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Long Earth volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 32
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie know all about Ben Franklin. He was a Founding Father, a journalist, and a famous inventor! When the magic tree house whisks them back to meet the man himself, they're not sure what their mission is. But Ben Franklin has a mission of his own. Intrigued by Jack and Annie, he's curious to learn more about where they came from. And very curious about their tree house. . . . -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Tales of magic volume 7
Publisher
Harcourt Young Classic
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules and tame its magic.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Eva has spent the past three years burying herself in her work, trying to forget the heart-breaking events of the Christmas that ripped her world apart. And this year, on the eve of her shop launch, the last thing Eva wants is to drive to the wild moors of Cornwall to attend her friends Hallie and Kian's Christmas party. But at her husband James' insistence, here they are. Worse still, Hallie announces she is pregnant, bringing Eva's pain to the...
Author
Series
YouSpace volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife ... and his true love has been spirited away. Meanwhile, a man wakes up in a jar in a different kind of pickle (figuratively speaking): he can't get out, or remember his name ... or anything ... and every time he starts working it all out, someone makes him forget again. An absurdly witty novel of alternate universes and very unlikely heroes.
8) The becoming
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In...
9) Switch
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her "Solution Time" class won't solve the world's problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father...
10) Implacable Alpha
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Called the 'Ennoia, ' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes?"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 2
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it--unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the...
12) Doors of sleep
Author
Series
Journals of Zaxony Delatree volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"If closing your eyes meant waking up in an entirely different world, would you want to fall asleep? Zax Delatree has the power to travel between worlds while he sleeps, the only problem is he has no control over his destination. For Zax, sleep is the doorway to the unknown. Sometimes he wakes up in technological utopias, and other times in the bombed-out ruins of collapsed civilizations. All he can rely on to survive in these strange, and sometimes...
13) The starspun web
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
All her life, Tess has lived at Miss Ackerbee's orphanage with her friends and her pet tarantula, Violet. But one day, a mysterious man named Mr. Cleat shows up and whisks Tess away to live with him. Before Tess leaves, Miss Ackerbee gives her a strange lens, and makes an even stranger admission: that Tess can travel to parallel worlds, and has been able to do so since she was found as a baby. Now, with her newfound abilities and the mysterious lens...
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