Títulos em História Alternativa

Dominic begins an illegal investigation that will risk both his job and his sanity, as he follows Rupert’s three decade tale of homelessness and obsession. From the cliffs of Big Sur to Kerouac’s birthplace on Lupine Road, their dual quests explore the dark mysteries of the American psyche, and a generational divide comes to monstrous life. This gripping novel of fathers and sons will leave listeners guessing up to the last minute, and beyond.

In one of the most unsettling "what-if" reversals to American history, the Union Army is overrun at the Battle of Antietam. Left with no alternative, President Lincoln surrenders, and the Confederate States of America becomes an independent nation. It's a tragic twist that will produce dire, far-reaching ramifications. As the divided American nations move into the 20th century, slavery has long since been abolished; but in the summer of 1941, America faces another challenge - an existential challenge.

Never has there been more at stake for the people on Earth. The referendum question is simple: does Earth join gamra, the organisation that governs the Exchange, the FTL space travel network? While a “yes” vote would mean big changes, a “no” vote would leave Earth isolated and alone to face those waiting to fill the void, and those dark forces are already on the prowl. Cory is one of the few people who can see the big picture. But he and his team went on a holiday to New Zealand, and communication has been mysteriously cut off.

Prague, 1870. For the last 10 years, 19-year-old Eleanora Svobodová has worked as a servant in her stepmother's household. Along with her older brother, she dreams of the day they will be free to live life on their own terms. But everything changes when their estranged grandmother comes to Prague on behalf of Queen Victoria.

In exchange for the comfort of now, people gave up tomorrow. The builders of Tuners HQ aren’t what anybody expected. The conflict today was forged in the fires of yesterday. The Tuners have lost too much to the cult and are forced into a choice that divides the team. With the technology of Universe One on their side, they may find a way to end the reign of religious terror forever, but the cost is high.

Northern California, 1985. Leo Cecchino won’t rest until his people are safe. Leading the battle against the Soviet walking dead, he turns to his ex-girlfriend’s chess master sister to calculate their next move. But with the commie invaders deliberately infecting American innocents, they’re running out of time to stop the streets from flowing with rivers of blood.

Se vi svegliaste una mattina scoprendo di essere nuovamente il bambino che eravate, mantenendo tuttavia intatti tutti i vostri ricordi attuali? Se questo universo alternativo vi offrisse la possibilità di non ripetere più gli errori di cui vi siete poi pentiti? Di sfruttare le opportunità che avete mancato? Quali azioni potreste intraprendere per evitare tragedie a voi già note? Avendone la possibilità, che cosa decidereste di modificare nella vostra vita e nel mondo?

Many have read about the life of Socrates. Many are familiar with Plato's poignant description of his death. But who had ever thought of what took place afterwards? Ukrainian writer and scholar Vladimir Korolenko took it upon himself to consider this question.

In 1986, led by terrorist Carlos Sánchez, nuclear devices are planted in American cities. As New York and other cities are swallowed up in fireballs, Patch Kincaid is sent back in time to prevent the destruction. He lands in 1961, where he chases Sánchez into the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Captured by Castro, Patch and his mentor Meinkewitz chase Carlos Sánchez into rural Cuba.

In the void between universes, a secretive organization called the Tuners works to maintain peace in the multiverse. The stability is threatened when a group of religious radicals seek to burn all those who do not believe. Jon Xiong, a 17-year-old from Montana, gets caught up in much bigger problems when the cult members appear at his home. The order wants him because he can distinguish the subtle differences of the cosmic background noise between universes.

The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The listener decides.

In 1903 Kenneth’s life was transformed. He could see our Auras. We can’t see anything different about him. But even he did not realise the full extent of the changes he had endured. Then he discovered the Lightning People. Although not immortal, they have lifespans vastly greater than ours. But amongst the Lightning People are Rouges who are selfish, cunning, and dangerous.

A freak accident, a mysterious portrait and an imaginary friendship take Magda O’Toole on a journey of self-discovery. Her search for answers leads her to Toluca, Mexico, where she meets a handsome Professor, Miguel Villatoro, and encounters the ghostly apparition of a woman long dead. Her desire to reconnect with a childhood friend pulls Magda into the past—it’s 1836 and the Texas Revolution gathers momentum. Trapped and unable to return home, she travels with the Mexican Army deep into enemy territory, witnessing the events of the war.

No longer is there any doubt as to the existence of UFOs. After all, the government has emphatically confirmed that. The next step is the revealing of the intelligences that pilot these UFOs—the extra-terrestrials, the Celestrials as we shall come to know them.

Sean O'Connor, a former Union soldier turned gunslinger, is running from his past. In the dead hours of night, he is visited by the Devil himself, offering the deal of a lifetime; the power to cheat death and become the most deadly man on the planet. The price? Once a season for a hundred years, Sean will do the bidding of the Devil. The rewards are great but what is the real cost? Why choose Sean? What is Old Scratch's goal?

Et si le dénouement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale n'était pas celui que l'on connaissait ? 200 ans après la victoire d'Hitler, Germania n'est plus un mythe. La race aryenne tant espérée par le Führer domine le monde et toutes les autres ethnies ont été éradiquées de la planète. Krista, jeune Aryenne, travaille dans un Lebensborn. Elle a été élevée dans le moule de la race pure et ne connaît que ce mode de vie, jusqu'au jour où elle suit malgré elle une femme dans les égouts de la ville.

Imagine this, about a million years ago, an adorable set of twins were born, they grew up, ran away from their animal ancestors, then parented the human family. Take a trip back, far back in time, and get a sense of who we might have as our primordial parents. Discover how their family grew to half a billion, who and where their modern descendants are. It's a remarkable story, and it will make you wonder where such a story came from.

It is April 1964 in a world in which the ‘swinging 60s’ never happened. War is chaos; and chaos is war. The post-October War world is at a bloody crossroads; betrayal and confusion preoccupies and distracts the West to the disasters about to befall newly remade, desperately fragile alliances as long kept secrets surface. The impenetrable fog of war spreads across the Mediterranean. Even while Malta burns and the survivors of the savage naval battle off its coast fight for their lives in the wreckage-strewn iron grey waters....

“Queens don’t cry, that’s for princesses". Visions, it seems like everyone is having them. Anne, Murder, and Levi all share a vision across the Atlantic Ocean and 485 years. Time and space are crying out, London is calling. The future is in peril, Alice Noble...An impossible structure...New York is burning...We have existed in the shadows of your world for all of history. The blessed, the cursed, the mages and the witches. Sometimes you choose to ignore us. Sometimes we cover it up. We keep our heads down, lest you lot make them roll.

At the onset of the Second World War, Nazi Germany sends a multipurpose expedition to Antarctica. Not all of its members return. Today in Egypt, hushed whispers in a Cairo bar hint of a long-lost second Sphinx hidden beneath the sands of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Boozy talk of a map therein to the lost city of Atlantis convinces a ragtag band of local tour guides with mixed motives to take matters into their own hands. To find out if the rumors are true, without going through proper archaeological channels, they hastily descend beneath the landmarks they think they know so well.