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D.O.D.O volume 1
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"Boston, present day. A young man from a shadowy government agency shows up at an Ivy League university and offers an eminent professor a lot of money to study a trove of recently discovered old documents. The only condition: the professor must sign an NDA that would preclude him from publishing his findings, should they be significant. The professor refuses and tells the young man to get lost. On his way out, he bumps into a young woman--a low-on-the-totem-pole...
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"From the #1 bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted The Glass Hotel and the internationally bestselling Station Eleven comes a new novel of dazzling imagination. In this captivating new novel of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people -- a British exile on the West coast of Canada in the early 1900s, the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic, who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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From debut author and poet Lexa Hillyer comes the lyrical story of four seventeen-year-old friends who receive an unlikely chance to relive the perfect summer . . . and the devastating secret that could unravel it all. Elegant and evocative, Proof of Forever is one of those first novels that hooks you from the beginning and builds toward a stunning-and unexpected-end, calling to mind Gayle Forman and Ann Brashares.
Joy, Tali, Luce, and Zoe were once...
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"I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days follows the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his faithful valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less.
A wealthy English gentleman, Fogg spends most of his time at his club. One day he got involved in an argument over a newspaper article stating that with the opening...
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Throwback volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Ever since Corey Fletcher found out that hes the worlds first "throwback," with the power to not only visit history, but change it, hes been spending as much time in the past as possible. Corey loves using his skills to fix problems and help his friends and family. But as Corey becomes more and more addicted to rewriting history, he learns that time travel might change him in ways he may never be able to reverse. Aware now...
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Flashback Four volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history--Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address. -- Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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When Joplin finds an antique platter with a beautiful Dutch scene, she idly wishes for the girl painted on the platter to be her friend and the next day Joplin finds the girl in the garden, longing to go back to her seventeenth-century home.
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A new land, a new time ... To protect his people from a great evil, Merrick Mac Lochlainn, newly crowned high chieftain of his clan, must travel forward in time nearly 1,000 years. But when he awakens in nineteenth-century England, he has no memory of his mission to save his race, nor can he recognize Jenny Keating, the spirited young beauty who calls herself his wife. A new love ... Orphaned and on the run from a cruel headmaster, vulnerable and...
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Flashback Four volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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After disappointing Miss Zandergoth on their first mission, Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia are sent to capture a photograph of the Titanic sinking.
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Deadly angels volume 7
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New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill continues her sexy Deadly Angels series, as a Viking vangel's otherworldly mission pairs him with a beautiful chef who whets his thousand-year-old appetite . . .Once guilty of the deadly sin of gluttony, thousand-year-old Viking vampire angel Cnut Sigurdsson is now a lean, mean, vampire-devil fighting machine. His new side-job? No biggie: just ridding the world of a threat called ISIS while keeping the...
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Herbert's wormhole volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as beneficent as most people think.
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The hilarious, moving and adventure-packed new novel for readers of 9 and up from Ross Welford, the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of Time Travelling with a Hamster The year is 2425. Centuries after a catastrophic meteor collision, nature has retaken the earth. In a small town in what was once England, young Ocean Mooney and the monkey-owning Duke Smiff have just dug up a 400 year-old tablet computer. Meanwhile, in the present day, Thomas...
14) Glitch
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Training to become time travelers who prevent others from altering important historical events, rival Glitchers Regan and Elliot are forced to set aside their animosity when a dire prediction from the future requires them to work together and break everyrule they have ever been taught"-- Provided by publisher.
15) The Marked Girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Worlds collide in Lindsey Klingele's debut young adult novel, The Marked Girl, an exciting fantasy tale turned upside down. Elissa Sussman, author of Stray, calls The Marked Girl "a magical debut with a big heart." When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his fellow royal friends (including his betrothed, Kat) find themselves stranded in modern-day LA via a magical portal and an evil traitor named Malquin, all they want to do is get home to Caelum-soon....
16) The Time Ships
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The highly acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's THE TIME MACHINE, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke. Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wells's classic story The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter's stunning sequel is an outstanding work of imaginative fiction. The Time Traveller has abandoned his charming and helpless Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced...
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Fiona McIntosh returns to Paris and Morgravia, her popular fantasy world, with The Scrivener's Tale, a thrilling standalone novel. Ex-psychologist Gabe Figaret was done with patients for good, until he meets Angelina, a young mute woman he's been asked to mentor. When she starts speaking about another realm called Morgravia, he doubts her, but soon comes under the spell of her compelling visions. As Gabe delves deeper into Angelina's unsettled psyche,...
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Outlaws of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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This new fantasy-adventure series from N. D. Wilson, bestselling author of 100 Cupboards, pits a misfit twelve-year-old against a maniacal villain with a deadly vendetta. This one-of-a kind story is must read for fans of Brandon Mull and Soman Chainani, and the start of a thrilling tale from a masterful storyteller. Sam Miracle's life is made up of dreams, dreams where he's a courageous, legendary hero instead of a foster kid with two bad arms that...
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Unlucky in love, failed actress Libby Lomax has retreated into the world of classic movies, where the immortal lives of the screen goddesses offer so much more in the way of romance than her own life.
After a terrible day where she has embarrassed herself in front of heartthrob actor Dillon O'Hara, she plonks herself down on her battered couch in front of her trillionth viewing of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Libby is gob smacked to find actual Screen...
20) Departure
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From the author of the #1 bestselling The Atlantis Gene comes a new novel in which the world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions...
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