Alternate History

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

In a future where memory is currency, truth is weaponized, and forgetting is survival, one woman must uncover the identity she once chose to erase—before the past catches up to destroy her.

In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for listeners of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.

In this Hugo Award–winning alternative history classic—the basis for the Amazon Original series—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews...

For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing bodies, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him....

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

Loyalties are tested in this slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy following an assassin and a healer forced to work together to cure a fatal disease, all while resisting the urge to kill each other—or, worse, fall in love. When Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, falls...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own...

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times...

A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A fiery feminist fantasy tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. "Ferociously...

Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024 Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024 This program is read by the author. "Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the...

Ten years have passed since the story began. Ivan Morozov is no longer the prey—he has become the hunter. He's done adapting to circumstances—his goal now is to rise above them and shape the world to his will. But will his newfound power test the limits of his humanity? Can he resist the...

A blazing novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a remarkable evocation of feeling in exile at home and introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times....

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, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon...

Terry Fairway came back from the Underworld stronger, faster—changed. But the power he won came at a cost. He saved a world. He might have damned his own.

Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it....

In Jonathan Maberry's The Dragon Factory, Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) face their deadliest threat yet when they go up against two competing groups of geneticists bent on world domination. One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced...

Temeraire * Book 2 When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon...

The people of the principality of Liechtenstein have long wished for independence, but the Empire has always had its own plans for the country. The neighboring states, meanwhile, have kept a constant eye on the principality, as if it were their own property.

When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger - these are some of the luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín...

Following Jason's evolution into a Keeper, he finds his fledgling city once again in turmoil. A new and deadly enemy threatens the Twilight Throne - one that has no difficulty contending with Jason and the members of Original Sin....

* Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, The New York Times, Fresh Air (top 10 pick), NPR, the Los Angeles Times (top 15 pick),The Washington Post, and more! The...

At the height of the Vietnam War, a search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon....

Medea, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and beaten and tormented by her brother and father. All because Medea was born with a unique and seemingly dangerous talent: witchcraft.

The first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next—a New York Times bestseller!In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice)...

Ten years have passed since the story began. Ivan Morozov is no longer the prey—he has become the hunter. He's done adapting to circumstances—his goal now is to rise above them and shape the world to his will.

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

An engineer finds himself in an Alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A. D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron. James Fletcher continues on his world conquest. He has realized that nothing short of world domination will allow him to live in peace. No matter how he expands, the new neighbors will covet his goods and lands.

Imagine a horse-powered world where magic is used for mending, making, and healing. Magical ability is rare, but Ky Vaux—a peasant boy from a poor family—can not only mend and make, but is extremely powerful and hopes to fulfill his dream of working as a healer. Ky’s gift of magic is now supporting Ky, his mother, his sister, and even his cousins. But for Ky, taking care of his family isn’t enough. He wants to help others, the poor children of the city and those who're being tortured by a sadistic noble …

For fans of Emma Cline and Emily St. John Mandel, Westward Women is a hypnotic and hopeful debut—part fever dream, part dystopian road trip that claws its way toward a jaw-dropping finale. This program features multicast narration and light sound design. "An audacious first novel to set beside...

Nineteenth-century art expert Derryn Witt documents an impossible find: gorgeously detailed paintings depicting the modern world…from 1859. But when a massive solar flare forces a shutdown of all integrated technology, her discovery is jeopardized. The threat intensifies when a group of rebels attack the college, their movement resting upon the rejection of technology. Derryn flees to New York with the help of a sympathetic Sovereign, under the guise of being one herself.

Terrorgon was our enemy, our nemesis, our doom and our doomsday. According to popular legend, it had roamed our world in the elder days, when pagan gods still ruled. After a fierce war, those false gods threw those monsters into the abyss, chaining them down there forever. Apparently, forever hadn’t been nearly long enough. Now, without lesser gods to handle the challenge, the only thing standing between us and Armageddon was the government. Which did we fear more? I couldn’t say. Meanwhile, I was just a guy trying to get along, keeping my head down, yet always helping the next guy. ...

1943 – Sverdlovsk Moscow has fallen. The Red Army staggers. And a new war—far greater than the last—looms over the frozen continent. In the bitter spring of 1943, Allied and German forces fought their way into the Soviet capital after months of brutal siege and relentless street-to-street combat. Stalin barely escapes the collapsing city, carrying with him a shattered government, a terrified inner circle, and a country on the brink of civil war. As Stalin retreats east to Sverdlovsk and the Allies entrench around the ruins of Moscow, China seizes its chance. Mao Zedong unleashes a ...

Rufius has spent the last 15 years believing he was a Vixlingr—a changeling. Raised in Jorvik by a Viking blacksmith, his life is destined for servitude until the day he discovers a sword that would change his future.

I traveled twenty-two years into the past to change the future—to stop the nightmare threatening Earth. I founded the Syndicate, which has now grown into the world's most powerful organization. But recently, another group has risen to challenge us—the Clowns. They didn't exist in my previous life. The Clowns are mysterious, powerful, and dangerous—especially their leader, Lady Black. I can sense that she's hiding something.

Beyond the limits of what we perceive as reality lies an unseen architecture: Vast, intricate and deeply unsettling. This book: WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE DIMENSIONS by Henry Enrix, dares to pull back the veil, revealing a hidden multidimensional order that challenges everything we believe about Human existence. In this provocative exploration, the familiar 3rd. Dimension is exposed as only a fraction of a much larger system, one in which Humanity may not be sovereign but instead subject to forces originating beyond our awareness. Enrix immerses readers in a cosmic landscape inhabited by ...

