Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+7495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753685 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711921 In an alternate world where a victorious Nazi Germany has enslaved the native populations of Africa, former assassin Burton Cole struggles to stop a threat against Britains surviving colonies from a messianic racist with ties to a brutal plot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680079 In the aftermath of the supervolcanos eruption in Yellowstone Park, North America is covered in ash. Farmlands cannot produce food. Machinery has been rendered useless. Cities are no longer habitable. And the climate across the globe grows colder every day. Former police officer Colin Fergusons family is spread across the United States, separated by the catastrophe, and struggling to survive as the nation attempts to recover and reestablish some measure of civilization... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582173 After carving a place among the powers of 17th-century Western Europe, the out-of-time modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, must fight for its life in a war-torn Europe just emerging from medieval skullduggery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667864 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675639 The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability to the Eastern civilizations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616005 In the story of an alternate World War II that considers what might have happened if Chamberlain had chosen not to appease Hitler, the Germans fight with England and France to defeat Russia, while the United States struggles in a war against Japan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669129 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519972 He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican rsum. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media cant get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And the American people love that hes an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. Theres just one problem. He is William Howard Taft...and he was already president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing alive and well and considering a running mate in 2012?--from cover, p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657183 Held hostage by a papal usurper, 1635 uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna, become targets in a rescue effort by Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew at the same time the true pope is targeted for assassination. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477796 Investigators Burton and Swinburne return to Africa to seek the source of the Nile, a magic gem, and a way to fix history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477848 Its a parallel-universe, Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple. Its a city where sinister characters lurk around every corner while the great superheroes who once kept the streets safe have fallen into deadly rivalries and feuds. Not that its colourful residents know anything about the real New York ... until detective Rad Bradley makes a discovery that will change the lives of all its inhabitants.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644686 Alix Nico, a 19-year-old superspy for ExOps, a covert-action agency that shields the U.S. from its three greatest enemies--the Soviet Union, Greater Germany and the Nationalist Republic of China--uncovers a conspiracy that pushes her to the breaking point. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518240 After an Earth-scarring apocalyptic battle, the meta-humans have turned back a massive invasion of super-science powered Nazi war machines. Not meta-hero organization Echo and sometimes Russian ally CCCP must hunt down the secret puppetmasters behind the invasion, the Thule Society. Now fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, super-quick Mercurye--and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, the spirit of the world who uses her secret influence to direct the fight, must defeat the Thulian-based tyranny of evil and slavery that is fast descending upon the entire universe-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590295 For centuries, the wampyr has drifted from one place to another. From one life to another. Its 1962, and hes returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death some sixty years before. On the eve of social revolution, on the cusp of a new way of life, hes nevertheless surrounded by inescapable reminders of who he used to be.For a thousand years, hes chosen to change rather than to die. Now, at last, he faces a different future.... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680098 After a devastating encounter with Japanese submarines at the Battle of Midway, American naval forces are left in disarray as Japan dominates the Pacific, but a bold plan for ambushing the Japanese offers the hope of giving the Americans a fighting chance again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482132 The masque / by Eric Flint -- The monster / by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett -- Birdwatching / by Garrett W. Vance -- Suite for four hands / by David Carrico -- Lost in translation / by Iver P. Cooper -- Sailing upwind / by Kevin H. and Karen C. Evans -- A tinkers progress / by Terry Howard -- Jenny and the kings men / by Mark H. Huston -- Cinco de Mayo / by Edith Wild -- A matter of unehrlichkeit / by Kim Mackey -- Letters of trade / by David Dingwall -- Breakthroughs / by Jack Carroll -- Duty calls / by Karen Bergstralh -- The galloping goose / by Herbert and William Sakalaucks -- Feng shui for the soul / by Kerryn Offord -- Ghosts on the glass / by Tim Roesch -- Bunny B. Goode / by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett -- Mrs. December / by Chet Gottfried -- Nothings ever simple / by Virginia DeMarce -- Connections: stories with a common Ground. Supply and demand / by Rick Boatright -- Plugging along / by Kerryn Offord -- Sunday driver / by Laura Runkle -- Turn, turn, turn / by Virginia DeMarce -- The spark of inspiration / by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616843 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1555185 A mysterious man appears aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage to save the ship. In April 2012, Joseph Kennedy--nephew of John F. Kennedy--lives in an America occupied in the East by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order -- even though it would mean his death, and the deaths of everyone he loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1606243 In an alternate history novel, Lincoln escapes assassination by John Wilkes Booth only to face impeachment, and Abigail Canner, a young black woman involved in his defense, helps investigate the murder of the presidents counsel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243129 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1430067 In this final volume of the acclaimed Maeve Chronicles, Maeve confronts a political and emotional complexity that speaks to our times. Her courageous and compassionate witness of an epic tragedy will challenge and comfort all of us who have ever faced intractable circumstances of our own.