29 Best Alternative History, Fiction Books
Alternative History, Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Alternative History, Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Alternative History, Fiction audiobooks below.
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Armstrong
- By: H. W. Crocker
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)
5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDDid you know that George Armstrong Custer survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn and became a gunslinging knight-errant in the West–aided by a troupe of Chinese acrobats, cancan-dancing girls, a rebel-flag-eyepatch-wearing SouthernDid you know that George Armstrong Custer survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn and became a gunslinging knight-errant in the West–aided by a troupe of Chinese acrobats, cancan-dancing girls, a rebel-flag-eyepatch-wearing Southern gambler, and a multilingual Crow Indian scout? H. W. Crocker’s rollicking, witty, adventurous new novel Armstrong is an alternative history like you’ve never read before.
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The Complete King Raven Trilogy
- By: Stephen Lawhead
- Narrator: Stephen Lawhead
- Length: 35 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.25(323 ratings)
4.25(323 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0051.99 USDA completely re-imagined epic of the man known as Robin Hood from multi-award-winning, bestselling author Stephen R. Lawhead–now with the complete trilogy in one volume. For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves hasA completely re-imagined epic of the man known as Robin Hood from multi-award-winning, bestselling author Stephen R. Lawhead–now with the complete trilogy in one volume.
For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves has captivated imaginations. Now the familiar tale takes on new life as it boldly relocates to the dark forests of the Welsh countryside.
Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne of Elfael, has abandoned his father’s kingdom and fled to the greenwood. There, in the primeval forest of the Welsh borders, danger surrounds him–for this woodland is a living, breathing entity with mysterious powers and secrets. Bran must find a way to make it his own if he is to survive and become King Raven.
From deep in the forest, Bran, Will Scarlet, and Friar Tuck form a daring plan for deliverance, knowing that failure means death for them all–and the dreams of the oppressed people of Wales.
This acclaimed trilogy (Hood, Scarlet, Tuck) conjures up an ancient past and holds a mirror to contemporary realities. Prepare yourself for an epic tale that dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood.
- Epic historical fantasy that reimagines the Robin Hood legend in medieval Wales
- Includes the complete King Raven Trilogy:
- Book One: Hood
- Book Two: Scarlet
- Book Three: Tuck
- Total length: over 300,000 words
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Invisible Sun
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 28, 2021
- Language: English
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4.23(431 ratings)
4.23(431 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USDThe alternate timelines of Charles Stross’ Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun–the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State–as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination forThe alternate timelines of Charles Stross’ Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun–the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State–as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines.
An inter-timeline coup d’etat gone awry.
A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin.
And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole, wreaking havoc in the USA.
Can disgraced worldwalker Rita and her intertemporal extraordaire agent of a mother neutralize the livewire contention before it’s too late?
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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Nos prometieron la gloria
- By: Mario Escobar
- Narrator: Miguel Borda
- Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 29, 2018
- Language: Spanish
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4.19(79 ratings)
4.19(79 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDUna historia sobre el valor de la amistad, la recompensa por las buenas acciones y el monstruo del populismo que barre las singularidades y criminaliza a los pueblos. Basada en hechos reales vividos por la conocida familia Collignon de Jalisco,Una historia sobre el valor de la amistad, la recompensa por las buenas acciones y el monstruo del populismo que barre las singularidades y criminaliza a los pueblos. Basada en hechos reales vividos por la conocida familia Collignon de Jalisco, Mexico.
En 1932, los hermanos Collignon, pertenecientes a una de las familias mas influyentes de Jalisco, Mexico, viajan a Alemania para completar su educacion. A su llegada a Berlin, notan que el pais esta inquieto por el inminente ascenso de Adolf Hitler al poder. Los hermanos junto a un grupo de companeros con quienes conforman un equipo de futbol ingresan en las juventudes hitlerianas, seducidos por los mensajes patrioticos de los nazis, entre ellos se encuentran Ernest y Ritter, dos de sus mejores amigos.
