alternative histories (fiction)

"In a world where the pale-skinned naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum--a naught--and Sephy--a Cross--test whether their love is strong enough to survive their society's racism"--OCLC.

"In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Th?nardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her na?ve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger--the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh--Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice--protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger"--Amazon.

A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.

"In an alternate America, Beatrice, now queen, and her sibilings Samatha and Jefferson struggle to untangle their personal lives and settle into their new political roles while the country hosts the world's monarchs at the League of Kings conference"--OCLC.

An alternative history in which Germany and Japan jointly occupy the defeated United States twenty years after World War II.

"It is 1920. An attack on New York City was thwarted and thousands of lives saved, but at a terrible cost. Our heroes-technologically advanced veterans of the Great War-struggle with the own future as the death of their patron, internal guilt, and the strange disappearance of one of their own threaten to fracture their unity"--Back cover.

Investigator Cyril Hayes struggles to learn what is going on when eleven union factory workers in Evesden, a so-called city of the future in 1911 built by the much-revered McNaughton Corporation, are found dead in a trolley car only minutes after they boarded.

"On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm . . . Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can't help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn't have a soul but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe. Because the dragon knows something she doesn't. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit--and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself"--Provided by publisher.

When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past, he decides to use it to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination.

In an alternate early America where magic and folk remedies are highly effective, Governor William Henry Harrison is plotting the deaths of all American Indians and Ta-Kumsaw and Tenskwa-Tawa try to stop this from happening.