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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer marooned with her mother and stepfather in a snooty Massachusetts shore town bores Cassandra until she meets a dreamy stranger who claims the year is 1925, sweeping Cassandra into a mystery a hundred years in the making.
3) Abarat
Author
Language
English
Description
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.
Author
Series
Walls of the Universe volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Edition
1st Edition
Language
English
Description
With technology that allows him to travel across alternate worlds, John builds a transdimensional commercial empire with his closest friends and their doppelgngers from several different parallel universes. But not every version of every person is the same.
Author
Series
Time travelers (Caroline B. Cooney) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
The summer after senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic--and very painful.
7) Angel, dust
Author
Publisher
ADV Manga
Language
English
Description
Shy high school student Yuina stumbles into a binding contract with an angelic combat android named Seraph, changing her life forever.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Language
English
Description
"Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't there-- a swing creaking, a dog barking-- and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet's world, she grows convinced that something...
10) Level five
Author
Series
Killday volume 1
Publisher
Interstellar Flight Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Pakistan, a high-tech mission aimed at preventing another nuke on US soil goes off the rails - with deadly results. At a Wall Street investment firm, a computer intelligence takes the first tentative steps to free itself from its digital restraints. In a basement workshop, an engineer sees visions of a god who instructs him to defend the human race - by any means necessary.
Author
Publisher
Interstellar Flight Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling Nebula-Award winning William Ledbetter comes a groundbreaking collection of science fiction short stories that will bend your heart like a black hole. From AI to robot medics to life on Mars, Ledbetter takes real tech, blends it with hard science fact, and invents futures full of fantastic fiction. Includes 17 previously published stories and one original story." -Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins forces with a mysterious rogue soldier in a deadly race to piece together the...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
Rose Montgomery parks her family's trailer in Fort Glory, Oregon to carve out a new life for herself and her little brother, Charlie. They need a fresh start for their family, and she thinks she's finally found it in a town where nobody knows them. Then Fort Glory disappears and every person in town vanishes into thin air-- including Charlie. Rose and four other teens become trapped in the Fold, a patch of woods caught halfway between the real world...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Edition
First Harbor Hardcover Edition.
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
2040-2045. In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic...
15) The operator
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri Reed abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. A highly addictive drug promises to end her old dependency while creating a new one and Peri must choose"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
18) Sabotaged
Author
Series
The missing volume 3
Language
English
Description
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
19) The long Earth
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through...
20) Interworld
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
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