alternative histories (fiction)

Jo Linden lives in a world where there are no atomic weapons, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is played out in the Pax Games, fought with powerful robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots; Jo needs the prize money to save her father's mecha repair shop, and keep what is left of her family together, but when competing pilots start dying from poisoning, Jo finds herself caught up in Cold War politics and political conspiracy and she discovers that it is not only her family's survival at stake--she may have to prevent World War III.

"It's the early 1800s, and Clover travels the impoverished borderlands of the Unified States with her father, a physician. See to the body before you, he teaches her, but Clover can't help becoming distracted by bigger things, including the coming war between the US and France, ignited by a failed Louisiana Purchase, and the terrifying vermin, cobbled together from dead animals and spare parts, who patrol the woods. Most of all, she is consumed with interest for Oddities, ordinary objects with extraordinary abilities, such as a Teapot that makes endless amounts of tea and an Ice Hook that freezes everything it touches. Clover's father has always disapproved of Oddities, but when he is murdered, Clover embarks on a perilous mission to protect the one secret Oddity he left behind. And as she uncovers the truth about her parents and her past, Clover emerges as a powerful agent of history. Here is an action-filled American fantasy of alternate history to rival the great British fantasies in ideas and scope"--Provided by the publisher.

It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs may come in handy.

In the summer of 1943, Frangie, Rainy, and Rio are fiercely fighting their own personal battles while battling Nazi Germany. They have learned what they are willing to do as women to save themselves and each other, and the consequences of their actions. Now they and their fellow female soldiers are heading to the front lines on the Italian isle of Sicily, to fight alongside male soldiers in an endless siege. They face bigotry, anti-Semitism, and horrible conditions, while coming face to face with the brutality of war.

It is 1944, the sixth of June. D-Day. Rio, Frangie, and Rainy, all Silver Star recipients, have fought in North Africa and Sicily, and now they will need all that experience to survive Omaha Beach, the forests of H?rtgen, and the Eifel.

What happens when Willow Sparks literally rewrites her fate?.

The tsar of Russia sets up a duel between the country's only two enchanters where the winner becomes the tsar's most respected adviser and the loser is executed.

President George Custer is prepared to wage war against the Indian nations of the Cheyenne Alliance for possession of the unsettled frontier, unaware that his only son lives among them and fights beside them.

Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.

Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.