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What if you could go back in time? What if you never aged while the world around you changed? Time is of the essence in this list of time bending novels. Perfect for the open minded reader.
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler - Beacon Press; 25th Anniversary edition
Format: Paperback
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana... |
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How to Stop Time
MATT HAIG - Viking
Format: Book
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Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary... |
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab - Tor Books
Format: Book
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France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever -- and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across... |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger - NHLA READS-TO-GO
Format: Book
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This is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian. They met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true: Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement... |
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow - Redhook
Format: Book
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
Then she finds... |
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Life After Life: A Novel
Kate Atkinson - Reagan Arthur Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks... |
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
Andrew Sean Greer - Picador
Format: Paperback
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"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli,a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards,... |
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The Map of the Sky: A Novel
Felix J. Palma - Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wellss popular novel The War of the Worlds. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made... |
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I... |
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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Hardcover
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Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family's property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never... |
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