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Libranda
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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LAS ACLAMADAS MEMORIAS DE J.R. MOEHRINGER, AHORA CONVERTIDAS EN UNA PELÍCULA PROTAGONIZADA POR BEN AFFLECK Y DIRIGIDA POR GEORGE CLOONEYJ.R. creció con su madre, pues su padre lo abandonó antes de que pronunciara su primera palabra. Pero J.R. sabe quién es: un DJ de Nueva York que tiene un programa de radio que él escucha con devoción, hasta el día en que su voz sale del aire y J.R. se queda sin nadie a quien escuchar. Encontrará entonces...
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Age of unreason volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In an alternate eighteenth-century Europe devastated by alchemical disaster, Sir Isaac Newton and his able assistant, Benjamin Franklin, confront enemies who seek humankind's destruction Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of philosopher's mercury in 1681 gave rise to a remarkable new branch of alchemical science. Forty years later, the world stands poised on the brink of a new dark age . . . England is in ruins, crushed by an asteroid called to Earth by...
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Age of unreason volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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On an eighteenth-century Earth crippled by alchemical disaster, a secret American cabal led by Benjamin Franklin strives to prevent the annihilation of humankind The dark magic that the great alchemist Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed with his discovery of philosopher's mercury has taken a devastating toll on Earth: The destruction of Europe and the advent of eternal winter have aided the mysterious malakim in their apparent quest for the...
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Age of unreason volume 4
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Angels and demons alike watch and wait as the last warriors of old Europe invade the New World in this magnificent conclusion to the Age of Unreason alternate history series The alchemical catastrophe that Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed late in the seventeenth century has transformed Europe into a cold, dead wasteland in the eighteenth-much to the delight of the otherworldly malakim, who have set humanity at war with itself for the sin of...
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A truth we all know... but agree not to talk about... was how the Clapping Lady from the secretive Consilience Foundation described it to a teenage Methuen Pryce in 2012 as they discussed his Segmented World model. But, it was also a 'truth' that Nick O'Grady, ambitious young CEO of the high-tech Allied Answers, had not 'talked about' that was, until he invited Methuen to his plush New York office in the summer of '23.
Against expectations, the bearded...
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A Short History of the World illustrated H. G. Wells - A Short History of the World: with original illustrations
Although best known for his scientific romances that paved the way for the modern science fiction genre, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) produced significant works on politics, society, science and history. Fascinated as much with the real world as his imaginary one, and displeased with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War...
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As the twentieth century approaches, politics and extreme weather have combined to turn the world upside down and the changes are still happening.
Germany is gone; Central and Western Europe now try to adjust to new realities.
A series of natural disasters sweep across the Stuart realms and an American millionaire's tendency to seasickness changes the shape of international trade for ever.
Trying to kill the monarch becomes an international...
28) Presidential
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What makes a President 'presidential'?
Is it tone of voice, is it the right suits, is it saying the right phrases to the right people?
In Presidential, Martin Concagh explores an alternate world through the defining moments of different American Presidents. The influential moments of faces both familiar and unfamiliar to our world; what defined the presidencies sick men, grieving men, angry men and combative men (and women) and how that defined...
29) The Wave
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The Wave was written to answer a question the author often asked: You say that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, a radical change in worldview that will thrust art and culture onto center stage. What does that mean? How will the world be different? The Wave is speculative fiction. In 2023, a young journalist, Rebecca Price, writes a series of articles describing an emergent cultural change that has been gathering force over the previous decade...
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Alice is a girl with her dream job, at the centre of the political heart of the nation — the English Parliament in Oxford. Admittedly, her role in parliament is a caterer, and her nation is just whatever odds and sods were left over when the various English towns and regions got their devolved assemblies. But she's proud to be part of an organisation that allows England's voice to be heard. The problem is, who is speaking, and who are they speaking...
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Travel to an alternative and parallel Earth, to an era in which Donald Trump has proclaimed himself emperor of the Union of Trump States of America (UTSA). During the 100th anniversary of women attaining the right to vote, the emperor has rescinded all rights and privileges that women have attained. And to top it all off, the emperor has opened internment camps for dissidents.
Now imagine undocumented extraterrestrial aliens have breached Trump's...
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In Journeys Home, Dick Monteith has created an authentic and heartfelt story of three South Carolina boys who grew up together in a small town in the Low country. It follows the trajectory of each as they go off to different colleges, pursue different passions, and end up having very different lives. One becomes a wealthy realtor, another a progressive politician and a third eventually becomes a liberal Presbyterian minister. The novel is in part...
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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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Resumen Según una antigua teoría, el hombre solo se encontrará en armonía con el mundo y actor de su época en el trascurso de tres existencias: el alma vegetal, el alma animal y el alma racional. A comienzos del siglo XXI, entre los numerosos individuos que no habían encontrado su lugar en este mundo, pero que pretendían hacerlo, Niels, entonces un joven arquitecto griego atormentado por los mitos griegos del pasado, fue internado en un hospital...
36) Double Play
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What if Lee Harvey Oswald had been an agent tasked with infiltrating an assassination plot against JFK? What if he was successful, but a twin plot to murder Vice President Johnson had succeeded?A spiralling conspiracy apparently succeeds, but two men soon know the truth – they just happen to be in prison.
37) 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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You don't wake up one day and become a Mafia hit man. It doesn't happen overnight. This is a story about how a young football-loving American boy could end up a calculated killer, 'strictly business.' It tells of a long and dangerous journey to becoming an assassin. A successful professional killer is made, not born. You get to experience his thoughts as he tries to justify the world of blood, sex, and death.
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It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And, a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army.
Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded,...
40) Mushroom
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Farzin, a simple man of simple faith, finds the end of the world has come - nuclear war has spread across the Middle East, and now he must escape with his family and find refuge. Mushroom is a 3000-word alternate history short story set in Iran twenty years in the future.
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