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  • The Federation Builders
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    What if Napoleon had truly won-& a new nation rose from the ashes of empire?In this gripping alternate history, the Peace of Warsaw (1812) reshapes Europe. A humbled Tsar Alexander surrenders vast territories, & the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is reborn under King Józef Antoni Kossakowski-with French bayonets monitoring. But fragile peace brings new dangers: Russian subversi...
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    12,20 €

  • Mieszko and Poland’s Conversion
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    In this gripping historical novel, pagan Duke Mieszko I of the Polans converts to Christianity to wed Dobrawa, daughter of Czech Boleslav I, forging a vital alliance against threats by Saxony and the Empire. Set in 10th-C Europe, the story blends political intrigue, spiritual conflict, and supernatural tension. Mieszko’s decision-demanded by Dobrawa and negotiated thru envoys-a...
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    18,53 €

  • Istanbul’s Fall, 1587
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    What if we could go back and re-make history? What if Sigismund II, the last king of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania, had not died childless in 1572, but had produced an heir: Casimir V? What if, carried away with zeal, he mustered the forces of European Christendom to mount a new crusade to re-capture Constantinople, lost to the Moslem Ottomans in 1453? Meet his childhood fr...
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    19,36 €

  • Istanbul’s Fall, 1587
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    What if we could go back and re-make history? What if Sigismund II, the last king of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania, had not died childless in 1572, but had produced an heir: Casimir V? What if, carried away with zeal, he mustered the forces of European Christendom to mount a new crusade to re-capture Constantinople, lost to the Moslem Ottomans in 1453? Meet his childhood fr...
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    23,55 €

  • Istanbul’s Fall, 1587
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    What if we could go back and re-make history? What if Sigismund II, the last king of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania had not died childless in 1572, but had produced an heir: Casimir V? What if, carried away with zeal, he mustered the forces of European Christendom to mount a new crusade to re-capture Constantinople, lost to the Moslem Ottomans in 1453? Meet his childhood fri...
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    22,45 €

  • Opętanie Mojżesza K.
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    W wioskach okupowanej przez Prusy Polski w 1843 roku, gdzie wiara zderza się z zakazanymi pragnieniami, Mojżesz Karnowski - czarujący żydowski handlarz - wkracza na ścieżkę uwodzenia i grzechu. Kiedy zapładnia młodą katolicką dziewicę Martę Nering, z ich nielegalnego związku rodzi się Walenty Karnowski, dziecko skazane na życie pełne prób. Ale rozpusta Mojżesza przyciąga mroc...
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    15,38 €

  • The Possession of Moses K.
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    In the villages of 1843 Prussian-occupied Poland, where faith clashes with forbidden desires, Moses Karnowski-a charming Jewish peddler-embarks on a path of seduction & sin. When he impregnates young Catholic virgin Martha Nering, their illicit union births Valentine Karnowski, a child destined for a life of trials. But Moses’s debauchery draws darker forces: possessed by dem...
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    15,26 €

  • Murder in New Orleans
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    A riveting historical mystery set in an alternate 1900 where the South won the Civil War In the sultry summer of 1900, New Orleans Detective Jean-Baptiste Delacroix faces the most impossible case of his career-one that will force him to choose between his badge and his brother. When a European merchant is found crucified on Andrew Jackson’s statue in Jackson Square, Jean-Baptis...
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    13,00 €

  • Val K. and the Murder Castle
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    Chicago, 1891-1896-a city expanding fast. Steam whistles, tenement stoups, the smell of coal, the clang of horsecars. Polish immigrants crowd the Near-west Side, carrying their language, saints, griefs, and hopes. In the midst of this restless, muscular city rises the most extraordinary and terrible building of the decade: the three-story labyrinth known as the Murder Castle...
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    19,26 €

  • Val K., Immigrant
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    VAL K., IMMIGRANTStep into the last year of Val Karnowski’s life in occupied Poland -when the iron grip of Prussian rule leaves no young man untouched. Drafted into the Prussian army for the 3rd time, Val faces serving once again in a foreign uniform, fighting in a war that is not his own: the Franco-Prussian War. But this time, he chooses a different path. He seizes an oppo...
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    24,51 €

  • Rogala in the Crimean War
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    Rogala in the Crimean WarCompanion to The Orphan’s TriumphIn 1850s Poland-partitioned and oppressed-22-year-old Michael Rogala, a brilliant Sorbonne-educated idealist, dreams of Polish independence. His heart lies in education, his spirit in resistance. Torn between staying home to teach Polish children their language and history, or joining the fight against Russian imperial...
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    19,54 €

  • Surviving First Grade, Poland 1848
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    A Polish Boy-Genius in a Hostile EnvironmentPoland, 1848: Where survival is a daily struggle and intelligence can be a dangerous gift.In a land crushed under Prussian rule, where peasants are reduced to foraging in the forest just to eat, one boy’s mind sets him apart-and places him in danger. Young orphan Val Karnowski, a Polish peasant child with a genius-level IQ, is taken i...
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    26,82 €

  • Val Karnowski, Boy Revolutionary, 1848
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    Val Karnowski, Boy Revolutionaryby Gerald R. Schmidt Set against the backdrop of a Poland struggling under Prussian oppression, Val Karnowski, Boy Revolutionary is a sweeping historical diary that chronicles the life of a gifted orphan amid the turbulent events of 1848. Told in vivid detail through daily entries, this deeply Catholic and emotionally charged novel explores the s...
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    29,56 €

  • The Governing of a Christian Constantinople
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    My forte is Alternate History. The following is a review by Herbl, copied from Amazon’s website. It pertains to a previous book of mine in the genre, The Strange Life of Walenty Karnowski.'This novel contains so much insight into life in the 19th century part of Poland that was dominated by Prussian rule. ...There are no slow sections in this book. Be prepared to read nonst...
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    9,93 €

  • The Exorcism of Moses K.
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    Moses Karnowski is the black-sheep son of the Chasidic rabbi of Lasin in Prussian-dominated Poland. As an itinerant peddler driving his wagon loaded with wares he has ample opportunity to seduce housewives while husbands are out doing compulsory labor on one of lord Romuald Rogozinski’s farms. Moses impregnates a 15-year-old Polish peasant girl - Marta Nering. She gives birt...
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    15,25 €

  • The Re-conquest of Constantinople
    Gerald R. Schmidt
    What if we could go back and re-make history? What if the last king of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania had not died childless in 1572, but had produced an heir: Casimir V? What if, carried away with zeal, he mustered the forces of European Christendom to mount a new crusade to re-capture Constantinople, lost to the Moslem Ottomans in 1453? Meet his childhood friend and skepti...
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    61,97 €

  • Positive Ecology
    Gerald Schmidt
    Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability. While newspapers and other popular media tend to focus on the negative aspects of environmental change, this volume examines the alternative notion of ’positive ecology’. Initially gleaned from the orientation of ’positive psychology’,...
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    84,27 €