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A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"An ingeniously imagined, hilarious romp through time, space, and the human heart... The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house?"--
"In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for...
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there....
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet roll. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome man,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers--a lonely yet charming old man--dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading. But this is no ordinary book...It is the Book of Doors. Inscribed with enigmatic...
Author
Series
Rip Through Time novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Thatcher's life has fallen apart in spectacular fashion. In one fell swoop, she managed to lose her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend-all thanks to her big mouth. So when a fortune teller offers her one wish, Sadie jumps at the chance to redo her awful year. Deep down, she doesn't believe magic will fix her life, but taking a leap of faith, Sadie makes her wish, opens her eyes, and . . . nothing has changed. And then, in perhaps her dumbest...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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. . . . 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 . . . she becomes distraught. Not only was this her longest disappearance yet, but the memory doesn't match up with...
9) Calico
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert...The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge - and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...
10) The other valley
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"--
11) Time's mouth
Author
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. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her...
12) The dark place
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn't ask to disappear. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother went missing. Just as Hylee realizes this moment could be the key to unraveling the truth about her brother, she's yanked away from the dark place back to our world. Craving a sense of normalcy,...
13) For a lifetime
Author
Series
Timeless volume 03
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Identical twin sisters Grace and Hope are time-crossers who simultaneously live in 1692, as daughters of a tavern owner during the Salem Witch Trials, and in 1912, as an aviatrix and a journalist. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will each have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever--no matter the cost"--
Author
Series
Kōhī ga samenai uchi ni volume 4
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The regulars at the magical Caf̌ Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks, and there are rules to follow. In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visitors:...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Wang family is hiding a secret--they all have the ability to time travel. When parents Joshua and Lily depart for the past and never return, their children Tommy and Eva are forced to deal with their grief alone. Eva tries to find her place in the present, while Tommy is pulled further and further into a past that he hopes holds the truth. When he falls in love with a woman from 1930s London Chinatown, his inability to confront his own history...
Author
Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a prom-decorating snafu sends her crashing into her archnemesis J. T. Renner, Charlotte Wu wakes up in an unfamiliar bed at 30 years old next to her fiancé-J. T., and together they must find their way back to 17, making some surprising discoveries about each other along the way.
17) The day tripper
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames. He wakes the next day to find he's in a messy, derelict room he's never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn't recognize, with no idea of how he got there. A glimpse...
Author
Series
Jasper Hill romance volume 6
Publisher
T.K. Cornman
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"He had traveled to the past to save his future. Melody Goodwyn opened a package not knowing that it would change her life forever. Tyler Longworth dreamed of a world not under the sea. Magic had brought them together. Could magic tear them apart or could love be stronger than the binds of time?"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Sacred bone volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mirae, crown princess of her kingdom and fated to destroy an enemy of the gods, must embark on a dark journey to save her brother when her coronation ceremony goes terribly wrong.
Mirae was meant to save her queendom, but the ceremony before her coronation ends in terror and death. It unlocks a strange new power within her, and foretells the return of a monster even the gods fear. Amid the chaos, Mirae's beloved older brother is...