29 Best Alternative History Books
Alternative History is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Alternative History audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Alternative History audiobooks below.
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The Gates of Tagmeth
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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4.38(200 ratings)
4.38(200 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDDestruction is in Jame Knorth’s nature. Literally. She is the avatar of a god known as That-Which-Destroys, the god of chaos and ruin. Yet Jame is also a noblewoman within an ancient race, and the designated heir of her twin brother TorisenDestruction is in Jame Knorth’s nature. Literally. She is the avatar of a god known as That-Which-Destroys, the god of chaos and ruin. Yet Jame is also a
noblewoman within an ancient race, and the designated heir of her twin brother Torisen Knorth, High Lord of the Kencyrath. Jame’s people are fleeing, world by
world, from a terrible enemy that has pursued them through a multitude of universes. Its name is Perimal Darkling.Obeying instructions from her brother, Jame sets out with a force of Southron warriors to reestablish the long-fallen castle keep of Tagmeth. By Jame’s side is
Lyra, a devious Kencyrath noble girl who is determined not to be forced into a marriage with a man she despises. Jame’s old friends Mark and Brier Iron-thorn
stand with her, as well: Marc, steward and organizer of Jame’s household and Brier, the only captain under her command wholly sworn to support Jame no
matter the cost. Jame finds more allies in the forest surrounding the ancient keep where the wild people of the woodlands, the Merikit, hold court. And Jame’s
adopted mother, Gran Cyd, matriarch and queen of the Merikit, may once again provide the voice of calm that Jame requires to survive her own tempestuous nature.Jame sets about establishing Tagmeth as an outpost against the gathering power of Perimal Darkling. But Tagmeth hides a secret, a gateway to a mystery
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that may save this world from eternal darkness–or plunge it to destruction and ruin all the sooner. It is up to Jame to find her way through Perimal Darkling’s
traps, and to come to terms with the god of pandemonium and destruction within her who grows stronger every day. If she succeeds it may be that Perimal Darkling
can finally be defeated after eons of fear and flight. And if she fails, yet another world will fall to darkness forever. -
The Emperor’s Fist
- By: Jay Allan
- Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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4.38(141 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn this thrilling new installment in the Far Stars saga, a reluctant hero with a bloody past must reunite with an old love to battle an evil emperor willing to destroy all their worlds if he cannot control them. When the Far Stars came underIn this thrilling new installment in the Far Stars saga, a reluctant hero with a bloody past must reunite with an old love to battle an evil emperor willing to destroy all their worlds if he cannot control them.
When the Far Stars came under imperial attack, Astra Lucerne–the daughter and successor of the Far Stars’ greatest conqueror–Marshal Augustin Lucerne–rallied her father’s confederation forces to defend their worlds. They were joined in the fight by former imperial general Arkarin Blackhawk, a warrior whose skills and brutality made him infamous, and who has, for two decades, sought the redemption he knows is unreachable.
Now, with the imperial foothold in the sector eliminated, the Far Stars is free and almost united. While Astra’s forces continue to depose local tyrants and warlords, Ark and his crew have slipped back into the shadows. Though his heart belongs to Astra, Ark cannot get too close. His imperial conditioning remains under control, but it is still volatile, and the temptation of power threatens to unleash the dark compulsions that made him the most merciless of the emperor’s servants. He cannot risk allowing Astra to see the darkness inside him.
But while the battle has been won, the war may not be over. A petty smuggler makes a discovery that can enable the emperor to strike back and crush the resistance–unless Ark and Astra join forces again to stop him.
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Honor’s Paradox
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
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4.35(587 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDJame is one of the last of the Kencyrath line, born to battle a world-destroying Lord of Darkness and resuscitate her ancestral heritage. Jame’s youth was spent hard and low in a desert wasteland. Now she has discovered her past and herJame is one of the last of the Kencyrath line, born to battle a world-destroying Lord of Darkness and resuscitate
her ancestral heritage. Jame’s youth was spent hard and low in a desert wasteland. Now she has discovered her past and
her heritage as Highborn–and, with it, the power to call souls out of their bodies and slay the occasional god or two
(as well as to resurrect them).First, though, Jame must survive the politics and dangers of haunted Tentir College, a school for warriors where
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she’s a student. At Tentir, Jame saves a young protege from possession by a powerful, evil soul in search of a body, while
combating jealous students who see her as a danger to their ambition for power and want her expelled–and blinded
and dead, in the bargain! To make matters worse, she’s challenged to a mounted combat duel to decide who is Tentir
“top gun”–a competition she must win to graduate. It’s trial by fire, as Jame moves closer to a magnificent destiny she
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The Sea of Time
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 17 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 22, 2020
- Language: English
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4.34(361 ratings)
4.34(361 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDNew novel in the Kencyrath series, sequel to Honor’s Paradox. Adventure in a well-crafted high fantasy land. Kothifir the Great, ruled by an obscenely obese god-king, peopled with colorful, dueling guilds, guarded by the Southern Host of theNew novel in the Kencyrath series, sequel to Honor’s Paradox. Adventure in a well-crafted high fantasy land.
