The year is 1912, and the history of China takes a different turn. The president of the newly-founded Republic of China dies suddenly, before the fledgling regime has had time to take root. As a compromise between the militarist and republican factions, a former reformist leader is chosen to replace him. But he has his own agenda...What if the Republic of China had died in infancy? With Iron and Fire is the tale of a China that might have been-one...

The conspiracies are true, giants, hollow earth, aliens, crop circles, big foot, mermaids, lost civiizations including Mayans, Vikings, the lost tribes of Israel all are reality. This fact hits Dr. Shelby Rickenbacker with a PHD in Archaeology and Anthropology when the discovery of a lifetime a giant is discovered then it is stolen by the Smithsonion Institute. Her quest to recover this find takes her to the underground world where she comes face...

A gifted slave's dramatic bid for freedom from the cotton plantations of the Deep South leads to far-reaching and unintended consequences in this moving tale. Born enslaved in the eighteenth century, Fella finds no place for his genius, his thoughts, or his humanity in a time and place that deny him the most basic of rights. Thus, in a desperate act, he makes a bold, dramatic bid for freedom from the cotton plantations of the Deep South. This dramatic...

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.

When a young man visits a French mental institution to learn about the hospital's "system of soothing," he is surprised to learn that it has recently abandoned the treatment method. Offered a tour of the grounds, he soon learns the truth about the new methodology put in place since the system of soothing was abandoned. Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" is the basis for director Brad Anderson's 2014 film Stonehearst...

Rose Calamia is a first generation Italian American working girl in a 1945 aircraft plant, when she meets Iowa farm boy, Jack Conner. Jack has recently been discharged from the Army and is still licking his wounds from an all too familiar war time casualty--a Dear John followed by divorce. When their love affair leads to a wedding and a move to Jack's home community, Rose is totally unprepared for the life that awaits her in rural Iowa. Ever the sheltered...

Fired from his job at an Indian casino and armed with a dolphin amulet gifted to him by his Noqoto grandfather, student archaeologist Peter Martinez is on a mission to save Rocky Point, California from an oil giant's development plans. But when his exploration of the sacred coastal land leads him to an ancient burial cave in the side of a cliff, a wave knocks him into the water and he wakes up on the beach-more than 300 years in the past. His Noqoto...

Adolf Hitler is regarded as history's most notorious villain for good reason. As an individual filled with hate, he was a natural convert to the extremist movements spreading around Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and his warped ability to harness the desperation of millions of dispossessed Germans enabled his regime to slaughter countless victims. The Nazi movement that he founded was, and is, universally regarded as a dark reflection...

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'

Brandenburgers is a historical fantasy set during Operation Barbarrossa, the German invasion of Russia in June of 1941. It is a fast-paced tale about a squad of soldiers racing across the Baltic States toward Leningrad. The squad is held together by the main character, Sergeant Wolfgang Steiner, and Corporal Fritz Schumann. These two drive their companions forward through one difficulty after another. These Special Forces are wrapped up in the epic...