Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Histoire alternative

River Kassandros has spent more than 2,000 years as a humble servant, bound to immortal Spartan warrior Ajax for eternity as his captain's weapon of choice. The two complete each other, forming a powerful fighting team against demonic foes. But at the height of an epic battle, River is flung into the depths of the Savannah River by their darkest enemy.

Deirdre Kirkwood, the bastard child of Griffin, a Catholic priest, and demon-infested Roanna Douglas, has been raised with her cousins Betsy and Hal, the children of Griffin’s twin, Donovan. Each of them has inherited a powerful magical talent and a wolfhound familiar. Any of them could become the next Merlin of Britain. Deirdre’s quest to know something, anything, about her father leads to a confrontation with El Lobison the Master of all Werewolves. No one is safe from him, as the cousins learn to their terror.

In the time of the Crusades, in a world at war, a prince of immortal lineage and a spirit of fire who was once an assassin prepare to celebrate a royal wedding. But he is Christian and she is Muslim, and there are those who hate them not only for their disparate faiths but for their power and magic.

For 17 years of his life, the exact whereabouts of the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri are unknown to modern scholars. It is known that during this time he traveled as an exile across Europe, working on his epic poem, The Divine Comedy. In his masterpiece he describes a journey through the three realms of the afterlife. During his lost wanderings, Dante stumbled upon an infestation of the living dead. The unspeakable acts he witnessed became the basis of all the horrors described in Inferno.

In 336 B.C., Egypt lies under the yoke of Persia. But a spirit of fire has risen to blaze across the world. His name is Alexander, and he is the destined conqueror of the Persian Empire - and the king foretold of Egypt. Meriamon, daughter of the last Pharaoh, journeys out of the Two Lands to find him and bring him home. From the battlefield of Issus to the siege of Tyre, from the founding of Alexandria to the divine revelations of Siwah, Meriamon both leads and follows her divine charge, who becomes her friend and her chosen king.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard's son, an alchemist and the heir to dark magics. Shattered by the demonic fury of his dark powers, Damiano Delstrego has forsaken his magical heritage to live as a mortal man.

A mysterious man appears aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage. His mission? To save the ship. The result? A world where the United States never entered World War I, thus launching the secret history of the 20th century. In April 2012 Joseph Kennedy, nephew of John F. Kennedy, lives in an America occupied in the East by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order - even though it would mean his death and the deaths of everyone he loves.

Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy. Much against his will, he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy - "Lord Shenoy", as he likes to style himself - who is probably the human race's most brilliant savant. Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species.

In this, the first volume of renowned author and historian Peter G. Tsouras’s alternative history trilogy, Great Britain’s support for the Confederacy takes it to the brink of war with the Union. The escape of a British-built Confederate ironclad finally ignites the heap of combustible animosities and national interests. When the US Navy seizes it in British waters, the ensuing battle spirals into all-out war. Napoleon III eagerly joins the British and declares war on the United States.

It’s early spring 1959, and the word desire is synonymous with America’s most famous blonde: Marilyn Monroe. Being desired is her drug, her kryptonite, the very definition of who she is. It’s so much a part of her identity that her own wants and needs have become fleeting at best, as if she’s seen herself through others’ eyes so often that she’s forgotten what she looks like through her own. But the deepest needs always surface, and there is one thing Marilyn wishes for beyond all else: to meet her real father.

A Rainbow of Blood continues the epic, exciting story that began in Peter G. Tsouras’s previous alternate history, Britannia’s Fist. The Great War accelerates during a few desperate weeks in October 1863. From the bayous of Louisiana to the green hills of the Hudson Valley, from Chicago in flames to the gates of Washington itself, the conflict uncoils in ropes of fire. French and British armies are on the march, and heavy reinforcements have put to sea.

Arabrab è un'assassina devota al Dio dei Morti: sottratta da adolescente a una vita da principessa, gli intrighi e le ipocrisie della corte dei Faraoni, è iniziata alle arti nere da un sacerdote dello Sciacallo. Combatte culti, poteri oscuri, mostri, demoni e nemici dell'Egitto in avventure attraverso il Mediterraneo della cupa e feroce età del Bronzo.

Nachdem es laut Medienberichten in der Schweiz zu einem Atomunfall gekommen ist, wird Fachermittler Jonathan Beck von der IAEO zu dem betroffenen Kraftwerk geschickt. Doch am modernen Thoriumreaktor kann er keinerlei Fehlfunktionen feststellen, obwohl sich die Meldungen über Strahlenopfer, kranke Tiere und Pflanzen häufen. Zu den Betroffenen zählt auch die Ärztin Laura Girard, die genau wie Jonathan versucht, den Ursprung der mysteriösen Strahlung ausfindig zu machen.

Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di Genesi? Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di Adamo ed Eva e di Diluvio universale? La storia la scrivono i vincitori, scrivono la storia che è più conveniente raccontare: censurano i massacri che hanno compiuto e nascondono la loro paura. Riducono le donne in polvere, al massimo in demoni. I vincitori, però, sono pigri, distratti, frettolosi e dimenticano di cancellare completamente la verità. Nella Bibbia, come in tutti i testi antichi, qualche cosa sopravvive.

Antes de morir en Chinameca en 1919, asesinado por órdenes de Venustiano Carranza, el Atila del Sur recuerda su infancia en Anenecuilco, su amistad con el yerno de Porfirio Díaz, su participación en la Revolución al mando del Ejército Libertador del Sur, sus noches con su querida Josefa Espejo y sus desacuerdos con Francisco I. Madero, quien fuera su padrino de boda.

El profesor Julio Verne, catedrático de historia y experto en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tiene problemas para conciliar el sueño. Sólo interrumpen su insomnio terribles y vívidas pesadillas sobre las atrocidades del régimen nazi. Durante sus clases, Julio obliga a sus alumnos a reflexionar sobre cómo se habrían comportado en esa época y de qué manera los ciudadanos son capaces de aceptar la tentación autoritaria. Su fama como profesor comienza a trascender más allá de las aulas, especialmente cuando sale a la luz un extraño complot nazi en su contra.

Leggere le nuvole è una formidabile riscrittura dei miti biblici in chiave futura. Se la nostra genesi, l’intera mitologia religiosa e la realtà stessa non fossero altro che immense simulazioni dentro altre simulazioni, prodigiose scatole cinesi virtuali create da esseri talmente evoluti che, dall’alto della loro potenza tecnologica, si divertono a guardare le civiltà nascere, crescere e morire?

Toscana, tredicesimo secolo: prosegue l’epica saga fantasy di Guido Cavalcanti e del suo spirito-guida, l’astuto Kabal! I ghibellini sono sconfitti. Mentre l’enigmatico San Pietro convoca l’Ancestrarca Kabal per affidargli una pericolosa missione nella Curia Romana, nella meravigliosa Firenze è tempo di festeggiamenti.

Nella città di Los Angeles una nuova droga, chiamata "Sostanza M", semina follia e devastazione. Nessuno sa cosa contenga, da dove provenga o chi la stia vendendo. Ma sono in tantissimi a usarla. Uno di loro è Bob Arctor, le cui giornate trascorrono tra sballi, incubi, conversazioni assurde con i suoi amici tossici, avventure tragicomiche. Bob è in realtà un agente della Narcotici infiltrato, anche se nessuno sa della sua doppia vita. Quando deve riferire ai superiori, indossa una tuta disindividuante, in modo che neanche i colleghi possano riconoscerlo, e diventa l'agente Fred.