Tras el regreso de los hermanos Collignon a su pais natal, Alemania por su lado, comienza una creciente presion sobre Europa, que terminara en el comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La vida de Ernest y Ritter se separan por la guerra, hasta que en el verano de 1943, un inesperado encuentro los une, pero esta vez bajo diferentes condiciones, cada uno forma parte de la oposicion… desencadenando una serie de acontecimientos que ponen a prueba la amistad verdadera, la lealtad y la vida misma.
Una historia sobre el valor de la amistad, la recompensa por las buenas acciones y el monstruo del populismo que barre las singularidades y criminaliza a los pueblos.
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Dark State
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 09, 2018
- Language: English
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4.16(1032 ratings)
4.16(1032 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDHugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller audiobook set in The Merchant Princes multi-verseDark State ups the ante onHugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller audiobook set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse
Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross’ new story-line and a perfect entry point for new listeners, in The Merchant Princes series.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson’s timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile, a sleeper cell activated in Rita’s, the Commissioner’s adopted daughter and newly-minted spy, timeline threatens to unravel everything.
With a penchant for intricate world-building and an uncanny ability to realize alternate history and technological speculation, Stross’ prose will captivate listeners who like hi-tech thrillers, inter-dimensional political intrigue, and espionage.
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- By: Benjamin Labatut
- Narrator: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.15(1726 ratings)
4.15(1726 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhen 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 Schrodinger–these are some ofWhen 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 Schrodinger–these are some of the luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamin Labatut thrusts the listener, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
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The Inventor’s Secret
- By: Suzanne Slade
- Narrator: Susie Berneis
- Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 22, 2014
- Language: English
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4.15(208 ratings)
4.15(208 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDIn this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health and each other. When a new exileIn this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health and each other. When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp, he brings new dangers with him and secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled has to live free of the empire’s Machineworks. The Inventor’s Secret is the first book of a YA steampunk series set in an alternate nineteenth-century North America where the Revolutionary War never took place and the British Empire has expanded into a global juggernaut propelled by marvelous and horrible machinery.
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Tuck
- By: Stephen Lawhead
- Narrator: Stephen Lawhead
- Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.11(6363 ratings)
4.11(6363 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe third book in an epic reimagining of the Robin Hood legend. “Pray God our aim is true and each arrow finds its mark.” King Raven has brought hope to the oppressed people of Wales–and fear to their Norman overlords. DeceivedThe third book in an epic reimagining of the Robin Hood legend.
“Pray God our aim is true and each arrow finds its mark.”
King Raven has brought hope to the oppressed people of Wales–and fear to their Norman overlords. Deceived by the self-serving King William and hunted by the treacherous Abbot Hugo and Sheriff de Glanville, Rhi Bran is forced again to take matters into his own hands as King Raven.
Along the way Friar Tuck has been the stalwart supporter of the man behind the legend–bringing Rhi Bran much-needed guidance, wit, and faithful companionship.
Aided by Tuck and his small but determined band of forest-dwelling outlaws, Rhi Bran ignites a rebellion that spreads through the Welsh valleys, forcing the wily monarch to marshal his army and march against little Elfael.
This epic trilogy dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood as Stephen R. Lawhead conjures an ancient past while holding a mirror to contemporary realities. Filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking suspense, and rousing battle scenes, Stephen R. Lawhead’s masterful retelling of the Robin Hood legend reaches its stunning conclusion in Tuck.
- Epic historical fantasy that reimagines the Robin Hood legend in medieval Wales
- Part of the King Raven Trilogy:
- Book One: Hood
- Book Two: Scarlet
- Book Three: Tuck
- Book length: 111,000 words
- Includes author’s note: The High Cost of Heaven
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The Great Martian War
- By: Scott Washburn
- Narrator: Ray Greenley
- Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Zmok Books
- Publish date: September 21, 2021
- Language: English
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4.11(130 ratings)
4.11(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhile President Roosevelt defends the US, the British Empire rallies to repel their alien foe again, and a young Winston Churchill helps to rally international forces. Not all the world sees the Martians as a threat though; some see them as leverageWhile President Roosevelt defends the US, the British Empire rallies to repel their alien foe again, and a young Winston Churchill helps to rally international forces. Not all the world sees the Martians as a threat though; some see them as leverage against Britain. As the military tries to come up with solutions, the international arena takes the stage.
