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What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsIn an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time...Categorized as:
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![The Emerald Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan]()
The Emerald Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDavid McBain can do the impossible with one hand tied behind his back... But miracles take him a wee bit longer. When retired Army Captain Kenzie Wallis-Manning receives a mysterious package containing an emerald brooch, she has no idea how life-altering the Gaelic inscription is until she's catapulted back in time to England in May of 1944... -
![The Moonstone Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan]()
The Moonstone Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInvestigative journalist stumbles upon the story of his career and learns more about himself than he ever thought or imagined.When investigative journalist Clay MacIntyre stumbles upon a moonstone brooch that transports him back in time to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that could irrevocably change the entire MacKlenna Clan... -
![A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsMiles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan.. -
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![The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown]()
The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one immigrant family’s fortunes and a young girl’s journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy.The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island...Categorized as:
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![Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer]()
Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid the looming shadow of war, Kathryn is invited to the London Museum as a guest curator to create a groundbreaking exhibit on Jack the Ripper and his reign of terror...Categorized as:
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Silver Stars by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe’s fighting to survive.The summer of 1943, World War II. The Germans have been bloodied, but Germany is very far from beaten. The North African campaign was only the beginning of the long journey for Frangie, Rainy, Rio, and the millions of other Allies.Now the American army is moving on to their next target: the Italian island of Sicily...Categorized as:
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![Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada...Categorized as:
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![Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers]()
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park.Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with a charismatic, married doctor...Categorized as:
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![Goliath by Scott Westerfeld]()
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsAlek and Deryn are abroad the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath that can end the war. But whose side is he really on?While on their top-secret mission, Alek finally discovers Deryn's deeply kept secret. Two, actually. Not only is Deryn a girl disguised as a guy...she has feelings for Alek...Categorized as:
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![The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young]()
The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspiration for the Japanese anime series RahXephon and is also referenced in CLANNAD and Portal 2."Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you... -
![Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsKomarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why... -
![A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux]()
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsan alternate cover editions can be found here and hereNew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church... -
![Beyond the Moon by Catherine Taylor]()
Beyond the Moon by Catherine Taylor
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in the First World War in 1916 with a young woman living in modern-day England a century later, in this haunting literary time travel novel.Two people, two battles: one against the invading Germans on the battlefields of 1916 France, the other against a substandard, uncaring mental health facility in modern-day England... -
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![The Reigning and the Rule by Calia Read]()
The Reigning and the Rule by Calia Read
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsÉtienne Lacroix and I had a fire I thought would never die. Our love was timeless. An irreversible decision sent me back to the present day with a family I barely recognize, but I am determined to find a way back to Étienne. I can survive time. But I can’t survive life without him. Time bends to no one’s demands, so I must fight with everything I have to return to the past... -
![To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis]()
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsConnie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat... -
![Falling for the Fifties by Stephenia H. McGee]()
Falling for the Fifties by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsWhat would you do if you finally found Mr. Right…in the wrong time?Maddie Palmer is done with dating. Internet matchmaking landed her one dud after another. Tired, frustrated, and finished with love, Maddie stays the night at a quirky Victorian bed and breakfast on the eve of her grandparents’ sixty-fifth wedding anniversary... -
![The Methuselah Project by Rick Barry]()
The Methuselah Project by Rick Barry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNazi scientists started many experiments. One never ended. Roger Greene is a war hero. Raised in an orphanage, the only birthright he knows is the feeling that he was born to fly. Flying against the Axis Powers in World War II is everything he always dreamed--until the day he's shot down and lands in the hands of the enemy...Categorized as:
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![Wingmen by Ensan Case]()
Wingmen by Ensan Case
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau...Categorized as:
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![Indian Paintbrush by John A. Heldt]()
Indian Paintbrush by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArizona, December 1943. After surviving perilous six-month journeys to 1889 and 1918, the Carsons, five siblings from the present day, seek a respite in their home state. While Adam and Greg settle down with their Progressive Era brides, Natalie and Caitlin start romances with wartime aviators and Cody befriends a Japanese family in an internment camp... -
![Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose]()
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose...Categorized as:
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![The Christmas Town by Elyse Douglas]()
The Christmas Town by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Christmas Town, by Elyse Douglas, is a new time travel, mystery, romance novel that was released on October 11, 2013.Traveling home for Christmas, two young women in their 20s are forced to drive together during a snowstorm, and they get lost. They cross a covered bridge and, suddenly, they enter the past, finding themselves in a small picturesque Vermont town in 1943...Categorized as:
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![The Amphibian by Alexander Belyaev]()
The Amphibian by Alexander Belyaev
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belayev's 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind. Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata... -
![Mariana by Susanna Kearsley]()
Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget...The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason... -
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![Fifty-One by Chris Barnham]()
Fifty-One by Chris Barnham
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsJacob Wesson is a timecop from 2040, sent back to WWII London to stop the assassination of Britain’s war leader. The assignment plays out with apparent ease, but the jump home goes wrong, stranding Jake in war-ravaged 1944. Jake’s team, including his long-time girlfriend, is desperate to trace him before something else goes wrong.Stuck in the past, Jake must pull from his training and blend in...Categorized as:
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![Dust Spells by Andrea Lynn]()
Dust Spells by Andrea Lynn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsShe thought a dust storm was getting in the way of her dreams, but there are storms more deadly than dust...Categorized as:
