник кандидата в ЦК партии стал деловым партнёром. Бизнес, наконец, начал приносить деньги, а на экзаменах получены хорошие оценки, позволившие выправить аттестат. Осталось лишь поступить в техникум, и остаток лета можно отдыхать. Тем более что у Семёна имелась путёвка в "Артек", на лучший, августовский сезон. А там может случиться всё что угодно, ведь не зря говорят: лето – это маленькая жизнь.