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When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the listener, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said. In the spirit of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, one of America’s foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: Constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called “The Blessing.”

The delightful legend of the Ong's Hat travel cult has been posted in the form of the Incunabula Papers since the earliest days of BBS and Internet communications. The mythos is an historical and cultural curiosity for that reason alone.

The first novel of the rise and fall of the Drakan Empire, an alternative history saga. In Marching Through Georgia, the Draka begin their conquest of the globe as they fight and best that more obvious horror, the Nazis.

The Fletcher family honey business teeters on the brink of bankruptcy as shipments from their eccentric matriarch's farm grow scarce. But Poppy refuses to let her family become destitute and she will do anything to get to the bottom of the mystery. However, on her aunt’s strange island, Poppy finds more questions than answers. The bees defy expectations, the farm is full of ancient creatures, and her aunt’s secrets run deeper than she originally suspected.

The year is 1992. The Third World War rages. With Central Europe locked in a bloody stalemate, the chaos boils over into Greece and Turkey, with NATO holding on by a thread against the Soviet onslaught. But the greatest twists of fate unfold behind the scenes. The United States Presidential election may upend the balance altogether, as America's citizens choose who will lead them into the maelstrom. But in Moscow, hidden forces within the Soviet Union finally make their bid for power.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's younger half-sister and student at the Grigori school within the capital of the New Holy Russian Empire in San Diego, is caught between secrets and powerful family struggles. As a distant relative to the Tsar, she provides an essential service to him by providing blood transfusions for his hemophilia, and she is thus given rare access and dismissed as if cattle. At the Grigori school she is seen as a charity case, a poor orphan with no prospects and no sign of magical prowess—the latter which Felicia keeps purposefully hidden.

1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor...

В 1227 году н. э. Темучжин, всемирно известный как Чингисхан, скоропостижно умер в своем шатре во время похода на Тангутское царство. Смерть его была неприятной, мучительной и весьма болезненной, но на этом ничего не кончилось. Хрип умирающего старика перетек в вопль новорожденного ребенка, раздавшийся в некой неприятного вида лачуге, где люди говорили на ином языке. И это был уже не 1227, а самый настоящий 396 год н. э. Западная Римская империя, императорская провинция Паннония перед вторжением гуннов.

An engineer finds himself in an alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron. A retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After a long illness, he lies dying. His last thought is, "What a waste of such wonderful knowledge." As he fades to black, the fun begins. He is to build a modern civilization without being burned as a witch!

The forces of the Warsaw Pact storm west over the Inner German Border and unleash devastation on the first days of the conflict. Among the NATO defenders of West Germany are Captain Kurt Mohr and his company of Leopard tanks. Outgunned and outnumbered, the men must conduct vital delaying operations until reinforcements can mobilize to stop the communists in their tracks.

I've traveled back twenty-two years to rewrite the future and stop the nightmare threatening Earth. An apocalypse looms, promising total annihilation. No one will be spared. Now the weight of the world rests on my shoulders; I'm the one tasked with changing everything. I have come back to the past, and in five days, on the twenty-sixth of April, the day of reckoning will arrive. The event that will happen will be known as the Eclipse in the future. It will divide the history of the Solar System into a before and after.

Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored land.

November 1288. Bereft of a king or rightful heir, England hurtles towards civil war for the second time in a generation. When David, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Lili, travel to London to attend the wedding of William de Bohun and Princess Joan, they have no intention of involving themselves in local politics. But as infighting leads to murder, David and Lili find themselves at the center of a far-reaching conspiracy.

Nichts weniger als die Ursprünge der Menschheit versuchen zwei Archäologen zu ergründen – Gillian, eine Amerikanerin, die überzeugt ist, dass sich all unser Verhalten auf Urinstinkte zurückführen lässt, und Philippe, ein Franzose, der im homo sapiens die Krönung der Schöpfung sieht. Ganz unbeabsichtigt kommen sie einander näher und stoßen auf die Überreste der letzten Neandertaler: Eine neue Welt tut sich auf und ein Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod, 40 000 Jahre vor unserer Zeit und uns doch so nah.

The close-knit community on Unholy Island is protected by ethereal wards, keeping the unusual residents and their secrets safe from prying eyes. But the island is more than a sanctuary for the magically-inclined and the not-quite-human, and when the mayor goes missing, the ramifications threaten the whole world…

Das ist nicht tot, das ewig liegt... bis dass der Tod die Zeit besiegt. In unserer Welt des Jahres 2005 sieht sich Professor Chomsky physikalischen Problemen gegenüber, die das Ende der Welt bedeuten könnten. Sarah Barretts Verlobter David Vaughn ist inzwischen ein Bestseller-Autor und schlachtet Verschwörungstheorien für seinen Erfolg aus, doch nie war er unglücklicher, denn er hat das Trauma, das Sarahs Verschwinden im Jahr 1990 bei ihm auslöste, nie überwunden. Der Junge beißt auf eine harte Nuss und erlangt eine Erkenntnis, auf die er lieber verzichtet hätte.

So faszinierend die humanoide Lebensform auch ist, so dringend muss sie vernichtet werden. Nach einem Terroranschlag herrscht auf dem friedlichen Planeten Patriam ein Bürgerkrieg. Gewaltsam konnte der Erlöser Balendin die Vorherrschaft über den Mond Aurum erlangen, der die Quelle des Lebens – Divinus – in sich beherbergt. Die Aufständischen haben die Regierung gestürzt. Die Hauptstadt Oppida Prima ist Schauplatz dieses grausamen Krieges. In dem herrschenden Chaos versucht Ordnungshüter Peregrin mit dem Widerstand die geheimen Pläne des Erlösers zu durchkreuzen.

Caesar is the praetorian governor of Further Spain when war breaks out against a rebel with a familiar name: Quintus Sertorius. The late Roman rebel left a half-Iberian son behind, and now he's determined to win freedom for his people. But there's one problem: Gaius Julius Caesar is in his way.

In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world, Ensign Sam Houston, just turned 21, led the charge on the creek barricade in that battle and almost died from a terrible wound that took him a year to recover from. In this world, his wound is minor, so he is able to continue fighting the British—and develop his close relationship with Andrew Jackson much sooner.