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POLITICAL PLOT TWISTS - NOT QUITE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE ALTERNATIVE HISTORY POLITICAL FICTION
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by Stephen L. Carter
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 president's counsel.
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by Philip K Dick
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
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by Christopher Farnsworth
Unexpectedly partnered with a secret agent sworn to protect the President, ambitious young White House staffer Zach Barrows discovers his counterpart's secret vampire identity and joins his efforts to prevent supernatural forces from emerging into the conscious world.
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by Seth Grahame-Smith
Reveals the hidden life of the sixteenth U.S. president, who was actually a vampire-hunter obsessed with the complete elimination of the undead, and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of the nation.
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by Austin Grossman
In a novel of alternative history, Richard Nixon exposes the truth behind Watergate and the Cold War, which were both due to a horrifying occult secret he accidentally discovered as a young man.
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by Jason Heller He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can't get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he's an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There's just one problem. Available as an eBook through OverDrive
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by Stephen King
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.
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by Mary Robinette Kowal
A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts to colonize space, as well as an unprecedented opportunity for a much larger share of humanity to take part
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by Jonathan Lowy
Pop culture and recent history are hogtied and transmogrified to smashing effect in Lowy’s imaginative and often hilarious first novel, based on an unlikely but factual 1970 occurrence: President Nixon's White House meeting with The King.
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by Stephen Hawley Martin
It's the waning days of the 2012 presidential campaign. A Taliban-like group, the Free Fascists, has come to power in Baghdad, and overrun the middle east and much of eastern Europe. One of the U.S. presidential candidates is being controlled by the group. Is it the liberal, anti-war senator? Or the hawkish former Secretary of State?
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by Francine Mathews
It's the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy.
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by David Means
At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy is entering his third term in office. The Vietnam War rages on, and the president has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary.
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54 by Wu Ming. Translated by Shaun WhitesideSet during the height of the Cold War-with the world divided into East and West-54 features Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly. Wu Ming (Chinese for "no name", a pseudonym for an anonymous group of Italian authors ) brings us a cinematic romp that is by turns edgy social satire and modern comic send up.
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by Chuck Palahniuk
People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.
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by Caroline Tung Richmond
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories.
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by Philip Roth
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh ... publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but ... he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler.
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by Matt Ruff
11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers.
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by Curtis Sittenfeld
A novel of what-might-have-been follows Hillary Rodham as she takes a different path, blazing her own trail — one that unfolds in public as well as in private — and one that crosses paths again and again with Bill Clinton.
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by Whitley Strieber
The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests, and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us.
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by Harry Turtledove
The American people hope one of the potential Democratic candidates -- New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe Steele -- can get the nation on the road to recovery. But fate snatches away one hope when a mansion fire claims the life of Roosevelt, leaving the Democratic party little choice but to nominate Steele.
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