"Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular one's been circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And, oddly enough, so might the device... A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the...

In this representative volume, "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories" the reader will find twenty-four of Mark Twain's best shorter works. Classic and unforgettable tales that span the author's career are included, such as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", which is Twain's most famous short story and was his first great success as an author. It is the unforgettable tale of Jim Smiley, the gambler who will bet on anything including...

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and...

"In the latest novel from the author of Lady of Magick, Sophie and Gray Marshall must save the Kingdom of Britain from a tide of dark magic... Three years after taking up residence at the University of Din Edin, Sophie and Gray return to London, escorting Lucia MacNeill, heiress of Alba, to meet the British prince to whom she is betrothed. Alas, sparks fail to fly between the pragmatic Lucia and the romantic Prince Roland, and the marriage alliance...

What if Kennedy survived Dallas? President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight. But as the country marches on, the office of the President finds itself under a much more insidious type of fire. Political scandal, an endless war, and a country coming apart at the seams take the 1960's in a terrifying new direction, and both John and...

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....

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,...

George III is actually sane? The American Revolution quashed? Nelson survives Trafalgar? Napoleon is defeated by... Who??? Read these gripping situations from the 18th century in The Elder Rose, the new book in the Knight and Daye series! Within these tales of alternative history, the stories of the Woodes-Hastings dynasty are, told by an 18th-century British soldier, Colonel William Alexander Woodes-Hastings and his daughter, Cynthia Rose. Aside...

What if? That is the question that lurks behind every work of alternate history. What if the Black Plague wiped out almost the entire population of Europe, but left the rest of the world untouched? What if the Spanish Armada had succeeded in its effort to invade and conquer England? What if the survivors of the holocaust went to Alaska rather than what is now Israel? What if the South had won the Civil War? These are all "What if" questions...

Earth Story' is an engaging and thought-provoking alternative view of mankind's history and those who have manipulated pivotal events throughout millennia. The story is told through the eyes of different characters who provide an, as yet, untold version of historical events, such as the discovery of the tomb Tutankhamun, the Second World War, and the 1969 moon landing. Are humans really the masters of their own destiny or merely pawns in a much wider...