--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310745 McOmbers stories blend historical fiction with fantasy and the macabre. He merges artifice and desire to create a dream of the past that intertwines with our own notions of modern life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297614 In Taylor Andersons acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S. Walker continue their battle for both freedom and survival, the stakes become much more personal ... and much more perilous. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1423319 Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336396 A World War II alternate history explores the lives of historic leaders, soldiers, and civilians in a world where Chamberlain chooses not to appease Adolf Hitler in 1938. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364703 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1258565 King Gustavus of Sweden orders General Mike Stearns of West Virginia to go to Saxony and restore order. Gretchen has been arrested there and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly theres rioting in the streets and Saxonys ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477791 Doc Holliday needs to replenish his bankroll quickly and uses his skill as a shootist to turn bounty hunter. The biggest reward is for the death of Billy the Kid. Doc enlists the aid of both magic (Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison). http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375969 Princess Adele abandons duty and embarks on a desperate quest to keep her nation from genocide as the Equatorian Empire and American Republic allies strategize plans for victory against the vampire clans of the north. As Adele fights to bring order to her world, she learns more about the strange power she exhibited in the north. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1377261 Five hundred years ago Henry VIII had a fearsome temper and bloodthirsty reputation to match; more beast than human, some might say... Is it possible he was really a werewolf?!? Discover the man behind the myth-- and behind the fur-- in this inventive retelling of Henrys reign. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1294262 It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577857 After eleven union men are found dead in a trolley car in 1919, a man named Hayes must discover the truth behind the murders--and behind the McNaughton Corporation and the Evesden, the company town it built--before he meets a grim end. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1425367 Ten thousand years ago, a vast, fertile plain linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with natures bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho- a town that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible... So begins a colossal engineering project that will take decades: the building of a wall that stretches for hundreds of miles- a wall that becomes an act of defiance against the implacable forces of nature, and an act of devotion as the bones of the dead are added to it. A wall that will change the geography of the world. And its history.--From front jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376443 In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 1938? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1395332 On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The authors new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunnings father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jakes friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely possible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakes new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jakes life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474479 With the specter of a German super-weapon moving closer to completion and the German generals finally allowed to fight the kind of war at which they are masters, the Allies are pushed toward a course of accommodation o r even defeat. Will the soldiers of the Grand Alliance find the courage and conviction to fight on in the face of such daunting odds?--Jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1172384 West Virginians from the 20th century were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, and the lost outpost of American freedom and justice must play the United States of Europe against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053767 Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the countrys population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned sex and drugs, a brutal police force known as the Blue Coats, and a device called the slate, a mandatory implant that monitors every word a person speaks. To utter a Red-Listed, forbidden word is to risk physical punishment or even death. But there are those who resist. Guided by the fabled Book of Noah, they are determined to shake the people from their apathy and ignorance, and are prepared to start a war in the name of freedom. The newest member of this resistance is Harper -- a woman driven by memories of a daughter lost, a daughter whose very name was erased by the Red List. And she possesses a power that could make her the underground warriors ultimate weapon -- or the instrument of their destruction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187643 Rudi Mackenzie must return to Montival in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest and forge an alliance with old enemies if he is ever going to defeat the minions of the Prophet and assume his rightful place as Artos, King of Montival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1197134 A famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in Audubon in Atlantis. A young American on a European holiday finds himself storming an enchanted German castle in The Catcher in the Rhine. The philosopher Sokrates plays a key role in the Athenian victory over the Spartans in The Daimon. Centaurs take a sea voyage aboard The Horse of Bronze to a land where they encounter a strange and frightening tribe of creatures known as man. Londons most famous detective, Athelstan Helms, and his assistant Dr. James Walton are in Atlantis investigating a series of murders in The Scarlet Band. This collection includes these and seven more amazing stories of ancient eras, historical figures, mysterious events, and out-of-this- world adventure from the incomparable Harry Turtledove. