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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
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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Christmas Pie by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMerry Christmas from Jodi Taylor. It's time for St Mary's traditional Christmas jump - even though it's only September...St Mary's has never lacked for enemies, but danger has never been closer to home. A state of war has broken out between St Mary's and the Women's Institute - the Raffia Mafia...Categorized as:
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The Fiery Cross, Part Two by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe year is 1771. The American War of Independence is fast approaching. And it seems that Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire, and their beloved family are fated to be in the thick of things once again...Categorized as:
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Yesterday's Blood by Jane O'Brien
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYesterday’s Blood, Book 5 of O’Brien’s series A Slip in Time, begins in the year 2025 where we last left Daniel Kent, the deputy sheriff. Having come across some heirlooms in an old secretary drawer, he handles each one carefully wondering who they belonged to and how they were connected to him... -
Under the Same Sky by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn are in two different places, two different times. But she remembers their last conversation — “Where do you know I love you?” “On the air around me, mo reul-iuil. On every breeze is your sigh, under every sky. Tis always the same stars, ye ken. As long as ye are under them then I can hear ye, I love ye, ye say. I can always hear it.” “Good... -
Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach of us carries within a map of memory. The map is worn at the folds--sometimes right through--and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine--an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on.. -
Legacy of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeptember 1297. David and his family and friends have come to Carew Castle in Wales to participate in a tournament in the spirit of King Arthur. Two years have passed since the events in Hidden in Time. Questions remain not only as to the whereabouts of the traitor, Bogo de Clare, who is still at large, but the relationship of David's family with Avalon... -
Lights! Camera! Mayhem! by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsComing to a screen near you...TEMPORA, THE TIME TRAVELLING TOURISTStarring Astrid Gustafsson as Helen of Troy - 'the face that launched a thousand ships' (Homer)With Dirk Thrust as Achilles - 'demi god and hero' (Homer)And the Wooden Horse as Himself - 'easily the least wooden performance from anyone participating in this particular travesty' (Dr Maxwell)Watch and weep as this epic tale unfolds..Categorized as:
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The Punishers: A Ripple In Time Book 3 by Victor Zugg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 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...Categorized as:
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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 ratingsYoung, 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...Categorized as:
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The Christmas Eve Daughter by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen husband and wife, Eve and Patrick Gantly, discover a shocking secret from Patrick's past, they make the difficult decision to use the old lantern once again to return to 1885. They hope to save his child from a tragic future. Although they try to plan for every possible contingency, something goes wrong. They lose each other and end up in a different time! Nothing goes as planned...Categorized as:
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Back in Time by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReturn to the past with Geronimo Stilton in this fabumouse special edition!Imagine my surprise when I, Geronimo Stilton, was offered the chance to travel back in time again! Professor Paws von Volt entrusted me to lead my family on a secret journey in his new time machine...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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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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Love Beyond Boundaries (A Scottish Time Travel Romance): Book 12 by Bethany Claire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes 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...Categorized as:
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The Gospel According to Todd by R.A. Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTodd 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...Categorized as:
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A Long Forgotten Time: Book Seven of The Thistle Hive Series by Jennae Vale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrenna MacRae finds herself an unwelcome guest in her own home. Ever since her father married Greer Matheson, her new stepmother has been trying to get rid of her. She’s now intent on marrying Brenna off to a man old enough to be her father. Unwilling to marry, Brenna takes matters into her own hands and runs away with the intent of finding refuge with her brother and his wife...Categorized as:
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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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Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT IS 742. The throne is empty; the pagan states are in rebellion; Charles Martel’s widow and youngest son have been imprisoned, and trust between Carloman and Pippin—the two brothers who remain in power—has been shattered... -
Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe adventure continues as Ronan MacAlasdair is drawn deeper into the political intrigues and rivalries of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Acre. New dangers arise as the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt moves closer to a war whose ultimate goal is to drive the last remaining Crusaders in the Holy Land into the sea... -
Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEpic high adventure, Galloglass details the story of Ronan MacAlasdair,grandson of Angus Mor MacDonald, Lord of the Isles. Given to the Templars to save him from outlawry,the story takes the young Isleman from Islay to the Levant where he comes to manhood and finds fame, surviving intrigue, battle and seige. A rousing story with adult themes, this is the first in a series... -
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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Time Stranger: Time Travel Romance by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen 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...Categorized as:
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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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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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Il prezzo della vittoria by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrianna e Roger sono tornati nel futuro con i loro bambini e si sono trasferiti a Lallybroch, terra di Jamie, l'affascinante scozzese di cui si è innamorata Claire, madre di Brianna. Qui scoprono alcune lettere scritte duecento anni prima da Claire e Jamie e vengono così a sapere che entrambi sono scampati all'incendio che aveva spinto Brianna ad attraversare il cerchio di pietre...Categorized as:
