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Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The First Farrell Family Christmas Max, Leon and Matthew - together at last for Christmas at St Mary's - a time of conspicuous consumption, riotous misbehaviour and the traditional illegal Christmas jump. And this time, it's inter-generational...

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Double Cross by Stuart Gibbs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Greg Rich has traveled through time, become one of the legendary Musketeers, and—most recently— prevented the Spanish army from attacking Paris. He should feel invincible. Instead, he and his friends languish in prison, having stumbled into a trap set by Milady and the Prince of Condé.But Greg didn't come to the seventeenth century to sit in a jail cell and await execution...

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The Punishers: A Ripple In Time Book 3 by Victor Zugg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The saga continues in this final chapter of survival.Nearly three years have passed since Stephen Mason, former Federal Air Marshall, along with a plane load of passengers, was inexplicably hurled back through time. It's now 1723, Charles town, South Carolina Colony...

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The Far Journey: A Timeslip Novel of Survival on the Oregon Trail by Tom Reppert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Young, sharp-tongued Paula Masters, used to her cell phones, cherry lattes and designer jeans, suddenly finds herself thrust back in time to 1848 and the Oregon Trail. In modern life, she rebels against the curfews and restrictions of her day, seeing them as unfair hardships...

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Destiny of a Highlander by Katy Baker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Breanne Martin lives in the past. At least, that’s what everyone tells her. After learning the hard way that love never lasts, she throws her energy into her job as a museum conservator, spending her time with ancient relics and artefacts...

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Spirit of a Highlander by Katy Baker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Ripped from her time, lost in a strange land, a modern woman learns the most important lesson of all: that love knows no boundaries. Thea Thomas’ luck couldn’t get much worse. Having dared to follow her dream of becoming a photographer, she’s learned the hard way that dreams rarely come true. She’s lost her home, her job, and just about every shred of pride she had left...

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Call of a Highlander by Katy Baker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Torn from the twenty-first century, lost in the lonely Highlands of Scotland, a modern woman discovers the most important secret of all: that love transcends time. Bethany Carter has just about given up. Having fled her homeland following the tragic murder of her parents, she’s focused on her goal of becoming a human rights lawyer. Maybe that way she can fix the terrible ache in her soul...

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Traitor's Chase by Stuart Gibbs
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Greg Rich is beginning to get the hang of things in 1615 Paris. Having assumed the identity of a young D'Artagnan, Greg united the legendary three Musketeers and succeeded in freeing his parents from a dank prison cell. But he hasn't figured out how to get home. Or how to defeat the dangerous Michel Dinicoeur...

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When Did You Last See Your Father? by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 23 ratings
'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't like someone...

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Rush Revere and the First Patriots by Rush Limbaugh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens...

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Bourne & Tributary by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
If you like romance, adventure and a dose of medieval Italian culture, you'll love WATERFALL (book 1), CASCADE (book 2), TORRENT (book 3), as well as the follow-up novellas, BOURNE (book 3.1) and TRIBUTARY (book 3.2). In this volume, both novellas are included.BOURNE, a novella, picks up right where TORRENT left off..

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Rush Revere and the American Revolution: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans by Rush Limbaugh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
A new book from the #1 New York Times and nationally syndicated radio talk show host...

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Love Beyond Boundaries (A Scottish Time Travel Romance): Book 12 by Bethany Claire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Sometimes the love we need the most is that which we give to ourselves. With a thriving physical therapy practice, it’s easy for Allanah to lose herself in her work. But when the sudden death of her best friend sends her reeling, she is forced to rethink her priorities...

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The Gospel According to Todd by R.A. Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Todd Heller is an arrogant ER physician who stubbornly denies the existence of God. A ministering angel forces him back in time to the harsh, primitive culture of ancient Israel so he can witness the miracles of Jesus with his own eyes. Meticulously researched for historical accuracy, this plot is woven into the gospel account of the final year of Christ’s ministry...

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Courage of a Highlander by Katy Baker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Kara Buchanan relies on nobody but herself. As an investigative reporter, she’s driven and focused, always looking for the next story: the next corrupt corporation to expose, the next underdog to champion. But it leaves no room in her life for anything else – especially love. So when a strange old woman gives her a cryptic clue to a story she’s been chasing for months, Kara jumps on it...

