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Journeys, space travel, time travel, quests, spaces in between, portals...
In this second volume in the Far, Far Away series, we've gathered together the words of seven authors who've had the courage to explore the furthest reaches of reality.
Slip between the layers of space and time to discover what lives in the pockets. Find love in the most unexpected of ways and watch it thrive across the tapestry of history. March with the soldiers...
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Marcus works at the most amazing retirement home around. Everyone who resides here claims to be a time traveler. Traipsing through time is fun and exciting, but it is also exhausting. These folks need a comfortable place to end up. And that's Reynold's, a wonderful home for the wayward.Marcus shares his stories of the people he works with. He watches movies with them, eats cake with them, and takes care of their needs. They are a loud, boisterous...
1743) Desires of the Heart
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Loren Fairchild longs for children, but is barren. At a cottage in Carlisle, UK, she puts her divorce behind her and begins a new life. In 1947 the former owner's wife disappeared. That same week, according to local gossip, her husband took up with a dark-headed harlot. One morning in 2007, a simple-minded woman appears at Loren's cottage and triggers events that change Loren's life forever.
Miles Chapeau misses the wife, the mother of his two children,...
1744) The Alien Princess
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In a mesmerizing journey across multiple universes, "The Alien Princess" weaves an epic tale of love, sacrifice, and the boundless wonders of the cosmos. As the enigmatic Princess Alzina embarks on an odyssey to save her people, she encounters Fahran, a brilliant physicist from Earth, who becomes her unlikely ally and soulmate. Together, they navigate the infinite realms of existence, battling formidable foes, unlocking the secrets of the universe,...
1745) Rebooting Fate
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Pete was rescued from the dimension-hopping hit team that "erased" his biological family. Now he's in a sort of cross-continuum witness protection program. Uncle Si gives him a new home in a peaceful neighborhood, a new life in the blissful postwar period, a new, affluent family that cares about him, and a new identity: Ike Jaeger, on an alternate path to a future that was impossible from Pete Bedauern's native decade and circumstances. But even at...
1746) A Haunted Love
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Nick works as a re-enactor at a Colonial America site. One foggy night he meets David Henry, just about the sexiest man in colonial garb Nick has ever seen. Because Nick's missed the last bus into town, David invites him to stay the night with him at the colony's inn. Though there's definitely a spark between them, David is gone when Nick wakes. When David's claim of working as an apprentice at the glass shop doesn't pan out, Nick begins to wonder...
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The Velvet Prison is the first instalment of The Chronicles of Samek, a boy brought into the world at the start of the 29th century, a world utterly different from our own after the Chaos, the near-destruction of the planet wrought by the aggression, greed, stupidity and massive overpopulation of the world in the middle years of the 21st century.
Samek, created by a scientist, Zelda, a woman he calls mother, from the mixing of DNA of nineteen 'parents'...
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Time travel is incredibly dangerous. Building a time machine is surprisingly simple. In 2015 Tony Carpenter stumbled upon the plans for the Chronocar, a time machine conceived before it could be built by Dr. Simmie Johnson, genius, scientist, and son of a slave. Tony's visit to 1919 to see the doctor and his lovely daughter Ollie turned into disaster, forcing the doctor to make a most difficult final decision. Now the timeline has worked its way back...
1749) The Kempston Interface
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After escaping from a dinosaur theme park that wasn't quite as extinct as it should have been, Phil Grundy and the Ambivalence crew find themselves in 1982 where they must track down the Assembly of Newly Uplifted Systems before they open a portal between worlds real, imaginary and otherwise.Thankfully, not only do our heroes have their trusty Dodge Spacevan, but they also have a newly sentient ZX81 calling itself Dexy, and Gary the Hi-Vis Ninja to...
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From the world of the Highland Secrets Trilogy!
Historical romance author Ashlyn George is an uninspired author. Writer's block plagues her imagination, so her agent encourages her to go on a trip to Scotland that's geared toward writers. She'll try just about anything to put words on the page, since her latest manuscript is overdue.
