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In the spring of 1917, Vladimir Lenin was taken from his exile in Switzerland, loaded onto a sealed train, and taken to the Russian capital of Petrograd — a city where all manner of revolutionary ideas were in the air. Sent by the German government to add his radical voice to the chaos of the post-Tsarist regime, few would have expected that Lenin would soon preside over the establishment of the world's first communist state and inexorably change...
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As the overloaded Endeavour reaches the end of its long voyage and its hoped-for planetfall, the refugees from Earth need to find out:
- Can they live on the planet Elpis?
- What threats will it throw at them?
- How quickly can they safely disembark - if they can disembark at all?
Endeavour is desperately needed back on Earth to help rescue the last survivors. But if it does not establish a foothold on Elpis, there will be nowhere for them to go.
Both...
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The forces of Evil arewinning the war for our souls, oursense of decency and our innateability to love one another. If thisbook helps to change just one ofus, from apathy and ignorance, toa champion of the truth - we canbegin the journey to a New Age ofEnlightenment - for all of humanity"
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'Great man' history is flawed. But it can be fun.
A group of alternate history authors try their hand at imagining different figures at the top of the British establishment. Be they Prime Ministers or something less conventional, the men and women in these pages inhabit very different worlds to that in which we live.
Could Britain have had a female PM much earlier in its history? Who might emerge to lead Britain from the ashes of a fascist dictatorship?...
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As the nineteenth century opens, Europe is in turmoil. A foreign King sits on the throne of Spain and France is in the midst of revolution. How will the restored House of Stuart deal with the challenges which abound in Europe and the Americas?
With slave revolts in the West Indies, a military dictator controlling France and old enemies Austria and Prussia forming an alliance there is much to concern Great Britain and British North America. Scottish...
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Twenty-Two Tales of Christmas Terror ranging from ancient Iceland to modern-day Iraq by New York Times Bestselling and award-winning authors, including: a new ghost story by Heather Graham, a Repairman Jack Christmas adventure by F. Paul Wilson, a spine tingling tale by master of horror Thomas F. Monteleone, and a special tale of Christmas wonder by Jon Land.
In a unique experience-a story within a story-you will follow along when the MacDonald...
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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...
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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...
89) A Century Turns
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Aleksander van Riebeck is a trader embarking on mercantile adventures across the skies of the late Victorian period. His goods? Anything he can lay his hands on. His vessel? A vast dirigible. In a world not wholly like our own, zeppelins are the craft of choice for a new generation of swashbucklers.
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What if Remain had won in 2016? What if Britain had never joined the EEC? What if groups other than Europe had decided to unite?
In this EU-themed collection from Sea Lion Press and edited by Tom Black (Agent Lavender, Shuffling the Deck, Zonen), you will find some worlds very like our own, and others very dissimilar indeed. Questions as simple as "what if Maastricht failed?" are posed, along scenarios as complex as an ideologically-reversed Cold...
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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...
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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...
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When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected-he hoped!-that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason's imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders....
94) Dream Walker
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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...
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Small changes - screwing an extra knot out of a warship's engines or a petty functionary insisting a family sell a wedding clock before they can get unemployment benefit - small changes which can nevertheless lead to a different world war than the one we know explored from the viewpoint of Republican Spaniards, committed Nazis, British parliamentarians and Royal Naval officers to name but a few in this stunning fictional alternative history.
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Two missions are afoot. The Asturian, Sergeant Massu must seek out a princess in hiding who may hold the key to bringing down the Italian Fascists while Sergeant Dodd and Georgiou are determined to kill the German General Bräuer. On the grander stage the way must be cleared for an allied invasion of Greece, the enemy must at all costs believe that the target is really Sicily and the master of deception remains Commandante O'Neill. Meanwhile a refitted...
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Since 1979 just four men and two women have occupied Number Ten Downing Street and the office that comes with it, all but one serving for many years. But things could have been different. By contrast, since that same year of 1979, Japan has changed its Prime Minister 14 times and Italy 22 times. What if we lived in a world where Britain was just as much a land of mayfly Prime Ministers as those countries, where no-one since Margaret Thatcher has successfully...
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The Jacobite Uprising of 1745 is one of those parts of British history that we all think we know a little bit about. The romantic story of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and his gallant Highlanders invading England, only to turn back at Derby and subsequently be defeated at Culloden is part of the cultural glue that holds 'Great Britain' together.
But what if things had turned out differently?
Could the Prince and his Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English...
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In Journeys Home, Dick Monteith has created an authentic and heartfelt story of three South Carolina boys who grew up together in a small town in the Low country. It follows the trajectory of each as they go off to different colleges, pursue different passions, and end up having very different lives. One becomes a wealthy realtor, another a progressive politician and a third eventually becomes a liberal Presbyterian minister. The novel is in part...
100) Después Del Fin
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Después del fin del mundo, el planeta nació de nuevo, partiendo de pequeños microorganismos hasta la creación de criaturas complejas, como hombres y dinosaurios. En su nueva estructura orgánica, los seres humanos se volvieron dependientes de la carne como alimento, y la buscan en las fieras, como llaman a lo que, hoy, llamamos dinosaurios.
Rangel Connor es un militar en su primera caza en el territorio de las fieras. Sin embargo, la embestida...
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