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Saving Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsLife is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut.But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change history...Categorized as:
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![The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg]()
The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike... -
![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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The Syndicate by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a future where time travel has been outlawed, a black market exists for anyone with the money, connections, and nerve to request items from days past...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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![A Time of Shadows by Monique Martin]()
A Time of Shadows by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's been a few months since Simon and Elizabeth returned from their adventure in 1888 London. Jack is back with them and all is as it should be, until a knock on the door changes that. A visitor from the future turns their world upside-down...Categorized as:
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Shadows in Time by Julie McElwain
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1816 London, Kendra Donovan tries to track down a missing man, but also finds trouble brewing closer to home in the fifth book in Julie McElwain’s riveting time-travel mystery series. When Kendra Donovan is approached by Mrs. Gavenston with an unusual request—to find her business manager, Jeremy Pascoe, who recently vanished—the FBI agent is eager to accept the challenge...Categorized as:
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![Find Me Where the Water Ends by Rachel Carter]()
Find Me Where the Water Ends by Rachel Carter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLydia 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...Categorized as:
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![The Fourth Horseman by Sarah Woodbury]()
The Fourth Horseman by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMay 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... -
![The Vigilante Life of Scott Mckenzie by Shawn Inmon]()
The Vigilante Life of Scott Mckenzie by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime Travel with a twist! What if Dexter could travel through time? Scott McKenzie's father killed his mother and himself. Scott vowed to do anything in his power to stop similar murders. He longed to be a police officer, but a tour in Vietnam in 1970 derailed that career. Two years later, wounded in body and soul, Scott died. He didn't go on to what was next, though... -
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Return by Michael Siemsen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMatt Turner’s psychic ability has granted him a window into the entirety of Earth’s intelligent beings—past and present—but this gift has also been his heaviest burden. A talent like Matt’s can only be kept secret for so long, and ruthless individuals desiring lost and rare items have viewed him only as a prized tool. Now, there is no more secret...Categorized as:
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![Come Back to Me by Jody Hedlund]()
Come Back to Me by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy.That's exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father's quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister Ellen from the genetic disease that stole their mother from them...Categorized as:
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![The Passage by Irina Shapiro]()
The Passage by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the spring of 1685, Lord Hugo Everly, ardent supporter of the Protestant upstart the Duke of Monmouth, vanishes without a trace just before the Monmouth Rebellion, leaving future generations forever baffled as to what might have become of him...Categorized as:
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![Jacks Are Wild by Monique Martin]()
Jacks Are Wild by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom 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...Categorized as:
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Prepare by Geoffrey Germann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"... cutting-edge......skillful......high-octane....." Kirkus ReviewsAs a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce order... -
![I'll Stop the World by Lauren Thoman]()
I'll Stop the World by Lauren Thoman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe end and the beginning become one in a heart-pounding coming-of-age mystery about the power of friendship, fate, and inexplicable second chances.Is it the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time?Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents...Categorized as:
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Indiana Belle by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProvidence, Rhode Island, 2017. When doctoral student Cameron Coelho, 28, opens a package from Indiana, he finds more than private papers that will help him with his dissertation. He finds a photograph of a beautiful society editor murdered in 1925 and clues to a century-old mystery...Categorized as:
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![This Strange and Familiar Place by Rachel Carter]()
This Strange and Familiar Place by Rachel Carter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHESE ARE THE THINGS of which Lydia is now certain:The Montauk Project has been experimenting with time travel for years.The Project's subjects are "recruits" from across time, recruits like Wes, Lydia's ally, friend, and love.The Project is now responsible for the disappearance of two members of her family...And they're coming for Lydia next...Categorized as:
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![A Girl in Time by John Birmingham, Vanessa Johansson]()
A Girl in Time by John Birmingham, Vanessa Johansson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe past is another country. A dangerous one. On the eve of a huge, breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world, and time itself, by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost two hundred years ago. Cady McCall is ready to be rich and famous. She’s sacrificed everything, putting her work ahead of family and friends...Categorized as:
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Impulse by Steven Gould
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCent is the teenaged daughter of two very special people, Davy and Millie, the world's only teleports, but her life is far from ideal. Kept in isolation to protect her from her parents' enemies, she wants a normal life, a life with friends and, perhaps, romance. She wants to go to school like any other normal child.If only she were normal..Categorized as:
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![Time's Edge by Rysa Walker]()
Time's Edge by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTo stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people...Categorized as:
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Infinite by Brian Freeman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom bestselling author Brian Freeman comes an explosive new psychological thriller that pushes the limits of reality as we know it. One rainy night, the unthinkable Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore... -
![The Shadows of London by Nick Jones]()
The Shadows of London by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA time traveler's work is never done.Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed... -
![In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coops]()
In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coops
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition here"We broke something. How do you break time? Can something so bad happen that you fracture the world?" Benjamin Travers has been electrocuted. What's worse, he and his friends have woken up in the past. As the friends search for a way home, they realize they're not alone. There are other time travelers, and some of them are turning up dead...Categorized as:
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![Caught in Time by Julie McElwain]()
Caught in Time by Julie McElwain
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOctober 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel—back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that’s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire...Categorized as:
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![Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain]()
Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFebruary 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church—and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out...Categorized as:
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![The Mine by John A. Heldt]()
The Mine by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Alternate Cover for ASIN: B0078S9B6G can be found here.In May 2000, Joel Smith is a cocky, adventurous young man who sees the world as his playground. But when the college senior, days from graduation, enters an abandoned Montana mine, he discovers the price of reckless curiosity...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, David Tennant]()
Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, David Tennant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHello, Im the Doctor. And, if you can hear this, then one of us is going to die.At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first timeto reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966...Categorized as:
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![About Time: 12 Short Stories by Jack Finney]()
About Time: 12 Short Stories by Jack Finney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAbout Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives...Categorized as:
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![Dear Maude by Denise Liebig]()
Dear Maude by Denise Liebig
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is alternate cover edition for ASIN B00OSHOI1I.For previous covers see here and hereUpstate New York, 2012. Emily Stanton, a sociology major, graduates from college and is obligated to work for the mysterious company that funded her education. But a job with Evergreen Research Corporation is not what she expects...Categorized as:
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![Sunrise on the Mediterranean by Suzanne Frank]()
Sunrise on the Mediterranean by Suzanne Frank
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsANOTHER TIME...Desperately searching for her beloved Cheftu, Chloe Kingsley leaves the modern world behind for biblical Canaan—the age of Philistines, the sweet psalms of King David, and the creation of the holy city of Jerusalem...Categorized as:
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Centurion's Rise by Mark Henrikson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOrigins Series ContinuesROME. The mere mention of the name instills images of grandeur. The mighty empire was a guiding light for the civilized world for a thousand years. Was that by chance or careful design? A psychiatric patient named Hastelloy has the answer. He believes he was there for it all: Caesar, legions, gladiators...Categorized as:
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![The Keys of the Watchmen by Kathleen C. Perrin]()
The Keys of the Watchmen by Kathleen C. Perrin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKatelyn Michaels plans on hating every moment of her visit to Mont Saint Michel with her father’s new French wife. Once there, she is confused when she experiences sensations of déjà vu as she and her younger brother explore the medieval village and abbey...Categorized as:
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Blackout by Meredith McCardle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Amanda Obermann (code name: Iris) has more on her mind than usual. As a member of a covert government organization called the Annum Guard, which travels through time to keep history on track, Iris has been getting some particularly stressful assignments. Plus, Jane Bonner, the Guard’s iron-fisted new leader, seems determined to make life as hard as possible...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller by Joanne Harris]()