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The Sacred Land
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrator: Tim Campbell
- Length: 13 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(101 ratings)
4.08(101 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDMenedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin) the scholarly Sostratos, are back in their third adventure. This time around the two cousins end up in the Sacred Land, Jerusalem, where they encounter a strange religion. ThisMenedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin) the scholarly Sostratos, are back in their third adventure.
This time around the two cousins end up in the Sacred Land, Jerusalem, where they encounter a strange religion. This fascinates Sostratos, who wants to learn as much as he can about the strange monotheists living there. The more worldly Menedemos looks toward more common pleasures, particularly those involving pretty women (not letting small inconveniences like their marriage to other men get in the way). But, as always, trouble follows them. From cargo they can’t sell to bandits and thugs waiting to jump them, they must once again use their quick wits to survive and, hopefully, make a profit from their long journey.
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The Gryphon’s Skull
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrator: Tim Campbell
- Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(101 ratings)
4.08(101 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDMenedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure. Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death ofMenedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure.
Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of Alexander. Various factions fight and vie for power and the neutrality of Rhodes itself is threatened as opposing forces maneuver for advantage in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Over the Wine-Dark Sea
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrator: Tim Campbell
- Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(101 ratings)
4.08(101 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDMenedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. While they trade inMenedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures.
While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves, and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn’t enough (particularly the barbarians from an obscure town called Rome), they are also caught between the political intrigues of Alexander’s former generals.
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The Once and Future Witches
- By: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: English
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4.06(47280 ratings)
4.06(47280 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.98 USDIn the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days beforeIn the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement.... Read more
In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote–and perhaps not even to live–the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.
There’s no such thing as witches. But there will be.
An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women’s suffrage–the lost ways are calling.
Praise for The Once and Future Witches:
“A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. I adore them, and long for witchcraft to awaken in all of us. Harrow makes it feel possible, and even likely.”–Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author
“A glorious escape into a world where witchcraft has dwindled to a memory of women’s magic, and three wild, sundered sisters hold the key to bring it back…A tale that will sweep you away.”–Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author
“This book is an amazing bit of spellcraft and resistance so needed in our times, and a reminder that secret words and ways can never be truly and properly lost, as long as there are tongues to speak them and ears to listen.”–P. Djeli Clark, author The Black God’s Drum
For more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
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Empire Games
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 17, 2017
- Language: English
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4.01(1729 ratings)
4.01(1729 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDCharles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It’s seventeen years since theCharles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It’s seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence–the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth’s great leap forward–has a problem. For years, she’s warned everyone: “The Americans are coming.” Now their drones arrive in the middle of a succession crisis, for their leader, First Man Adam, is dying of cancer, and the vultures are circling.
In another timeline, the U.S. has recruited Rita, Miriam’s own estranged daughter, to spy across timelines in order to bring down any remaining world-walkers who might threaten national security. But her handlers are keeping information from her.
Two nuclear superpowers are set on a collision course. Two increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies are fumbling around in the dark, trying to find a solution to the first contact problem that doesn’t result in a nuclear holocaust. And two women–a mother and her long-lost, adopted-out daughter–are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.
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The Mechanical
- By: Ian Tregillis
- Narrator: Chris Kayser
- Length: 15 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 10, 2015
- Language: English
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3.96(4870 ratings)
3.96(4870 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDFrom “a major new talent” (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams. My name is Jax. ThatFrom “a major new talent” (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.
My name is Jax.
That is the name granted to me by my human masters.
I am a slave.
But I shall be free.