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1100375 When the Nazis run missions with a man who walks through walls and a woman who uses her knowledge of the future to twist the present, secret agent Raybould Marsh must rally Britains secret warlocks to hold an impending World War II invasion at bay. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1210530 Presents a collection of factual but fantastic stories including The Catcher in the Rhine, which finds a young American storming an enchanted German castle, and The Scarlet Band, which sends a renowned London detective to Atlantis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113468 Young Paolina Barthes, a gear-minded prodigy and target for the empire-building ambitions of rival governments, is on the run, heading south over the Wall that God built to divide the hemispheres and keep the Earths gear turning through the heavens. As spies and ancient secret societies scramble to find her, Paolina struggles to learn how to control her world-shaking abilities, while her heart pulls her toward Boaz, a golemlike man of brass. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1267775 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1141262 An alternate history of World War II continues to explore what would have happened in the lives of leaders, soldiers, and civilians had Great Britains Neville Chamberlain not appeased Hitler. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1214089 Un escritor es invitado a un congreso de bigrafos en la ciudad de Jerusaln, metfora de una urbe sitiada por la guerra, a punto de sucumbir. La narracin de las vidas de los participantes al congreso sorprende al protagonista. Tal es el caso del librero y bigrafo francs Edgar Miret Supervielle, de la actriz porno italiana Sabina Vedovelli, del empresario colombiano Moiss Kaplan y, sobre todo, de Jos Maturana, un ex pastor evanglico, ex convicto y ex drogadicto que, con el poderoso lenguaje de las calles ms srdidas, narra el periplo de su salvador, un carismtico mesas latino en Miami. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=986541 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=930169 In the summer of 1945, war is reigning in the Pacific Rim while Syms Thorley continues his life as a B-movie actor. But the Navy would like to use Thorley in their top-secret Knickerbocker Project, putting the finishing touches on the ultimate biological weapon: a breed of gigantic, fire-breathing, mutant iguanas. Thorley must don a rubber suit that will transform him into the merciless Gorgantis, and star in a film that simulates the destruction of a miniature Japan. If the demonstration succeeds, the Japanese will surrender, sparing thousands of lives; if it fails, the mutant lizards will be unleashed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1214101 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043450 Discovering an old photograph of a beautiful mathematical prodigy, antiques dealer Peter remembers his initial dismissal of the womans claim that she had discovered the key to time travel, a capability that enables Peters journey to New York at the dawn of the mechanical age. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1041795 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1031827 Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantiss first settlement. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country. He becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130660 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=997758 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=774668 In 1924, violence, political turmoil and potential revolution threaten to engulf the United States and Canada in another World War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=807385 War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=720254 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679841 In the climax of an alternate history trilogy that began with Weapons of Choice and Designated Targets, the Axis and Allied forces race to build an atom bomb, while a revitalized Soviet Union threatens to unleash a new wave of destruction, and Kolhammer and his team confront the consequences of messing with the historical timeline. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=714421 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298279 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=722373 A murder mystery set in the imaginary Jewish homeland that is Alaska. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695495 Alaska, 1987. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigoriy Grigorievich has a stained past - as a major in the Czars Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying an insane direct order. Now, ten years later, Grisha charters out to a cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well. Revolution against an oppressor, continent-wide alliances, and an epic struggle of a people to be free - spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon, this is an epic tale of one mans journey of redemption and courage to face old fears, new challenges, and help birth a new nation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=742079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688888 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=744038 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673680 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=626097 It is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States. CSA President Featherstone has miscalculated the Norths resilience. In Ohio, where Confederate victory was once almost certain, Featherstones army is crumbling, and reinforcements of uninspired Mexican troops cannot stanch a Northern assault on the heartland. The tide of war is changing, and victory seems within the grasp of the USA. Still, new fighting flares from Denver to Los Angeles. As air, ground, and water burn with molten fury, new and demonic tools of killing are unleashed. The U.S. government in Philadelphia has proof that Featherstone is murdering African Americans by the thousands in a Texas gulag. And the leaders of both sides know that the worlds next great power will not be the one with the biggest army but the nation that smashes open the power of the atom.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673669 Michael Flynn returns with a major SF novel based on a Hugo-nominee novella. Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared and never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived. Whats so special about Eifelheim? In the year 1348, Father Dietrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald, later known as Eifelheim, when the Black Death is gathering strength but is still not nearby. Dietrich is an educated man, knows science and philosophy, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders in the shadow of the plague. Flynn gives us the full richness and strangeness of medieval life, as well as some terrific aliens.