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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 the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....

Although they seem like scene-stealing sci-fi stories, they are based in actual ideas and thought-out theories. How close are we to flying through space or going back in time? Could we really change history or affect the future? Would there be downsides? The ethics of changing things should be explored, and every possible thread would need to be tied up. Could we even time travel responsibly, or would things just unravel? If only we could look into...

"Setting aside grief from the fallout of the second World War and putting her energy into curating an upcoming show critical to her career as the Keeper of the Metalworks at London's renowned Victoria and Albert Museum, Jeannine Maycroft stumbles upon a unique collection of jewel-framed miniature eye portraits-a brilliant romantic device and clandestine love token of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One piece among the assembly intrigues her...

The right guy, the right place, the wrong time. 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...

When a brilliant boy discovers he can manipulate time using an enchanted family heirloom, he and his siblings team up to go back to the eve of their parents' separation in hopes of changing the outcome. As their schemes become more elaborate, the siblings will learn about family bonds and what they can and can't control. In this magical comedy, Fisher and Kinnear are the parents in search of reconciliation, and Sweda, Rudolph and Joyce are the siblings...

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...

"Earth, 2180. Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. ... She's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces...

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.

"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—...

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...