Kothifir the Great, ruled by an obscenely obese god-king, peopled with colorful, dueling guilds, guarded by the
Southern Host of the Kencyrath. Here Jame arrives, only to find that the turbulent city claims more of her attention
as the Talisman than the Host’s training fields do as a second year randon cadet.Mysteries abound: Caravans plunge deep into the hostile Southern Wastes and return laden with fabulous riches–
from what source, and why do they crumble to dust if not claimed by the god-king’s touch? Karnids from Urakarn
prowl the shadows, preaching the return of their mysterious prophet. An unstable Kencyr temple rumbles in the outer,
decayed rings of the city. Then too, someone in the Host’s camp is trying to get Jame killed.In order to save the present, Jame must search the past, be it fifteen years ago when as a boy her brother Torisen
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arrived here, unknown and unwanted, or three thousand years ago when the Wastes were a great sea ringed with rich
civilizations. Somehow, Tori survived. Somehow, the cities of the plain were destroyed in one catastrophic night. Now
Kothifir’s gods have lost their power and its proud towers are falling. What curse out of the past has struck it? Jame, a
potential Nemesis, must try to stop the destruction–without undoing time itself. -
To Ride a Rathorn
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 20 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 05, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(757 ratings)
4.33(757 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDP. C. Hodgell’s latest high fantasy novel is the sequel to Seeker’s Mask, which in turn follows God Stalk and Dark of the Moon (collected in the Meisha Merlin omnibus Dark of the Gods). These are the chronicles of JamethielP. C. Hodgell’s latest high fantasy novel is the sequel to Seeker’s Mask, which in turn follows God Stalk and
Dark of the Moon (collected in the Meisha Merlin omnibus Dark of the Gods).These are the chronicles of Jamethiel Priest’s-bane, otherwise known as Jame, as she struggles to find a place in a
universe full of danger, intrigue, and more than a bit of downright lunacy. The current novel’s title To Ride a Rathorn,
comes from the Kencyr phrase that refers to someone attempting something insane, but it is too dangerous for them
to stop. The reference is also to a certain young rathorn (think of an armor-plated, carnivorous unicorn with a nasty
temper) who is after Jame for killing his mother and about to catch up with her.At Tentir, Jame faces cut-throat competition and finds even more buried, poisonous family secrets. Not only is
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the Caineron heir sent to humiliate her, but a charming Ardeth Highborn arrives hell-bent on seducing her. Then
too, what is she to make of the mysterious White Lady who haunts her dreams, or of the growling monster that
prowls Tentir’s hallways and is said to eat young cadets for breakfast? For she is learning Tentir has secrets of its own,
and it is fighting for its soul. Under political pressure that threatens to compromise its independence, it looks to its
Commandant, an honorable man; but also a Caineron. As the college tests Jame, so she tests it. “Some things need to
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Bound in Blood
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 26, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(715 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhen Jame returned to Knorth hall to help her brother Torisen name all the fallen fighters’ death banners stored there, she made the disturbing discovery that those banners splattered with their owners’ blood also have trapped theirWhen Jame returned to Knorth hall to help her brother Torisen name all the fallen fighters’ death banners stored
there, she made the disturbing discovery that those banners splattered with their owners’ blood also have trapped their
owners’ souls. She also found a contract proving her cousin Kindrie to be legitimate, proving that there are three fullblooded Knorth. Three full-blooded Knorth means that the Three-Faced God can be manifested–something that
none of the three are likely to want to do, if they have any choice in the matter.Returning with this unwelcome knowledge to school at Tentir, Jame continued to dodge the attentions of an
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unwanted admirer, strengthen her link to her feline hunting ounce, work with the rathorn colt Death’s-head to insure
that it doesn’t resume its attempts to kill her, and, of course, kept causing plenty of unintended havoc. She also had to
help fight off attacks from hillmen, repel a stampede of yarkcarn (think warthogs the size of mammoths), fight in the
Winter War (a mock conflict–or, at least, that’s how it was supposed to be), and solve the mystery behind the death
