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1) Unholy Night
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes UNHOLY NIGHT, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism.
They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. But leave it to Seth Grahame-Smith, the...
2) Shtetl Days
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Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that now curious tourists flock to the painstakingly recreated "village" of Wawolnice, where--along with dozens of colleagues--Veit and Kristi re-enact the daily life of the long-exterminated but still frightening "Jews."
Veit and Kristi are true professionals,...
3) Quintessence
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Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers...
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En lo más profundo de la historia de la iglesia, más allá de las páginas llenas de fe, esperanza y amor, yace un oscuro y perturbador pasaje que ha sido ocultado por siglos. Este libro, "La Iglesia: Los Horrores Ocultos en su Historia", tiene la valiente misión de desvelar esos aspectos sombríos y controversiales que han sucedido en la vida real.A menudo, la iglesia ha sido considerada como un faro de luz y guía espiritual para millones de...
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In this Flash Fiction story, a 60-year-old hitchhiker gets hit by a car in Wichita Falls, Texas in July 1995. After receiving treatment in the local hospital, he decides to enter a talent contest to help out a ten-year-old girl, Melanie, when he learns her father is dying. What happens next has the town and the media buzzing.If you like alternative fiction, you will enjoy this short-short story.
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Harry Turtledove's The House That George Built is an astonishing short story set in an alternative world, a Tor.com Original. One February morning, the famous newspaperman H.L. Mencken walks into a Baltimore restaurant to have a bite and talk baseball with the owner, a has-been player named George...
7) Earth Story
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Earth Story' is an engaging and thought-provoking alternative view of mankind's history and those who have manipulated pivotal events throughout millennia. The story is told through the eyes of different characters who provide an, as yet, untold version of historical events, such as the discovery of the tomb Tutankhamun, the Second World War, and the 1969 moon landing. Are humans really the masters of their own destiny or merely pawns in a much wider...
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"Celestial Brushstrokes and Moonlit Verses" by Engr Dr Naila Hina, unfolded as a tale of passion and peril, with Liang Chen navigating the treacherous waters of both mortal and celestial realms. The novel wove together elements of suspense, romance, and comedy, set against the backdrop of a mythical China where art held the power to unlock the secrets of the human soul. With Detective Dae and Confucius leading the game and Laizi poetry.
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Help and revenge.They had always come at a price.But redemption?Redemption has a cost of its own.Donaldson's men have been asked to enter the heart of Stalin's Russia to rescue an imprisoned scientist and afterwards a grieving mother gives them a chance to gain what has long escaped them…..redemption.The stunning sequel to 'Mr. Donaldson's Company'
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Daniel Brakefluid is a comedian with a cynical view of geopolitics. After a TV special in 1999 in which he tries to expose the New World Order, he is hit by a car and left for dead.
In 2024, Danny comes out of his command finds himself in a completely unrecognisable digital world. The 24-hr surveillance, censorship and loss of human rights that the masses seem oblivious to are profoundly obvious to him, so he feels an urgent obligation to alert them....
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What if Kennedy survived Dallas?
President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight. But as the country marches on, the office of the President finds itself under a much more insidious type of fire. Political scandal, an endless war, and a country coming apart at the seams take the 1960's in a terrifying new direction, and both John and...
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While German and Japanese scientists also labored unsuccessfully to create an atomic bomb, by the summer of 1945, the American-led team was ready to test its first weapon. As the clock ticked down to the detonation time of 05.30 hours on 16 July 1945, the nervous team of technicians and scientists waited ten miles away from 'Ground Zero' deep in the New Mexico desert. No one knew how powerful the explosion would be or whether even at such a distance...
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Following the nuclear attack on Sydney at the end of 2011, the political climate in the United States becomes very heated.
Kim Jong-un is responsible for the attack and now it is Barack Obama's intent to retaliate and hit North Korea where it hurts.
Unfortunately, this would spell the start of World War III - a nuclear war.
In the political shadows, somewhere in southern Utah, near the border with Nevada, live a peculiar Honeybee-Mormon-Hippie...
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Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging by Harry Turtledove, master of the counterfactual.
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William Shakespeare is mightily out of sorts - every scribbling wagtail cullion in London is shamelessly pilfering his ideas, and this new fellow is the cheekiest of all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? What kind of name is that for a play? Find out in Harry Turtledove's Tor.com Original, We Haven't Got there Yet.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The next novel from author Bryce Zabel, whose debut, Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas? won the coveted Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
"We know The Beatles let it be, but what if they worked it out instead? This book gives life to every fan's fantasy. It's a great new adventure full of twists and turns that never were, but might have been." -Chris Carter, host, Breakfast with the Beatles & Chris Carter's British Invasion...
17) Shere Khan
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Uncover the truth Rudyard Kipling conceals in his unforgettable masterpiece, The Jungle Book.
One-hundred rupees for the skin of Lungri...
A mysterious Chinese girl arrives in India, determined to claim the bounty on the man-eating tiger. Intrigued by her unrelenting purpose, Rudyard Kipling follows her into the jungle on a mystical adventure that will transform Lungri--The Lame One--into Shere Khan--Tiger Lord.
18) Donovan
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Alternative history except with a vampire. What if a vampire was really the only person who could right all of the wrongs in history?
19) Juniper Point
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June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to the sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian mansion...
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Flush with the proceeds from the 'Israeli Caper' Prentice takes up with Caroline Maxwell the daughter of Lord Stigwell of Bashwell Higham. She is working as a Financial Advisor at Spooner, Sedgewick & Pell a City branch of Standish Holdings Plc., her father's Business Empire - a relic of the Victorian Era. Prentice is looking for advice on where to invest his new found riches from the 'Israeli Caper'. But it all comes apart at the seams when Caroline...
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