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Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe eleventh book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series. If you love Jasper Fforde, Ben Aaronovitch or Doctor Who, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.You know what they say. Hope for the best. But plan for the worst.Catch up with the tea-soaked disaster magnets in their latest madcap adventure as they hurtle their way around History...Categorized as:
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Another Time, Another Place by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 27 ratings'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' ***** BOOK 12 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.---'It's time, Max.' And so, a whole new chapter opens up...It's long been known that if a thing can go wrong, it will. With knobs on, usually...Categorized as:
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No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe fifth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time...Categorized as:
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The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program...Categorized as:
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Executed by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn’t think they needed a leader.But they’ve got one anyway.With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to steady the ship. And to focus them on their assignment: preventing the end of the world.The problem is, the world doesn’t know it’s in danger...Categorized as:
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Operation Long Jump by William Peter Grasso
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Allied invasion of Papua New Guinea begins. Badly.Alternative history takes center stage as Operation Long Jump, the second book in the Jock Miles World War 2 adventure series, plunges us into the horrors of combat in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. As a prelude to the Allied invasion, Jock Miles and his men seize the Japanese observation post on the mountain overlooking Port Moresby... -
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold... -
Retribution by Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJerusalem, A.D. 66 . . .The City of God seethes with rage against imperial Rome . . . and, in an act of unspeakable brutality, Rome takes deadly retribution. War looms on the horizon---but one woman already knows the outcome. . . .Transported from the far future, Rivka Meyers has made her home in Jerusalem with her husband and fellow time traveler, Ari Kazan... -
Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll things must come to an end... London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who - the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history...Categorized as:
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The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel by Jeffrey Lewis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“A brilliantly conceived page-turner.”—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Command and ControlAmerica lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity. “The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue... -
A Prophet Without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History by Joseph Wurtenbaugh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘A Prophet Without Honor’ is that rare novel that provides a rich, entertaining and fully immersive reading experience, along with a resonant, thought-provoking subtext. Written in epistolary style and populated with interesting, fully-realized characters, the multi-general narrative is a seamless blend of authentic fact and sound speculation...Categorized as:
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Journeyman by Mark J. Rose
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerican scientist Matt Miller is torn from his own century and dropped into Colonial America with nothing except a backpack. His phone, his money and his identity are all useless and he quickly finds that he is foreign and alone in his own country. Matt must meet the challenge to survive in a newly forming society where he seemingly has no relevant skills and no one he can count on...Categorized as:
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1636: The Ottoman Onslaught by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun... -
The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSweeping across generations from the 1600s to the present day and inspired by the true story of the leader of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, Nicola Cornick’s latest historical mystery combines past and present story lines that fans of Philippa Gregory and Susanna Kearsley will devour.1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family...Categorized as:
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Valley Forge by Newt Gingrich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn To Try Men's Souls, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation, George Washington.Valley Forge picks up the narrative a year after Washington’s triumphant surprise attack on Trenton, and much has changed since then. It’s the winter of 1777, and Washington’s battered, demoralized army retreats from Philadelphia...Categorized as:
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Of Silk and Steam by Bec McMaster
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEnemies. Allies. Lovers.When her beloved father was assassinated, Lady Aramina swore revenge. The man responsible is well beyond her grasp, but his dangerously seductive heir, Leo Barrons, is fair game. When Mina obtains evidence proving that Leo is illegitimate, she has the means to destroy both the killer and his son, a man who troubles her heart and tempts her body...Categorized as:
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My Lady Quicksilver by Bec McMaster
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetermined to destroy the Echelon she despises, Rosalind Fairchild is on seemingly easy mission. Get in. Uncover the secrets of her brother's disappearance. And get out.In order to infiltrate the Nighthawks and find their leader, Sir Jasper Lynch, Rosalind will pose as their secretary...Categorized as:
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All Clear by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the... -
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence—and the key to their survival—from the acclaimed author of Pet.After a very different outcome to WWII than the one history recorded, 1979 England is a country ruled by a government whose aims have sinister underpinnings and alliances...Categorized as:
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The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
Stalin's Hammer: Paris by John Birmingham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe future vs the past. History is at war with itself in this popular alternate history. The Soviet Union controls half of Europe and supreme dictator Joseph Stalin wants the rest. Only Prince Harry can stop him and the super weapon he has developed... -
Maid of Baikal by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919? MAID OF BAIKAL offers an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention of Zhanna Dorokhina, a young woman from the shores of Siberia’s Lake Baikal... -
The Children's War by J.N. Stroyar
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeter has had more identities than he can remember and suffered pains and humiliations he longs to forget. But, whether spy or prisoner, slave or propaganda tool, none of his roles has brought the one thing he wants above all: freedom. THE CHILDREN'S WAR Bad papers. That's how Peter's nightmare began... -
Acts of War by James L. Young Jr.