of her evil uncle, who somehow is still spectrally manifesting himself in nasty ways. No doubt about it–Jame is back,
and with a vengeance, as the popular and critically-praised fantasy adventure series continues. -
All the Plagues of Hell
- By: Eric Flint
- Length: 19 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 24, 2020
- Language: English
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4.31(53 ratings)
4.31(53 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDOrkise is loose. The snake-god of plague has been awakened by Lucia del Maino, the bastard daughter of the recently overthrown duke of Milan, Phillipo Visconti. With the venomous magic of Orkise at her command, Lucia plots to marry and then murderOrkise is loose. The snake-god of plague has been awakened by Lucia del Maino, the bastard daughter of the recently overthrown duke of Milan, Phillipo Visconti. With the
venomous magic of Orkise at her command, Lucia plots to marry and then murder the usurper who now rules Milan, the condottiere Carlo Sforza–known to friend and foe alike as the Wolf the North.Other trouble is brewing as well. Sforza has his own bastard, Benito Valdosta, who is returning to Venice after having conquered the Byzantine empire. Benito has a score to
settle with his father, and he will have the help of his half-brother Marco, who is the embodiment of ancient Etruria’s mighty Winged Lion of Saint Mark.Adding further to Sforza’s predicament, yet another power has entered the fray. The terrifying sorcerer Count Mindaug has decided to settle in Milan. Will he ally with Sforza, or
oppose him? Either will bring trouble, for if Mindaug aids the usurper he will arouse the fury of the Holy Roman Empire and the Knights of the Holy Trinity. Both of those great
forces have sworn to destroy Mindaug and anyone who shelters him.On his side, Sforza has only the skill and cunning of his physician, Francisco Turner–who is on good terms with the Valdosta brothers and may be able to neutralize Venetian
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hostility. But even if he can, will that be enough to save the Wolf of the North? For out there in the countryside of northern Italy, Orkise is uncoiling all the plagues of hell. -
The Winter Garden
- By: Nicola Cornick
- Narrator: Emma Craig
- Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: October 25, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(259 ratings)
4.29(259 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDSweeping 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 PhilippaSweeping 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. Her son, the darkly charismatic Robert, is secretly plotting to kill the king, placing his wife and child in grave danger. Anne must make a terrible choice: betray her only child or risk her family’s security…and her very life.
Present Day: When her dreams of becoming a musician are shattered, Lucy takes refuge in her family’s ancestral home in Oxfordshire. Everyone knows it was originally home to the notorious gunpowder plotter Robert Catesby. As Lucy spends more time in the beautiful winter garden that Robert made, she starts to have strange visions of a woman in Tudor dress, terrified and facing a heartbreaking dilemma.
As Lucy’s and Anne’s stories converge, a shared secret that has echoed through the centuries separating them will change Lucy’s life forever…
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In Fury Born
- By: David Weber
- Length: 31 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 19, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(5500 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.99 USDUnleash the Fury! Zhikotse. Shallingsport. Louvain. Sacred fields of battle on far-flung worlds where warriors of the Imperial Cadre spent blood and lives defending human civilization. Alicia DeVries was there; she led the charge. Her reward:Unleash the Fury!
Zhikotse. Shallingsport. Louvain. Sacred fields of battle on far-flung worlds where warriors of the Imperial Cadre spent blood and lives defending human civilization. Alicia DeVries was there; she led the charge. Her reward: Betrayal by a
deceitful empire. Retirement to obscurity.Now Alicia is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her frontier-world family. Not since the mighty Achilles has the ancient spirit of the Fury Tisiphone taken up residence inside a human being. But not since Achilles has a warrior so skilled, so
implacable, and possessing so much battle sense sprung up among the mass of humankind. Hero of the Empire. Holder of the Banner of Terra.There is a blood price to be paid. The Fury has awakened.
An elite warrior in a line stretching to the U.S. Marines of old Earth is born and comes into her power in a mega-novel of heroism and adventure by multiple New York Times bestseller David Weber, creator of the Honor Harrington saga!
