Category: Alternative History

Im Jahre 1783 lockte eine gewisse Jeanne de l. a. Motte-Valois den Pariser Hofjuwelieren ein Diamanthalsband im Werte von mehr als einer Million unter dem Vorwand ab, sie solle es für die Königin Marie-Antoinette erwerben. Tatsächlich aber zerlegten die Betrügerin und ihre Helfershelfer das Halsband, verkauften die Steine und verschwendeten den Erlös. Die Betrugsaffäre, in die die größten Namen Frankreichs verwickelt waren, erregte einen ungeheuren Skandal; der sich anschließende Prozeß erschütterte die Gesellschaft am Vorabend der Französischen Revolution.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia ist den Ereignissen und den vielfältigen menschlichen Beziehungen mit subtiler Kunst und historischem Sinn nachgegangen.
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August, 1963. In 3 brief months, President John F. Kennedy could be assassinated whereas using in a motorcade in Dallas. There are those that comprehend this prematurely: numerous individuals of the Joint Chiefs of employees, high-ranking officers within the CIA and mystery carrier, F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, a few Texas oilmen -- and a 17-year-old unintentional time visitor in Marin County, California.
News From A Parallel international is the real tale of what occurred in the USA within the Sixties, in an international correct subsequent door.

Eve has no thought she’s the oldest soul in the world, with a pre-wired connection to each different soul on the earth and that the boy she’s mysteriously attracted to, named Roman, has been her soul mate, her love of approximately 300 lifetimes—until he tells her.

But what Roman doesn’t point out is that the recent genetic try out known as Animus will quickly reveal what she is to the total international and that he’s being tasked with the most unlikely; guidance her, into the open palms of one other, a boy named Jude. She’ll examine that Jude’s the one fresh soul in the world; the single who’s come to alter the realm, and that the way forward for humanity rests of their intertwined destiny.

¿Qué harías si tuvieras en tus manos los angeles posibilidad de ver imágenes del pasado? Juan y Miguel, dos amigos de universidad, consiguen, sin proponérselo, inventar una cámara que cambiará por completo l. a. historia tal y como l. a. conocemos. Junto a ellos, Patricia compartirá algo más que una aventura alrededor del mundo desvelando algunos de los fascinantes secretos que el tiempo se ha encargado de ocultar.

David Juan nos presenta una novela fresca, con una entretenida trama cargada de enigmas históricos, que el lector querrá ir resolviendo acompañando a los inolvidables personajes que forman parte de este relato.

»Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit« könnte auch das Motto dieser dreizehn Erzählungen aus zwanzig Jahren sein. Die Schauplätze wechseln – Hawaii, manhattan, der amerikanische Mittelwesten, ein Campingplatz für die durchrationalisierte Freizeitgestaltung –, aber überall herrschen Zwang, Anpassung und fadenscheinige ethical, die James Jones ebenso kühn und unerbittlich wie in seinen Romanen bekämpft.
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A quiet September afternoon in Brecon, Wales and a Nazi SS officer mysteriously appears to be like in the street. getting into a police station he shoots cops yet later commits suicide. college lecturer Polly Probert choices blackberries alongside a disused Welsh railway music whilst a teach passes and disappears. A lunch field thrown out bears a Reichbahn emblem and a value in marks. whilst she and her colleague and lover Harry lengthy are operating in a distant mountain valley they see a focus camp and nuclear reactor. A Nazi officer arrives at what he expects to be a Waffen SS base yet reveals himself in a firefight with the British military. Polly discovers that each ten days she needs to trip among her personal time and 1978 whilst Germany had gained international battle II. an individual very just about her will elect her and are available again. The Reich of 1978 is visible in the course of the eyes of Ludwig Fürstner the cynical head of intelligence providers. Adolf Hitler's son now principles and is making plans a shock nuclear assault at the united states. He intends to marry the pinnacle of focus camps - and so they hate one another. An American physicist explains multiverses as quantum wave kinds and waveform appear to be interfering. As interference raises one or even either universes needs to decohere, disappear. Polly's shuttling can be used to extend instability within the other-world and make it decohere to 1940. Polly meets her part sister (Janet) in 1978 who's additionally stuck up in time shuttling. Visits turn into more and more harmful and Harry is improperly injured in a single move. Polly and Janet are at the run in snowbound Welsh mountains aided through Welsh partisans. As occasions spread which universe will meet its Götterdämmerung?

A blood thirsty warrior is often strong to have round, so long as he is in your aspect. See historical methods and new methods collide. while a unmarried imaginative and prescient brings not likely souls jointly as they try to maintain the younger utopian "village of Jodicus". trip via gothic Europe with a hero as he attempts to resolve his previous during this fast paced web page turner.

This ebook isn't fiction.
This publication relies on whatever all of us do frequently, yet be aware of little or no approximately: dreams.
An historical, mystery society of dreamers concept that their goals have been simply bright reflections of the earlier, reflections that allowed them to higher comprehend and research from occasions that had happened some time past. jointly, they discovered that their goals had a extra far-reaching dimension.
At first, those discoveries confounded them. yet they quickly learned that their goals will be substitute visions of the previous, destiny, or parallel worlds.
You needs to needless to say a person could be a Dreamer—you simply need to tips on how to deal with, interpret, and keep an eye on this ability.
The Dreamer must also search others who percentage related goals, in order that jointly they could weave a whole picture.
Come with us on a trip during the minds of a few of the Dreamers. you'll by no means examine your goals a similar method back.
You will also observe that what you learn right here may possibly already be regular to you.

Dragons have for a while past reminiscence governed because the dominant species of Earth. they aren't the dragons of the human's previous fairy stories, for they've got developed and adjusted to conform to their new international. They stroll on toes and feature completed a degree of peace via discovering a distinct alternate or task for every of the dragon elemental types.

They proposal their peace safe, until eventually an old foe is located to have risen back. preventing him falls to a pick out staff of dragons, of varied powers and skills, and a dangerous quest to discover magical goods left to background. in any case, those 5 dragons could locate that the search leads them to discover excess of simply the keys to defeating the chance to the dragon realms.

6 levels is the tale of Tracey Smith. A good rounded girl that has every thing going for her. nice enterprise, stable young children, and an awesome guy, Jeremiah. that's until eventually the earlier begins to resurface. Now with issues coming to mild Tracey is in a crisis that has power to make her lose every little thing. Her enterprise, her family members, or even her guy Jeremiah. As Tracey attempts to get an deal with on issues, she's going to realize that existence has a few extra unexacting surprises for her.