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When Alice, a divorcee of five years, discovers a photograph among her late father's possessions, she wants to know more. Her father's handwriting tells her that the girl in the picture is her great-great-grandmother. The child on her knee, her son.
Set in the county of Lancashire, and in two time-periods, the story of the girl in the picture, Mary Ellen, is of her time in domestic servitude. The contemporary story is an evolving love story between...
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A group of unlikely heroes from the opposite sides of the track embark on the ultimate human adventure surrounding an ancient alien transportation device. As the four improbable companions travel through time in search for answers and a way home, they end up stumbling on an age-old mystery that might stop a disaster in the future from occurring.
Can these four heroes step up to save the future and, maybe, learn something about themselves in the...
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When a sorcerer's apprentice locks a powerful spirit in a tree, the nomadic tribes of the Arctic face a bleak future. Supplies of game and fish dwindle, and young men desert their families on a quest of illusory dreams. Included in the expedition to deal with the vengeful tree spirit are young Dorno and the woman he rescued, Sheena. He is seeking high adventure; she is in search of her foster parents. Neither of them is aware of the far more terrible...
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In a race against time, could you be the savior the world needs? Faced with a one-way journey to the past, would you dare to reshape the world or be tempted by personal desires? As the sands of time slip away, powerful forces rise against you. The question remains: what would you sacrifice for a chance to rewrite history?
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Imagine waking up inside someone else's body, and in a different century. What would you do? How would the new world around you react to you? This is what happens all the time to Zak Emblin, an editor from 21st century Birmingham, UK, and Sarah Templeman, a prison service doctor from twenty second century New Palm Springs, USA, who are 'reincarnaters', connected across time by a shared soul.
Imagine you are a bright, young scientist, Carmen Fry,...
6) Laphatton
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The year is 2064, and the world is in chaos. Our story begins at a Survival Training Camp for teens on Roosevelt Island, New York. As the campers pick through the ruins that the war left behind, four young souls stumble upon a time portal and are transported to the 1600s. They arrive with three books, a chess set, needles and thread, and a new feeling: hope. The Lenni Lenape Tribe in residence on the island have noted their presence, and so begins...
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Three young city boys stumble upon an old abandoned car on their grandparents' West Texas ranch one summer. The car looks and feels like it fell directly out of a horror story, and before the summer is over, this will prove true.
These three young brothers will learn hard lessons about history, themselves, life, honor, and respect before this summer trip to their grandparents is over. This old car will send them back in time to where they will fight...
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Frederick Ramsbottom is a Victorian chap who enjoys time travelling to different eras and has the most fantastic adventures. He teleports to Roman times using his amazing Magical Time Machine and specially designed devices to help him on his quest and finds himself getting caught up with Roman guards.
What happens next...? Does he escape...? A modern historical twist.
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Readers are transported to Victorian London and introduced to Inspector Doyle, a modern-day detective with eternal life, who discovers that he has been wrongly named as 'Jack the Ripper', the Victorian serial killer. Nobody wants that label at any time in history, so with the aid of time travel he returns to the year 1888 in an attempt to clear his name.
Another complication for Inspector Doyle is that his modern-day daughter, Flora, who he has left...
10) The Time Bunker
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If you could travel into the past and prevent the death of your father, would you? Thirteen-year-old Noel Villan must make this decision in a story of bereavement, time travel and nuclear war. Noel has discovered a bunker within the forest near his hometown. What appears at first to be an air-raid shelter is found to be a forgotten Cold-War era time machine, capable of sending humans into the past to prevent the end of the world after a nuclear war....
11) In the Beginning
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Time is all. A new cycle has begun.
The Atlas Mountains in Morocco, present day: A Berber boy, Uyyub, falls asleep under a sacred tree and dreams the tree talks to him. Curious and intrigued, he returns, but this time the tree talks to him when he is not asleep. Together they travel through time, charting the course of the evolution of life on Earth with particular reference to his clan's genesis. Uyyub's sister, Thiyya, joins them to watch the dirty-dancing...
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