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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 paper. 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...
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"The Time Machine" relates the story of The Time Traveller, a Victorian inventor who creates a machine that allows him to travel to any time period. He chooses to rocket forward into the unknown world of the future, landing in the year 802,701 where he encounters the humanoids descendants of Earth, the seemingly friendly and benign Eloi and the subterranean and primitive Morlocks.
The Time Traveller rescues and befriends a young Eloi girl named Weena...
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Bright Empires volume 3
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"The search for the map-and the secret behind its cryptic code - intensifies in a quest across time, space, and multiple realities. But what if the true treasure isn't the map at all . . . what if the map marks something far greater? Something one world cannot contain? Those who desire to unlock that mystery are in a race to possess the secret-for good or evil." -- Book jacket.
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Visitors are reminded that they are about to enter the Wunderkammer, a floating chamber where normal spacetime conventions no longer apply…' A bomb blast in the London Underground rips through space and time, unearthing four stories that whirl, collide and pass each other by. Sometime around now, Georgia Madden (who used to be Georgie) flees her Dublin home, embarking on a road trip spiked with the hidden dangers of her past and her present. In...
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"Wake up. Friday. Clara Hart hits my car. Go to class. Anthony rates the girls. House party. Anthony goes upstairs with Clara. Drink. Clara dies. Wake up. Friday again. Clara Hart hits my car. Why can't I break this loop? A flicker in the fabric of time gives Spence a second chance. And a third. How many times will he watch the same girl die?"--Back cover.
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2022.
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One quiet afternoon in 2037, Joyce Denzell hears a thud in her family's home library and finds a book lying in the middle of the room, seemingly waiting for her-a book whose copyright page says it was published in the year 2200. Over the next twenty-four hours, each of the Denzell family members discovers and reads from this mystical history book from the future, nudged along by their cat, Plato. As the various family members take turns reading,...
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"It's 1995, and Alex Dean has all the time in world. That is, until a brutal encounter sees him almost drowning in the Thames. He wakes the next day to find he's in a room he's never seen before, with no idea how he got there. A glimpse in the mirror tells him he's much older, his features ravaged by time and poor decisions. He snatches a newspaper and finds it's 2010--fifteen years since the fight. Alex wakes the following morning to find it's now...
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2023.
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"Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She's been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one...
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Bright Empires volume 2
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Kit Livingstone is on the run, hunted by the Burley Men, as he tries to piece together a map that reveals the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Kit, however, is not the only one traveling through time and space to influence the future of the future.
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Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of his wife Julia's murder. He knows she's dead; he saw her bloody corpse. But he's innocent. At 9 p. m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman gives Nick a talisman, allowing him to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels, he finds more clues to the identity of Julia's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected...
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Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000...
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When a prom-decorating snafu sends her crashing into her archnemesis J. T. Renner, Charlotte Wu wakes up in an unfamiliar bed at 30 years old next to her fiancé-J. T., and together they must find their way back to 17, making some surprising discoveries about each other along the way.
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"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves."--
16) The fatal tree
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" What do you do when you're faced with The End of Everything? The evidence is compelling; not only is The End of Everything approaching, it's approaching rapidly. Desperation sends the Questors to the four corners of the universe in search of answers.Tony and Gianni are in Rome gathering additional data on the collapse of the universe, and Haven and Giles are captured by Huns and taken to Byzantium. Mina travels to Egypt to recruit Dr. Thomas Young,...
17) The Shadow Lamp
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Bright Empires volume 4
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Kit, Mina, Gianni, Cass, Haven, and Giles have gathered in Minas 16th century coffee house and are united in their determination to find a path back to the Spirit Well. Yet, with their shadow lamps destroyed and key pieces of the map still missing, the journey will be far more difficult than they imagine. And when one of their own disappears with Sir Henrys cryptic Green Book, they no longer know who to trust.
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On a bike trip in Ireland trying to recover from a broken heart, sixteen-year-old Morgan is transformed, not only by the others on the tour, but by her visits to the past, where she is believed to be the legendary half-goddess Morganne, sent to help end a faery curse.
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"Sadie Thatcher's life has fallen apart in spectacular fashion. In one fell swoop, she managed to lose her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend-all thanks to her big mouth. So when a fortune teller offers her one wish, Sadie jumps at the chance to redo her awful year. Deep down, she doesn't believe magic will fix her life, but taking a leap of faith, Sadie makes her wish, opens her eyes, and . . . nothing has changed. And then, in perhaps her dumbest...
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It's the Fourth of July in Nick Quinn's sleepy New York village when a cataclysmic terror attack kills his wife, daughter, and hundreds of his fellow townspeople. Devastated and reeling, Nick is approached by one of his oldest friends, gunshot and dying, who hands him an antique pocket watch that he claims can save them all. Nick uses the ancient watch as instructed and is shocked to find himself propelled back one hour before the mass tragedy has...
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