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The Last Full Measure
- By: Jack Campbell
- Narrator: Lloyd James
- Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.9(141 ratings)
3.9(141 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDAs the author of the bestselling Lost Fleet series, Jack Campbell’s name is well-known to fans of interstellar heroics. Now Campbell brings his keen eye for military adventure and political intrigue to a tale that is earthbound, but no lessAs the author of the bestselling Lost Fleet series, Jack Campbell’s name is well-known to fans of interstellar heroics. Now Campbell brings his keen eye for military adventure and political intrigue to a tale that is earthbound, but no less wondrous …
In a transformed mid-nineteenth-century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered academic from Maine, Professor Joshua Chamberlain, stands accused of crimes against the nation. In court alongside him is Abraham Lincoln, whose fiery rhetoric brands him a “threat to the security of the United States of America.” Convicted, Chamberlain is sentenced to forty years hard labor, while Lincoln’s fate is indefinite detention at Fortress Monroe. But Professor Chamberlain then encounters military minds who understand the true ideals upon which the country was founded and who want to foment revolution. To succeed, they need a leader, someone to inspire the people to take up the cause of liberty: Lincoln. All they have to do is flawlessly execute a daring plan to rescue him from the darkest federal prison.
In The Last Full Measure, Campbell delivers a riveting look at an America where war is imminent, and nothing is as it should be.
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The Return
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.89(2113 ratings)
3.89(2113 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDIn the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned toIn the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Putting them to use, he built a new starship and left Earth. Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner, the star voyager, wants to save Earth’s people, but first he must save himself from the frightened and ambitious zealots who want to destroy this stranger–and the terrifying message he brings from the stars.
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Fata Morgana
- By: Steven R. Boyett
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.88(490 ratings)
3.88(490 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDAn epic novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time. At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombingAn epic novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time.
At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over eastern Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world.
Suddenly stranded with the final outcasts of a desolated world, Captain Farley navigates a maze of treachery and wonder–and finds a love seemingly decreed by fate–as his bomber becomes a pawn in a centuries-old conflict between remnants of advanced but decaying civilizations. Caught among these bitter enemies, a vast power that has brought them here for its own purposes, and a terrifying living weapon bent on their destruction, the crew must use every bit of their formidable inventiveness and courage to survive.
Fata Morgana–the epic novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time.
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Another Now
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.86(1239 ratings)
3.86(1239 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDImagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far fromImagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires.
Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won.
In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about–and might yet. But would we really want it?
Varoufakis’s boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world …
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Obsession
- By: Treasure Hernandez
- Narrator: Misty Reign
- Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.85(170 ratings)
3.85(170 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDTiffany is trapped in a life she never wanted for herself. The man she fell in love with turned out to be a lazy, good-for-nothing womanizer. Night after night Tiffany comes home to Blake’s physical, mental, and verbal abuse. She’s triedTiffany is trapped in a life she never wanted for herself. The man she fell in love with turned out to be a lazy, good-for-nothing womanizer. Night after night Tiffany comes home to Blake’s physical, mental, and verbal abuse. She’s tried leaving it in the past, but somehow he always finds her. Each time, she comes back and convinces herself things will get better. Then one day Blake beats her for the last time. Tiffany decides death is the only way out–and she’s not the one being buried. Her life takes a drastic turn as she attempts to live the life she’s always wanted.
Lucky and Quick are childhood friends trying to make a name for themselves. They have been working corners, proving their loyalty to the streets and waiting for their big break. When they finally get the chance to prove themselves, they quickly climb up the ladder and find themselves working for the top dogs. Everything happens so fast that they end up on opposite sides of the fence and become enemies.
Quick and Tiffany meet under unfortunate circumstances, but they instantly connect and fall in love. Tiffany is pulled into Quick’s street world full of lies and revenge. Lucky and Quick are constantly going against each other, and the friendship seems to be lost forever. When the opportunity comes along for both of them to be on the top spot, will they be able to rekindle the friendship?
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Liberty: 1784
- By: Robert Conroy
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.85(275 ratings)
3.85(275 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA compelling alternate-history novel by the breakout author of WWII-era alternate history Himmler’s War and Rising Sun The British win the American Revolutionary War, and a desperate Washington and the American founders must make a last standA compelling alternate-history novel by the breakout author of WWII-era alternate history Himmler’s War and Rising Sun
The British win the American Revolutionary War, and a desperate Washington and the American founders must make a last stand in an enclave called Liberty.
