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In this Flash Fiction story, a 60-year-old hitchhiker gets hit by a car in Wichita Falls, Texas in July 1995. After receiving treatment in the local hospital, he decides to enter a talent contest to help out a ten-year-old girl, Melanie, when he learns her father is dying. What happens next has the town and the media buzzing.If you like alternative fiction, you will enjoy this short-short story.
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En lo más profundo de la historia de la iglesia, más allá de las páginas llenas de fe, esperanza y amor, yace un oscuro y perturbador pasaje que ha sido ocultado por siglos. Este libro, "La Iglesia: Los Horrores Ocultos en su Historia", tiene la valiente misión de desvelar esos aspectos sombríos y controversiales que han sucedido en la vida real.A menudo, la iglesia ha sido considerada como un faro de luz y guía espiritual para millones de...
63) Quintessence
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Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers...
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Le doux parfum du champ de marguerites de Grand-mère Louise, fleurs qui, paradoxalement, comme tout le monde le sait, n'a pas de parfum, a jeté à tout le village un étrange sortilège. À la lecture, la frontière entre le magique et le réel se dissipent presque de la même façon que le souvenir d'un rêve au moment du réveil. Dans cet ouvrage, des crapauds mystérieux, une rigueur séculaire et ridicule d'écouter des coquillages, la fin du...
65) Virtual Fire
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Four Who Changed History: Meet the Narrators of VIRTUAL FIRE
Paul Simmons: Computer Nerd
In 1970, Paul "Tesla" Simmons and his best friend Toby Jessup were college seniors more interested in computers than politics. President Nixon's escalation of the Vietnam War and their friendship with student activist Meg Wells drew Paul and Toby into the antiwar movement and a choice between violent and non-violent protest. Today, Paul is a leading software...
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Harold Wilson was launched into the spotlight as the darling of Labour's modern left in the leadership election of 1960, challenging Gaitskell and making himself the de facto leader of the Labour Left. His was the promise of a modernising party, committed to shaping Britain into a progressive and technocratic nation, and this promise would be put to the test when he became Prime Minister in 1964. Sadly, it was a test he did not pass and the failures...
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In 1971, strange things were afoot at the centre of the People's Republic of China. With the Cultural Revolution still under way and Mao Zedong at the height of his power, China and the world were shocked to find late in the year that assassination and coup had been in the air, and had subsequently come crashing down in eastern Mongolia. Lin Biao, Marshall of the People's Liberation Army, and Mao's constitutionally designated successor was dead in...
68) A Southern Yarn
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The book starts at the Battle of Spotsylvania with Grant attacking the salient. It traces through the remainder of that battle, then the march south to the North Anna River. Here Lee devises a trap by deploying his forces in an inverted V with the head against the river at Ox Ford. Grant was forced to divide his army into three separate depositions, two of which were south of the river. The actual history sees Lee falling violently ill with a severe...
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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...
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Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865? "Abraham Lincoln: A Novel...
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Daniel Brakefluid is a comedian with a cynical view of geopolitics. After a TV special in 1999 in which he tries to expose the New World Order, he is hit by a car and left for dead.
In 2024, Danny comes out of his command finds himself in a completely unrecognisable digital world. The 24-hr surveillance, censorship and loss of human rights that the masses seem oblivious to are profoundly obvious to him, so he feels an urgent obligation to alert them....
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Today, the Pacific islands reflect the best and worst in western society. On the one hand are the bravery and persistence of early European navigators, missionaries, and government officers; the early, well-meaning efforts by many westerners to help the islanders become 'civilized'; the assistance readily given in times of natural disasters; and the grants and concessional loans to help Pacific countries develop into independent economic entities,...
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In Fight and Be Right, Ed Thomas charted the alternative political career of Lord Randolph Churchill. But what about the strange world that resulted from his dramatic entry and departure from the political stage?
From the ruined streets and totalitarian oppression of Syndicalist London to the Russian 'Robots', and from the Jewish homeland in Australia to Longwood, Florida, home of the American motion picture industry, The World of Fight and Be Right...
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The Great War has been raging for eighteen years. In celebration of Christmas, Tsar Nicholas II attends the theatre in St. Petersburg but he is not to survive the evening.
His successors determine that taking part in the peace talks which Pope Benedict has mooted may well be to Russia's advantage. After deliberate delays, they travel to Rheinfelden to meet with British Prime Minister Bonar Law, French President Georges Clemenceau and American Prime...
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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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A NEW NOVELLA FROM THE TEAM BEHIND 'AGENT LAVENDER'
At time of writing, Britain has been led by thirteen men and two women since the Second World War. But not all countries have this kind of turnover - some, like Italy, have had dozens of leaders.
But others still have seen sustained periods of democratic governance by a single individual. What if Britain, a country in which a decade in office is seen as a long spell, had a post-war Prime Minister...
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The Boy In The Storm' chronicles three days in the lives of a family and a government agent in Nazi-occupied Britain in 1957. This moving and personal tale of human survival under totalitarianism is intertwined with the historical events, starting in 1941, that led to the current situation. Past and present come together to weave a powerful new story from Sea Lion Press.
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The forces of Evil arewinning the war for our souls, oursense of decency and our innateability to love one another. If thisbook helps to change just one ofus, from apathy and ignorance, toa champion of the truth - we canbegin the journey to a New Age ofEnlightenment - for all of humanity"
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'Great man' history is flawed. But it can be fun.
A group of alternate history authors try their hand at imagining different figures at the top of the British establishment. Be they Prime Ministers or something less conventional, the men and women in these pages inhabit very different worlds to that in which we live.
Could Britain have had a female PM much earlier in its history? Who might emerge to lead Britain from the ashes of a fascist dictatorship?...
80) Aya
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As the two travel throughout the world pursuing their mission of revenge, they will come across many different forces and many hidden worlds. Some of these people will be helpful for Aya and Ajax's goal. People will be equally vengeful towards the same people the Okura's are hunting. As Ajax and Aya Okura follow down this dangerous path, they must decide what is right for both them and humanity. Will they continue to hunt this treacherous path, killing...
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