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Storytime in your language! Discover the magic of reading in over 40 languages; each picture books comes with an English translation to help develop multilingual reading and listening skills.
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Sun Tzu, the Master of War, once said, "Those who are skilled in producing surprises will win. In conflict, surprise will lead to victory." Here are four stories about the history of the world IF wars we know about happened differently or IF wars that never happened actually took place. Including:
1. The Hostage, in which, Abraham Lincoln is kidnapped by the rebels.
2. The German Invasion of America of 1889, in which Germany unexpectedly launches...
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It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And, a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army.
Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded,...
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Versailles 2002. Capital of the French Empire, the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth. A mysterious man found murdered in an alley close to the Palace of Versailles, the very heart of Empire, throws doubt on its security and, before long, on the very future of humanity as a species.
Njabulo ('Jab') de Voggeveen. Doctor of medicine. Hunter of diseases. Expatriate Zulu. Slightly out of his depth, but nonetheless drafted in by the French...
44) Turncoat
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Dixie is a man adrift, picking away at the evildoings of the Grand Order of Defenders and the DeVine Corporation wherever he's able. But none of it is what he really wants, and what he wants is out of reach. Then a notorious thief crosses his path, a man with abilities that might make all the difference. With his help, Dixie can at long last return to face the people that destroyed his whole world and return that destruction tenfold.
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1851 and, as a result, of a double Royal suicide, England and France are at war.
The chosen battleground is northern Spain, but this is only the first part of Europe to feel the dreadful effects of The General European Wars. Conflict spreads northwards, from Tyneside to Dunkirk and into Belgium and the Netherlands. Denmark is threatened with conquest and, in the east, the Russian Tsar gathers an army of nearly 400,000 men to achieve a long-held desire;...
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What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States?
The year is 1821. Former French Emperor Napoleon has been imprisoned on a dark wart in the Atlantic since his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Rescued in a state of near-death by Gulf pirate Jean Laffite, Napoleon lands in New Orleans, where he struggles to regain his health aided by voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Opponents of the Bourbon regime expect him to reconquer...
47) The Sea Eagles
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When an super powered alien teenage bat sent a 1990 West German patrol boat back in time, it caused a few ripples, and not only in the North Sea. The Sea Eagle Secret became the biggest story of the century, changing history for German sailors, Russian spies, French soldiers, Chinese politicians, Japanese admirals, British scientists, Czech bureaucrats, American airmen, and many others (not to mention Gilberto). This is history as it might have been...
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In July 2008, Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, wrote an article in the Guardian that many perceived to be a veiled attack on Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. In the days and weeks that followed, Whitehall was awash with rumours that Miliband was testing the water for a leadership challenge. It never materialised.
What if it had?
In this romp through the heart of the collapsing Labour government in 2008, Tom...
49) Brothers in Gray
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The Alternative History Trilogy opened with A Southern Yarn in which R. W. Richards forged new ground in the field of historical fiction. Using a little known trap set by Lee for Grant along the North Anna River, the Yarn reverses the outcome of the War Between the States. The South achieves independence but yields on the issue of slavery. Now comes Book II of the Trilogy, Brothers in Gray, prequel to the Yarn and every bit as unique. This is the...
50) Earth Story
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Earth Story' is an engaging and thought-provoking alternative view of mankind's history and those who have manipulated pivotal events throughout millennia. The story is told through the eyes of different characters who provide an, as yet, untold version of historical events, such as the discovery of the tomb Tutankhamun, the Second World War, and the 1969 moon landing. Are humans really the masters of their own destiny or merely pawns in a much wider...
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Volumen IV de Con balas de plata, trata de los años 1651-60 en Italia, en América y en Cataluña y Rosellón. De nuevo la toma de Trin, finalmente, la toma de Casal, a la tercera, desde la década de 1620 era la tercera vez que se intentaba el Casal y cedió, por eso dicen "lo que el mundo juzgó por inexpugnable..". El ataque enemigo a Castelamar, la defensa en Pavía, Valencia del Po y Alessandria dela Palla. De aquí pasamos a América, la toma...
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Imagine a world where the Beeching report was not delivered on time and was rejected by the incoming Labour government, and the concept of the Social Railway was delivered years earlier.
There were some closures, although lines more often went into a mothball state, and there were still a lot of station closures, especially on main lines. Not even the Social Railway would cover the smallest villages, and many urban areas had stations closed due to...
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." — George OrwellThe Fascist and Communist dictatorships left a bloody stain on the 20th Century, leaving tens of millions dead in their wake and a bitter taste in the mouth for hundreds of millions more when they encounter those ideologies. But what if they had never got the opportunity to do that damage?
A...
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Ireland is a nation, which has endured much over its long and storied history. But the struggles the newborn country endured when it was born in the younger years of the 20th century are obscured by the grander history of World Wars, the rise of superpowers, and the clash of ideologies. Ireland's part in these convulsions is typically on the sidelines. But what if the absence of a single man had been noted in time, a government fell, and Ireland found...
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Yorkshire, whether you think of it as 'God's Own County', or an uppity region with a Pennine-sized chip on its shoulder, is nevertheless a place with a firm identity, which for many years has clamored for more autonomy of its own. In the early-2000s, it was one of three regions in the North of England that was mooted for devolution, but a failed referendum in the Northeast, coupled with an increasingly ambivalent Westminster, scuppered proposals before...
57) Uchronia
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Accounts of past lost civilizations, strange aerial phenomena, unexplained encounters, and cryptic codes unquestionably continue to tease our minds with their intrigue. While many of these puzzles, which often are passed down from one generation to another, sound so incredible that they appear to be stories of pure fiction, from time to time, and more often than we realize, they turn out to be true.
UCHRONIA (alternative history) connects with several...
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"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." The Who
Many alternate history pieces explore Britain's fate if the United Kingdom fell to Nazi Germany. But few consider what might come afterwards. The chaos of an overextended Third Reich would not last forever. Europe would eventually be liberated. But with no staging post in the Atlantic, isolationism might take hold in the United States, and the role of 'liberator' would be played by Hitler's greatest...
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1908. The United Kingdom stands upon the cusp of a tumultuous century; a century of far-reaching political, social, and economic change. That change will accelerate rapidly within a few short years, as Liberals found the welfare state and reform the British constitution, and as a Sarajevo gunman plunges the world into total war.
But what if the meteor that harmlessly crashed into remote Siberian forest in the summer of 1908, had instead brought death...
60) Betrayal
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What would you do if you suddenly found yourself back in 1929, a month before the big stock market crash and knew how to turn it into a huger fortune? Or entrusted with 40 million dollars worth of diamonds at a swanky Thai resort and discovered someone had stolen just before the owners comes looking for them?
Or facing a murder charge when you and an old friend went rowing to a nearby island and only one of you came back. Then there's the young Allied...
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