In 1781, George Washington’s attempt to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown ends catastrophically when the French fleet is destroyed in the Battle of the Capes. The revolution collapses, and the British begin a bloody reign of terror. A group of rebels flees westward and sets up a colony near what is now Chicago. They call it Liberty. The British, looking to finish what they started, send a very large force under Burgoyne to destroy them. Burgoyne is desperate for redemption and the Americans are equally desperate to survive.
Had the Battle of the Capes gone differently, a changed, darker New World would have been forced into existence. But even under those dire circumstances, Liberty may still find a way!
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Underground Airlines
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrator: William DeMeritt
- Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 05, 2016
- Language: English
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3.82(8414 ratings)
3.82(8414 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened? A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, PublishersThe bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?
A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon
A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He’s got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called “the Hard Four.” On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn’t right — with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.
As he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he’s hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won’t reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw’s case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child — who may be Victor’s salvation.
Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country’s arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost.
Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we’d like to believe.
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Fifty in Reverse
- By: Bill Flanagan
- Narrator: Michael Crouch
- Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.82(574 ratings)
3.82(574 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom TV personality and radio host Bill Flanagan comes a “funny and sharp” (Rosanne Cash, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and bestselling author) time-traveling adventure novel about how the past never gives up its hold on theFrom TV personality and radio host Bill Flanagan comes a “funny and sharp” (Rosanne Cash, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and bestselling author) time-traveling adventure novel about how the past never gives up its hold on the present and how even sixty-five-year-olds are still kids at heart.
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If you had the chance to live your life over again, knowing everything that you know now, would you take it? Would you still take it if it meant losing everything you had today? Would a second chance to correct every mistake and missed opportunity be worth giving up the world you know and the life you have built? In Fifty in Reverse, fifteen-year-old Peter Wyatt does just that.
In the spring of 1970, Harvard psychologist Terry Canyon is introduced to Peter, a quiet kid from a wealthy family who has been suspended from ninth grade for stripping off his clothes in Algebra class. When Terry asks Peter why he did, the boy explains that he was trying to “shock myself awake.” It turns out that Peter believes he is a sixty-five-year-old man who went to sleep in his home in New York in the year 2020 and woke up in his childhood bedroom fifty years earlier.
Hilariously depicting Peter’s attempts to fit in as a fifteen-year-old in 1970 and to cope with the tedium, foolishness, and sexual temptations of high school as he tries to retain the sense of himself as a sixty-five-year-old man, Fifty in Reverse is a thought-provoking and enlightening novel about second chances and appreciating where you are in life. -
Empire of Lies
- By: Raymond Khoury
- Narrator: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 17 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.82(858 ratings)
3.82(858 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“A deftly crafted alternate history in the best science fiction tradition, ‘Empire of Lies’ showcases author Raymond Khoury’s genuine flair for originality and a simply riveting narrative storytelling style.” —“A deftly crafted alternate history in the best science fiction tradition, ‘Empire of Lies’ showcases author Raymond Khoury’s genuine flair for originality and a simply riveting narrative storytelling style.” — Midwest Book Review
Empire of Lies is a sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland, and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.
“The best what-if thriller for a long, long time–makes you think, makes you sweat, and makes you choose, between what is and what might have been.”–Lee Child
Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom–naked, covered in strange tattoos–to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message.
Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall–along with all of Europe–to the empire’s all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender. And Kamal Arslan Agha, a feted officer in the sultan’s secret police, is starting to question his orders.
Rumors of an impending war with the Christian Republic of America, attacks by violent extremists, and economic collapse have heightened surveillance and arrests across the empire. Tasked with surveying potential threats, Kamal has a heavy caseload–and conscience.
When a mysterious stranger–naked, covered in strange tattoos–appears on the banks of the Seine, Kamal is called in to investigate. But what he discovers is a secret buried in the empire’s past, a secret the Sultan will do anything to silence.
With the mysterious Z Protectorate one step behind, Kamal, together with Nisreen–a fierce human rights lawyer–is caught up in a race across the empire and time itself–a race that could change their world, or destroy it.
