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About Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero in but a single bound.Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces. An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered...Categorized as:
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![The Toast of Time by Jodi Taylor]()
The Toast of Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce again, the Toast of Time falls butter side down. Dr 'Max' Maxwell prepares for her very first Christmas away from St Mary's...It's that most wonderful time of the year once more. But Max and Markham are a long way from St Mary's...Categorized as:
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![Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison]()
Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSawyer Reed is heading home after rambling for seven years after the Civil War ended. His family's cattle ranch is waiting, and he is ready to get to work. On his way home from Mexico, Sawyer runs into a mysterious woman who will change his life and his future forever. Josephine Alverez is a chef at a posh restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 2020...Categorized as:
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![A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor]()
A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSt Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime... -
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![A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor]()
A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe brand new short story in the bestselling series, The Chronicles of St Mary’s...Categorized as:
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![The Field of Reeds by Jerry Dubs]()
The Field of Reeds by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSailing home from Ta Netjer, Pharaoh Hatshepsut falls ill from a wound suffered in the Forest of Myrrh. In the barren plains of Sinai, Pharaoh Thutmose’s reverence and bravery inspire the vaunted charioteers who form the maryannu to decide that Thutmose should rule the Two Lands alone... -
![Exiles in Time by Sarah Woodbury]()
Exiles in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo years in Afghanistan; four years working for MI-5, the British security service; and the death of both of his parents from cancer. At the age of thirty-four, Callum thought he’d experienced the worst that life could throw at him. That is, until his boss ordered him to open a buried file on his desk and to take it seriously...Categorized as:
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![When Did You Last See Your Father? by Jodi Taylor]()
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...Categorized as:
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![Killing Time by Jodi Taylor]()
Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA ghost train, lost in Time, hurtles through the night...Two members of Team 236 are trapped on board. Not ideal under any circumstances but catastrophic when they're at each other's throats...Categorized as:
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Iron Gray Sea by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, the crew of USS Walker, and their allies battle an ever-growing host of enemies across the globe in a desperate battle for freedom …War has engulfed the—other earth... -
![My Name is Markham by Jodi Taylor]()
My Name is Markham by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLike a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo – finally – Markham speaks!It’s Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary’s Annual Children’s Christmas Party – attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow...Categorized as:
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![Winds of Wrath by Taylor Anderson]()
Winds of Wrath by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMatt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker are positioned to push the line of battle to the breaking point on an alternate Earth, in the thrilling return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.Matt Reddy and his sailors have fought, bled, and died for their Lemurian friends and other allies from across time, but their enemies are still operational... -
![Dispel Illusion by Mark Lawrence]()
Dispel Illusion by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSometimes being wrong is the right answer.Nick Hayes’s genius is in wringing out the universe’s secrets. It’s a talent that’s allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He’s seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia’s accident is waiting for them both in 2011...Categorized as:
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![Refuge in Time by Sarah Woodbury]()
Refuge in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsApril 2022. When an unknown gunman sends David and William back to Earth Two, Michael and Livia are left gasping along with the rest of their universe. Accepting that their respective employers are possible suspects, not to mention untrustworthy, the pair band together in the shooting's immediate aftermath, in an attempt to put the first few pieces of the puzzle together...Categorized as:
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![WE SO FEW: BOOK 3 OF THE FIGHTING TOMCATS by M.L. Maki, Sofia Maki]()
WE SO FEW: BOOK 3 OF THE FIGHTING TOMCATS by M.L. Maki, Sofia Maki
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWE SO FEW Lieutenant Commander Samantha 'Spike' Hunt, commander of the Black Knights, and Captain James "Papa' Holtz, commander of Task Force Yankee, are charged with protecting Great Britain at all costs. Ten F-14s. Twelve pilots. Twelve RIOs. It is all the allies have to stand against the might of the German Luftwaffe...Categorized as:
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![The Rewind Files by Claire Willett]()
The Rewind Files by Claire Willett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen 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...Categorized as:
