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Cascade by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMom touched my underdress—a gown made six hundred years before—and her eyes widened as she rubbed the raw silk between thumb and forefinger. She turned and touched Lia’s gown. “Where did you get these clothes?” Gabi knows she’s left her heart in the fourteenth century and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives... -
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Torrent by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in the third and final book in the River of Time series. Gabi and Lia Betarrini have learned to control their time travel, and they return from medieval Italy to save their father from his tragic death in modern times... -
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![orange: The Complete Collection 1 by Ichigo Takano, Jason DeAngelis]()
orange: The Complete Collection 1 by Ichigo Takano, Jason DeAngelis
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsEveryone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter informs her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him...Categorized as:
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![Recursion by Blake Crouch]()
Recursion by Blake Crouch
A thriller about time, identity, and memory...Reality is broken. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen...Categorized as:
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![Expiation - The Whisper of Death by Elisa S. Amore, Leah D. Janeczko]()
Expiation - The Whisper of Death by Elisa S. Amore, Leah D. Janeczko
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne great sacrifice will end it all—but can true love ever be forgotten? Prepare yourself for a journey with no return. How can you look forward to the future when you know your days are numbered? Gemma has asked herself that every night since making her fateful pact with Sophìa, queen of the underworld...Categorized as:
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![Toxic Part Two by Addison Moore]()
Toxic Part Two by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSkyla Messenger’s days are drawing to an end. Seventeen-year old Skyla has been taken by the Counts, is under the strict punishment of her mother in a war gifted in her honor, and is the only hope of the people captive in the tunnels. Everything that can go wrong has. For Skyla, life is panning out to be more of a curse than a blessing. Relationships change. The war draws to an end...Categorized as:
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![Risked by Margaret Peterson Haddix]()
Risked by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJonah thought that after his last adventure in 1903, he and his sister Katherine would have a break from time travel for a while. For the first time, he’s willing to look into his own identity in the past, and he thinks this is his chance... -
![Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey]()
Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground...Categorized as:
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![Toxic Part One by Addison Moore]()
Toxic Part One by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSkyla Messenger’s days are numbered. With an angelic Faction War riding on her shoulders, and her mother’s newfound need to cozy with the enemy, Skyla also has to deal with the fact someone close to her has openly deceived her. Skyla learns that sometimes in life, and in love, things aren’t always what they seem...Categorized as:
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Children of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNovember 1288. Bereft of a king or rightful heir, England hurtles towards civil war for the second time in a generation. When David, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Lili, travel to London to attend the wedding of William de Bohun and Princess Joan, they have no intention of involving themselves in local politics...Categorized as:
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Expel by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsSeventeen year-old Skyla Messenger discovers love is stronger than death and deception. In an effort to rectify those horrible truths Skyla’s life changes forever. Love and heartbreak become obstacles that overshadow the faction war and in the end may cost her everything...Categorized as:
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![Guardians of Time by Sarah Woodbury]()
Guardians of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsChristmas 1292. Time travel has meant many things to Meg, David, and Anna over the years. But regardless of the circumstances, it has always been about saving lives: their own, their family members’, their friends’. This time, it’s a combination of all three. Guardians of Time is the ninth book in the After Cilmeri series... -
![A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes]()
A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsHow would you live if you knew the day you'd die?Three hundred sixty-four days, seven hours, and sixteen—no, fifteen—seconds left to live. Like everyone else on the east side of the Wall, Parvin Blackwater has a clock counting down the days until her death. At only seventeen, she has only one year left...Categorized as:
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![Heartblaze: Secret Soul by Shay Roberts]()
Heartblaze: Secret Soul by Shay Roberts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn your past life you were a legendary figure in a passionate relationship with a vampire. Now your enemies from that past have found you, determined to make you pay a terrible price for a life you lived more than 200 years ago! EMMA RUE is an eager college freshman. For reasons she cannot understand, she attacks her professor in front of her stunned classmates... -
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![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsOutside the secret military base where Em is imprisoned, war rages. The world has been coming apart at the seams ever since the U.S. government cracked the code of time travel and built a machine to weaponize time. The only chance Em and the body in the cell next door have to change this terrible present is to escape to the past and stop the man who created the machine...Categorized as:
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Time's Divide by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear...Categorized as:
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![The Warning by Kristy Acevedo]()
The Warning by Kristy Acevedo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe end is coming. There's no escape...or is there? The first in a compelling YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life-their world-is on the brink of destruction.Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder was enough to deal with before then mysterious holographic doors suddenly appeared throughout the world, heralding the end of the earth...Categorized as:
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Consider by Kristy Acevedo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs if Alexandra Lucas’ anxiety disorder isn’t enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear from the sky, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet they say is on a collision course with earth...Categorized as:
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Slow Dance in Purgatory by Amy Harmon