Doctor Who: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller by Joanne Harris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStruggling to get back to UNIT HQ, his body being destroyed by radiation, the Third Doctor arrives in the most perfect English village, where everyone is happy. But is he really on Earth, or somewhere far more strange? As his body weakens, the Doctor and the Queen of the village begin to unravel the truth...Categorized as:
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![Rise of the Arcane Fire by Kristin Bailey]()
Rise of the Arcane Fire by Kristin Bailey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her parents died in a fire and her grandfather disappeared, Meg Whitlock thought her life had come to a standstill. But when she learned that the pocket watch her grandfather left her was really an intricate key, Meg, with the help of a stable hand named Will, uncovered the Amusementists: members of an elite secret society dedicated to discovery and shrouded in mystery...Categorized as:
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Lock & Key by Gordon Bonnet
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if your future lies in your past? When Darren Ault meets his friend Lee McCaskill for dinner, he doesn't expect the second course to be a gunshot to the head. Even more unexpected is the fact that the bullet doesn't kill him--instead, it causes the rest of humanity to vanish... -
![The Pages of Time by Damian Knight]()
The Pages of Time by Damian Knight
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen sixteen-year-old Sam Rayner moves abroad with his family, he is forced to leave behind everyone and everything he holds dear. As he struggles to settle in his new surroundings, Sam thinks his situation cannot get any worse, however a shocking terrorist attack turns his world on its head... -
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Splinter by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis CHRONOS Files short story appeared originally in CLONES: The AnthologyA familiar blip of green light in the corner of his room has Kiernan Dunne hoping the new arrival is Kate, so that he can abandon the rescue he’s planning. But the time traveler who just blinked in is a future version of Kiernan, and judging from the number scrawled on his forehead, he’s not the only copy...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris]()
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
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Will You Be There? by Guillaume Musso
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThere is a question that everybody, at least once in a lifetime, must have come up with: if you had the opportunity to, what would you change in your life? If you had to do it again, what remorse, what regret would you choose to obliterate?Elliott has been professionally very successful... -
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Reflex by Steven Gould
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDavy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not...Categorized as:
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![When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin]()
When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything.A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born...Categorized as:
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Unforgotten by Jessica Brody
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome memories are better left forgotten... After a daring escape from the scientists at Diotech who created her, Seraphina believes she is finally safe from the horrors of her past. But new threats await Sera and her boyfriend, Zen, at every turn as Zen falls prey to a mysterious illness and Sera’s extraordinary abilities make it more and more difficult to stay hidden...Categorized as:
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![The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen]()
The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor as long as 17-year-old Alex Wayfare can remember, she has had visions of the past. Visions that make her feel like she’s really on a ship bound for America, living in Jamestown during the Starving Time, or riding the original Ferris wheel at the World’s Fair...Categorized as:
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The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley, Robert Ian MacKenzie
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom international bestselling author Susanna Kearsley comes a historical tale of intrigue and revolution in Scotland, where the exile of King James brought plots, machinations, suspicion and untold bravery to light. An investigation of a young widow's secrets by a man who's far from objective, leads to a multi-layered tale of adventure, endurance, romance...and the courage to hope...Categorized as:
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![Judgement of the Judoon by Colin Brake, Nicholas Briggs]()
Judgement of the Judoon by Colin Brake, Nicholas Briggs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn exciting adventure for the 10th Doctor, read by Nicholas Briggs.Elvis the King Spaceport has grown into the sprawling city-state of New Memphis - an urban jungle, where organized crime is rife. But the launch of the new Terminal 13 hasn't been as smooth as expected... -
![Yesterday's Thief by Al Macy]()
Yesterday's Thief by Al Macy
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s the year 2020, and Eric Beckman is a mind-reading detective. Although he reads only the conscious thoughts of the people he interviews, it usually gives him enough of an edge to overcome his inexperience as a PI. But mind reading is hell on relationships. Trusting comes hard when you know what people are really thinking... -
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Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOut Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion... -
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Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow much would you sacrifice to learn the truth?Martin Briar drags himself through life. The 54 year old has lost the will to live since the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.Unable to pull the trigger on himself, again, he later encounters a time-traveling antique dealer who offers him the chance to find out what happened to his only child...
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