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Jihad [MultiFormat]
by Mercedes Lackey
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  What if "Lawrence of Arabia" had turned his back on his native England and the Western world and instead chosen Allah and the Arab world? What would that have done to the Middle East? (Published: 1993)
Words: 5822 - Reading Time: 16-23 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.
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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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The Sleeping Serpent [MultiFormat]
by Pamela Sargent
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This fascinating alternate history story is set a few hundred years ago in an America that has been colonized primarily by Mongolians (who, by the way, have taken over most of Europe). A Mongolian settler who was raised by Native American Indians finds he must try to bridge the gap between cultures to counter threats from English settlements (England is one of the few remaining independent countries in Europe). In so doing, he seeks to re-unite the Native American peoples and the peoples of Mong... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 15944 - Reading Time: 45-63 min.
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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.
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Dirty Girls on Top [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
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 The Dirty Girls are back, saucier and sexier than ever...but would it be wrong to ask them to be a little smarter, too?" Especially when it comes to men. And sex. Lauren Fernandez is at the top of her game as the cleverest columnist the Boston Gazette has on board--but she can't quite figure out how to pick a guy or how to eat (and not drink) like a healthy person. Usnavys is still sashaying all over town, 260 pounds of her dolled up in designer duds and ready for action--from anyone except her... more info>>
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The Vatican Outfit [MultiFormat]
by Laura Resnick
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An alternate history story about the death of John Paul I. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4291 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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The Waitress [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Melissa Nathan
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 The Appetizer.... Katie has lofty career aspirations that seem to change almost hourly: writer, film director, teacher, educational psychiatrist. In the meantime, she's waiting tables and waiting for "Mr. Right" to arrive out of the blue--which seems unlikely, considering her romantic track record is as pitiful as her job history. The Main Course.... Still, a girl can dream, even when she's rushing a hot plate of linguini over to the nasty customer at table six. So when gorgeous, sensitive, perf... more info>>
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Witch Way to Murder [An Ophelia and Abby Mystery] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Shirley Damsgaard
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Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch. Thirty-something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She's created a comfortable existence with her kooky, colorful grandmother Abby, and if it were up to her, they could live out their days--along with Ophelia's dog Lady and cat Queenie--in peace and quiet. But, to Ophelia'... more info>>
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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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Being Elizabeth [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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The number-one bestselling author delivers her most provocative, sizzling novel yet--a story of money, power, love, and betrayal that only Barbara Taylor Bradford could write. At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family's history, and she knows the price that man... more info>>
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Dancing with Einstein: A Novel [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Kate Wenner
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From the acclaimed author of Setting Fires, this highly original new novel offers a protagonist so intensely felt and so compassionately rendered that readers will not easily let her go at the novel’s end. She is Marea Hoffman, who, after wandering the world for seven years, has returned to New York at age thirty with the intention of starting her real life. But Marea approaches everything in her own idiosyncratic style, and she is soon seeing four different therapists simultaneously an... more info>>
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If There Be Cause [MultiFormat]
by Sheila Finch
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Drake's round-the-world-voyage in 1578 threatens to have an unexpected effect on the history of California. (Published: 1992)
Words: 9171 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
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Return to Sullivans Island [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Dorothea Benton Frank
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Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes. Return to Sullivans Island Whether you were away from the Lowcountry for a week or for years, it was impossible to remember how gorgeous it was. It never changed and everyone depended on that. Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence ... more info>>
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The Ex-Debutante [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Linda Francis Lee
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When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing left her native Texas to start a new life in Boston, she had no regrets. The former Texas debutante, who never felt at home in her Southern skin, had found liberation--or so she thought. Until the day she gets an urgent call from her mother, reporting that: one, the Symphony Association Debutante Ball, which Carlisle's family has sponsored for years, is about to be called off; Two, her mother's divorce has the whole town talking; And three, the family's good nam... more info>>
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The Heir [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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 At the age of thirty-three, Edward Deravenel, having survived harrowing years of betrayal, threats from ruthless enemies, countless lovers, and a war that ravaged his country, is finally king of his company. It's 1918, an influenza pandemic is sweeping the country, and Edward has a family and a business to protect. He must thread his way between his loyal brother, Richard, and his treacherous middle brother, George, an alcoholic bent on self-destruction ... but not before he tries to ruin Edwa... more info>>
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The Old Man and C [MultiFormat]
by Sheila Finch
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When his father wanted him to leave the school in Munich because of his poor grades, his mother used her own money to pay for his violin lessons. Now at 75, the old music teacher looks back at his lifelong fascination with physics and senses that something in his life has been left undone. (Published: 1989)
Words: 4632 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Baroness Orczy
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity. During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its g... more info>>
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The Trouble With Witches [An Ophelia and Abby Mystery] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Shirley Damsgaard
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Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she's been able to put her paranormal talents to good use--like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her kindly, canny sorceress granny, will be taking to the road to pursue the vanished girl in the wilds of Minnesota. The signs are pointing toward the secluded new age research facility of Jason and Juliet Finch, who live with their troubled--and possi... more info>>
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Those Rowdy Royals! [MultiFormat]
by Laura Resnick
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Medieval alternate history in which scandal of a very unusual variety grips King Henry's court. Written as a series of "tabloid" articles. Offbeat and quite humorous. (Published: 1994)
Words: 2005 - Reading Time: 5-8 min.
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Twilight: A Novel [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Katherine Mosby
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Award--winning novelist Katherine Mosby examines the complex landscape of adultery while depicting a woman’s unlikely blossoming in the face of war. Lavinia Gibbs defies social convention and family expectations in New York in the 1930s when she breaks off a passionless engagement to a prominent banker. Instead of surrendering to an invisible spinsterhood, Lavinia moves to Paris, where, on the verge of World War II, her sexual and political awakening collide in an unforgettable tale.
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Under a Sky More Fiercely Blue [MultiFormat]
by Laura Resnick
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An alternate history story in which a Mafia mobster uses his influence to assist the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. (Published: 1994)
Words: 6848 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
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