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A Page in Your Diary by Keith A. Pearson
12 ratingsTen insane days. One miraculous opportunity to re-write the past."If you lived through the 1980s and love time travel novels, you'll struggle to find a more addictive read than Pearson's latest gem." - Joanna JamesIn May 1987 Jackie Benton received a heartbreaking phone call from her boyfriend, Sean Hardy, bringing an end to their five-year relationship...Categorized as:
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The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters by Shawn Inmon
8 ratingsCharles Waters has thirty days to live. Those days pass in a blur and he dies a quiet, unnoticed death. He opens his eyes back in the doctor's office as he is told, "I'm sorry to say, but you have thirty days to live." Thus begins The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters, who has to live the same thirty days over and over while he finds out what it is to be alive...Categorized as:
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Never Say Goodbye by Kim Sakwa
8 ratingsShe's a famous songwriter who can't remember a year of her life. He's the British spy with all the answers.While walking through the tunnels of her family's estate in the British Isles, successful singer-songwriter Amanda Marceau travels through time and into the arms of Alexander Montgomery, the Royal Navy Admiral who captures her heart... -
Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak
8 ratingsBlake Fortier and Rachel Kaplan are the perfect couple. Driven and successful in their own pursuits, they're fifteen years into a marriage that will seemingly last forever. When a tragic accident tears them apart, Blake is left with nothing but the harsh light of hindsight and the bitterness of regret... -
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Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken
8 ratingsSingle mom, Beth Martin is doing her best raising her daughter Jules on her own after moving back to the small town she grew up in. She's been welcomed back by old friends and a decent job at the Springs resort. Things are going well, but something—or someone—is missing. When sexy rock star, Slade Black comes to town, it just might be what Beth is looking for... -
The Bridge to Lucy Dunne by Exurb1a
10 ratingsA mad astronaut ejects a starship's sleeping crew into deep space. A playwright conjures her perfect lover into existence. Three time travellers appear to a motorbike mechanic, drink a little tea, and ruin his life. Mankind discovers the secrets of travelling to the stars, and promptly forgets them again.Exurb1a has collected 18 of his best received short stories into a book...Categorized as:
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If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch
10 ratingsA New York Times bestseller!From the author of The Sky Blues and Blaine for the Win comes a speculative young adult romance about a teen stuck in a time loop that’s endlessly monotonous until he meets the boy of his dreams.For some reason, Clark has woken up and relived the same monotonous Monday 309 times. Until Day 310 turns out to be…different... -
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
10 ratingsBy the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true?At twenty-six, Lucy Young is tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, tired of going on disastrous dates, and definitely tired of living in a damp flat share with flatmates who never buy toilet roll...Categorized as:
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A McMillan Christmas by Bethany Claire
6 ratingsMorna’s magic returns in this new Holiday story sure to warm your heart and make you believe in the miracle of love. A Time For Second Chances When the worst snowstorm of the century hits the Scottish Highlands just in time for the Christmas holiday, Harper knows she must seek shelter from the storm... -
The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki by Shawn Inmon
6 ratingsJack Rybicki is a high school senior who loves his girl, likes to party, and doesn't have much of a plan for his life. Then fate plucks him from obscurity and Jack, now renamed Jack Samuels by his management team, becomes one of the most famous people on the planet. A teenager who likes to indulge himself with limitless resources is not the best recipe for a successful life... -
Daisy on the Outer Line by Ross Sayers
6 ratingsLife, Death & Time Travel on the Glasgow Subway.After selfish student Daisy makes a scene at her stepdad’s funeral, she drunkenly falls asleep on the Glasgow subway and wakes to find she has travelled back in time. And to make matters worse, she's in someone else's body.To make amends for her behaviour, she must save a life—but she doesn’t know who, how, or where to begin...Categorized as:
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Kilty Mind by Amy Vansant
6 ratingsTime-tossed Highlander Brochan doesn't get a moment to recover from his latest wounds before he and Catriona discover one of Parasol Picture's biggest stars has been accused of murder. It will be hard for the actor to beat the charge...the body was found under his house... -
The Soul Always Remembers by Georgia Cates
6 ratingsThe Soul Always Remembers is a soul-stirring multi-genre tale of a southern romance that will captivate fans of The Notebook, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Outlander in this atypical love story about the transcending love between soul mates.My name is Caroline Beaumont. I appear to have it all—beauty, a successful career, friends and family who adore me.But I have a secret...Categorized as:
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Bewitched by Kelly Moran
6 ratingsDestiny waits for no one...Kaida Galloway has dreamed about him all her life. Her mysterious stranger, a man who’s not real, yet knows everything about her—including the weird anomalies she’s dealt with since a teenager like her ability to manipulate water. When a letter arrives from a birth mother she’s never met, she jumps at the chance to get answers...Categorized as:
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A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash
