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61) Breath of earth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation--the Unified Pacific--in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent--or that she is the only woman to possess such skills. When assassins kill the wardens, Ingrid and her mentor...
62) Walk in hell
Author
Series
Great war (Harry Turtledove) volume 3
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The world is convulsing, Germany remains locked in battle with France, Russia, and Britain, whi8le the United States and the Confederate States of America charge headlong into the global conflict - as bitter enemies once again.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This vivid, terrifying, and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change-perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z. 2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral...
64) Eagle in exile
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale's gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the stunning story carries hero Gaius Marcellinus deeper into the culture of an extraordinary people--whose humanity, bravery, love, and ingenuity forever change his life and destiny. In A.D. 1218, Praetor Gaius...
65) Land of the dead
Author
Series
In the time of the sixth sun volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gretchen Anderssen, freelance archeologist and specialist in First Sun artifacts, has been hired by her old mentor Green Hummingbird, agent of the Mirror Service, to join him in investigating an ancient weapon that could be used to destroy the interplanetary empire of Anuhuac, centered in Mexico City and the result of a centuries-old alliance between the Japanese samurais and the Aztecs.
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate-reality tale in which the merchants of our world secretly visit parallel universes to trade for much-needed resources, the discovery of a universe beset by a 1967 atomic war prompts an investigation into what went wrong.
67) Man in the dark
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
From a "literary original" (The Wall Street Journal) comes a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer...
68) Silverwolf
Author
Series
Rowankind sequence volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Britain, 1801. King George's episodic sanity is almost as damaging as his madness. First Consul Napoleon is gathering his forces in France. The disease of democracy is spreading. The world is poised on the brink of a modern era, but the rowankind, long a source of free labor, have shaken off their bonds. Some have returned to Iaru to find freedom with the Fae; others are trying to find a place in the world, looking for fair treatment under the law....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The United Sovereign States of Russia struggles to set in place the traditions and legal precedents that will let it turn into a constitutional monarchy with freedom and opportunity for all its citizens. At the same time, they're trying to balance the power of the states and the federal government. And the USSR is fighting a civil war with Muscovite Russia, defending the new state of Kazakh from invasion by the Zunghars, building a tech base and...
70) The gladiator
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Security police in a future society shut down a game shop called The Gladiator when they discover that it is selling games that teach counterrevolutionary capitalist principles to the populace.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Realizing in the aftermath of Stalingrad that Germany will not win the war, Adolph Hitler considers the demands of FDR, Stalin, and Churchill, while OSS operative Willard Mayer, serving as FDR's envoy, finds his beliefs in the period's stylish philosophies put to the test.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
Author
Series
Axis of time trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In a first installment of a three-part alternate history epic, America's World War II fleet is decimated by a multi-national task force sent back in time from the year 2021, forcing Admiral Nimitz and Rear Admiral Spruance to make the potentially consequential decision to fight their own possible descendants.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for...
76) Pass of fire
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 14
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian Alliance. The longer they take to prepare for their confrontations with the reptilian Grik, the Holy Dominion, and the League of Tripoli, the stronger their enemies become. Ready or not, they have to move - or the price in blood will break them. Matt Reddy and his battered old destroyer USS Walker lead the greatest army the humans and their Lemurian allies have ever assembled up the Zambezi toward...
77) Crusade
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
Anderson raises the stakes for Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS "Walker" in this sequel to 2008's "Into the Storm". The sailors and marines become further enmeshed in the politics of the parallel Earth into which their WW2 destroyer has mysteriously been transported.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious man appears aboard the "Titanic" on its doomed voyage to save the ship. In April 2012, Joseph Kennedy--nephew of John F. Kennedy--lives in an America occupied in the East by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order -- even though it would mean his death, and the deaths of everyone he loves.
79) Clash of eagles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In a world where the Roman Empire never fell, a legion under the command of general Gaius Marcellinus invades the newly-discovered North American continent. But Marcellinus and his troops have woefully underestimated the fighting prowess of the Native American inhabitants. When Gaius is caught behind enemy lines and spared, he must reevaluate his allegiances and find a new place in this strange land"--
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Librarian-spy Irene and her apprentice Kai are back in the second in this "dazzling"* book-filled fantasy series from the author of The Invisible Library. The written word is mightier than the sword--most of the time... Working in an alternate version of Victorian London, Librarian-spy Irene has settled into a routine, collecting important fiction for the mysterious Library and blending in nicely with the local culture. But when her apprentice,...
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