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For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga (Greenhill Military Paperback)

For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga (Greenhill Military Paperback)

by Robert Sobel

More than any other colony, Virginia looked to the west for its future. After the French and Indian War, the Royal Proclamation of 1754 declared that officers and soldiers would be paid with parcels of western land, vaguely extending about eighty miles in all directions from Lexington. By 1768 most of the area had been explored by the Long Hunters, including Daniel and Squire Boone, James Knox,... (more)

Resurrection Day

by Brendan DuBois

If the Cuban Missile Crisis had erupted in a nuclear war... If the United States were under martial law... This is what might happen... "A book that grabs you by the sheer power of its storytelling. A thriller with punch, one you won't want to put down."- Denver Post "What-if thriller fiction at its finest."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The best 'what-if' novel in years." -Lee Child "A magnificent... (more)

Third Reich Victorious: The Alternate History of How the Germans Won the War

Third Reich Victorious: The Alternate History of How the Germans Won the War

by Peter G., ed. Tsouras

The Year the Cloud Fell An Alternate History

The Year the Cloud Fell An Alternate History

by Kurt R. A. Giambastiani

The year is 1886. The United States has been in a state of undeclared war with the Cheyenne Alliance for decades. Custer's son was last seen in a newfangled flying machine. And giant lizards wander the plains. This is not history. This is the American West as it might have been...

Fables: Book 1

Legends in Exile

by Bill Willingham

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister,... (more)

Endymion Spring

by Matthew Skelton

"You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine." In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is... (more)

Voyage

by Stephen Baxter

The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket, and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to... (more)

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Book 10

Narcissus in Chains

by Laurell K. Hamilton, Cynthia Holloway

The "steamy" ( Booklist ) Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel that took Laurell K. Hamilton to a whole new level is now in paperback. Includes a bonus excerpt from the next Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel, Cerulean Sins , coming in January 2003.

Final Blackout

by L. Ron Hubbard

London 1975. The World War is grinding to a halt. A malignant force more sinister than Hitler's Nazi regime has seized control of Europe and is systematically destroying every adversary... In the heart of France, a crack unit of renegade soldiers has overcome all opposition under the leadership of one man, a hardened military strategist highly trained in every method of combat - known only as "the... (more)

Making History

by Stephen Fry

What if hitler had never been born? In Stephen Fry's most seriously ambitious novel to date, he creates a futuristic fantasy that becomes a thriller with a funny streak. Tackling one of history's darkest episodes, he poses the question: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, no doubt. Michael Young, an earnest young history graduate student, has just finished his dissertation, an... (more)

The Mummy or Ramses the Damned

by Anne Rice

Anne Rice, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles, now delves into the mysterious legend of the mummy in this original and poetic tale of romance and horror. It begins in the early 1900's when archaeologist Lawrence Stratford discovers a perfectly preserved mummy in a tomb in Cairo. Little does he know that the mummy, one Ramses the Great, a.k.a. Ramses the Damned, has consumed an extraordinary potion that... (more)

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