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41) Oddity
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind--if only she knew what it was--in an alternate nineteenth century where the United States is at war with France.
Series
Clan of the claw volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents three linked novellas set in a heroic, bronze-age world, where mammalian courage against reptile cunning will determine who inherits the Earth.
43) Black chamber
Author
Series
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The first novel in a brand-new alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president for a second time right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back"--Provided by publisher.
44) Himmler's war
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In a World War II alternate history tale, Heinrich Himmler assumes control of the Reich days after Normandy, prompting Allied forces to consider negotiating with his new government while investigating rumors about a new German super-weapon.
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe-and into the middle of the Thirty Years War-you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age....
46) Everfair
Author
Series
Everfair volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Neo-Victorian alternate-history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.
Author
Series
Supervolcano trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Roc Hardcover
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling. And former police officer...
49) The end of days
Author
Publisher
A New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents a unique view of modern German history in a novel relating five different stories of the possible lives and deaths at varying stages of maturity experienced by a single character.
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 3
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When the time has come to end the spell that prevents U.S. expansion across the Mississippi River, the other medicine men create War Bonnet, a monsterous medicine man whose function is to stop Geronimo, Theodore Roosevelt, and Doc Holliday.
51) A longer fall
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go...
53) Rising tides
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 5
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S. Walker continue to battle for freedom and survival in a parallel universe during World War II.
54) Nation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A vicious storm has ripped away everything that Mau knows, and he now stands as the lone inhabitant of a desert island. However, when her ship flounders, Daphne joins Mau on the island, and the two work towards surviving together. The lessons that follow create a deep bond of understanding between Mau and Daphne, as they synchronously form their own Nation.
55) The phantom tree
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait--identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago. The painting of Mary...
56) River of teeth
Author
Series
River of teeth volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo...
57) Council of fire
Author
Series
Arcane America volume 2
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The passage of Halley's Comet in 1759 is catastrophic. The comet appears to strike the Earth, sundering the New World from the Old. A chain of mountains rises in the Mid-Atlantic. No ship from the Old World arrives in America. No ship from the New World can find a passage to the Old-and most who try simply disappear. The comet has also unleashed magic forces, which soon spread everywhere. Slaves begin using powers derived from African witchcraft,...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had...
59) Touched: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
Martin, his...
Author
Series
Widowland volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. The year is 1953. Edward VIII and Wallis are preparing for their coronation, and the country is tense with expectation. In honor of the event, Adolf Hitler will be making his first visit to the UK since its surrender to the Germans in 1940. One oppressive change conforming with Nazi ideology is the strict classification of women into hierarchical groups, ranging...
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