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Over There [A Teddy Roosevelt Story] [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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Roosevelt, now retired from the presidency, makes a request of Woodrow Wilson. He asks to be allowed to reactivate the Rough Riders and personally lead them into the battlefields of WWI. Based on a true request that Roosevelt made (but was in reality denied by Wilson). (Published: 1991)
Words: 7758 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Striking the Balance [Worldwar Volume 4] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
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.
Category: Alternate History/Science Fiction
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The Light that Blinds, The Claws that Catch [A Teddy Roosevelt Story] [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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An alternate history story exploring the life of Teddy Roosevelt had his first wife not died in 1884. (Published: 1992)
Words: 2736 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Aftershocks [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 3] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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Set in the same universe as the Worldwar series, Colonization: Aftershocks brings us to Earth in the 1960s, where four superpowers rule: the United States, Russia, Nazi Germany, and the aliens of the Race. The arrival of the aliens shot Earth technology forward at a dizzying rate--the world of 1960 includes routine space shuttle traffic, computers on every desk, and other high tech advancements. Aftershocks reveals that it was the United States that launched the nuclear offensive against the ali... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 235000 - Reading Time: 671-940 min.
Category: Alternate History/Science Fiction
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Down to Earth [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 2] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved. A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope, Colonization takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 244000 - Reading Time: 697-976 min.
Category: Alternate History/Science Fiction
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Everything But Honor [MultiFormat]
by George Alec Effinger
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A complex alternate history story, "Everything But Honor"--a Hugo Award finalist for best novelette--is the tale of Dr. Thomas Placide, a Black physicist in 1938 Germany, who travels back in time to alter the outcome of America's War Between the States to better the plight of Southern Negro slaves, but with dire consequences. (Published: 1989) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 11384 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
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Hitler's War [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Harry Turtledove
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A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry ... more info>>
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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)
Words: 14980 - Reading Time: 42-59 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Sarah Addison Allen
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 In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestelling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world...no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother's life. For instance, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? Why did she vow nev... more info>>
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Valkyrie [MultiFormat]
by Lindsay McKenna
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WOMEN IN GROUND COMBAT? Will it work? Who is for the test to find out? Who is against it? Will it succeed? Will it fail? Are women capable of being soldiers on the ground next to their male counterparts? Can they take the danger? The pressure? The threat of death? Congress, in 2003, has approved a one year test to find out. The U.S. Marine Corps is forced into allowing the Women's Liberation Forces (WLF) to work with them in a Southeast Asia crisis. In the middle of this intense, emotional storm... more info>> (Published: 2000) Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award Winner, Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award Nominee
Words: 147865 - Reading Time: 422-591 min.
Category: Alternate History/Romance
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1812: The Rivers of War [Secure eReader]
by Eric Flint
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The first of a projected two-volume series, Flint's witty, tightly written alternative history presents a subtly revised version of events in the final year of the War of 1812. In March 1814, in the Mississippi Territory, Gen. Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia and Cherokee warriors fight a decisive battle against the Creek Indians. In August, a young Sam Houston, the adopted son of a Cherokee chief, arrives in Washington in time to help defend the Capitol building from invading British troops. ... more info>>
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1824: The Arkansas War [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Eric Flint
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In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession. Buffered by Spanish possessions to the south and by free states and two rivers to the north, Ark... more info>>
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1942: A Novel [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Conroy
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December 7 is "the date which will live in infamy." But now Japan is hatching another, far greater plan to bring America to its knees.... The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding success--except for one detail: a second bombing mission, to destroy crucial oil storage facilities, was aborted that day. Now, in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history, Robert Conroy reimagines December 7, 1941, to include the attack the Japanese didn't launch, and what follows is a ... more info>>
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A Fleeting Wisp of Glory [MultiFormat]
by Laura Resnick
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Short post-apocalyptic "Alternate Kennedys" story. (Published: 1992)
Words: 3502 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Alternate History
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A Just and Lasting Peace [MultiFormat]
by Lois Tilton
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Forty years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederates have surrendered, but they are not defeated. Yankee injustice fuels resentment--and an underground rebellion--in the South, and hatred for the Northerners touches the lives of every Southern family ... forcing an innocent boy to choose his unlikely future. (Published: 1991) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 6106 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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A Key to the Illuminated Heretic [MultiFormat]
by A. M. Dellamonica
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What if Joan of Arc hadn't burned? (Published: 2005) Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee, Sidewise Award Finalist
Words: 9690 - Reading Time: 27-38 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Da Vinci Rising [MultiFormat]
by Jack Dann
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Young Leonardo da Vinci experiments with his flying machine in the politically charged atmosphere of late 15th century Florence. He dreams of soaring into the heavens, but Lorenzo de Medici is eager to use this new invention to his advantage on the battlefield. (Published: 1995) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 23859 - Reading Time: 68-95 min.
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Graveyard of Dreams--Science Fiction Stories [MultiFormat]
by H. Beam Piper
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This new collection of H. Beam Piper's shorter work includes five of his finest stories: "Graveyard of Dreams," "Genesis," "Operation R.S.V.P.," "The Answer," and "Last Enemy." (Published: 2006)
Words: 47611 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
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In the Balance and Tilting the Balance [Worldwar Volumes 1 and 2] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove's best-selling alternate-history Worldwar series is now a must-have addition to your eBook library. For a limited time only, take advantage of this exciting opportunity--buy Tilting the Balance and get In the Balance for free!
In the Balance: From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter. And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invad... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 150000 - Reading Time: 428-600 min.
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No Spot of Ground [MultiFormat]
by Walter Jon Williams
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The fate of Edgar Allan Poe is swept up from the Baltimore gutter to live on through sobriety and a dwindling literary career when the Civil War gives him a chance to engage the North in his own conflict of ideals--as a Confederate General. (Published: 1989)
Words: 23068 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
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Over the Sea from Skye [MultiFormat]
by Lillian Stewart Carl
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History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances? Turtledove and his colleagues turn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless.... The historical Flora MacDonald helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape Scotland after his failed rebellion in 1745. Captured by the English, said she would have helped... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 6558 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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Portals of Hell [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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This fifth volume of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles follows America's tumultuous and surprising journey through the 1940's, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrusts the nation into the Second World War. Hitler's army ravages Europe, and an explosion of the first nuclear warhead in Los Alamos plunges the world into the danger of the nuclear age. Beautiful journalist Shaylin McKay risks her life reporting from the battle front, only to find she has fallen in love with a soldier in comb... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 137443 - Reading Time: 392-549 min.
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Redchapel [A Teddy Roosevelt Story] [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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While visiting England in the fall of 1888, a young Theodore Roosevelt assists Scotland Yard in the effort to capture Jack the Ripper. As the streets of Whitechapel become bloodier with each murder, Teddy's American brand of investigative consultancy shines light into the darkness of the world's most famous unsolved mystery. (Published: 2000) Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 11624 - Reading Time: 33-46 min.
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The Bull Moose at Bay [A Teddy Roosevelt Story] [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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October 27, 1916: At President Teddy Roosevelt's 58th birthday party, the polls report that he's on the verge of losing his bid for re-election ... if only women had the vote.... (Published: 1991)
Words: 3121 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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The Center Cannot Hold [American Empire Book 2] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Harry Turtledove
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In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own--but with dramatic differences. It is 1924--a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington's most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 150000 - Reading Time: 428-600 min.
Category: Alternate History/Mainstream
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