6 ratingsRaised by a narcissistic mother, the Rowan children’s magical talents were twisted to fit her needs. When Rachel dies, her children must confront the past to have a future.Rachel Rowan could sniff out secrets and her antique shop, Rosemary Thyme, was a front to torment the residents of Grimsby. When she dies, her children are faced with the deadly fallout of blackmail, murder, and magic...Categorized as:
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Twisted by Evangeline Anderson
8 ratingsNikki Davis is having a terrible time. Her three sons are in trouble in school and her husband is divorcing her while a nasty coworker steals her best commissions at work. Is it any wonder she's thinking of offing herself? But when she steps into the foaming surf of Clearwater Beach, she feels something hard under her foot... -
Death’s Door by April White
8 ratingsA master of the macabre and an ageless crusader cross paths in the shadows of time. “Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows.” ~ Edgar Allan PoeThe first time Alexandra “Ren” Reynolds meets Edgar Allan Poe is the night he walks into her underground bar — over 170 years after his mysterious death...Categorized as:
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Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis
10 ratingsOri’s holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave’s latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving—grandmother of Dave’s fourth wife—and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth’s in the 1950s... -
The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders
10 ratingsNovelette, Free online fiction.From newyorker.com“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” deals with a family in a not-too-distant future (or perhaps an alternate present or past?) that is struggling to keep up with the Joneses—which, in this society, means leasing some unusual garden ornaments... -
Throwback by Maurene Goo
10 ratingsBack to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one...Categorized as:
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Time Shelter: A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov
12 ratings“A trickster at heart, and often very funny” (Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker), award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his labyrinth-like, Kafkaesque tales of contemporary Europe...Categorized as:
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The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon
14 ratingsAll Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Thomas Weaver, haunted by a teenage tragedy, lived a wasted life. He closed his eyes for what he believed was the last time in 2016, but opened them again in his teenage bedroom and body in 1976. Now a middle-aged man in his teenage body, he sets out to fix everything he did wrong in his first life...Categorized as:
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The Cowboy Encounter by Kristy Tate
6 ratingsAn alternate cover edition of ASIN B00UM6B7TK can be found here.By these waters we do sleepClothed in night so dark and deepLady Moon who doth guide our dreams,Shroud us in your silvery beams.Take us to a distant time When love and hearts doth combine... -
Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
6 ratingsWhat happens when the one thing you’ve been praying for turns out to be the one thing that will destroy you and everything you love? After two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and her son, John, have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss... -
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The Cassandra Complex by Holly Smale
6 ratingsCassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit.She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order. Until now.She's just been dumped.She's just been fired.Her local cafe has run out of banana muffins... -
Ruling Destiny by Alyson Noel
6 ratingsThe second I stepped through the doors of Gray Wolf Academy, my world disintegrated. Here, time is malleable. It can be manipulated, shifted. Changed. And for those of us who Trip—or travel through time—the possibilities are infinite and perilous.Now my life is caught in the secrets of everyone around me. Arthur, the eccentric billionaire who rules this school... -
The Butterfly Effect by James Swallow
8 ratingsStruggling with the psychological effects of his repressed childhood memories, a young man devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body. As he attempts to mend the broken lives of those closest to him, he finds that every trip into the past brings chaotic results into the present, leading him to travel back again and again and causing irreparable damage...Categorized as:
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The Best Christmas Surprise by Brenda Novak
8 ratingsYour Christmas wish come true! Enjoy this touching classic by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak, originally published under the title Just Like the Ones We Used to Know in the 2006 anthology Once Upon a Christmas. Angela Forrester’s foster child Kayla has just one wish for Christmas…to meet her real dad... -
Waking in Time by Angie Stanton
10 ratingsStill mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother and shaken by her mysterious, dying request to “find the baby,” Abbi has just arrived at UW Madison for her freshman year. But on her second day, she wakes up to a different world: 1983. That is just the first stop on Abbi’s journey backward through time. Will is a charming college freshman from 1927 who travels forward through time... -
Outlaw Bride by Maggie Shayne
10 ratingsTIME AFTER TIME...Esmeralda Montoya would never understand the strange magic that had saved her from certain death in the Old West. All she knew was that she had been swept through time, into a world unlike any she had ever imagined--and into the arms of a man unlike any she had ever known... -
The After Wife by Cass Hunter
12 ratings'Grab a box of tissues because this beautiful story will make you cry' Amazon reviewer, 5 starsWhen Rachel and Aidan fell in love, they thought it was forever.She was a brilliant, high-flying scientist. He was her loving and supportive husband.Now she's gone, and Aidan must carry on and raise their daughter alone... -
Perfect Timing by Catherine Anderson
