Alternate History Books
 Against the Day
 Against the Tide of Years
 Age of Tolerance
 Agent of Byzantium
 Almost America
 Alternate Americas
 Alternate Empires
 Alternate Generals
 Alternate Generals II
 Alternate Generals III
 Alternate Gettysburgs
 Alternate Heroes
 Alternate Kennedys
 Alternate Outlaws
 Alternate Presidents
 Alternate Skiffy
 Alternate Tyrants
 Alternate Warriors
 Alternate Wars
 American Empire: Blood and Iron
 American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
 American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
 American Indian Victories
 Anno Dracula
 Anti-Ice
 Anvil of Necessity
 Apacheria
 Aztec Century
 Back in the USSA
 Battle of the Bulge
 The Best Alternate History Stories
 The Big One
 Black Powder War
 Bloody Red Baron
 A Book of Alternate Worlds
 Bring the Jubilee
 Britannia's Fist
 Budspy
 The Burning Mountain
 By Any Other Fame
 Camelot Revisited
 A Change of Regime
 Children of Apollo
 The Children's War
 Clash of Eagles
 Cold War Hot
 Collaborator
 Colonization: Aftershocks
 Colonization: Down to Earth
 Colonization: Second Contact
 The Company of the Dead
 The Confederate States of America
 Conquistador
 Counterclockwise
 Cracken at Critical
 The Crystal Empire
 A Dangerous Energy
 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
 Days of Infamy
 Death is Lighter Than a Feather
 Departures
 Designated Targets
 Desperate Times
 The Difference Engine
 A Different Flesh
 Disaster at D-Day
 A Disturbance of Fate
 Dixie Victorious
 The Domination
 Dragon America
 Drakas!
 Drakon
 El Sombra
 Empire of Fear
 Empire of Ivory
 End of the Beginning
 Farthing
 Fatherland
 Fiends of the Eastern Front
 Fiends of the Rising Sun
 Final Impact
 For Want of a Nail
 The Foresight War
 Fox at the Front
 Fox on the Rhine
 From The Heart Of The Storm
 Gettysburg
 Gettysburg: An Alternate History
 The Ghosts of Antietam
 Grant Comes East
 Grantville Gazette
 Grantville Gazette II
 Grantville Gazette III
 Grantville Gazette IV
 The Great Game
 Great War: American Front
 Great War: Breakthroughs
 Great War: Walk in Hell
 Guns of the South
 The Hammer and the Cross
 Hannibal's Children
 Ha'penny
 His Majesty's Dragon
 History Revisited
 Hitler Options
 Hitler Triumphant
 Hitler Victorious
 Homeward Bound
 How Few Remain
 The Human Front
 Human Nature
 If Hitler Had Won
 If It Had Happened Otherwise
 If The South Had Won The Civil War
 In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
 In the Morning
 In the Presence of Mine Enemies
 Invasion
 Invasion!
 The Iron Dream
 Iron Maiden
 Island in the Sea of Time
 Judgment of Tears
 K
 Lee At Chattanooga
 Lest Darkness Fall
 Leviathan Rising
 The Lion is Humbled
 Lion's Blood
 The Lion's Way
 Luftwaffe Victorious
 MacArthur's War
 Making History
 The Man in the High Castle
 The Man With the Iron Heart
 Marching Through Georgia
 McGwire the Pitcher
 Midas Sheffield & Co.
 Ministry of Space
 Moon of Ice
 A More Perfect Union
 More What If?
 The Moscow Option
 Naked Presidents
 The Napoleon Options
 Never Call Retreat
 New Zealand As It Might Have Been
 A Nomad of the Time Streams
 On the Oceans of Eternity
 One Lamp
 Operation Lucifer
 The Other Teddy Roosevelts
 Pacific Empire
 Pavane
 Pearl Harbor
 The Peshawar Lancers
 Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
 The Plot Against America
 President Gore
 Prime Minister Portillo...
 The Probability Broach
 The Proteus Operation
 A Rebel In Time
 Rebel Nation
 Red Sun
 Resurrection Day
 Return to Eden
 Revisions
 Ring of Fire
 Ring of Fire II
 Rising Sun Victorious
 Roads Not Taken
 Ruled Britannia
 Russian Amerika
 The Separation
 Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
 Settling Accounts: The Grapple
 Settling Accounts: In at the Death
 Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
 Severed Wing
 The Shadow of the Storm
 The Sky People
 The Sound of His Horn
 Spirit of Thunder
 SS-GB
 Stars and Stripes Forever
 Stars and Stripes In Peril
 Stars and Stripes Triumphant
 The Stone Dogs
 Things Unborn
 Third Reich Victorious
 Throne of Jade
 Through the Night
 To Bring the Light
 The Tranquility Alternative
 A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
 The Trinity Paradox
 Triumph
 Triumph of the Third Reich
 The Two Georges
 The Ultimate Solution
 Under the Yoke
 Unmaking the West
 Unnatural History
 Virtual History
 Voyage
 The Way It Wasn't
 Weapons of Choice
 West of Eden
 What If?
 What If? 2
 What If? Australian History...
 What If The Babe
 What Ifs? Of American History
 What Might Have Been
 What Might Have Been: Vol 1
 What Might Have Been: Vol 2
 What Might Have Been: Vol 3
 What Might Have Been: Vol 4
 Winter in Eden
 A World of Difference
 Worlds of the Imperium
 Worldwar: In the Balance
 Worldwar: Striking the Balance
 Worldwar: Tilting the Balance
 Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance
 The Year the Cloud Fell
 The Years of Rice and Salt
 The Yiddish Policemen's Union
 Zulu Heart
 1632
 1633
 1634: The Baltic War
 1634: The Bavarian Crisis
 1634: The Galileo Affair
 1634: The Ram Rebellion
 1635: Cannon Law
 1635: The Dreeson Incident
 1812: The Rivers War
 1824: The Arkansas War
 1862
 1864
 1901
 1942: A Novel
 1945
 1945: A Novel
 '48
 
