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English teacher Jake Epping learns that the local diner contains a time portal to a specific day in 1958. The diner's owner enlists Jake for a special mission to prevent John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jake travels back in time and begins to make changes to history, even falling in love, before he realizes the consequences of his actions.

My Calamity Jane

In this reimagined Western, it is 1876, and Calamity Jane, Frank Butler, and Annie Oakley use their traveling show, "Wild Bill's Wild West," as a cover for hunting werewolves. After a hunt in which Jane receives a bite, she travels to Deadwood where it's rumored she can find a cure before the sickness takes hold of her. However, things aren't what they seem, and Frank and Annie race after Jane to warn her before it's too late.

American Royals: Inheritance

(A Prequel Novella)
The New York Times bestselling series returns in this heart-stopping prequel novella. Ever wonder how our future queen fell for her bodyguard? Or how Prince Jefferson and his sister?s best friend got caught in a love triangle for the ages? Grab your royal invitation and we?ll show you the night that started it all. Princess Beatrice realizes what?s expected of her as heir apparent?and it is not riding in cars, alone, with her Revere Guard. But what the Crown doesn?t know won?t hurt it?right? Princess Samantha is already bored of her own graduation party. She swears she isn?t looking for trouble, but when the king and queen are away, the spare will play?. Nina never dreamed of acting on her feelings for Prince Jefferson. Tonight, though, anything seems possible: even a prince and a commoner. Meanwhile, Daphne is hiding more than one secret beneath her perfect exterior. A royal party might just be the window of opportunity she needs?until everything comes crashing down. Will this be an evening of new beginnings, or will it mark the end of an era? Set before the events of New York Times bestseller American Royals, this brand-new story offers a glimpse of your favorite royal family as you've never seen them before, just in time for the release of American Royals III: Rivals!.

Red prophet

In an alternate early America where magic and folk remedies are highly effective, Governor William Henry Harrison is plotting the deaths of all American Indians and Ta-Kumsaw and Tenskwa-Tawa try to stop this from happening.

The great destroyers

2021
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.

Oddity

"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.

Muse

Inventor Jeremiah Emerson is planning on unveiling a weapon that will showcase the power of his province, St. Cloud, to the rest of the First American Kingdom at the World's Fair. He has kept his daughter Claire under his control as he believes her touch grants him his genius. But when the weapon fails on opening day, Claire is kidnapped by St. Cloud's governor Remy Duchamp. With rival governorships jockeying for power, Claire realizes she may be the only person who can allow Remy is retain power. Soon, she must decide if she is going to remake her world or tear it down.

Watchmen noir

Collects the entirety of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's "Watchmen" comic series done entirely in black-and-white. After someone murders the Comedian, an unlikely group of reunited superheroes--Rorschach, Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, and godlike Dr. Manhattan--investigate the mystery, and discover a much more sinister plot to change the world.
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His Majesty's dragon

After capturing a French frigate and seizing its precious cargo, Captain Will Laurence of the HMS "Reliant" befriends the dragon Temeraire and uses his new friend to help defend his country from other airborne dragon forces.
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Throne of jade

Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces, but when China discovers that their rare gift, meant for Napoleon, is now in the hands of the British forces, they demand the return of the dragon.

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