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomehow I doubt that this is quite how anyone expected Adolf Hitler's death to turn out...--Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, No. 303 (Polish) SquadronAugust 1942. London is in flames. Heinrich Himmler's Germany stands triumphant in the West, its "Most Dangerous Enemy" forced to the peace table by a hailstorm of nerve gas and incendiaries...Categorized as:
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Midnight on the Marne by Sarah Adlakha
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha’s Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices.France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Marchand has important secrets to keep...Categorized as:
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Rebel Magisters by Shanna Swendson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTea, Love ... and Revolution!The Rebel Mechanics aren’t the only group plotting revolution against the magical British Empire. There are rebel magisters, as well, and Verity Newton and her magister employer, Lord Henry, know that the only way for the revolution to succeed is if both groups work together... -
A Lady of Spirit by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you? Under normal circumstances, Maggie and Lizzie would be delighted to meet their long-lost relatives and be reunited with those who had believed them dead, but when are the Mopsies’ circumstances ever to be considered normal? With her half-brother Claude Seacombe, Lizzie travels to Cornwall to meet her mother’s parents... -
Noblesse Oblige by Maiwenn Alix
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Très chers téléspectateurs, bienvenue dans cette nouvelle saison de Noblesse Oblige !"La révolution de 1789 n'ayant pas abouti, la France est dirigée par le Roi Louis XXI. La monarchie autoritaire s'assure néanmoins le soutien du peuple en mettant en scène son faste et sa cour dans des émissions de téléréalité. " Noblesse oblige " est la plus regardée d'entre elles...Categorized as:
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A Girl in Time by John Birmingham, Vanessa Johansson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe past is another country. A dangerous one. On the eve of a huge, breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world, and time itself, by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost two hundred years ago. Cady McCall is ready to be rich and famous. She’s sacrificed everything, putting her work ahead of family and friends...Categorized as:
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The Queen Is Dead by Kate Locke
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing lasts forever---and immortality isn't all its cracked up to be.When her brother Val gets in over his head in an investigation of Half-Blood disappearances and goes missing himself, it's up to Xandra, newly crowned Goblin Queen, to get him back and bring the atrocities to light... -
Forged by Desire by Bec McMaster
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fear she can't escape....Nine years ago, Perry fled her thrall contract to find sanctuary among the Nighthawks. In that time, she's become a respected member of the Guard, and she's wanted Garrett Reed for as long as she can remember. But when a new case takes a chillingly familiar turn, Perry finds herself once again in the path of a madman...only this time, there's nowhere left to run...Categorized as:
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Time's Divide by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear...Categorized as:
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Time's Edge by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTo stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people...Categorized as:
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Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come... -
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Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
Time's Echo by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Kindle exclusive novella, set in the world of Rysa Walker's Timebound. Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he's never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn't understand why Kate can't remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World's Fair Hotel... -
The Janus Affair by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCertainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned to observe a fellow passenger aboard Britain's latest hypersteam train suddenly vanish in a dazzling bolt of lightning. They soon discover this is not the only such disappearance - every case inexplicably unexamined by the Crown... -
Time's Mirror by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe only things on Prudence Pierce's mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna...Categorized as:
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The Defector by Chris Hadfield
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIsrael, late 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below . . . and promptly disappears...Categorized as:
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Polostan by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora... -
Red, White, and the Blues by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe United States’ past is hijacked in a time-warping adventure of future interdimensional, high-risk games by the bestselling author of the CHRONOS series.History is turned inside out when off-world travelers challenge Tyson Reyes and Madi Grace to a real-life game of Temporal Dilemma... -
West by Lizzy Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you could change history, would you?College graduate Josephine “Josie” Jackson answers ‘yes’ to the question on a survey while visiting an Old West tourist trap. The next morning, she wakes up in Indian Territory in the 1840s, where she’s given a mission to complete before she can return to her time: to reset history by finding and stopping the man responsible for a horrific massacre...Categorized as:
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Rebels Rising by Shanna Swendson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRisking all for freedom – and love.The governor has disbanded the Colonial Assembly, removing the last shred of representative government from American shores. The Rebel Mechanics and their magister allies can’t let the Empire get away with that. The time has come to act... -
1637: The Peacock Throne by Eric Flint, Griffin Barber
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe latest entry in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric FlintThe emperor is dead; long live the emperors! The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag the Mughal Empire into a three-sided struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne... -
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1636: The Atlantic Encounter (Ring of Fire Book 28) by Eric Flint, Walter H. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt has taken almost five years for the United States of Europe to stabilize its position in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World, where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast lands and rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations powerful enough to rule and control them—and equal incentive for other nations to block their path... -
Theater of Spies by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back... -
The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereDr. Donald Ellis lost his family on 9/11. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn...Categorized as:
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The Book of Disappearance: A Novel by Ibtisam Azem
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel...Categorized as:
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Melophobia by James Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMelophobia: fear or hatred of music.The time—now; the place—America, but in a world where the government controls all forms of art and creativity. Any music sowing the seeds of anarchy is banned—destroyed if found—its creators and listeners harshly punished...Categorized as:
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Kingdom of Chains by Tanya Bird
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was trained to please. He was trained to kill.Isabel Maddock is living a lie. She is betrothed to a man she loathes, living in a place she does not belong. But the home she craves no longer exists, and the people from her youth are gone. Or are they? The wastelands are calling, but they are not for the faint of heart. Luckily a certain defender is close by to keep her safe. Very close...Categorized as:
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