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Alternative histories (Fiction)

  • Author:
    Binet, Laurent
    Summary:

    Vers l'an mille : la fille d'Erik le Rouge met cap au sud. 1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l'Amérique. 1531 : les Incas envahissent l'Europe. À quelles conditions ce qui a été aurait-il pu ne pas être ? Il a...

  • Author:
    Clare, Cassandra
    Summary:

    Magic is dangerous-but love is more dangerous still. Discover the riveting first audiobook in the #1 New York TimesIn a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the...

  • Author:
    Westwick, Ed, Lind, Heather, Clare, Cassandra
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    It's time--for the riveting sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Clockwork Angel! The situation at the London Institute has never been more precarious. With Mortmain and his clockwork army still threatening, the Council...

  • Author:
    Corbeil, Pierre
    Summary:

    Dans une univers parallèle, dans lequel l'Amérique est française, Pierre-Henri Lemoyne, marin et fils de marin, doit décider s'il accepte de succéder à son père à la tête d'une grande entreprise, demeurer dans la...

  • Author:
    Wilson, Robert Charles
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    In 1912 world history is changed by the Miracle. The old world of Europe is replaced by a land known as Darwinia, a strange jungle full of antediluvian monsters. Some people seize the opportunity to carve out a new empire and America is...

  • Author:
    Wong, S. G.
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    Enter the world of Crescent City, an alternate history 1930s "Chinese Los Angeles" and home turf of private investigator, Lola Starke... A simple job. A den of thieves. A woman committed to the truth. It’s a straightforward case: find a...

  • Author:
    Patrick, Matthew
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    Written by Matthew Patrick and illustrated by his brother John Patrick, Downing Dora Nine adds an intriguing new perspective on a genre that has been steadily growing in popularity — alternate history. The story is set in a world in...

  • Author:
    Khoury, Raymond
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    A sweeping thriller in the tradition of Man in the High Castle, Fatherland and Underground Airlines Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the of the Holy Roman Empire,...

  • Author:
    Evans, Jon
    Summary:

    When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity...

  • Author:
    Harris, Robert
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    Detective novel. Portrays Germany as it might have looked twenty years after winning World War II. When an old man's body is discovered drowned, a Berlin policeman begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but...

  • Author:
    Cantor, Jillian
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    In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marie left Poland for Paris, where...

  • Author:
    Conroy, Robert
    Summary:

    In the days after the Allies' landing at Normandy, Adolf Hitler is removed from his position atop the Third Reich, and SS chief Heinrich Himmler assumes control. Meanwhile, the Allies begin grappling with competing solutions for...

  • Author:
    Novik, Naomi
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    In the Napoleonic era, the worlds' militaries are replete with aerial corps of fighting dragons and their handlers. When Captain Laurence of HMS Reliant captures a French frigate, the cargo includes a dragon egg, and when the hatchling...

  • Author:
    Turtledove, Harry
    Summary:

    A generation after the South wins the Civil War, it annexes critical territory in Mexico. Outraged, the United States declares total war. This time the American army faces danger on all sides -- Confederates, outlaws, Apaches, French,...

  • Author:
    Wong, S. G.
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    Enter the world of Crescent City, an alternate history 1930s "Chinese Los Angeles" and home turf of private investigator, Lola Starke... A double murder. A tangle of deceit. A woman committed to the truth. A chance reunion with her...

  • Author:
    Caine, Rachel
    Summary:

    In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time ... Ruthless and supremely powerful, the...

  • Author:
    Graves, Robert
    Summary:

    Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the...

  • Author:
    Walton, Jo
    Summary:

    Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles. It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of...

  • Author:
    Atkinson, Kate
    Summary:

    What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night,...

  • Author:
    Wayne, Michael
    Summary:

    Yale Templeton, an undistinguished professor of History at a university in Toronto, has made a shocking discovery: Abraham Lincoln was not, in fact, assassinated, but faked his own death so that he could assume a new identity and move...

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