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Author
Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 5
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this fifth installment in the series, "readers meet a young boy trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce ('The Son'); a new mother whose husband was killed before he could meet and name their infant daughter ('The Nameless Child'); a woman who eloped without her father's blessing and now needs his forgiveness ('The Father'); and two best friends driven apart by painful romantic secrets ('The Valentine'). The focus on regret and grief...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of "The Lottery" and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chilling in the best possible way. Welcome to Curdle Creek, a place just dying to make you feel at home. Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of Curdle Creek, an all-Black town in rural America stuck in the past and governed by a tradition of ominous rituals. Osira is considered blessed, but...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An unknown force keeps throwing Oliver through time, from the Wild West to the 1920s to a haunted beach house, all while a mysterious stranger pursues him, seeking out Oliver's abilities in a bid to gain power over time itself.
4) Timecop
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2004, time travel is not only a reality, it's an opportunity-- for criminals of the future to alter the past for profit and power. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this sci-fi action-thriller as embittered timecop Max Walker-- toughest member of the elite "Time Enforcement Commission" which was created to enforce one simple rule: no one goes back. But Walker may have met his match in the person of Senator McComb, a corrupt ruthless politician...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older sisters and longing for a life of adventure. The premonitions and fainting spells she has endured since childhood are getting worse, and Nena worries she’ll end up like the scary old curandera down the street. Nena prays for help, and when the mysterious Sister Benedicta arrives late one night, Nena follows her across the borders of space and time. In...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the school science fair coming up, Qianna is suffering from inventor's block, so in an attempt to defeat her rival Maddy she takes the Quantum Train back in time to get some ideas from George Washington Carver.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Brandon built a time machine! (It wasn’t that hard.) Now, he can visit super cool moments in world history (as well as family history). But what Brandon really wants to do with his time machine is FIX HIS HOMEWORK. (He might have done poorly because he was busy building his time machine.) Will future Brandon be the solution to all of past Brandon’s problems? Or is not wanting to do homework a timeless dilemma?" --publisher's website
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A young gentlewoman, Margaret de Beauchamp, finds her fate twisted into the lives of the up-timers when she meets the Americans imprisoned in the Tower of London. In exchange for her help, Rita Simpson and Harry Lefferts give her a huge sum of money to keep her family's manor and its woolen trade from falling into the hands of the crown and its unscrupulous minister, Lord Cork. But Margaret's troubles are not at an end. Her family's fortunes are...
Author
Series
Graves Glen stories volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bowen Penhallow has always been a loner, studying dark and ancient magic on a mountaintop in Wales. He prefers it that way. But when his friend Colin--who happens to be a ghost--asks him to attend a Yuletide wedding at a grand estate deep in the Welsh countryside, Bowen reluctantly agrees. Tamsyn Bligh is not a witch, but she makes her living off of them. As a procurer and seller of magical items, Tamsyn's business is not always above board, but...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sylvia Doe keeps running away from foster homes to return to the mountains of North Carolina, until a 100-year flood, a strange boy, and a cave that is a portal to other times and places, bring her back where she truly belongs.
12) Cookie time
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Kat and Ari love cookie time, their special tradition with Grandpa and his dog, Biscuit. It’s always fun and oh, so delicious! But waiting for the cookies to be ready is so hard. What better way to skip to the good part than a time machine? The two plan to jump a little into the future, to when the cookies are out of the oven, but they overshoot and go way too far ahead! And when Kat and Ari try to return, they still can’t get the timing right....
13) Westfallen
Author
Series
Westfallen volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices and timelines, twelve-year-old Henry and his two friends unknowingly alter the outcome of World War II when they communicate over radio with three kids from 1944 and must now work together to change it back.
16) Red River: 25
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Yuri, a modern-day teenager, travels back in time to the ancient Hittite Empire, Prince Kail, a young sorcerer, has the power to send her back during the season of the North Star, but the evil Queen Nakia's plans keep getting in the way.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Harley crashes the Kaleidoscope Collectors Convention, but when Batgirl and Supergirl show up to challenge her, the three tussle over a kaleidoscope that is actually a time travel device, transporting them all into in the Middle Ages.
18) Red river: 21
Author
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Unrest is stirring in Egypt, where Yuri is being prepared to become the bride of General Ramses. When she sees the downtrodden state of the people, she takes action that results in an unexpected reunion with four of her friends from Kali's court.
19) Crow country
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But she soon starts making connections - connections with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the every-present crows. When Sadie is tumbled back in time to view a terrible crime, she is pulled into a strange mystery. Can Sadie, Walter and Lachie figure out a way to right old wrongs, or will they...
20) The Way
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's 2048, and the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus. Will Collins, the last surviving resident of a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, receives an urgent and mysterious request: to deliver a potential cure to a scientist on the West Coast. So Will sets out into an unknown and perilous world, haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved, in a rusted-out pickup pulled by two mules. He doesn't have much time--temperatures are rising to lethal...