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![Santa Grint by Jodi Taylor]()
Santa Grint by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPre-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...Categorized as:
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![Pass of Fire by Taylor Anderson]()
Pass of Fire by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter being transported to a strange alternate Earth, Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have learned desperate times call for desperate measures, in the return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian Alliance... -
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Buried Pyramid, The by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReaders of “Imhotep” will find themselves transported once more to ancient Egypt with Imhotep, King Djoser, Meryt, Hetephernebti and other familiar characters in this second novel about the famous architect of the Step Pyramid... -
![The Dance of Time by Eric Flint, David Drake]()
The Dance of Time by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Malwa and their evil have been driven back to their Indian heartland, but there they coil to strike again...Categorized as:
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Fortune's Stroke by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, journeys back in time to join forces with Belisarius, the greatest general of the sixth century, to stop Link, an evil supercomputer that is using its vast powers to rewrite history to create the powerful, technologically advance Malwa Empire. Reprint...Categorized as:
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![A Ripple In Time: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg]()
A Ripple In Time: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA struggle for survival in a time long past.It started as a routine Miami to Charlotte flight for the passengers, crew, and Federal Air Marshal Stephen Mason. But a freak storm over the Atlantic propels the airliner unexplainably back in time to the early 18th century. They find themselves on the sparsely populated coast of the Carolina Colony...Categorized as:
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![Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson]()
Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Taylor Anderson's acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds a extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S. Walker continue their battle for both freedom and survival, the stakes become much more personal...and much more perilous... -
![In the Heart of Darkness by Eric Flint, David Drake]()
In the Heart of Darkness by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Malwa Empire, using gunpowder weapons and ruthless terror, has conquered 6th century India and is forging the subcontinent's vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. The supermind that commands the Malwa intends first to rule the world and then to set its inexorable stamp over all eternity. No action is too bestial for the supermind to order, nor for its Malwa lackeys to execute...Categorized as:
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![Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson]()
Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe final thrilling chapter in the “gripping and riveting” Destroyermen Trilogy.Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, are once again at war... -
![An Oblique Approach by David Drake, Eric Flint]()
An Oblique Approach by David Drake, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnly three things stand between the Malwa and the conquest of Earth: Byzantium, the empire of Rome in the East; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and Belisarius, general of the Byzantine Empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the Earth has ever known...Categorized as:
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![The Adversary by Julian May]()
The Adversary by Julian May
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsPan edition paperback vg++ In stock shipped from our UK... -
![Devil's Due by Taylor Anderson]()
Devil's Due by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson continues the thrilling Destroyermen series of alternate history and military strategy, as the conflict is about to become terrifyingly personal... -
![Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson]()
Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNational bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s explosive WWII alternate-history series continues as a do-or-die battle is waged that risks far more than anyone bargained for. The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious—and dangerously ill defined. Only Matthew Reddy, commander of the old destroyer USS Walker, seems focused on its original intent... -
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1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE BATTLE FOR THE NEW WORLD IS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! A NEW RING OF FIRE NOVEL BY BEST-SELLING WRITING TEAM ERIC FLINT AND CHARLES E. GANNONA New Day in the New WorldIt’s 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Martin Tromp start it off with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long exploitation and rapine of the New World has run unchecked... -
![Time Pebbles by Jerry Merritt]()
Time Pebbles by Jerry Merritt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years...Categorized as:
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![1637: The Polish Maelstrom by Eric Flint]()
1637: The Polish Maelstrom by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW 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...Categorized as:
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![Journeyman by Mark J. Rose]()
Journeyman by Mark J. Rose