14 ratingsIn Catherine Anderson’s newest installment in the Harrigan family series, an unlikely couple is brought together under circumstances that defy all reason.... Tragedy has struck the Harrigans—Quincy’s beloved sister-in-law Loni is gravely ill and nearing death. Quincy, like his brothers, feels helpless to save her, and the clock is ticking... -
A Misunderstanding by Ilona Andrews
15 ratingsSome days just suck, especially when your Grandma and your cousins take matters into their own hands, and then you have to take these matters away from them, because the family can’t afford to be sued and your House is not made of money. Timeline: A deleted scene from Sapphire Flames, told through Arabella's perspective... -
For All Time by Jude Deveraux
18 ratingsReturn to charming Nantucket with Jude Deveraux, the New York Times bestselling author of unforgettable romance. For All Time is the second novel in her fabulous Nantucket Brides trilogy, with more from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from Jude's classic novels... -
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If I Could Turn Back Time by Nicola Doherty
12 ratingsIf you love Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane's YOU HAD ME AT HELLO, you'll love this book... What if you found The One, then lost him again? Or not so much lost him as became the neurotic, needy girlfriend from hell. The girl who tried to make him choose between her and his job, and got seriously paranoid about his relationship with his female best friend.. -
Crossing in Time by D.L. Orton, Noah Michael Levine
10 ratingsThe past isn't over, it's an opening. The future isn't hidden, it's a trap. If she ever wants to see him again, she'll have to take the risk...Categorized as:
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Tagan's Child by Amelia Ford
10 ratingsThe day after the first anniversary of her sister’s death, twenty six year old Sophie McAllister is paid an unexpected visit from a handsome stranger who delivers some disturbing news about her eight year old nephew and ward... -
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville
8 ratingsIn this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the "The Machine of Understanding Other People," the story of a Chicago man who is bequeathed a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner worlds of those around him...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller by Joanne Harris
6 ratingsStruggling to get back to UNIT HQ, his body being destroyed by radiation, the Third Doctor arrives in the most perfect English village, where everyone is happy. But is he really on Earth, or somewhere far more strange? As his body weakens, the Doctor and the Queen of the village begin to unravel the truth...Categorized as:
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RenFaire Druids: Dunskey Castle Prequels by Jane Stain
6 ratingsDuring a trip to a Renaissance faire, Emily thinks gorgeous swordsman Dall plays his role a little too well -- and when she gets a job as a performer, she's sure of it. When the festival is over, can their love endure, or will time tear them apart? ~BookbubDrama teacher Emily Shaw has never met a man quite like Dall MacGregor. And there's good reason for that: he's from 1540...Categorized as:
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Miranda's Viking by Maggie Shayne
6 ratingsReeducating RolfA Viking warrior was sitting in scientist Miranda O'Shea's living room, learning English and marveling over light bulbs. Yesterday Rolf Magnusson had been frozen solid, his body perfectly preserved in a glacial cave, where she'd discovered him... -
Will You Be There? by Guillaume Musso
20 ratingsThere is a question that everybody, at least once in a lifetime, must have come up with: if you had the opportunity to, what would you change in your life? If you had to do it again, what remorse, what regret would you choose to obliterate?Elliott has been professionally very successful...Categorized as:
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Return to Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
18 ratingsWith her shining gift for "exquisite and enchanting" (BookPage) storytelling, Jude Deveraux sweeps readers away in a breathtaking follow-up to her beloved New York Times bestseller, The Summerhouse where a marvelous new adventure awaits.Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors... -
The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
18 ratingsIf you could change the past, would you? How far would you go to save the person you love?Luna is about to do everything she can to save her mother's life.Even if it means sacrificing her own... -
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Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone
16 ratingsCalling Anna and Bennett’s romance long distance is an understatement: she’s from 1995 Chicago and he’s a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds...Categorized as:
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Losing Me Finding You by Natalie Ward
14 ratingsThe 29th of February, the day I was born.When I wake up on this day, I’m in a different city, with a different life and no memory of the lives I had before this one. Today is the tenth time this has happened to me. The tenth time I’ve had to figure out where the hell I am. The tenth time I’ve had to try and work out who the hell I am. This is the tenth alteration of the person I am... -
A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis
10 ratingsThis new, expanded edition of Miracle and Other Christmas Stories features twelve brilliantly reimagined holiday tales, five of which are collected here for the first time. Christmas comes but once a year--which is too bad, because the stories in this dazzling collection are fun to read anytime...Categorized as:
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Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology by Danielle Binks, Amie Kaufman
10 ratingsThe YA event of the year. Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all... -
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
8 ratingsIn her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations...Categorized as:
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Neon Green by Margaret Wappler
8 ratingsIt's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered alternative '90s. Everything's pretty much as you remember it, except for the aliens...Categorized as:
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