Resultados para "The Call" en Historias alternativas

A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel Londons. The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off from the world, a chance of survival within its confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth.

The year is 1933. Even in a world with free energy, robot labor, and megacorporations, nothing could stop the collapse of the American dream. As the world-spanning Great Depression rages on, the remaining New York-based mafias clash with police for control of the broken city. Elias Roche, former police officer turned Mafia enforcer, works to maintain a tenuous peace between the two parties. 

Michael and Melanie Anderle are hauling a tanker full of oil with their Peterbilt eighteen-wheeler when they're struck by a temporal irregularity that sends them, the truck, and their daughter back in time a thousand years. The bubble that transports them also grabs a chemist and her two young children, along with half a convenience store in the middle of the United States. They just want to make a decent life for themselves in this new world of the past, with their Peterbilt and its oil providing a means of transportation, a generator, and shelter.

As Benjamin Franklin pursues his famous scientific and political work, he uncovers a world-changing magical plot he must thwart to save the lives of those around him. The only problem with that is that he didn't even believe magic was real until an accident with his kite experiment unlocked the ability in him. The ever-inquisitive Franklin races to decipher the rules of this mystical force and learn to control it while maneuvering through the politics and intrigue of the Royal Court in London.

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with Never Call Retreat, a remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won?

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with Never Call Retreat, a remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills...

Nachdem Adam Riese und die Kanzlerin geheiratet haben, fährt diese ein sensationelles Wahlergebnis ein, was sie in eine international glorreiche Position befördert. Zugleich beginnt der sie bisher fördernde Konzern GREENCORPS einen Krieg gegen sie, den die Regierungschefin mit einer neuen Form des politischen wie totalitären Widerstands beantwortet. Während sich auf der Welt die Streitmächte neu aufstellen und organisieren, bündelt die hohe universelle Gewalt ihre Kräfte, die Erde auszulöschen.

Nach dem missglückten Attentat ruft die Kanzlerin das Kriegsrecht aus, während ihre ewige Widersacherin Magdalena Riese von der Organisation IKARUS auf die Kanaren, unterdes die letzte Freizone vor den Pforten des alten Europas, verbracht wird. Derweil versucht ihr Sohn Adam, dessen Liebesbeziehung zur Kanzlerin mehr und mehr an Ernsthaftigkeit gewinnt, dem Geheimnis und den wahren Zielen von GREENCORP und dessen geheimnisvollen Anführer Sol auf die Schliche zu kommen.

Deutschland in zehn Jahren. Mit absoluter Mehrheit regiert die Kanzlerin in der dritten Legislaturperiode und hat mit harter Hand die globalen Verhältnisse auf den Kopf gestellt. Während die einstigen Großmächte China, Russland und die USA deutlich unter Auflösungserscheinungen leiden, ist es der charismatischen Machtpolitikerin gelungen, sich und die von ihr angeführte Kern-EU zur Weltspitze zu führen.

Intricate threads from the past and the present bind together a yellow silk dress, lost gold and a missing grandmother in a twisty historical mystery from the bestselling author of The Talented Mrs Greenway. Maitland, 1889 When nineteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday she expects...