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerican scientist Matt Miller is torn from his own century and dropped into Colonial America with nothing except a backpack. His phone, his money and his identity are all useless and he quickly finds that he is foreign and alone in his own country. Matt must meet the challenge to survive in a newly forming society where he seemingly has no relevant skills and no one he can count on... -
![The Forest of Myrrh by Jerry Dubs]()
The Forest of Myrrh by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the third novel about the time-travelling ancient Egyptian begins, Imhotep’s beloved wife is dying, his most powerful patron has been murdered and the Third Dynasty is descending into chaos. Desperate, Imhotep recruits an unlikely ally to help him save Meryt and to discover the killer of the Voice of Re. However, his search is interrupted by a revolt that tears the Two Lands in half... -
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![The Infinity Cage by Alex Scarrow]()
The Infinity Cage by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . The end is approaching for the TimeRiders... -
![Storm Surge by Taylor Anderson]()
Storm Surge by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn the Pacific, as USS Walker is repaired and updated after a previous battle and Matt Reddy is healing from his wounds, planning begins for a bold raid on the very heart of the Grik Empire... -
![1636: The Ottoman Onslaught by Eric Flint]()
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun... -
![Never Sound Retreat by William R. Forstchen]()
Never Sound Retreat by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt has been 10 years since a group of American Civil War soldiers was swept away from the battlefields of Earth to a distant world--where the only place for a human is as a slave to an alien race...Categorized as:
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![Blood in the Water by Taylor Anderson]()
Blood in the Water by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTaylor Anderson’s enthralling New York Times bestselling series of alternate history continues as game-changing revelations upend the Grand Alliance in a potentially cataclysmic war. Ever since the USS Walker came from another world war to defy the terrifying Grik and diabolical Dominion, Matt Reddy and his crew have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians... -
![The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint, David Drake]()
The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArmed with lancers, breech-loading rifles, steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his own ally from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifying and evil entity from the future...Categorized as:
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Destiny's Shield by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEric Flint and David Drake's alt-history epic devoted to real-life Byzantine butt-kicker Belisarius has reached part three--Destiny's Shield--and this installment finally busts loose with some serious head-to-head...Categorized as:
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![City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow]()
City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Hunted by cyborg assassins from the future, the TimeRiders must abandon New York and go on the run... -
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Crusade by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe "gripping and riveting" Destroyermen saga continues.Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the USS Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. Swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world, they have allied with the Lemurians?a mammalian race threatened by the warlike reptilian Grik... -
![Distant Thunders by Taylor Anderson]()
Distant Thunders by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe fourth thrilling adventure in the Destroyermen series... -
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![River of Bones by Taylor Anderson]()
River of Bones by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of a WWII destroyer face their greatest challenge yet as they try to survive in a strange new world in the next thrilling book in the New York Times bestselling series.Commander Matt Reddy and his crew are afraid it may finally be the end of the USS Walker... -
![The Pirate Kings by Alex Scarrow]()
The Pirate Kings by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsISBN moved from less recent edition hereLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
![Straits of Hell by Taylor Anderson]()
Straits of Hell by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s phenomenal alternate history Destroyermen series continues as a game-changing conspiracy throws the hope of honor, trust, and survival into chaos....Matt Reddy’s old Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Walker has been mysteriously transported to an alternate version of earth... -
![The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow]()
The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
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Forget the Alamo! by Drew McGunn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the explosion, Will didn’t expect to wake up again, especially in the past. Alive is good. Except he finds himself at the Alamo in 1836 in the body of another man doomed to die. If history repeats itself, Santa Anna is coming soon and the Alamo will fall, along with himself and 189 others. In a race against time itself, Will uses his knowledge of the future to change the past...Categorized as:
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![Bartley's Man (Ring of Fire) by Paula Goodlett, Gorg Huff]()
Bartley's Man (Ring of Fire) by Paula Goodlett, Gorg Huff
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBartley's Man is about love, respect and honor, and becoming wealthy in the service of David Bartley, an up-timer teenager with a brilliant mind. It is the journey of Johan Kipper, a reluctant soldier in illy's tercio as he collides with the fact of Grantville's existence. Johan decides he doesn't want to be a soldier anymore...
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