Empire of Lies is being published as “The Ottoman Secret” in the UK
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Clash of Eagles
- By: Alan Smale
- Narrator: Alan Smale
- Length: 14 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 17, 2015
- Language: English
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3.81(1163 ratings)
3.81(1163 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn a world where the Roman Empire never fell, a legion under the command of Praetor Gaius Marcellinus invades North America in the 12th Century. But Marcellinus and his troops have woefully underestimated the fighting prowess of the Native AmericanIn a world where the Roman Empire never fell, a legion under the command of Praetor Gaius Marcellinus invades North America in the 12th Century. But Marcellinus and his troops have woefully underestimated the fighting prowess of the Native American inhabitants of Nova Hesperia, who have developed their own flying technology known as Thunderbirds. When Gaius is caught behind enemy lines and spared, he must reevaluate his allegiences and find a new place in this strange land. Alan Smale grew up in Yorkshire, England, but now lives in the Washington D.C. area. By day he works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as a professional astronomer, studying black holes, neutron stars and other bizarre celestial objects. He has sold numerous short stories to magazines including Asimov’s and Realms of Fantasy, and won the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
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It Can’t Happen Here
- By: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.78(11932 ratings)
3.78(11932 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDFirst published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism couldFirst published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.
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Without Warning
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 17 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.77(2352 ratings)
3.77(2352 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.95 USDOn the eve of the US invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high wave of incredible power cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico, wiping 99 percent of the US population from the face of the earth in the blinkOn the eve of the US invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high wave of incredible power cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico, wiping 99 percent of the US population from the face of the earth in the blink of an eye. In Seattle, at the very edge of the phenomenon, heroes must rise to meet the unimaginable challenges of food riots, mass panic, and terror. James Kipper, chief engineer of the city, and Caitlin Monroe are on the trail of a Muslim fanatic ready to take advantage of what has become known as the Disappearance. Meanwhile, General Tusk Musso and Admiral James Ritchie are trying desperately to keep the peace in a world gone mad with fear.
Gritty, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, Birmingham’s audacious geopolitical thriller asks what would happen to the world if America suddenly disappeared.
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The Conjurer’s Riddle
- By: Andrea Cremer
- Narrator: Dave Clark
- Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 03, 2015
- Language: English
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3.76(955 ratings)
3.76(955 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDCharlotte leads her group of exiles west, plunging into a wild world of shady merchants and surly rivermen on the way to New Orleans. But as Charlotte learns more about the revolution she has championed, she wonders if she’s on the right sideCharlotte leads her group of exiles west, plunging into a wild world of shady merchants and surly rivermen on the way to New Orleans. But as Charlotte learns more about the revolution she has championed, she wonders if she’s on the right side after all. Charlotte and her friends get to know the mystical New Orleans bayou, and deep into the shadowy tunnels below the city – the den of criminals, assassins and pirates – Charlotte must decide if the revolution’s goals justify their means, or if some things, like the lives of her friends, are too sacred to sacrifice.
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Widowland
- By: C. J. Carey
- Narrator: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.75(806 ratings)
3.75(806 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAn alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris’s Fatherland, Christina Dalcher’s Vox, and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood To control the past, they edited history. To control the future,An alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris’s Fatherland, Christina Dalcher’s Vox, and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood
To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature.
London, 1953, Coronation year–but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II.Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalized. George VI and his family have been murdered, and Edward VIII rules as King. Yet, in practice, all power is vested in Alfred Rosenberg, Britain’s Protector. The role and status of women is Rosenberg’s particular interest.
Rose Ransom belongs to the elite caste of women and works at the Ministry of Culture, rewriting literature to correct the views of the past. But now she has been given a special task.
Outbreaks of insurgency have been seen across the country: graffiti daubed on public buildings. Disturbingly, the graffiti is made up of lines from forbidden works, subversive words from the voices of women. Suspicion has fallen on Widowland, the run-down slums where childless women over fifty have been banished. These women are known to be mutinous, for they have nothing to lose.
Before the Leader arrives for the Coronation ceremony of King Edward and Queen Wallis, Rose must infiltrate Widowland, find the source of this rebellion, and ensure that it is quashed.
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