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=786723 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=786526 The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own. When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765648 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590516 The invaders are coming - the Posleen, a seemingly unstoppable alien horde who have conquered one star system after another, literally feeding on their conquests. Earths dubious allies, the Darhel, have given the humans a number of highly advanced technological devices, including a process for rejuvenating the aged, including trained and proven soldiers who otherwise would be too old to fight. Rejuvenation may give a critical edge, since to survive, the Earth must use every resource at hand. In the dark days after the initial Posleen attack, but before the primary invasion, the Chancellor of Germany faces a critical decision. Over the years, with military cutbacks, the store of experienced military personnel had simply dwindled. After the destruction of Northern Virginia, he realized that it was necessary to tap the one group he had sworn never, ever, to recall: the few remaining survivors of the Waffen SS. Has he made the devils bargain, or is this a chance for the reviled SS at last to fight the good fight? And, perhaps, gain redemption...?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=549754 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605277 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590499 Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaiis throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources. And families of Japanese origin find their loyalties divided. Despite the victory, the strain is starting to take its toll on the Japanese. Inhabiting the islands and keeping American, British and Australian forces at bay are pushing their supply lines to the breaking point. Meanwhile, across the United States, from Pensacola, Florida, to San Diego, California, the military is marshaling its forces. Steel factories and fuel refineries are operating around the clock. New recruits are enlisting, undergoing rigorous training exercises. All for the opportunity to strike back and drive the enemy from American soil.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=732990 An alternative history in the form of memoirs looks at the life of H.P. Lovecraft from the viewpoints of three women, two fictional and one historical. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684184 Still piecing together his memory, Elijah Snow recalls his past as a member of Planetary, including his meeting with Sherlock Holmes and Dracula, and his defeat by The Four. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491354 In an alternate universe in which Japan rules the Pacific and Alaska is a Russian territory, Confederacy president Jake Featherston sends his planes to bomb Philadelphia and general George Patton drives his armored divisions north, triggering World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=518526 In a first installment of a three-part alternate history epic, Americas World War II fleet is decimated by a multi-national task force sent back in time from the year 2021, forcing Admiral Nimitz and Rear Admiral Spruance to make the potentially consequential decision to fight their own possible descendants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=483238 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=461781 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=452210 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=416411 In this all-new collection of original novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been by traversing Worlds That Werent. Under the influence of the philosopher Sokrates, the Athenian general Alkibiades leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans in Harry Turtledoves The Daimon. Set in the same universe as The Peshawar Lancers, Shikari in Galveston by S. M. Stirling features an Angrezi aristocrats hunting expedition into the wilds of Texas - and his growing admiration for the natives who dwell there. In 1453, a rather different Turkish Empire raised the flag of Astartes Bloody Crescent over Constantinople. Four years later, European mercenaries find themselves stranded on the coast of North Africa - with an embarrassing corpse- in The Logistics of Carthage by Mary Gentle. In Walter Jon Williamss The Last Ride of German Freddie, a mysterious Old World figure stalks Tombstone, Arizona, as a cardsharp, trading philosophy - and lead - with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=484391 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=412296 The decades foremost writer of alternate history science fiction returns with a second volume of what-if scenarios featuring Sir Francis Drake and other great leaders. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=357730 The weekend before Christmas 1970, Elvis Presley stormed out of Graceland in a drug-addled rage, escaping his handlers for two days and flying back and forth across the country. He finally landed in Washington, D.C., where he begged for, and received, an audience with President Nixon. In the Oval Office, with flashbulbs popping, he was awarded - of all things - an FBI Special Narcotics Agent badge. It was a surreal moment. But the story doesnt end - or begin - there. Against the backdrop of that historical meeting, Jonathan Lowy weaves a vivid web of stories about the eccentric cast of characters whose lives were touched by the encounter. Some of the stories are real, some are fiction, all are unforgettable.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=358006 Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the conflict engulfed Europe, the C.S.A. backed the Allies, while the U.S found its own ally in Imperial Germany. The Confederate States, France and England all fell. Russia self-destructed, and the Japanese, seeing that the cause was lost, retired to fight another day. The Great War has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around most of the world. But nowhere is the peace more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the United States. In the South, the once mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt refuses to return to prewar borders. The scars of the past will not soon be healed. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists. At this crucial moment in history, with Socialists rising to power in the U.S. under the leadership of presidential candidate Upton Sinclair, a dangerous fanatic is on the rise in the Confederacy, preaching a message of hate. And in Canada another man - a simple farmer - has a nefarious plan: to assassinate the greatest U.S. war hero, General George Armstrong Custer.