House Hippo Press
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One press. Two author lanes. No maze.

House Hippo Press is the publisher front desk for Adler Tweed and C. W. Brackett: serious history and alternate-history consequence on one shelf, commercial American collapse thrillers on the other.

Cascade book cover showing a red Volkswagen Beetle on a dark road under storm clouds

Current launch engine

Cascade

Powerless: Book One by C. W. Brackett. Systems fail first. Roads learn next.

Kindle USD $5.99Paperback USD $15.99KU
Adler Tweed

History with teeth.

Canadian civics, narrative nonfiction, historical fiction, and alternate-history consequence.

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C. W. Brackett

Thrillers with road grit.

Commercial American collapse fiction, Powerless, and stories built for momentum.

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Featured books

Cascade stays first. The rest is a selected public shelf, not a warehouse catalogue.

Cascade book cover showing a red Volkswagen Beetle on a dark road under storm clouds

Near-Future Collapse Thriller · C. W. Brackett

Cascade

Powerless: Book One

The launch engine for Powerless: AI-integrated systems, broken logistics, failed authority, and old analog tools that still work when the smart world stops picking up.

Kindle eBook USD $5.99Paperback USD $15.99Kindle Unlimited
Canada Without the Fog book cover with Parliament Hill rising through mist

Canadian Civics · Nonfiction · Adler Tweed

Canada Without the Fog

A Plain-English Guide to How the Canadian Government Actually Works

A clear, plain-spoken guide to the country, its institutions, and the machinery people keep arguing about without always seeing clearly.

Adler TweedCanadian nonfiction
I Was Never What They Drew book cover with an old map-style view of Long Point on Lake Erie

Great Lakes · Narrative Nonfiction · Adler Tweed

I Was Never What They Drew

Long Point Narrative Nonfiction

Long Point speaks through water, shoal, fog, wreckage, and the long human habit of mistaking lines for certainty.

Adler TweedNarrative nonfiction
The War That Took Canada book cover with soldiers and a cannon in an alternate War of 1812 scene

Atlas of Empire · Alternate History · Adler Tweed

The War That Took Canada

Proofs of Empire: The First Proof

The first Proofs of Empire volume begins with the blunt alternate-history question at the center of the series: what if the United States actually took Canada?

Adler TweedAlternate history