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Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she'll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee's fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom--a moment Aimee has never remembered before--she...
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Villainess turns the hourglass volume 1
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The vile Aria Roscent is sentenced to execution for her cruel and vicious misdeeds against her angelic helf sister, Mielle. Even Aria herself believes it's what she deserves--until Mielle gleefully reveals that she was the true mastermind all along. The helpless Aria makes a final, fervent wish for a chance to redo everything just as the blade swings down...and snaps to attention at the dining room table as her fourteen-year-old self! Armed with...
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Series
Villainess turns the hourglass volume 2
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"All in good time... Having discovered the secrets of the hourglass, Aria is on top of the world--after all, the ability to turn back time, no matter how little, is an incredibly powerful weapon against her conniving half sister. She's quickly brought crashing back down to earth, however, when she realizes that the world is still very much on Mielle's side. Despite Aria's best efforts to charm him, Oscar makes it a point to attend Mielle's birthday...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Language
English
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"Becca, Zack, Cam, and Thomas are best friends who may seem like an unlikely group on the surface but who have something very important in common: a love of history! Together, they make up their school's history club that has an all-important secret mission: stop the villainous History Twister's plot to destroy the past, forever altering the future. Knowledge of history is their superpower as they chase the Twister through time. After all, who knows...
7) Lost time
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Evie gets trapped 65 million years in the past and must learn to survive with only her wits...and the pterosaur she befriends.
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinking
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt...
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt...
9) Meet cute
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Sheila and Gary meet, it's love at first sight. Turns out, their magical date wasn't fate at all: Sheila's got a time-traveling tanning bed hidden inside a nail salon, and they've been falling in love over and over again. But when the perfect night is never quite enough, Sheila travels to Gary's past to change him into the perfect man.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan--and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she'd known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he's the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore. Now thirty-one, Jess didn't bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself....
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Volcanologist and filmmaker Clive Oppenheimer offers here a seemingly impossible tour, showing readers places difficult to access, even before one considers climbing a volcano. Oppenheimer worked closely with North Korean researchers in a scientific mission to study Mount Paektu, a volcano name sung in national anthems on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone. He ventured through Chad to the Tibesti Mountains; their most emblematic volcano, Emi Koussi,...
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Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips. Featuring 51 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can cruise the cliffs along California's Big Sur coast or roll alongside Appalachian hills, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn
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SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After saving the planet from the alien horde last season, the Legends find themselves stranded in 1925 Texas with no way home. Determined to return to their own time, the Legends set out on a road-trip across the country to find an early pioneer of time travel, and their only hope of returning to their home time once more!
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Paris, 1885. Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost"--
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Series
Children of the Red King volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Back at Bloor's Academy after Christmas vacation, Charlie finds himself confronted with a new problem when young Henry Yewbeam, who vanished during a game of marbles in 1916, suddenly appears and needs help to find his family.
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Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hop on board the train on a rollicking, rhyming adventure to meet some of Alaska's most beloved animals. Included at the back is a glossary of the parts of a train, plus more information about the famous Alaska Train and a map of its route.
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Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal...
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Duke Classics
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English
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"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," raved poet W. H. Auden about this classic Victorian novel. Known as the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald was a Scottish minister who later turned to writing poetry and novels, gaining acclaim for his children's books and influencing J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Lilith is considered to be one of the most important visionary novels of the nineteenth century. Written in 1895, Lilith...