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Defenders of Lore volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
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In this magical re-imagining of J. M. Barrie's classic tale, Michael Darling-the youngest of the Darling siblings and former Lost Boy, now all grown up-must return to the life he left behind to save Neverland from the brink of collapse and keep humanity safe from magical and mythological threats, as well as answer the ultimate question: Where is Peter Pan?
Peter Pan is missing; Neverland is in trouble. For adults, that might not matter all that much,...
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Pub. Date
2019
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"This crackling road trip through the apocalypse offers thrills all the way to its explosive, satisfying finale." - Publishers Weekly
"Relentless, terrifying, and affecting, this book left me feeling like I'd been strapped to the front of the car like Mad Max in Fury Road-not realizing that it was taking me to an emotional ending that would leave me gutted. I've been a huge fan of Skillingstead's work for years, but in The Chaos Function he's...
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2019.
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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2024.
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
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Oxford time travel novels volume 2
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A crisis linking the past and future, strands an Oxford student in the most dangerous year of the Middle Ages.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 10
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Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 14
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The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
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Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy's landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures, and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 15
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Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.
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Time quintet volume 5
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Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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D.O.D.O volume 2
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"In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.--an enthralling, history-bending adventure traversing time and space, fact and fiction, magic and science co-written with #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson--a daring young time traveler must return to Jacobean England to save the modern world"--
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 8
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A First Stepping Stone Book. The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician's spell.
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"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
15) The soft machine
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Nova series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1966]
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In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Pub. Date
2016
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Trapped for twenty-five years, Peter discovers the secret of his captor's majik, Ars Majika Grafika. With this he frees himself, but is he bent on revenge? Perhaps, he will use Ars Majika to see other places, and meet new people. He might even solve some the world's problems. What would you do with the power of Ars Majika Grafika, loosely translated, Picture Majik?
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 16
Pub. Date
2010
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Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to help the famous writer, Charles Dickens, to write "A Christmas Carol"
19) Rebel revealed
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Time of death volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
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"After learning that he's more interrwined with the mysterious Seres than he could have ever imagined, Kyle sets off on a collision course with Ayers. The hunt for his nearly invincible enemy forces Kyle to consider exacdy how lar he's willing to go to set the time stream back on its proper course." --
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Bright Empires volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
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Kit Livingstone met his great-grandfather Cosimo in a rainy alley in London where he discovered the truth about alternate realities.Now he's on the run--and on a quest--trying to understand the impossible mission he inherited from Cosimo: to restore a map that charts the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Survival depends on staying one step ahead of the savage Burley Men.The key is the Skin Map--but where it leads and what it means, Kit has no...