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![Twisted by Time by R.L. Perez]()
Twisted by Time by R.L. Perez
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsA fall through time. A reckless witch. A war of monsters.17-year-old witch Desiree Campbell tries to cast a spell to go to Miami for spring break.But she ends up in Cuba a hundred years in the past.The year is 1898. The Spanish-American War rages. Demons thrive in the city, preying on humans. Desi is caught between the war of mortals and the war of monsters...Categorized as:
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![Yesterday's Gold, Complete Series by Bobby Hutchinson]()
Yesterday's Gold, Complete Series by Bobby Hutchinson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsLOVE TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE BOOKS? YESTERDAY'S GOLD is for you! Hannah Gilmore is about to be married, to a member of one of Victoria, B.C.'s notable families. But first, she's promised to take her mother, Daisy, to Barkerville, historical site of a B.C. goldrush, to search out the resting place of an ancestor... -
![Begun by Time by Morgan O'Neill, Cary Morgan]()
Begun by Time by Morgan O'Neill, Cary Morgan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the final days of World War II, Catherine Hastings meets the man she wants to marry. Flight surgeon Jonathan Brandon isn't just handsome―he's everything Catherine could hope for in her betrothed. But her dream of a happily ever after is shattered when Jonnie vanishes before their wedding, leaving Catherine bereft, broken-hearted, and with a lifetime of unanswered questions...Categorized as:
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![Class of '59 by John A. Heldt]()
Class of '59 by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Mary Beth McIntire settles into a vacation house on June 2, 2017, she anticipates a quiet morning with coffee. Then she hears a noise, peers out a window, and spots a man in 1950s attire standing in the backyard. She panics when the trespasser sees her and enters the house though a door to the basement. She questions her sanity when she cannot find him...Categorized as:
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![The Blacksmith's Bride: A Brides of Golden Valley Story by Laura D. Bastian]()
The Blacksmith's Bride: A Brides of Golden Valley Story by Laura D. Bastian
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarriage was never her plan until her inheritance depended on it. He just wants a family to call his own. Can they find a happy ever after even with such different backgrounds? Susan Hanson’s life is anything but normal...Categorized as:
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![The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood]()
The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations…Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace.Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside... -
![Indiana Belle by John A. Heldt]()
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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![Midnight on the Marne by Sarah Adlakha]()
Midnight on the Marne by Sarah Adlakha
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha’s Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices.France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Marchand has important secrets to keep... -
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![Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards]()
Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. A world at war.Trust is a luxury no one can afford.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women... -
![The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge]()
The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSequel To The Hugo Award-Winning Bestseller The Snow QueenThe Summer Queen is the extraordinary sequel to one of science fiction's most celebrated novels, The Snow Queen. Set in a fully realized universe of wonders, this spectacular space epic, itself a finalist for the Hugo Award, is one of the most remarkable novels in the field... -
![Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine]()
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis masterfully crafted first novel tells the spellbinding story of a contemporary woman who discovers her past life as a 12th-century Welsh noblewoman. Erskine's extraordinary romance has been translated into 17 languages and has sold well over a million copies worldwide... -
![A House Between Sea and Sky by Beth Cato]()
A House Between Sea and Sky by Beth Cato
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1920s California, two people in need of healing find strange refuge in a house with a mind of its own in an enthralling fantasy by the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge.Grieving Hollywood writer Fayette Wynne arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1926 to finish her latest project in peace... -
![El viñedo de la luna by Carla Montero]()
El viñedo de la luna by Carla Montero
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUna familia asediada por la ocupación naziUna exiliada española tras el tesoro vinícola más preciado del mundoUn triángulo amoroso marcado por el deber, la fidelidad y la pasiónTras su precipitado matrimonio con Octave de Fonneuve, Aldara, refugiada de la Guerra Civil, llega al Domaine de Clair de Lune, una imponente bodega de Borgoña...Categorized as:
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![Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member. Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge... -
![The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey]()
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHelva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilarating escapades in space!Her life was to be rich and rewarding . .Categorized as:
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![The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser]()
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn the eve of her wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home, the famous Victorian Gingerbread House on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, and falls unconscious only to wake in the body of her own grandmother Brandy on the eve of her wedding—in 1900. The virginal Brandy, in turn, awakes in Shay's body to discover herself pregnant... -
![Murder at Blackwater Bend by Clara McKenna]()
Murder at Blackwater Bend by Clara McKenna
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStella Kendrick, a wild-hearted Kentuckian "Dollar Princess" shipped off to England for an aristocratic marriage and her soon-to-be groom Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst must navigate culture clashes, scandal, and a high society killer in Clara McKenna's second historical mystery set in England's New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century... -
![Fragments by Monique Martin]()
Fragments by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help.They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened...Categorized as:
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![The Fifth Element by Terry Bisson]()
The Fifth Element by Terry Bisson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of an anti-energy, anti-life. This "thing", this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light... -
![Frankly, My Dear by Sandra Hill]()
Frankly, My Dear by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLost in the Bayou...Selene has always had three great passions: men, food . . . and Gone With the Wind. Still, the glamorous model always seems to be starving for both nourishment and affection. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she heads to New Orleans for one last shoot before she chucks it all and begins a whole new life... -
![Viking in Love by Sandra Hill]()
Viking in Love by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe said...Caedmon of Larkspur is the most loathsome lout I have ever encountered! When my sisters and I arrived at his castle, we were greeted by servants and children running wild, while Caedmon lied abed after a night of ale. No doubt there will be another child soon, because I must admit he's as handsome as he is virile... -
![The Devil's Due by Monique Martin]()
The Devil's Due by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTime travelers Simon and Elizabeth return in book four of the Out of Time series.Simon and Elizabeth's plans for their honeymoon are interrupted when they discover a list of unfinished business hidden in Simon's grandfather's journal... -
![The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick]()
The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another.”Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better...Categorized as:
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