She collides with a blue-eyed hottie that looks just like an old portrait she bought in an antique shop in Inverness....
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Go back in time with this reader favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller Pine River residents have always said the giant Victorian house was haunted, but for Elisabeth McCartney, it was a home to run to after divorce. She should have the place to herself… except she keeps hearing a child's voice. It's coming from behind a locked door that once led to a different room, one that had burned to ash over a century ago. Except...
1752) Anniversary
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Three years after Cally Pearson lost the love of her life to a freak car accident in the mountains of Nevada, the anniversary of that loss still hits her hard.But Cally lives in a town called Cave Creek-and strange things happen in this town. The past, present, and future sometimes collide in unexpected ways.Sometimes-just sometimes-Cave Creek gives you a second chance.A heartwarming time-travel short story about lost love, Anniversary keeps you reading...
1753) The Fiery Gloves
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Joseph and Ben must figure out what kind of quest King Arthur has set before them after True Heart leaves some puzzling clues.
In this electrifying fourth volume, the would-be Knights of Right once again must prove themselves, this time by fighting dwarves with fiery catapults and choosing the right, even when it's really hard.
Are they up to the task, or will they get stuck?
1754) This Story Is Boring
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Alex is an ordinary kid who does ordinary kid things. Every day is pretty much the same, except for one Tuesday in October...
Join Alex and his friend, Sarah, on an adventure through space, time... and the backyard.
Enjoyable for readers with great imaginations, This Story Is Boring encourages lots of interaction, so get ready to spin, tap and shake your way through each anything-but-boring page!
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Time twisters volume 3
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Using his in-depth knowledge of American history, award winning author Steve Sheinkin and illustrator Neil Swaab create exciting adventures through time with historical figures going AWOL and true fun facts about each person.
WARNING: DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU'RE ABOUT TO READ.
Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And, famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened-till...
1756) It's Not You, It's Me
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A literally life-changing novel about time travel, soulmates and serial killers that asks a very big question: Can you ever change your fate? This is award-winning YA author Gabrielle Williams' most surprising, ambitious and dexterous book yet.
Holly Fitzgerald has inexplicably woken up inside the body of an LA teenager called Trinity Byrne in 1980 - trapping Trinity in Holly's forty-year-old body back in Melbourne, 2020.
Mind. Officially. Blown.
Holly...
1757) Ripples in Time
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Book 1: The Fold
Book 2: The Message
Book 3: Fold Wormhole
Book 4: Negative Fold
Book 5: Ripples In Time
Book 5: Ripples In Time
The discovery that time has no meaning in the negative Fold realm and that the present can interact with both the past and the future alters the meaning of reality.
Bram realizes that the ability to enter the negative realm empowers that person to have ultimate control of events. Intervening in any manner creates...
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Cosmic Acrobatics: Galaxy's Greatest GamesEngr Dr Naila Hina The competition was fierce, filled with gravity-bending trampoline routines, zero-gravity balance beams, and breathtaking aerial silks performances amidst floating asteroids. Lila's journey to the top was marked by moments of triumph and moments of doubt, but she persevered, pushing her body and her mind to new limits.
1759) Drift Pattern
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The future isn't what it used to be... In the Year 2191, something or someone is destroying the time corridor pathways into the past. If kidnapped present-day mathematician Luci Gaudiano can't solve the mystery before they disappear, millions in the future will perish.
1760) Le Collier de L'esclave
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Tuez l'impératrice, sauvez la Chine.
C'est ce que les gens de tous bords disent à Jiayi. Elle a non seulement le pouvoir de tuer l'impératrice, mais aussi de créer un nouvel avenir pour la Chine. Jiayi a passé sa vie comme esclave de palais. La liberté pour la Chine pourrait signifier pour elle une vie de servitude.
Et Jiayi est fatiguée de vivre pour les autres.
Au fur et à mesure que ses pouvoirs augmentent, elle se retrouve à vivre...
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