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The Rewind Files by Claire Willett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
When a bookish junior agent at the U.S. Time Travel Bureau stumbles across a massive conspiracy with roots in 1972’s Watergate, she is forced into her first- ever field assignment - to expose the conspirators and avert World War III.----------------------------------Washington, D.C. 2112United States Time Travel BureauRegina Bellows, junior agent at the U.S...

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Time Stranger: Time Travel Romance by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
When a Bomb Strikes Single Mom Anne Billings and her young son in 1944 London, Anne is blown through time over half a century into the future. With the help of handsome Dr. Jon Miles, Anne desperately attempts to piece together her identity and return home...

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Santa Grint by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Pre-order a brand new TIME POLICE short story from million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.It all begins when the Time Police hold their first Children's Christmas Party. Their most dangerous mission yet . . .No good deed ever goes unpunished. Lt Grint succumbs to his softer side and soon lives to regret it...

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Glitch by Laura Martin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
From the critically acclaimed author of Float comes a new whirlwind adventure about a pair of kids who must break all the rules of time travel, perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and John David Anderson.Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers—people who travel through time to preserve important historical events...

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Rush Revere and the presidency by Rush Limbaugh, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Join Rush Revere on another action-packed journey! Rush and his friends head back in time to the early days of our independent nation to watch the early American presidents George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson in action!Hey there, young readers! Rush Revere here...

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Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner by Rush Limbaugh, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner is the fourth book in the Adventures of Rush Revere Series, and is the most exciting yet! Substitute teacher Rush Revere is back with his trusty sidekick Liberty and the students of Manchester Middle School. This time, Tommy takes center stage. His grandfather is ill, and Rush Revere hopes a field trip to Washington D.C., will distract and inspire Tommy...

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The Missing Collection by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Found; Sent; Sabotaged; Torn by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was a big deal. Then he and a neighbor, Chip, who finds out he's also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters, saying things such as: "You are one of the missing," and, "Beware! They're coming back to get you...

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Risked by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Jonah thought that after his last adventure in 1903, he and his sister Katherine would have a break from time travel for a while. For the first time, he’s willing to look into his own identity in the past, and he thinks this is his chance...

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Caught by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Jonah and Katherine come face to face with Albert Einstein in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series.Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons...

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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
· 42 ratings
Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late...

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The Doll by Cora Taylor
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 5 ratings
While Meg is recovering from rheumatic fever her grandmother gives her the old-fashioned family doll named Jessie, and when Meg falls asleep holding Jessie, she wakes up to discover that she has gone back in time and is now Morag, a girl traveling the Canadian prairies by covered wagon...

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The Memory Tree by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Days after barely escaping 1889 with their lives, the Carsons, siblings from the present day, resume their search for their missing parents in 1918. While Adam and his pregnant wife, Bridget, settle in Minnesota, unaware of a wildfire that will kill hundreds, Greg seeks clues in his great-grandparents' Mexico, where he finds love, danger, and enemies...

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The Pompeii Disaster by Dan Gutman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Eccentric billionaire Miss Z is sending Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel on another mission back in time to capture one of history’s most important events...

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The Lane Betrayal by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
From the author of the critically acclaimed Northwest Passage, American Journey, and Carson Chronicles series comes the first book in the Time Box saga.Virginia physicist Mark Lane has a problem. Weeks after privately creating two time machines, he learns his corporate partner wants to use the portable devices for nefarious purposes...

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Find Me Where the Water Ends by Rachel Carter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Lydia has been trained into a person she might have once feared: focused, fierce, deadly. Although she never wanted the life of a Montauk Project recruit, the Project has captured someone she loves - someone she'll do anything to save.Then Lydia glimpses a world in which the Montauk Project never existed...

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Booth by Jason Pellegrini
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
At dawn, on the day of his execution, Joseph Bateman finds himself reflecting on his life, one filled with poor decisions and evil people. Even his lifelong best friend played a pivotal role in earning Joseph his seat on death row...

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The Bride Ransom by Tracey Jane Jackson, Piper Davenport
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
18+ for language and sexual situations… Gwendolyn Butler has been in love with Andrew Simmonds since she was fifteen years old. He saved her from a potentially harmful fall from a horse and when she looked into his eyes, she was immediately lost. When Andrew Simmonds meets Gwen, he realizes he has met the woman he wants for life, however, she is too young...

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Escape to the Hiding Place by Marianne Hering
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Patrick and Beth arrive in World War II Holland in the farm country. They must smuggle a baby (by bicycle) into the capable hands of Corrie ten Boom at her home in Haarlem. Along the way they hide from Nazi soliders, meet a Russian surgeon forced into service by the Germans, and encourage two Jewish children who haven't been outside in over three years...