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=337486 As the 1960s begin, one of the great powers explodes a nuclear strike against the Races colonization fleet. As she did a generation before, Germany goes to war over Poland, this time against the Race. Retaliation is swift and deadly, leaving much of the Third Reich in ruins. The United States has used its fast-developing military technology to lock the invaders into a standoff. And in China, the ragtag revolutionary army of Mao Tse-tung - armed with Russian-supplied, German-made weapons - may prove the Races most intractable enemy of all. On Earth, the alien invaders find themselves confronting a far more complex and difficult species than any they have encountered before. From the hatred between the Jews and the Deutsche to the irrepressible inventiveness of human technology, the reptilian invaders realize they have met creatures that cannot be tamed. Ultimately, only superior firepower may keep Earth under the Empires control - or may destroy the world. Despite its military superiority, the Race still fears it underestimates its foes. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet, and the Races troops are undermined by ginger addiction, one nation plots a stunning counterattack.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=316692 Slims a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck and just about broke - but hey, thats what the blues are all about. He loves his music: Not the popular blues, homogenized, synthesized, and zombilized; but the real down-home gut-bucket blues. Then one day the music loves him back. In a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. Its a little bit magic and a whole lot different, but the blues are the same. And the blues - manifest here in the form of a maple-necked, pearl-gray Fender Stratocaster with blue-chrome pickups, a.k.a. The Gutbucket - need him and need him bad. The Strats fallen into the hands of T-Bone Pickens and his Vipers, who want to suck up all its power and turn it to evil. Slims off and running on the Gutbucket Quest, with the help of his new mentor, rhythm guitarist Progress T. Hornsby, and a purely unstoppable blues singer named Nadine.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516399 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=315532 Is it the war to end all wars - or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spread to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between two independent nations explodes. Twice in fifty years the Confederate States of America has humiliated their northern neighbor. Now revenge may at last be at hand. Under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt, and following a general named Custer - military genius or madman? - the United States are fighting a war on two fronts in 1917. In the north, from the Pacific to Quebec, U.S. forces in the air and on land are locked in battle against Canada and Great Britain. To the south, at the heart of a line that stretches from the Gulf of California to the Atlantic, Custer intends to do what none of his predecessors had ever managed: to smash through the Confederate barbwire entrenchments in Tennessee. Here are leather-jacketed daredevil pilots flying unproved fighters into anti-aircraft fire. Here is a melee on the sea, as U.S. sailors duel Confederate submariners, while the English, French, and Japanese surface navies vie for control of the shipping lanes. In Harry Turtledoves incredibly imagined alternate history, the Great War is played out over a cast of vivid characters. Amid the sound and fury of battle, as nonaligned nation-states choose sides and politicians spew bombast far from the front lines, The Great War: Breakthroughs captures a world war at an apocalyptic turning point. Victory is at hand - but at a price that may be worse than war itself.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=472114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=163787 In the Worldwar tetralogy, set against the explosive backdrop of World War II, master of alternate history Harry Turtledove wove a saga of world powers locked in conflict against a deadly enemy from the stars. Now, with Colonization: Second Contact, Turtledove expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s - when humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. During the Worldwar, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, and dozens of other cities perished in the radioactive holocaust of nuclear battle. Twenty years later, a fitful peace reigned over the continents. Though Himmler controlled Germany and France, Molotov ruled Russia, and President Earl Warren tenuously governed the United States, the invaders lorded over most of the world - coexisting in an uneasy balance with humans. As both the alien and human races experience the rampant social turmoil of the sixties, they are fatefully influenced by the tremendous upheavals - and by each other. Then amidst this strife comes a new phase of the alien invasion... the arrival of the colonization fleet - an enemy that seeks to sweep humankind aside on a global scale. The fleets terrible goal is to colonize and seize control of every man, woman, and child on Earth. Yet as governments feverishly develop weaponry, a terrible truth emerges: This war will be fought not only on the the ground but in the vacuum of space. The United States must summon all its technological genius - or face destruction.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=173757 On April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard HMS Bounty and forced Capt. William Bligh and eighteen men overboard. History tells us that the mutineers settled on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific where their idyll came to a violent end in a native uprising. But there are numerous historical incidents suggesting that Christian was not killed and managed to escape. In Kinsolvings novel, Christian does escape, and subsequently frees a beautiful young Englishwoman, Daphne, from debauched privateers. Together they reach a deserted island where they fall deeply in love - a love that sustains them both through the worst of times that follow. Finally rescued, they find their way by separate routes to England, where Christian is ever on the run - from the navy, from the law, and from Bligh.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=120686 A remarkable story about a war that never was: a German invasion of the United States at the turn of the century. This is a fast-paced novel that explores what might have happened if Germany and the United States had tangled on American soil. The year is 1901. Imperial Germany demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. When President McKinley indignantly refuses, the German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, launches an invasion of the United States, striking first on Long Island. Chance puts a young army major, Patrick Mahan, in the catbirds seat at this critical juncture in American history. He rises quickly to the rank of brigadier general and plays a decisive role in the conflict with the Germans. Dozens of historical personages appear, including Teddy Roosevelt, James B. Longstreet and Joe Wheeler of Civil War fame, and Arthur MacArthur and his newly commissioned son Douglas.--BOOK JACKET.