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81) Dream Walker
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Fired from his job at an Indian casino and armed with a dolphin amulet gifted to him by his Noqoto grandfather, student archaeologist Peter Martinez is on a mission to save Rocky Point, California from an oil giant's development plans. But when his exploration of the sacred coastal land leads him to an ancient burial cave in the side of a cliff, a wave knocks him into the water and he wakes up on the beach-more than 300 years in the past.
His Noqoto...
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Following the nuclear attack on Sydney at the end of 2011, the political climate in the United States becomes very heated.
Kim Jong-un is responsible for the attack and now it is Barack Obama's intent to retaliate and hit North Korea where it hurts.
Unfortunately, this would spell the start of World War III - a nuclear war.
In the political shadows, somewhere in southern Utah, near the border with Nevada, live a peculiar Honeybee-Mormon-Hippie...
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Flandes, teatro de guerra durante más de 80 años para la monarquía de España, por fin en 1660 vería una paz seria, vería definidos después de muchas victorias y derrotas los contornos que conservarán de aquí en adelante. La guerra en Francia contra Mazarino, Gravelingas y Dunquerque, las defensas de Valencianas y Cambray, las pérdidas finales de Dunquerque y Gravelingas, y finalmente el tratado de paz.
Con estos volúmenes vemos como Francia...
84) Rocketman
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Eva rescued the clone and then thwarted the German invasion. Now she faces her greatest challenge: she must stop Nazi agents from kidnapping the most brilliant rocket scientist in America. With Nik Slate and her team behind her, Eva must dash cross-country to rescue the very future.
85) Sleight of Hand
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Destroy the magicians.
Destroy all unnaturals.
New York City. 1926.
Demento, a young magician with a sinister past, becomes the target of a secret organisation when a string of bizarre murders leaves the nation perplexed.
Gwen Cavanagh, an agent of the October House, is sent to investigate the brutal crimes. She poses as an eager magician's assistant, wanting nothing more than to relish Demento's demise.
What both ladies discover not only shakes...
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"A richly colorful novel," said the New York Times, but in the author's home town, the bookstore manager kept it under the counter and sold it only to those who dared ask for it. Woodstock was still four years in the future, and American students were more concerned about nuclear weapons than a war in Vietnam. But already there was something blowing in the wind, as the young Daniel Ford was among the first to document in his debut novel. "It is impossible...
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In this sequel to "A Glint in Time", Frank J. Derfler blends history, current events, action, and technology into a fascinating story about a military organization with the ability to make small changes in time. Given real constraints of physics: heat, energy, movement, and accuracy, what can and should these people do to make the world a safer place? "A Twist in Time" is set in Florida and Nevada, but the action takes place around the world. The...
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The year is 1912, and the history of China takes a different turn.
The president of the newly-founded Republic of China dies suddenly, before the fledgling regime has had time to take root. As a compromise between the militarist and republican factions, a former reformist leader is chosen to replace him. But he has his own agenda...What if the Republic of China had died in infancy? With Iron and Fire is the tale of a China that might have been-one...
89) Judenstaat
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It is 1988. Judit Klemmer is a filmmaker who is assembling a fortieth-anniversary official documentary about the birth of Judenstaat, the Jewish homeland surrendered by defeated Germany in 1948. Her work is complicated by Cold War tensions between the competing U.S. and Soviet empires and by internal conflicts among the "black-hat" Orthodox Jews, the far more worldly Bundists, and reactionary Saxon nationalists, who are still bent on destroying the...
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What if in 1946, an overstretched British occupying force had called on Denmark to aid in the occupation of post-war Germany? Would the world today be radically different? Or would it be mostly the same?
Tom Black's short story, told as a series of newspaper interviews, explores a present-day Denmark with a slightly different past. An examination of how alternate history need not only focus on great men and decisive battles, Zonen tells a simple...
91) Reid in Braid
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The story of a communist Scotland
'Reid in Braid' is a series of short stories taking a look at a world where the UK was on the losing side of the Great War and dissolved; leading to an independent Scotland almost a century before it became a serious possibility. That independent Scotland eventually fell to socialist revolution in the lead up to an alternate second world war, and remains an isolationist one-party state for the rest of the century....
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The second volume of Viscount Fawsley's memoirs of a 1980s Britain somehow dislocated to 150 years in the past. The world has begun to adjust, but there is still much to be done — and Norman St John-Stevas, Viscount Fawsley, finds himself at the centre of a great many important events once more.
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Western Sunrise is a political thriller with a difference. This Earth rotates in the opposite direction. Imagine the sun rising in the West and setting in the East. The reversal may have changed history. Nations and peoples that, in our world, wield power and control are the underdogs fighting for their very existence The names, characters and locations in Western Sunrise may sound strange and foreign but the theme is very familiar: in politics anything...
94) Final Solution
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It was the spring of 1864, and things were not going well for the Confederacy. So a secret program was launched . . .
Had the program worked, it would have changed the course of American history. And damned us all to hell.
In the words of respected Civil War author Larry J. Daniel, "If you're looking for Gone with the Wind, this is not your book!"
Includes afterwords that help the reader understand the full implications of the story and explore...
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Two founding peoples, English and French, coming together as a single nation is an historic and remarkable achievement. That this relationship nearly came apart after little more than a century of union is also remarkable in that it didn't. This book explores the motivations of those on all sides of the issue of national identity. This novel breaks with reality in that Pierre Trudeau is no longer prime minister when Quebec's separatist party holds...
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In 2063, archaeologists discovered a hermetically-sealed box containing a memoir, a birth certificate for a child named Mobius (father unknown), and a male chastity belt.
What if a fate worse than a catastrophic virus threatened our lives in the American monarchy founded by Benedict Arnold after he defeated George Washington's ragtag revolutionary army? Arnold referred to the then-British puppet nation as the Union of Royal American States.
In 2063,...
97) Bearfish
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In January 1911, President Taft signed The Useful Animals Appropriation Act, and within months, the first hippopotomi arrived on the Calcasieu River.
In real life, none of this happened. But in Bearfish, John O'Brien offers a deep, amusing and often moving picture of an America forever altered by the introduction of one fateful animal that Americans chose to call the bearfish.
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La novela histórica "Firma con mi nombre" nos presenta el latifundio chileno en la historia de la familia Pérez-Azaña: la vida privada de los dueños del fundo, los antepasados que forjaron el dominio de las tierras y con la vida, siempre interesante de sus descendientes mujeres que, en el claustro de una vida infectada por la atmósfera religiosa y pía, van encontrando los resquicios para el amor prohibido, para los secretos de alcoba, para sus...
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Utopia City.Rebuilt from the ashes of America's most horrific terror attack and transformed into a paragon of technological advancement, this city stands as a beacon of possibility where almost anything can happen.Jericho Hansen certainly hopes so; as a gay superhero in the deep South, his ambition is to achieve lifelong recognition by joining Force Majeure, America's best-known superhero team. But to do that, he must first travel to Utopia and learn...
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