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Changeling’s Island
- By: Dave Freer
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 10, 2019
- Language: English
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4.29(84 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDTeenager Tim Ryan comes into his own as he faces danger on a remote Australia island where magic lurks in land and sea. Dragon Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel and for Best Fantasy Novel! Tim Ryan can’t shake the feeling that he isTeenager Tim Ryan comes into his own as he faces danger on a remote Australia island where magic lurks in land and sea. Dragon Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel and for Best Fantasy Novel! Tim Ryan can’t shake the feeling that he is different from other teens, and not in a good way. For one thing, he seems to have his own personal poltergeist that causes fires and sets him up to be arrested for shoplifting. As a result Tim has been sent to live on a rundown farm on a remote island off the coast of Australia with his crazy grandmother, a woman who seems to talk to the local spirits, and who refuses to cushion Tim from facing his difficulties. To make matters worse, Tim is expected to milk cows, chase sheep, and hunt fish with a spear. But he’s been exiled to an island alive with ancient magic-land magic that Tim can feel in his bones, and sea magic that runs in his blood. If Tim can face down the danger from drug-runners, sea storms, and the deadly threat of a seal woman who wishes to steal him away for a lingering death in the land of Faery, he may be able to claim the mysterious changeling heritage that is his birthright, and take hold of a legacy of power beyond any he has ever imagined.
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The Guns of Empire
- By: Django Wexler
- Narrator: Django Wexler
- Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 09, 2016
- Language: English
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4.28(4415 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDFourth in the “audacious and subversive”* Shadow Campaigns novels, following The Price of Valor, The Shadow Throne, and the acclaimed The Thousand Names. After their defeats at the hands of general Janus bet Vhalnich, the opposing powersFourth in the “audacious and subversive”* Shadow Campaigns novels, following The Price of Valor, The Shadow Throne, and the acclaimed The Thousand Names. After their defeats at the hands of general Janus bet Vhalnich, the opposing powers have called all sides to the negotiating table, in hopes of securing an end to the war. Queen Raesinia of Vordan is anxious to see the return of peace, but Janus insists that any peace with the Sworn Church of Elysium is doomed to fail. Soldiers Marcus d’Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass find themselves caught between their general and their queen. Now, each must decide which leader truly commands their loyalty-and what price they might pay for final victory. And in the depths of Elysium, a malign force is rising-and defeating it might mean making sacrifices beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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The Infernal Battalion
- By: Django Wexler
- Narrator: Django Wexler
- Length: 21 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 09, 2018
- Language: English
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4.27(2907 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDMilitary might and arcane powers clash in Wexler’s fifth action-packed Shadow Campaigns novel. The Beast, the ancient demon imprisoned beneath Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed on the world. It absorbs mind after mind, spreadingMilitary might and arcane powers clash in Wexler’s fifth action-packed Shadow Campaigns novel. The Beast, the ancient demon imprisoned beneath Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed on the world. It absorbs mind after mind, spreading like a plague through the north. And it threatens the heart of Vordan. As Queen Raesinia Orboan and soldiers Marcus D’Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass grapple with the aftermath of a hard fought military campaign, they soon discover they have more than arcane powers to fear-it seems they cannot trust one of their own.
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The Price of Valor
- By: Django Wexler
- Narrator: Django Wexler
- Length: 20 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 07, 2015
- Language: English
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4.25(1915 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDIn the latest Shadow Campaigns novel, Django Wexler continues his “epic fantasy of military might and magical conflict” following The Shadow Throne and The Thousand Names, as the realm of Vordan faces imminent threats from without andIn the latest Shadow Campaigns novel, Django Wexler continues his “epic fantasy of military might and magical conflict” following The Shadow Throne and The Thousand Names, as the realm of Vordan faces imminent threats from without and within. In the wake of the King’s death, war has come to Vordan. The Deputies-General has precarious control of the city, but it is led by a zealot who sees traitors in every shadow. Executions have become a grim public spectacle. The new queen, Raesinia Orboan, finds herself nearly powerless as the government tightens its grip and assassins threaten her life. But she did not help free the country from one sort of tyranny to see it fall into another. Placing her trust with the steadfast soldier Marcus D’Ivoire, she sets out to turn the tide of history. As the hidden hand of the Sworn Church brings all the powers of the continent to war against Vordan, the enigmatic and brilliant general Janus bet Vhalnich offers a path to victory. Winter Ihernglass, newly promoted to command a regiment, has reunited with her lover and her friends, only to face the prospect of leading them into bloody battle. And the enemy is not just armed with muskets and cannon. Dark priests of an ancient order, wielding forbidden magic, have infiltrated Vordan to stop Janus by whatever means necessary .
