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A Victorian Armageddon Global disaster strikes as an asteroid impact causes a mega tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano in the United States. The people of the world, reeling from the blow, struggle to survive.
But this is not the present day. This is the year 1886, a crucial moment in time for everything recognizable about our lives. Socialists riot in Chicago, the Irish Question topples British governments,...
42) Aya
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As the two travel throughout the world pursuing their mission of revenge, they will come across many different forces and many hidden worlds. Some of these people will be helpful for Aya and Ajax's goal. People will be equally vengeful towards the same people the Okura's are hunting. As Ajax and Aya Okura follow down this dangerous path, they must decide what is right for both them and humanity. Will they continue to hunt this treacherous path, killing...
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"The first question that comes when writing a history of fascism is often simply where to begin?” The totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, fascism and communism, went to war in 1941. The victory of communism was not permanent, but the defeat of fascism was. In this thoughtful work, Pablo Portillo imagines a 20th century in which fascism, never quite destroyed by the catastrophes of its own making in the mid-20th century, lasts longer and...
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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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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...
46) Turncoat
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Dixie is a man adrift, picking away at the evildoings of the Grand Order of Defenders and the DeVine Corporation wherever he's able. But none of it is what he really wants, and what he wants is out of reach. Then a notorious thief crosses his path, a man with abilities that might make all the difference. With his help, Dixie can at long last return to face the people that destroyed his whole world and return that destruction tenfold.
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Ireland is a nation, which has endured much over its long and storied history. But the struggles the newborn country endured when it was born in the younger years of the 20th century are obscured by the grander history of World Wars, the rise of superpowers, and the clash of ideologies. Ireland's part in these convulsions is typically on the sidelines. But what if the absence of a single man had been noted in time, a government fell, and Ireland found...
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In July 2008, Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, wrote an article in the Guardian that many perceived to be a veiled attack on Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. In the days and weeks that followed, Whitehall was awash with rumours that Miliband was testing the water for a leadership challenge. It never materialised.
What if it had?
In this romp through the heart of the collapsing Labour government in 2008, Tom...
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"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." The Who
Many alternate history pieces explore Britain's fate if the United Kingdom fell to Nazi Germany. But few consider what might come afterwards. The chaos of an overextended Third Reich would not last forever. Europe would eventually be liberated. But with no staging post in the Atlantic, isolationism might take hold in the United States, and the role of 'liberator' would be played by Hitler's greatest...
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En un momento en el que los australianos se muestran indecisos a la hora de apoyar la propuesta de invasión de Irak liderada por Estados Unidos, más de seiscientos marines estadounidenses que se encuentran rotando en Bali desaparecen repentinamente; entonces, Kuta estalla en una bola de fuego y Australia se alinea con la demanda de Estados Unidos de formar parte de la "Coalición de los dispuestos".
Basado en hechos indiscutibles, un relato paso...
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In these essays possibilities are explored about late Tudor and early Stuart history. In this era political and religious developments depended heavily on royal initiative and court politics. What if Mary Tudor had lived long enough to re-establish English Catholicism firmly? Elizabeth I had died young of smallpox? Charles I's elder brother Henry had been King instead? Or Charles and Parliament had reached agreement after the Civil War?
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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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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....
56) The Grandmaster
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Welcome to the Wagner Institute for Mental Treatment and Investigations. Since 1966, Dr. Johann Wagner has guided his team of paranormal investigators and psychologists in solving supernatural crimes and unlocking the secrets of the human mind. But now a horror from his past has come back to destroy not only Wagner, but everything he has built. Wagner once used his paranormal powers to escape the horrors of the Holocaust, but can his aging mind and...
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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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The battle for Greece is well underway after Allied landings on the mainland and Dodds has the heavy burden of safeguarding all the inhabitants of his bride-to-be's village. Meanwhile in London politicians are turning their minds to creating a post-war Britain fit for heroes, in the Pacific the Hood is taking the war to the Japanese and Massu's quest to get the Princess to Rome meets unforseen human obstacles...
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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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Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865? "Abraham Lincoln: A Novel...
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