Títulos em História Alternativa

Winston Smith lebt im totalitären Staat Ozeanien, wo das allmächtige Regime jede Handlung, jedes Wort und jeden Gedanken kontrolliert. Als er beginnt, an der offiziellen Wahrheit zu zweifeln – und sich verliebt –, wird sein Leben zu einem Kampf gegen ein System, das keine Freiheit duldet. Ein zeitloses Werk über Überwachung, Manipulation und den Verlust der Individualität.

I've found the Fortress of Atlas, and been to the legendary Halls of Amenti. I know Atlantis was real, but the city was destroyed by a massive tidal wave. Except now I know part of the city survived. Beneath Atlantis lay the vast cavern known as Abzu, from ancient Sumerian mythology.

In 2044, America is on the brink—its government locked in a merciless, endless shutdown. The nation’s economy is in free fall. With no hope of compromise, the silent majority finally reaches its tipping point. When Jack Sanborn, a UNC Law professor, utters a dangerous idea in a crowded lecture hall, it sparks what feels like a revolution. Split the two-party monopoly and give democracy back to the people. Soon after a student video of his talk smashes viral records, Sanborn finds himself willed by the people to make an improbable run for president.

Halloween, 1920. A raging storm strands a train at a remote station deep in the Brecon Beacons. As the wind howls through the mountains and floods spread, something alien lurks in the dark—stalking the trapped passengers, one by one. Young porter Owen Randall is thrust into a brutal fight for survival. His only hope lies in an alliance with a fearless engine driver and a brilliant, mysterious scientist. Armed with nothing but courage, wits, and a trusty steam locomotive, they must battle an unearthly terror with no name—and no mercy.

Ten years have passed since the story began. Ivan Morozov is no longer the prey—he has become the hunter. He's done adapting to circumstances—his goal now is to rise above them and shape the world to his will.

Alex leads the group in search of a human camp in the center of the valley. Everyone has their wits about them as they all know one false step could be fatal. Until now, their main enemies have been monsters and the Storm, but the Other Side has attracted plenty of attention from elsewhere and now it's not just creatures who the group have to look out for. A band of mercenaries is heading their way....

Rufius has spent the last 15 years believing he was a Vixlingr—a changeling. Raised in Jorvik by a Viking blacksmith, his life is destined for servitude until the day he discovers a sword that would change his future.

The Great Princes' magical games conceal a hidden dimension. Abomination foci turn out to be not merely sources of blight, but portals through which creatures from another world pass. It is up to Max Richter to solve this mystery before the true enemies of humanity deliver their fatal blow. What started out as vengeance is now a battle for the future of the entire world.

What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education? In The Gold Standard, internationally bestselling author Saifedean Ammous answers these questions with a unique alternative history that is one-third history, one-third novel, and one-third economic analysis.

Elize Janview is a soldier, one of the few survivors of an unimaginably terrible weapon, which ended the long détente between the North and the South and plunged them back into all-out war. She enlisted with a dream of finding those responsible, of somehow getting revenge for the deaths of everyone she knew, but was posted to guard the prison at Crag, the fortress of the South, which has never fallen to the enemy.

What's that, bald monkey? Think everything's dandy because you've got a few missions under your belt and made a bit of a name for yourself on that backward planet of yours? Ha! Think again! I bet you'll be singing a different tune after you've been offered a personal assignment. You'll be a superstar rolling in credits if you succeed, but if you mess it up, you could lose everything. I'm talking "Legionnaire-career-over" kind of everything.

Eine rätselhafte Anomalie hat die Welt verändert: Kommen sich die Menschen zu nahe, sterben sie; ohne erkennbaren Grund, ohne Vorwarnung und ohne Ausnahme. Chen hat überlebt, indem er sich tief in die Wälder zurückgezogen hat, wo Einsamkeit sein einziger Schutz ist. Doch seine Isolation wird durchbrochen, als ein mysteriöser Mann in einem Luftschiff landet – ein Mann, der die Welt aus sicherer Entfernung bereist.

With fragmented memories of her former life as Breanna Ban Morna—a fierce Gaelic-Norse warrior—Erin’s Hero awakens to a new fate. To discover what she has become, she must seek the wisdom of the All-Father, Dagda himself, who is now her father in the new timeline.

The war that erupted with a Soviet orbital strike on Western Europe now rages across the globe. Alliances falter, empires fall, and dictators drive all before them. In the White House, President Kolhammer faces enemies abroad and a nemesis at home.

By 2052, the Empire spans continents, ruling from its capital in New York. Generations of constant war have consolidated the monarchy’s power and reduced Parliament to a puppet. Censorship, violence, and control govern daily life. But the thirst for freedom never fully died. They tried—five times—to win it back. Each time, they failed. Now, a sudden rupture inside the Royal Family has changed everything. And the fractured, sometimes competing rebels have their best chance in a generation to strike.

LIDAR scans of the area beneath the Great Pyramids have revealed something astonishing. An entire city lies beneath the sands, hidden for countless millennia, remembered only by the ancient priests of the early dynastic Egyptians. Thoth left behind the Emerald Tablets to explain what lies within the Halls of Amenti, a place that transcends life and death. There he met 32 immortal sages, and became the 33rd so that he could pass the knowledge onto the Egyptians.

Nel maggio del 2119 Thomas Metcalfe, studioso di letteratura del periodo 1990-2030, si reca per l'ennesima volta alla biblioteca Bodleiana per consultarne gli archivi, a lui arcinoti, nel tentativo di scovare qualche scampolo di informazione inedita sull'oggetto dei suoi interessi, la fantomatica Corona per Vivien del grande poeta Francis Blundy, mai ritrovata.

An unforgettable, heart-wrenching story tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the...

Freshly escaped from the caverns of "Home," the Clemens-Bemis Expedition welcomes two young women: bold Hazel and resourceful Conifer. Their journey starts with a bang when they dynamite their way free of the Vallis Alpes, hot on the heels of a renegade member turned outlaw. The pursuit lands them in Lobster Gulch, a rowdy mining outpost brimming with danger, dynamite, and dubious characters.

The Kael'Nyrin Scrolls: Our Children of Starlight is a fusion of speculative fiction and philosophical enquiry, positing that humanity is the product of ancient cosmic stewardship. The story centres on the Kael'Nyrin, trans-dimensional beings of a Kardashev III society, who were master orchestrators guiding life across the cosmos. We, humanity, are their "children of starlight." Their existence is exposed when the Scrolls are found in a crystalline obelisk in the Mariana Trench.