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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 ratingsThirteen-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...Categorized as:
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Hyperversum: Il cavaliere del tempo by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSono passati tre anni dal momento in cui Ian e Daniel si sono salutati prendendo strade (e secoli) molto diversi tra loro. Di tanto in tanto, Daniel non può fare a meno di ritentare una partita con Hyperversum, nella speranza di incontrare nuovamente l'amico...Categorized as:
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Outlander - Az utazó 2. kötet by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber , the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser...Categorized as:
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Hyperversum. Il Falco e il Leone by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIl secondo libro della serie Hyperversum in una NUOVA EDIZIONE rivista dall'autrice in occasione del decennale della pubblicazione. A due anni di distanza dal primo viaggio e dopo molti vani tentativi, Hyperversum trasporta nuovamente Ian e Daniel nel XIII secolo...Categorized as:
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Baron by Ed Nelson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn Engineer finds himself in an Alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron.Retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.His love of Engineering has him taking university courses his entire life... -
The Memory Tree by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDays 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...Categorized as:
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Saturday, the Twelfth of October by Norma Fox Mazer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter spending almost a year with cave people from an earlier time, a young girl is transported back to the present greatly changed, both by her experience and by the fact that no one believes her...Categorized as:
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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 Best of Kage Baker by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKage Baker’s death in 2010 silenced one of the most distinctive, consistently engaging voices in contemporary fiction. A late starter, Baker published her first short stories in 1997, at the age of forty-five. From then until the end of her life, she wrote prolifically and well, leaving an astonishing body of work behind...Categorized as:
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Booth by Jason Pellegrini
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt 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...Categorized as:
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Willie Me by Dan Gutman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life.Featuring black-and-white photographs and stats throughout, plus back matter separating fact from fiction, Willie & Me is the perfect mix of history and action for every young baseball fan.Stosh thought he was finished traveling back in time...Categorized as:
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The Bride Ransom by Tracey Jane Jackson, Piper Davenport
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings18+ 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...Categorized as:
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Relive by K.J. Nelson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when you fall in love with the girl you murdered in your first life?An electrifying debut novel from KJ Nelson. It will leave you breathless and reading way past your bedtime!★★★★★There is a secret order called The Journeyers. They are a group of people that live their lives over and over. For the most part, they keep to themselves and enjoy their special kind of immortality...Categorized as:
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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... -
Separated by Time by Jennae Vale
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA vision of disaster has Edna Campbell sending her niece, Maggie MacKinnon, a fledgling witch, back in time to sixteenth century Scotland in an attempt to save the MacKenzie clan and to face a mirror image of herself in the form of an evil witch named Brielle. Disguised as a young lad and accompanied by her Uncle Angus, Maggie must prevail in this life and death chess match of witch versus witch...Categorized as:
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Through the Brown Mountain Lights: by C.C. Tillery, Christy Tillery French
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn August 1969, medical student Lizzie Baker sets off on a trip to Woodstock with her boyfriend and two other couples. When their van breaks down outside of Morganton, North Carolina, the group decides to hike up nearby Brown Mountain while they wait for the repairs to be finished...Categorized as:
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Hyperversum Unknown by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCastello di Pointeriche, Piccardia, Francia, 1235. Alexandra e Marc stanno per coronare il loro sogno: mancano poche settimane alle nozze e poi finalmente saranno uniti per sempre...Categorized as:
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DIAS DEL HALCON, LOS. LOS ARCHIVOS DEL TIEMPO 1 by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDaniel has a burning passion for an online videogame, Hyperversum, which transports his fantasy back in history. In this virtual game he's learned to be the perfect man in the Middle Ages and knows all the tricks to get himself to the next level of the game. Ian has a university degree and a doctorate in medieval history. He's become part of Daniel's family after ther death of his parents...Categorized as:
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Time Passage by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan Cindy Survive the Past to Find Her Future?In 2022, Cindy Downing, a 25-year-old woman with a troubled past, kills her billionaire boyfriend in self-defense and flees, boarding an Amtrak train headed for Chicago. While passing through a tunnel, the train plunges through a burst of light—into another time and place...Categorized as:
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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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The Ruby Talisman by Belinda Murrell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA ruby talisman is the key to entering a thrilling adventure in this timeslip tale that takes readers into one of the most dangerous periods in history: the French Revolution. When Tilly's aunt tells her of their ancestress who survived the French Revolution, she shows Tilly a priceless heirloom. Tilly falls asleep wearing the ruby talisman, wishing she could escape to a more adventurous life . -
Obsolete Theorem by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA time jump. A fight for survival. A bond between species. It wasn’t possible, but then it happened… A Neanderthal’s 47,000-year-old remains are found in Spain. That’s not unusual, but positioned beside the woman’s skeleton is something that shouldn’t be there, a robotic drone. Lincoln Woodhouse has some explaining to do... -
Earth Shattering by Cathy Peper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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