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Alternative histories (Fiction)

  • 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
    Summary:

    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
    Summary:

    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.
    Summary:

    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
    Summary:

    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
    Summary:

    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...

  • Author:
    Harris, Robert
    Summary:

    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:
    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
    Summary:

    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...

  • 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.
    Summary:

    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:
    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...

  • Author:
    Cravens, Claudia
    Summary:

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A thrilling, raucous, and gloriously queer debut about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck in the American West-and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way, now in paperback....

  • Author:
    McEwan, Ian
    Summary:

    In an alternative 1980s London, Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will...

  • Author:
    Bolaño, Roberto
    Summary:

    Comprising short biographies about imaginary writers, this novel is an entirely original mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere.

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