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1637: The Polish Maelstrom by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
NEW SOLO NOVEL BY ERIC FLINT IN THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES! The Ottoman Empire has captured Vienna and is now laying siege to the Austrian government-in-exile established in the city of Linz. Both the United States of Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia have come to Austria’s assistance, but everyone knows this is going to be a long and brutal struggle...

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A Newfound Land by Anna Belfrage
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
It’s 1672, and Matthew Graham and his family have left Scotland. Having taken the drastic decision to leave their homeland due to religious conflicts, Alexandra and Matthew hope for a simpler, if harsher, life in the wilds of the Colony of Maryland. Unfortunately, things don’t always turn out as you want them to, and the past has a nasty tendency to resurface at the most inappropriate moments...

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The Fourth Horseman by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
May 1144. Newly wedded, Gareth and Gwen travel across the border into England on a diplomatic mission with Prince Hywel of Wales. But when the mission goes awry and a murder case drops (literally) at their feet, Gareth and Gwen race to uncover a plot that threatens not only their lives, but the life of the future King of England himself...

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Ted & Me by Dan Gutman, Johnny Heller
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Includes notes about Williams' life and career...

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Love Beyond Dreams by Bethany Claire
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Book 6 in Morna’s Legacy Series of Scottish Time Travel Romance Novels by USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Bethany Claire Magic lingers inside all who call Cagair Castle home. Gillian Wright dreams of the same man every night—his kind eyes and gentle smile as familiar to her now as her own reflection...

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Back to the Future, Part 2 by Craig Shaw Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
There was a time when Marty McFly was never in time for classes and never in time for dinner. Then one day, he wasn't in his time at all. Thanks to Doc Brown and his impossibly fast DeLorean, Marty returned to the past, changed his future (or present, depending on how you look at it), and then he..

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I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A funny and heartwarming middle-grade historical fiction novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for the moon landing.It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts...

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A Handful of Time by Kit Pearson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases her; Aunt Ginnie and Uncle Doug feel sorry for her. She doesn't fit in...

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Elephant Run by Roland Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family's teak plantation. But as soon as Nick arrives, trouble erupts in this remote Burmese elephant village...

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Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1890s and the other in the present day. The A Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson...

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Jacks Are Wild by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
From the world of the popular Out of Time series comes the first book in the time travel adventure series, Saving Time, starring Jack Wells!Former OSS officer Jack Wells’s first solo assignment for the Council for Temporal Studies sounds deceptively simple—stop a murder before it happens...

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Big Papa and the Time Machine by Daniel Bernstrom
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstrom (One Day in the Eucalytus, Eucalyptus Tree) and Shane Evans (Chocolate Me!) that follows a grandfather and grandson who travel through time in a beloved 1952 Ford.A little boy who lives with his grandpa isn’t reprimanded for being afraid to go to school one day...

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The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Discover the middle-grade debut Kirkus Reviews calls “spellbinding” by an award-winning author Booklist says “has crafted a definite winner.” Josie and Alec both live at 444 Sparrow Street. They sleep in the same room, but they’ve never laid eyes on each other. They are twelve years old and a hundred years apart...

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Earth Shattering by Cathy Peper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
A woman out of time. An honorable captain. Can their love survive a world about to be torn apart? Tori thought her life couldn’t get any worse. Fired from her job as a violin teacher, kicked out of her apartment, and forced to move without any notice, she’s desperate for a lifeline. When a friend gives her a mysterious crystal necklace, she has no idea how jewelry can solve her troubles...

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Forever Knight by Cynthia Luhrs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The prick of a dagger sent her hurtling through time... Elizabeth Smith was good at taking charge. Fixing what she believed was wrong with the world. And then she met a lazy knight with no desire to better himself. A wager lost... Robert Thornton, Lord Highworth, was content to spend his days drinking, wenching, and hunting. He cared not what happened in the world around him...

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Mirror of Danger by Pamela Sykes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise and alarm, Lucy saw a girl wearing a long dress, a pinafore...and a sly triumphant look on her face...

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The Titanic Mission by Dan Gutman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The eccentric billionaire Miss Zandergoth is very disappointed with the Flashback Four. Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia did not come back from their first time-traveling adventure with a photograph of Abe Lincoln delivering the famous Gettysburg Address for Miss Z’s rare-photograph collection...

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