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"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet roll. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome man,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won't go near her. Even the dog seems sad. She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with "emergencies"; keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp...
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Series
Tim Possible volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tim and his best friends Tito and Oskar, the time-traveling T-Rex, battle the evil Weremoles--an army of hungry, sharp-toothed rock-munchers who are out to destroy their fair city of Metrosalis! Will Tim’s worrying superpower help them defeat the underground monsters, or is doomsday just a worry away?"--
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Series
Potts Bottom volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Della Dupree feels she is nothing like her namesake, the founder of prestigious Ruthersfield Academy, but one day she finds herself alone in the year 1223 with nothing but her witchcraft to save her. Includes recipes and craft instructions.
5) Cross Stitch
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English
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"Gorgeously romantic" time travel from the author of the award-winning A Stitch in Time (Old Victorian Quill). It should be the happiest day of her life. Sarah Yates is finally marrying her true love, John Needler. But Sarah and John can't pretend they're an ordinary couple. They're time travellers, and slipping in and out of the past to repair problems that can affect the future can put quite a wrinkle on a honeymoon. One minute Sarah is saying her...
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Dinosaur Club volume 9
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First American edition
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jamie, a member of the Dinosaur Club...Jamie has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famous for its fossils. He is busy exploring when he discovers some dinosaur footprints and is transported back to the time of the dinosaurs! It sounds like Jamie needs some help from the Dinosaur Club when he comes across a massive pterosaur called Quetzalcoatlus, the largest animal in history ever to fly"--
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family has financial security and he some salvation, Ulysses S. Grant, riddled with cancer, journeys back in time to the crucial moments of his life as a general and twice-elected president as he reckons with his complicated legacy.
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What if Robert E. Lee won the Battle of Gettysburg and his army went on to capture Philadelphia? What if the United States government was forced to recognize Confederate independence?
In this acclaimed work of alternative history, the wealthy and prosperous Confederacy is a superpower, locked into a bitter struggle with its European rival, the German Union. The United States, conversely, is utterly destitute, a sinkhole of lawlessness and corruption....
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Series
Dinosaur Club volume 8
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jamie, a member of the Dinosaur Club. They are a network of kids around the world who love to share dinosaur knowledge, help identify fossils, post dino discoveries, and chat about all things prehistoric. Jamie has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famous for its fossils. He is busy exploring when he discovers some dinosaur footprints and is transported back to the time of the dinosaurs! It sounds like Jamie needs some help...
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Publisher
Eye Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While quietly studying prisms and light on his family's Lincolnshire farm in the plague year of 1666, Isaac Newton suddenly finds himself transported to 2020. There he meets young Archie, who assumes that this curious character on a country riverbank is a random weirdo with a few marbles missing. It turns out that Newton is quantumly entangled, the victim of an experiment with physical laws way beyond even his own revolutionary insight. He's not the...
11) Anno Domini 2071
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Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A speculative novelette predicting some changes in the world 200 years into the future from the year 1871, written by a noted Dutch scientist, originally published in the Dutch language, the author hiding himself behind the pen name of "Dr. Dioscorides". The story begins as the narrator settles into his comfortable chair and ponders the predictions made by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century scholar, that actually came true by the 19th century: telescopes,...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The future is dystopian. Earth’s biosphere has finally begun to crash wholesale due to man’s perennial mismanagement. It’s been a death by a thousand cuts. The world government, a fascist corporatocracy, has ruled with an iron fist, but it’s losing its grip. Chaos is spreading, threatening the borders. The time is short. Experimental physicists at the Institute de Physica in Southern California stumble upon time travel to a distant, unspoiled...
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"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her…and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he’s saying. But just as they figure out this new...
15) Rabby
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English
Description
Rabby MacDonald and his dog have been haunting Culloden's battlefield for 269 years. But he doesn't linger for the same reasons as the others, and the boon he truly desires has nothing at all to do with Bonnie Prince Charlie. If Alexander Fraser, the man he trusts, doesn't return, will he be brave enough to trust the witch and step off hallowed ground?
This is a short episode in Highlanders from the Mists of Time series. (Read THE GATHERING first...
16) Kennedy
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English
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Kennedy is keeping secrets, and to give you any hints as to the Kennedy story would be to expose the surprise. Suffice it to say, you must read this book before moving on to the Gerard book. If you love the series, this one will not disappoint. And if you want to be surprised, know that the reviews are spoilers.
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English
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Trapped in the wrong time, she needs a knight in shining armor, but this damsel in distress might be the real savior.
A damsel in distress...
With a day planner attached to her hip, the last thing Katy Tolson wants is a romance that threatens her well-ordered life. She's set to marry the safe--but bland--guy, but something's not quite...right. A careless wish thrusts her through time into medieval Wales and into the arms of...
A knight in somewhat...
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Series
Misewa saga volume 4
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Led to a new village where the animal beings who live there are going missing, Morgan, Emily and Eli vow to help after discovering who's responsible, until the details of a traditional legend change everything.
19) Equality
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Equality (1897) is a novel by Edward Bellamy. The sequel to Bellamy's bestselling novel Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) is a product of decades of work on the socialist theories that captivated thousands of Americans and inspired the formation of the People's Party. Although Bellamy died before his vision could be realized, many of the ideas that circulate in Equality-including vegetarianism, feminism, and the abolition of private capital-continue...
Author
Series
Earthdivers volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on...
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