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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Designated Targets

John Birmingham · 448 pages

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Against the Tide of Years

S.M. Stirling · 454 pages

Against the Tide of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionViolent
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1634 The Baltic War

Eric Flint, David Weber · 728 pages

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsScience Fiction
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Fortune's Stroke

Eric Flint, David Drake · 457 pages

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionViolent
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Off Armageddon Reef

David Weber · 605 pages

With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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To Sail a Darkling Sea

John Ringo · 374 pages

Book 2 of the Dark Tide Rising series. This is the continuing story of rebuilding the US military (mainly Navy/Marines/Coast Guard) after the release of a bio-weapon turns people into "zombies". They are not zombies, though. They are dangerous, infected people with damaged minds who have turned animal. The main characters are Faith "Shewolf" Smith, a 13 year old girl who is provisionally grante

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionMilitary Sci-Fi
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Return Engagement

Harry Turtledove · 639 pages

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionViolent
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsScience Fiction
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The Company of the Dead

David Kowalski · 744 pages

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies

Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon · 609 pages

"New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling alternate history series. Book #14 in the Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark's daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent--not the gold and silver which the Spanish treasure, but the oil which up-time machines a

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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On the Oceans of Eternity

S.M. Stirling, Todd McLaren · 630 pages

Ten years ago, inhabitants of the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by the Event. But as two worlds converge, only one can be the victor in a battle to lead this strange new world.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionSeries
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Empire of Ivory

Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik's stunning series of novels follow the adventures of Cpt Laurence and his dragon Temeraire as they travel from the shores of Britain to China and Africa.Laurence and Temeraire made a daring journey across vast and inhospitable continents to bring home a rare Turkish dragon from the treacherous Ottoman Empire. Kazilik dragons are firebreathers, and Britain is in greater need of protecti

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareSeries
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The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley · 448 pages

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Grant Comes East

Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen · 416 pages

A fictionalized account of an alternate American Civil War recounts events following the capture of Vicksburg by General Ulysses S. Grant and traces the northern army's journey to Gettysburg.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareViolentSeries
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The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde · 374 pages

The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton

Alternate HistoryScience FictionSoldiers and WarfareSeries
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West of Eden

Harry Harrison · 496 pages

In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans' leader . . . and th

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionSeries
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Lion's Blood

Steven Barnes · 461 pages

In a work of alternate history in which the peoples of Africa colonize the Americas, the fates of two families--one Islamic African aristocrats, the other Druidic Irish slaves--collide as two young men, one of each dynasty, confront their world and each other.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionViolent
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Red Storm Rising

Tom Clancy · 696 pages

Terrorists attack the USSR, they respond by attacking western Europe to replace the oil assets destroyed by the terrorists. Who will win?

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsViolent
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1812: The Rivers of War

Eric Flint · 534 pages

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionSprawling Epic
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Rally Cry

William R. Forstchen · 416 pages

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionPortal Fantasy
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1635: Cannon Law

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis · 500 pages

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th-century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between the king of Sweden and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns, in Flint's latest novel.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionSprawling Epic
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Ash: A Secret History

Mary Gentle · 1,113 pages

Probably the biggest fantasy novel ever published in a single volume, Mary Gentle's magnificent tale of the gutsy and beautiful mercenary leader Ash will take you on an unforgettable ride through medieval Europe as it never quite was: For Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armor, and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. But she doesn't realize tha

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareViolentSeries
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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

Ocean and ShipsAlternate HistoryScience FictionSeries

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