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Alternative History November 2019
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Annelies
by David R. Gillham
An empowering reimagining of Anne Frank as a Holocaust survivor traces her endurance of terrible losses, her struggles to forgive and her development into a highly skilled writer.
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Council of fire
by Eric Flint
In a world post-Haley’s comet where magic floods the land, causing the disintegration of society, the young English Prince Edward, the only person of royal blood left, must forge a military alliance against the rising dark powers.
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Double exposure
by 1967- Gough, Alfred
A first novel by the creators of Smallville traces the experiences of a decorated Korean War veteran and a CIA officer who are swept into a 1960s global conspiracy that suggests that Hitler is still alive.
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Empire of lies
by Raymond Khoury
Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall—along with all of Europe—to the empire’s all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender. And Kamal Arslan Agha, a feted officer in the sultan’s secret police, is starting to question his orders.
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Famous men who never lived
by K. Chess
Enduring a refugee existence in New York in the wake of a nuclear war, Hel, a woman from a parallel dimension, refuses to acclimate to an unfamiliar culture and obsessively creates a museum in the name of her vanished world.
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First cosmic velocity
by Zach Powers
A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cold War, the Russian space program, and the amazing fraud that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world.
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Last year
by 1953- Wilson, Robert Charles
A man from an alternate-universe 19th-century Ohio town that is on one side of a time-travel portal to the modern world realizes that dwindling tourism will soon close the portal, separating him from the 21st-century woman he loves.
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Make me a city
by 1957- Carr, Jonathan
A fanciful reinterpretation of 19th-century Chicago traces its rise from a frontier settlement to an industrial colossus through the stories of a bombastic speculator, a pioneering woman reporter and the city's unheralded founder.
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The calculating stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition's attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn't take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can't go into space, too. Elma's drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her
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The epiphany machine
by David Burr Gerrard
The author of Short Century reimagines an alternate-history New York from the 1960s to the near future marked by a salon host's innovation of an "epiphany machine" that places text tattoos on its users' forearms that make revelatory statements of fortune and consequence.
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The future of another timeline
by 1969- Newitz, Annalee
A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history-changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel-world America where time travel is possible.
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The philosopher's flight
by Tom Miller
A historical fantasy epic set in a matriarchal World War I-era America of science and magic follows the efforts of an aspiring male pilot in a female-driven branch of philosophical science who gains entry into Radcliffe College before embarking on a relationship with a radical activist who would end the activities of a fanatical group.
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For additional reading ideas, talk with your library staff!
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