Never let the AI learn your worst fear. Teen genius Nadia Khan is ripped from her world by a rogue Quantum AI and thrown into the Quantiverse, where pirate ships, alien realms, deadly quests, and game-like rules turn survival into a fight she never asked for. At first, she is a summoned outsider struggling to stay alive. Then she learns the truth: she is tied to the Ring of Power, a legendary force shattered across hostile worlds, haunted ruins, broken starships, and war-torn corners of the galaxy. Every fragment could restore her strength. Every fragment could also get her killed. As Nadia...

A jukebox. A coin. One hundred songs. Each one is a door. Carson City, Nevada. Summer of 1992. A twelve-year-old boy arrives at his grandparents' house to spend the summer while his grandmother dies. His grandfather—a man who pulls weeds from dawn to noon without stopping and has never spoken about his past—keeps a 1953 Seeburg jukebox polished to a mirror shine in the corner of the living room. Nobody plays it. Until the boy drops a coin in the slot. Each song carries him backward—into the Catholic orphanage where his grandfather was abandoned at five, the streets of San Francisco ...

1942 – AMERICA The war is over. But the world is far from peaceful. In the aftermath of the Pacific conflict that forced Japan’s surrender, the United States stands victorious—yet increasingly isolated. Europe is locked in a massive war as a united continent fights to stop the Soviet advance. China has emerged from civil war under Communist rule. Japan lies under American occupation, rebuilding quietly beneath watchful eyes. At home, a different revolution is beginning. Daniel “Big Dan” Wilson never intended to become a national figure. A six-foot-three restaurant owner from ...

An underground cult has struck a terrible blow to humanity. It's going to take a team of specialized forces Define them and take them down. But do they know enough about the enemy. Do they have the power And can they actually find the enemy when it's hidden so well. An exciting new an exciting new series of military action at its best

The second epic installment of the Obsidian Throne trilogy, an epic fantasy of betrayal, memory, and the fight for an empire, in which a prince and a witch must find a way to burn the world to the ground in order to raise it up out of the ashes. An empress with vengeance in her heart Prince...

In 1912, a ship departed England bound for America — but it was never meant to arrive. As the cold deepened and ice appeared where no ice should exist, its course shifted without explanation, and within days the vessel sank into black waters. Yet death was not the destination. Carried beyond a continuous wall of ice stretching across the horizon, a lone survivor entered a hidden civilization that should not exist — a world beyond maps, beyond nations, beyond the sky itself. There he learned a devastating truth: the Earth he knew was only a fragment inside a far greater, administered ...

October 1849. Edgar Allan Poe dies in the streets of Baltimore under mysterious circumstances. History calls it a tragedy. But history is wrong. When inventor H. G. Wells receives a letter from the dead, he discovers a device that should not exist—a fragment of machinery capable of disturbing time itself. Determined to uncover the truth behind Poe’s final hours, Wells constructs the Chronoscope, a machine that can follow fractures in history. What he finds is far more dangerous than a single murder. To stop it, Wells assembles an unlikely alliance of the greatest literary minds of the ...

Two Allied Forces covert operatives and their hacker roommate Amy battle a Rogue AI network. Their mission: disable a hidden AI data center deep inside a mountain. Can they stop the spread of this Rogue AI before it controls the world and turns everyone into loyal obedient slaves? AI Wars is a science fiction techno thriller with romance and intrigue. Is AI a boon to humanity or the end of it?

The point of no return is here. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my job to keep the peace between the humans, Elven commoners, and Elven nobles under my command. So when one of the Elven nobles pushes things too far, it might mean civil war between the High Queen and the rebel nobles. But the civil war is itself a trap because the malignant wizards of Singularity have been preparing for this moment for a very, very long time...... and their deadliest weapons are ready.

Enfus Du has survived for centuries by hiding in plain sight. Burdened with a dangerous, unnatural connection to the physical world, he has learned the hard way that humanity fears what it cannot comprehend. Resigned to walking through history alone, he guards his secrets fiercely. Then she walks into his life and shatters the rules of his universe. Vrashna is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. She doesn't just move through the world; she dictates its very rhythm. Their connection is instant, electric, and utterly undeniable. For the first time in his endless life, Enfus isn't just surviving...

Alex leads the group in search of a human camp in the center of the valley. Everyone has their wits about them as they all know one false step could be fatal. Until now, their main enemies have been monsters and the Storm, but the Other Side has attracted plenty of attention from elsewhere and now it's not just creatures who the group have to look out for. A band of mercenaries is heading their way....

1943: Moscow The Red Empire is dying—slowly, violently, and unwilling to accept its fate. After the brutal winter of 1942, the Allied powers stand on the edge of their greatest gamble: a march on Moscow itself. From the ruins of Minsk to the shattered lines of Smolensk, British Comets, German Panthers, French mechanised brigades, and Polish liberators carve their way east through the collapsing armies of Stalin’s tyranny. But Russia will not fall quietly. Across the frozen plains, the Soviets pour every last soldier, tank, militia fighter and NKVD enforcer into the Mozhaisk defensive ...

The American Civil War: Following the election of anti-slavery President-elect Abraham Lincoln, the Southern States of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas have all officially left the United States of America. Lincoln follows up with the call for a 75,000-soldier army to be levied to invade the South and suppress the breakaway states. The move is quickly followed by Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, which have not yet seceded, to join the Confederacy rather than supply troops to fight their Southern neighbors.

Ich heiße Michael Kaiser und in mir arbeiten Nanomaschinen. Aber das wusstet ihr bereits. Das unerwartete Auftauchen meiner übermächtigen Urgroßmutter zwingt mich, meine Pläne zu ändern. Denn ein Wort von ihr würde genügen, um meine geliebte Familie ins Verderben zu stürzen. Alle fürchten sie aufgrund ihrer Stärke.