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The Dance of Time
- By: Eric Flint
- Length: 16 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 03, 2020
- Language: English
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4.25(1746 ratings)
4.25(1746 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDBattle Across Time! Belasarius Apotheosis! Steamboats that launch Greek fire, telegraph lines connecting the battlefront on the Indus to ancient Constantinople, Byzantine palace plots aided by wireless devices: General Belasarius and hisBattle Across Time! Belasarius Apotheosis!
Steamboats that launch Greek fire, telegraph lines connecting the battlefront on the Indus to ancient Constantinople, Byzantine palace plots aided by wireless devices: General Belasarius and his battlehardened troops must advance quickly through the history of technology to stave off a coming age of ultimate darkness. And now–the epic final battle that will either give birth to or destroy Aide, Belasarius’s doughty crystalline advisor and humanity’s loyal friend!
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Eagle in Exile
- By: Alan Smale
- Narrator: Alan Smale
- Length: 19 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 22, 2016
- Language: English
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4.25(486 ratings)
4.25(486 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDPerfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale’s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now thePerfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale’s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the stunning story carries hero Gaius Marcellinus deeper into the culture of an extraordinary people-whose humanity, bravery, love, and ingenuity forever change his life and destiny. In AD 1218, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus is tasked with conquering North America and turning it into a Roman province. But outside the walls of the great city of Cahokia, his legion is destroyed outright; Marcellinus is the only one spared. In the months and years that follow, Marcellinus comes to see North America as his home and the Cahokians as his kin. He vows to defend these proud people from any threat, Roman or Native. After successfully repelling an invasion by the fearsome Iroqua tribes, Marcellinus realizes that a weak and fractured North America won’t stand a chance against the returning Roman army. Worse, rival factions from within threaten to tear Cahokia apart just when it needs to be most united and strong. Marcellinus is determined to save the civilization that has come to mean more to him than the empire he once served. But to survive the swords of Roma, he first must avert another Iroqua attack and bring the Cahokia together. Only with the hearts and souls of a nation at his back can Marcellinus hope to know triumph.
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Seeker’s Mask
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 19 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.24(771 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDObedience. Self-restraint Endurance. Silence. . . These are the duties of a Highborn lady, and like the veils, masks and tight-fitting underskirts female Kencyr students are obliged to wear, Jame finds them damnably constricting. Sent here by herObedience. Self-restraint Endurance. Silence. . . These are the duties of a Highborn lady, and like the veils, masks and tight-fitting underskirts female Kencyr students are obliged to wear, Jame finds them damnably constricting. Sent here by her brother Torisen, Highlord of the Kencyrath, she has tried valiantly to fit in, but the unruly girl can’t help throwing the quiet Women’s Halls into an uproar. It’s not entirely Jame’s fault, though. While Tori’s vain and vicious consort treats her like an underling, the Kencyr Matriarchs, determined to winnow out her secrets, scheme to use her to their own advantage. And her own brother wants nothing to do with her. On top of this, Shadow Guild assassins have come hunting her, eager to fulfill a long-held contract to dispose of the last of the powerful Knorth clan. It’s no wonder that Jame decamps. In the company of her telepathic hunting cat, Jorin, a runaway priestling named Kindrie, and a chance-met squad of cadets, she sets out to rescue a friend from a cruel and ambitious Kencyr lord who seeks the deadly Book Bound in Pale Leather. Dodging ghostwalkers and shadow assassins, riding weirdingstorms and peripatetic trees, Jame discovers that her life is tangled up in a much larger purpose. For the war against Perimal Darkling cannot resume until three terrible objects of power, and the avatars who will wield them, appear. And she just might be one of them. . . .
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Fortune’s Stroke
- By: Eric Flint
- Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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4.24(2015 ratings)
4.24(2015 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, journeys back in time to join forces with Belisarius, the greatest general of the sixth century, to stop Link, an evil supercomputer that is using its vast powers to rewrite history to create the powerful,Aide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, journeys back in time to join forces with Belisarius, the greatest general of the sixth century, to stop Link, an evil supercomputer that is using its vast powers to rewrite history to create the powerful, technologically advance Malwa Empire.
