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Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost 30 years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny.

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen.

Maddie Ryan is a 24-year-old English teacher at a predominantly Black high school in Houston. Teaching is just a job for her; it pays the bills, and she lives for band practices with her queer punk band, Bunny Bloodlust. When Maddie learns that the neighborhood where she teaches and her band plays is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the suburbs, she joins a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. 

Cadence Lightbringer, daughter of a legendary archangel, has always known her gods-endowed magic comes with a price. As an angel in the Legion of Angels, she lives where the Legion commands her to live, trains how the Legion tells her to train, and marries whom the Legion instructs her to marry. Somehow it all sounded simpler in her head. When Cadence is ordered to marry the enigmatic angel Damiel Dragonsire, a man she hardly knows, her whole perfect, predictable life is turned upside down.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

This is the second book in the continuing adventures of The Quiet Order. Still reeling from the unexpected exodus of Wilson Ryken and half the Kronos’ crew, Kelly Rittenaugh faces the daunting task of defending prominent historical events from the influence of her former friends. Wilson’s group is prepared to stop the Portuguese Inquisition by assassinating its leader, D. Diogo da Silva. The Quiet Order must devise a plan to save the life of the Archbishop of Ceuta. Can The Quiet Order prevent this history-altering event?

Nichts weniger als die Ursprünge der Menschheit versuchen zwei Archäologen zu ergründen – Gillian, eine Amerikanerin, die überzeugt ist, dass sich all unser Verhalten auf Urinstinkte zurückführen lässt, und Philippe, ein Franzose, der im homo sapiens die Krönung der Schöpfung sieht. Ganz unbeabsichtigt kommen sie einander näher und stoßen auf die Überreste der letzten Neandertaler: Eine neue Welt tut sich auf und ein Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod, 40 000 Jahre vor unserer Zeit und uns doch so nah.

WWII flares again. This time in space. It's 2207, and the Allies and Axis clash. On Earth, the Wehrmacht marches across America, heading toward Washington. Across the solar system, Nazi starships bombard our fleet. And among the stars, the SS hunts us like ghosts. But we fight back! Two universes. One of freedom, one of tyranny. One universe in which we won WWII. Another where the Nazis conquered the world. Now they're here. In our reality. They conquered their universe, and now they want ours. They cannot have it. James King, admiral of the Freedom Fleet, is an old space dog.

To save her sister, she’ll rewrite history… ––––––––––––––––––––––––- What would we risk to save the people we love? Sandbags line London’s streets in 1940, but for Beatrice Bone the Second World War feels distant and dull. It doesn’t help...

It’s 1888. While American audiences are in awe of seeing authentic Indians in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and in London, where locals are being terrorized by the serial killer, Jack the Ripper, the small kingdom of Vassalia is being threatened by warring factions. The threat comes from within the country as well as the military juggernaut that is its neighbor, Savalonia, from without. The only thing standing in their way is an expatriated Filipino, Edmund Agbayani. Once an ally of the Filipino reformer, Jose Rizal, he was a practicing medical doctor till his fiancée tried to kill him.

Narrado por la propia autora, ACTRIZ DE DOBLAJE: “¿Tú sabías que al principio de los tiempos, cuando el ser humano aún no había inventado la escritura, la gente se contaba historias de viva voz? Te voy a contar la historia de una niña que estaba loca de remate, loquita perdida, vamos, una locatis total”. Éste es un libro inclasificable .

May 1945. The world celebrates the fall of Nazi Germany and the reported death of Adolf Hitler—yet, one young Jewish survivor sees the impossible: Hitler alive and slipping into the shadows. Second Lieutenant Cy Jacobson, fresh from West Point and untested in real combat, is thrust into his first assignment—investigate a vast Nazi tunnel complex hidden beneath the rolling Austrian hills.

I traveled twenty-two years into the past to change the future and prevent the nightmare that threatens the Earth. I founded the Syndicate, which has by now become the most powerful organization in the world. It comprises the most talented Evolvers humanity has to offer—I selected them personally, guided by the knowledge from the future. I have now assembled a small army of Evolvers under the auspices of the Syndicate to clear the descent from the mountain and reach an incredibly powerful monster—the Silkworm, whose abilities I intend to claim for myself.

It is six months since the Battle of Hawaii. The war to defend Taiwan has become World War III, and the surviving pilots of a rested and refitted Aggressor Inc. are thrown back into the fight as it moves across multiple fronts. On Japanese Kunashiri Island, the crew of a single Japanese Infantry Fighting Vehicle tries to hold back an entire Russian airborne company, while marauding Russian fighters pour into the skies overhead.

Eight realities. One life. No rewind. What if every choice you didn't make still existed somewhere? Jack Mercer has built his life around safety—predictable routines, cautious decisions, and the quiet belief that avoiding risk also avoids pain. But when a mysterious device containing eight discs appears, Jack is pulled into alternate versions of his life—realities shaped by the choices he walked away from.

When forensic genealogist Sloane Vance returns to her childhood home after her father’s death, she expects dust, paperwork, and old silence. What she finds instead is a military field-phone her brother built in 1994—the year he died. When she turns the crank, the line connects. Not to memory. Not to a ghost. To herself. Twelve years old. Six days before the accident. Desperate to save her brother, Sloane begins altering the past—only to discover that fate resists correction.

Was wäre, wenn die Achsenmächte den Zweiten Weltkrieg gewonnen hätten? Und sich Hitler mit Japan die USA geteilt hätte? Die Grenze durch die Rocky Mountains verliefe, wo es neutrale Pufferstaaten gäbe? Und dort ein "Orakel vom Berge"? Vor dieser Unwirklichkeit flüchten die Menschen in ein Buch über die "Heuschrecken", in der die Welt so dargestellt wird, wie sie eher unserer Wirklichkeit gleicht - aber nur fast, oder ist es wirklich ganz anders herum?

As we listen to each character tell their version of the events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds to the final and astonishing denouement of the first, and most magnificent, English detective novel.

The story involves a huge diamond, the moonstone, originally stolen from an Indian shrine. The gem is given to an English girl on her 18th birthday but disappears that same night. What follows is a spellbinding mystery that to this day has the power to draw the listener into its world of danger, suspense, and surprise.

This novel spans the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.