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1) Time Travel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Use a simple analogy to understand how a time machine might work. Unlike movie scenarios featuring dematerializing and rematerializing, a real time machine would be a spaceship that moves through all the intervening points between two locations in spacetime. Also explore paradoxes of time travel.
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English
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"Time travel" -- and its hazards -- are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America -- "Wainscotia, Wisconsin" -- that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation" -- but cannot resist falling...
4) Blackout
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Series
Language
English
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When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For as long as the residents of Meadow Mews can remember the town mine has been emptied of any precious metals. Everyone has a story about why the mine was barren. When Brett and Joe are working on a farm near the mine, they fall into a portal, which leaves them in the past. They are in Meadow Mews before any of their friends lived there and discover the real story behind the mine. They learn about how their town was formed and watch the first library...
6) All clear
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Language
English
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When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
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Language
English
Description
"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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Publisher
Sky Pony Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After returning home from his travels through time, Brett is invited to build a new farm in the cold biome. But as he gathers crops, he falls down a portal that carries him to a terrifying future where he and his friends live in constant fear of creeper attacks.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In human experience, time travel has always been the subject of fantasy stories. But as scientists learn more about people and the universe, they're starting to realize that some forms of time travel might be possible"--
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Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The idea of time travel is one that never gets old. It has enthralled the imaginative, the serious, and the scientific for centuries. Your readers will learn the science behind the fantasy of time travel, the theories behind such an ability, and the inventions that are trying to get us to the past, and beyond"--Provided by the publisher.
12) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
14) Doomsday book
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Series
Language
English
Description
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
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English
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From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Astrid and co. are back in this highly anticipated sequel to CYOA's hit Time Travel Inn! Just weeks after the events of Time Travel Inn, the Inn gets an unwelcome visitor: a corrupt multiverse cop investigating the whereabouts of your grandmother Dolores. The problem is, you don't know where, or "when," she is, either. And meanwhile, your dad has developed an illness that's slowly turning him into... a duck? Your pals Trent and Damien join you (Astrid)...
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"No one seems very worried that your Grandmother Dolores has vanished from her job as innkeeper in the middle of the Wisconsin woods. That is until your parents suddenly and mysteriously insist on moving the family to take over the inn while she's 'away.' Kids in the neighborhood are eager to tell you wild tales about your new home, the Time Travel Inn. In this longer, larger-format Choose Your Own Adventure ... kids can travel the past, present,...
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser.
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Language
English
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"The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune). A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures...
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