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By Demons Possessed
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 11, 2021
- Language: English
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4.24(119 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSOMETHING IS PREYING ON THE GODS OF TAI-TASTIGON A crucial moment draws nigh leading to the ultimate showdown between Jame Knorth and Perimal Darkling, the supernatural entity that has pursued Jame’s people, the Kencyr, across multipleSOMETHING IS PREYING ON THE GODS OF TAI-TASTIGON
A crucial moment draws nigh leading to the ultimate showdown between Jame Knorth and Perimal Darkling, the supernatural entity that has pursued Jame’s people, the Kencyr, across multiple universes, destroying all in its wake. Can the Kencyr finally make an effective stand, or will another world fall into shadow?But now news arrives from Tai-tastigon, the vast city that formed Jame into the master thief, wily fighter, and godling-in-the-making that she has become.
It seems something is preying on the gods of Tai-tastigon. The new Pantheon is falling, and the ancient city is in turmoil. The self-serving, beguiling demi-god leader of the Thieves Guild has coerced Jame into finding the soul of his missing brother by holding hostage people she loves. She reluctantly returns to find a Taitastigon in turmoil, with citizen pitted against citizen, and day and night-time folk at one another’s throats. It seems many in the vast Lower Town have lost their shadows–not so funny when you realize that a shadow is cast by a soul.
DISAPPEARING SOULS
Some of the affected have gone mad. Some wander like ravening wraiths, attacking even family members by tooth and nail. Which means something is taking–or destroying–souls in the city.What’s more, in the city’s Temple District fearful gods are finding their very beings drained. Some have become so diminished they hide in the robes of their priests like mewling babes. Across the city, murder and mayhem have erupted. But whatever demon-wrought madness is afoot in Tai-tastigon will have to face the ultimate avatar of the god That-Which-Destroys. That would be one Jame Knorth.
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The Armageddon Inheritance
- By: David Weber
- Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 22, 2020
- Language: English
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4.23(3638 ratings)
4.23(3638 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDJOB PRESSURE Colin MacIntyre’s life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, he’s been tapped for greater things, and he isn’t too sure he likes it. First he was kidnapped byJOB PRESSURE
Colin MacIntyre’s life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, he’s been tapped for greater things, and he isn’t too sure he likes it.
First he was kidnapped by an ancient, self-aware starship masquerading as Earth’s moon. Then he was drafted as its captain to suppress a five-thousandyear-old mutiny. And then he had to mobilize the planet against the attack of an
eons-old ancient menace dedicated to the eradication of all intelligent life in the galaxy!It’s hard to blame him for feeling a little stressed, but there’s something Colin MacIntyre doesn’t know about all the things he’s had to do.
They were the easy part.
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1637
- By: Eric Flint
- Length: 18 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 29, 2022
- Language: English
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4.23(509 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDThe 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. The diplomatic and trade mission from the UnitedThe 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.
The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe is openly siding with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. The mission, made up largely of Americans transplanted in time by the Ring of Fire, is providing the siblings with technical assistance as they prepare to
fight their rivals for the throne, Aurangzeb and Shah Shuja. Meanwhile, the Afghan adventurer Salim Gadh Yilmaz, confidant of two emperors–Shah Jahan and now his son Dara Shikoh–has been elevated to the position of general. He has great challenges to face, not the least of which is
resisting the fierce and forbidden mutual attraction between himself and Princess Jahanara.As the conflict deepens, the junior members of the mission are sent east to buy opium needed by the USE’s doctors. Their guide, merchant Jadu Das, has an agenda of his own, one entrusted to him by Jahanara: seek out her great uncle, Asaf Khan, and promise whatever is needed to bring
his army over to Dara’s side.The USE’s mission was sent to India in search of goods needed in Europe. But now they find that straightforward task has become enmeshed in a great civil war–for control of the Peacock Throne.
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1637
- By: Eric Flint
- Length: 16 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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4.23(509 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDTHIS NEW NOVEL IN ERIC FLINT’S LANDMARK RING OF FIRE SERIES CONTINUES THE EASTERN EUROPE STORYLINE EXPLORED IN 1637: THE POLISH MAELSTROM Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success againstTHIS NEW NOVEL IN ERIC FLINT’S LANDMARK RING OF FIRE SERIES CONTINUES THE EASTERN EUROPE STORYLINE EXPLORED IN 1637: THE POLISH MAELSTROM
Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads.
Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what’s to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648.
An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes to form an alliance with Bohemia, but the land shrouded in the fog of the Carpathian mountains and known only to most up-timers as the playground of
Count Dracula is a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. Such an alliance would surely draw the ire of Sultan Murad IV.The United States of Europe agrees to assist the Bohemian forces, and sends in the Silesian Guard, under the command of Brigadier Jeff Higgins. They also send in Gretchen Richter to organize and lead the political struggle.
Transylvania is thrown into political, social, and religious turmoil as battle lines are drawn. Whatever happens and whoever wins the fight, one thing is certain: the history of Eastern Europe will change radically. In fact, it already has.
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1637
- By: Eric Flint
- Narrator: Eric Flint
- Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: English
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4.23(509 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA new addition to the four-time New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of 17th century Western Europe, the “out-of-time” modern town of Grantville, West Virginia mustA new addition to the four-time New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of 17th century Western Europe, the “out-of-time” modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must fight for its life against Dark Age domination. Alternate history master Eric Flint returns in top form with an epic addition to the multiple New York Times best selling Ring of Fire series. A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now when United States of Europe ally King Gustavas of Sweden invades Poland, the U.S. of E. is dragged into a full-scale European war against ruthless opponents. Meanwhile Mike Stearns, wily and courageous leader of the up-time West Virginians, has been turned out of office in an election. But, like Churchill (before and after him) Stearns is not done yet. He’s determined to stoke the fires of democratic rebellion in Saxony near the main front, and thus keep the young nation he founded, and once led, out of the hands of medieval tyrants-tyrants who would like nothing better than to wipe those troublesome upstarts from the future off the timeline and go back to the bad old days of oppression and serfdom.
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1637
- By: Eric Flint
- Narrator: Eric Flint
- Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 25, 2018
- Language: English
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4.23(509 ratings)
4.23(509 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIt’s been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. AndIt’s been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. And Mother Russia is no exception. Inspired by the American up-timers’ radical notion that all people are created equal, Russian serfs are rebelling. The entire village of Poltz, led by blacksmith Stefan Andreevich, pulls up stakes to make a run for freedom. Meanwhile, Czar Mikhail has escaped house arrest, with the aid of up-time car mechanic Bernie Zeppi, his Russian associates-and a zeppelin. The czar makes his way to the village of Ufa. There he intends to set up a government-in-exile. It is to Ufa that the serfs of Poltz are heading, as well. The path is dangerous-for the serfs as well as the czar. They face great distances and highwaymen. But the worst threat are those in the aristocracy who seek to crush the serfs and execute the czar in a bid to drive any hope for Russian freedom under their Parisian-crafted boot heels. But the Russians of 1637 have taken inspiration from their up-timer counterparts. And it could be that a new wind of liberty is about to blow three centuries early-and change Mother Russia forever.
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Dark of the Moon
- By: P.C. Hodgell
- Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 29, 2019
- Language: English
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4.22(942 ratings)
4.22(942 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDTai-tastigon is burning. The whole city is in an uproar. And the cause, Jame, and her friend Marc have fled. They are making their way through mountain passes, far too late in the season, hoping to find Jame’s brother Tori somewhere on theTai-tastigon is burning. The whole city is in an uproar. And the cause, Jame, and her friend Marc have fled. They are making their way through mountain passes, far too late in the season, hoping to find Jame’s brother Tori somewhere on the other side. Nothing ever goes easily for Jame, least of all this journey. As hints of the past she has forgotten-of dark and horrid years in the house of Gerridon, betrayer of her people, the Kencyrath, and her god-come to the surface, she encounters changers from the house of Gerridon, wanting to bring her back into that dark place. Arrin-ken, catlike creatures who are nevertheless a part of her own people, find and judge her. Bandits, brigands and strange remnants from the past of her people-which suggest a dim future for them, their god and their hope of defeating the great enemy, Perimal Darkling-arise to haunt her. But her determination to find her brother and to avoid falling into eternal darkness only grows stronger. Meanwhile Tori, who is Highlord of the Kencyrath, leads the wayward lords of the Kencyrath with uneasy grace. He is a compromise for them, a way of avoiding endless battle between them. But he can bind them together only so long as he can tread a narrow way between their varied needs and desires. When a vast and unexpected danger threatens, he must call up the host-the troops that each lord must muster-but in so doing he threatens his own position and his sanity, for he cannot avoid the attention this calls to him, attention that seems to bring changers who want to kill him, and odd nightmares that seem to suggest a future he does not want and the reappearance of a sister he both loves and fears. Jame and Marc appeared first in God Stalk, where Jame discovered that she had odd powers and that she did not need a past to change forever the future of those around her. In this second book, she is just as hard on her friends, and her enemies, as she was in the first. But knowing her past, knowing how near she is always to the brink of a personal disaster she cannot accept, she must now consider each step she takes more carefully. This does not mean that either she, or for that matter, Tori, will ever be less than wild and unexpected. It only means that both must count and accept the cost of their actions. It is a way of living neither is prepared for.