 
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A Study Guide to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen

Time Warner Audio
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Elizabeth Bennet's romance with Mr. Darcy comes to life in Austen's charming comedy of manners, in an audio package containing a helpful guide for students. Narrated by Sheila Allen, Roger Rees, and Francia DiMase.

His Majesty's Dragon

By Naomi Novik

Ballantine Books
Released: 2006-03-28
Kindle Edition (384 pages)

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Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.

When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future–and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.


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Weapons of Choice (The Axis of Time Trilogy, Book 1)

By John Birmingham

Ballantine Books
Released: 2005-04-26
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On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .

The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll—and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war.

Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor—led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance—have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they’ve never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada’s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable.

Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves—by their very presence—have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip—and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese.

What happens next is anybody’s guess—and everybody’s nightmare. . . .


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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

By Max Brooks

Random House Audio
Released: 2007-10-16
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“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”

Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.


Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war

“I found ‘Patient Zero’ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he’d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was ‘cursed.’ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy’s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.” —Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China


“‘Shock and Awe’? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t! That’s what happened that day outside New York City, that’s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn’t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They’re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!” —Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers


“Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.” —General Travis D’Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe


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Throne of Jade (Temeraire)

By Novik

Subterranean
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Victory of Eagles (Temeraire)

By Naomi Novik

Del Rey
Released: 2009-05-19
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For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon’s prime objective is the occupation of London. Unfortunately, the dragon Temeraire has been removed from military service–and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon’s forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war. If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain’s scattered resistance forces and take the fight to the enemy as never before–for king and country, and for their own liberty.

Black Powder War

By Naomi Novik

Ballantine Books
Released: 2006-05-30
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“A splendid series.”
–Anne McCaffrey

“Naomi Novik has done for the Napoleonic Wars what Anne McCaffrey did for science fiction: constructed an alternate reality in which dragons are real in a saga that is impressively original, fully developed, and peopled with characters you care about.”
–David Weber, author of the Honor Harrington series

After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty’s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. Time is of the essence if the eggs are to be borne home before hatching.

Yet disaster threatens the mission at every turn–thanks to the diabolical machinations of the Chinese dragon Lien, who blames Temeraire for her master’s death and vows to ally herself with Napoleon and take vengeance. Then, faced with shattering betrayal in an unexpected place, Laurence, Temeraire, and their squad must launch a daring offensive. But what chance do they have against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?


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Return Engagement (Settling Accounts Trilogy, Book 1)

By Harry Turtledove

Del Rey
Released: 2004-08-03
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Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles in 1949. He has taught ancient and medieval history at UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, and Cal State L.A., and has published a translation of a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several scholarly articles. He is also an award-winning full-time writer of science fiction and fantasy. His alternate history works have included several short stories and novels, including The Guns of the South; How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and Ruled Britannia. He is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca.

Empire of Ivory

By Naomi Novik

Ballantine Books
Released: 2007-09-25
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“A new writer is soaring on the wings of a dragon.”
–The New York Times

“Enthralling reading–it’s like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon’s Christopher Paolini.”
–Time, on His Majesty’s Dragon


Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons’ ranks–forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected–and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France’s ever bolder sorties.
Bonaparte’s dragons are already harrowing Britain’s ships at sea. Only one recourse remains: Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, must take wing to Africa, whose shores may hold the cure to the mysterious and deadly contagion. On this mission there is no time to waste, and no telling what lies in store beyond the horizon or for those left behind to wait, hope, and hold the line.


“A gripping adventure full of rich detail and the impossible wonder of gilded fantasy.”
–Entertainment Weekly, on His Majesty’s Dragon

“A thrilling fantasy . . . All hail Naomi Novik.”
–The Washington Post Book World, on His Majesty’s Dragon


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A Study Guide to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte

Hachette Audio
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Michael York narrates the dramatic story of the romance of Heathcliff and Catherine, set against the bleak landscape of the English moors, in a package that includes a study guide featuring glossary, character list, scene synopses, and review sources.

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