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Mutineer’s Moon
- By: David Weber
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 16, 2020
- Language: English
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4.21(6440 ratings)
4.21(6440 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDMutiny For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of theMutiny
For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-aware
Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of
the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved–Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew
on prehistoric Earth.Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained
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control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak’s sensors indicate that the enemy
that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned–and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak
must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin
Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all–
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In the Heart of Darkness
- By: David Drake
- Length: 14 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 11, 2019
- Language: English
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4.21(2332 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe Malwa Empire has conquered 6th century India and is forging the subcontinent’s vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. Belisarius, the finest general of his age, must save the world. Guided by visions from a future that mayThe Malwa Empire has conquered 6th century India and is forging the subcontinent’s vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. Belisarius, the finest general of his age, must save the world. Guided by visions from a future that may never be, he and a band of comrades penetrate the Malwa heartland, seeking the core of the enemy’s power. And when Belisarius leads the forces of good, only a fool would side with evil.
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An Oblique Approach
- By: David Drake
- Length: 15 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 05, 2019
- Language: English
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4.2(4022 ratings)
4.2(4022 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only threeIn northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever know. . . .
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The Tide of Victory
- By: David Drake
- Length: 16 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 08, 2020
- Language: English
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4.19(1816 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDAn evil The creators of the monster called Link once were human, but that was distant ages in their past. Now, from the far future, they have sent their creation back to shape the world of the 6th century AD into the form that will make their ownAn evil
The creators of the monster called Link once were human, but that was distant ages in their past. Now, from the far future, they have sent their creation back to shape the world of the 6th century
AD into the form that will make their own foul existence possible.Taught and ruled by Link, the Malwa Empire has spread from the Indus Valley, across India and into Mesopotamia. Its inhuman master has chosen its instruments from the most brutal and
degraded members of humanity, and they have served its monstrous ends well.A guide
Those in the future who never were human have sent their own messenger to the past: Aide, a gleaming jewel who can warn but not lead; who can teach the construction of new weapons but cannot wield those weapons himself.Aide has come to Belisarius, the greatest general of the 6th century and perhaps any century. Between them they have forged an alliance of all the world against evil–and an army that can be the spear through evil’s heart.
A crusade
With lancers and breech-loading rifles, with steamships and with galleys, Belisarius is marching into the Malwa heartland. In a world aflame with treachery, assassination, and slaughter beyond anything
save the battles of mythology, he and his companions know only one sure thing: if they fail, their whole world is doomed to living Hell–for all time!A victory!
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Sullivan’s Promise
- By: Joan Johnston
- Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 30, 2019
- Language: English
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4.19(254 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDTwo unforgiving lovers reunite for the sake of their child in this fiery contemporary romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Surrender. Facing the unexpected consequences of a life-altering night of passion with a cowboy she met in aTwo unforgiving lovers reunite for the sake of their child in this fiery contemporary romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Surrender. Facing the unexpected consequences of a life-altering night of passion with a cowboy she met in a Jackson Hole bar, and with her life committed to protecting endangered species, Victoria Grayhawk does what she believes is the right thing. She hunts down the cowboy, seeking his agreement that their baby should be adopted by a loving family. Montana rancher Ryan Sullivan has no intention of giving away his own flesh and blood, and takes their son to raise himself. When Vick realizes what a horrible mistake she’s made, and wants back into their child’s life, Rye remains inflexible-because once trust is lost there are no second chances-until an attack by one of the grizzlies Vick has spent her life protecting changes everything and Rye learns that sometimes love can heal all wounds.
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