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLibrarian's Note: This is an alternate/new cover for ASIN B007UC40D4 Orphaned from the age of ten, 17-year-old Maggie finally finds a permanent home with her elderly aunt in a small Texas town. Working part-time at the local high school, she becomes enmeshed in a fifty-year-old unsolved mystery where nothing is as it seems...Categorized as:
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Unhappenings by Edward Aubry
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Nigel Walden is fourteen, the UNHAPPENINGS begin. His first girlfriend disappears the day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice. Several years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him...Categorized as:
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![Crossing in Time by D. L. Orton, D.S. Taylor]()
Crossing in Time by D. L. Orton, D.S. Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?When offered a one-way trip to the past, Isabel sacrifices everything for a chance to change the rapidly deteriorating present--and see her murdered lover one last time...Categorized as:
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![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsWhat would you change? Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart... -
![An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole]()
An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the forty years since the Vagantur landed on Faloiv, the planet has existed in a tenuous peace between the humans who live in the enclosed community of N’Terra and the Faloii, the indigenous population. But after uncovering the shadowy secrets of the Council’s newly elected leader and helping a kidnapped Faloii man escape, sixteen-year-old Octavia knows that conflict is looming... -
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Twist by Karen Akins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBree Bennis finally has it all - a non-comatose mother, an über-hot (albeit anachronistic) boyfriend named Finn, and a newfound mission to protect the timeline from those who would skew it for their own gain. But when she leans over one day to kiss said boyfriend, her lips meet those of her arch-nemesis, Wyck, instead. The timeline has been altered, and Bree is caught in the crosshairs...Categorized as:
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![Prom Night in Purgatory by Amy Harmon]()
Prom Night in Purgatory by Amy Harmon
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhere does before end and after begin? By some miracle and against all odds, Johnny and Maggie are given a second chance. But Johnny is freed from Purgatory only to find himself in a totally different time and place, in a world full of strangers...Categorized as:
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Clockwiser by Elle Strauss
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe last year has been smooth sailing for Casey Donovan. She and her boyfriend Nate are doing better than ever, and things at home are good, too. Everything’s been so calm, she hasn’t even “tripped” back to the nineteenth century. Then the unthinkable happens and she accidentally takes her rebellious brother Tim back in time...Categorized as:
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![Awoken by Sarah Noffke]()
Awoken by Sarah Noffke
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAround the world humans are hallucinating after sleepless nights. In a sterile, underground institute the forecasters keep reporting the same events. And in the backwoods of Texas, a sixteen-year-old girl is about to be caught up in a fierce, ethereal battle. Meet Roya Stark...Categorized as:
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Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEveryone has a past, but for most it isn’t as long ago as Seth Sangre. His past is literally thousands of years ago. Seth’s life led him to the present seeking something that might help him save his country from destruction. He has been in the present for over three years now and just found exactly what he has been looking for... -
![False Future by Dan Krokos]()
False Future by Dan Krokos
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrue Earth has returned during a massive snowstorm in Manhattan-and this time they have an army. Rhys, Noble, Sophia, and Peter know they don't stand a chance against the enemy without Miranda. And once they revive her, she's horrified to find her world in flames. The enemy occupation is brutal, but the director promises to release her hold on the city if Mr...Categorized as:
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![Every Never After by Lesley Livingston]()
Every Never After by Lesley Livingston
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's happening again! Despite their vow to each other at the end of Once Every Never , best friends Clare and Allie once more find themselves in trouble—and travelling in time... -
![Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin, Tyler Jolley]()
Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin, Tyler Jolley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to the war. The Tesla Institute is a premier academy that trains young time travelers called Rifters. Created by Nicola Tesla, the Institute seeks special individuals who can help preserve the time stream against those who try to alter it. The Hollows is a rogue band of Rifters who tear through time with little care for the consequences...Categorized as:
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![Return Once More by Trisha Leigh, Casey Turner]()
Return Once More by Trisha Leigh, Casey Turner
If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you?Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love... -
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The Ka by Mary Deal
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCalifornia archaeology student Chione has vivid dreams about the discovery of an opulent tomb. After the founder of the Institute of Archaeology learns that Chione's dreams might be connected to events in Egypt, he accepts an offer to examine a mysterious site in Valley of the Queens...Categorized as:
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![Erasing Time by Sierra St. James, C.J. Hill]()
Erasing Time by Sierra St. James, C.J. Hill
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsWhen twins Sheridan and Taylor wake up 400 years in the future, they find a changed world: domed cities, no animals, and a language that's so different, it barely sounds like English. And the worst news: They can't go back home. The twenty-fifth-century government transported the girls to their city hoping to find a famous scientist to help perfect a devastating new weapon...Categorized as:
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![Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins]()
Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSeattle, 1913 // Dorothy is trapped. Forced into an engagement to a wealthy man just so she and her mother can live comfortably for the rest of their days, she’ll do anything to escape. Including sneaking away from her wedding and bolting into the woods to disappear.New Seattle, 2077 // Ash is on a mission...Categorized as:
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Imhotep by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStumbling in the dark of an unfinished tomb beneath the sands of Saqqara, Tim Hope discovers a doorway that opens into ancient Egypt, a time before the Sphinx, before the great pyramids of Giza, and long before the loss of his beloved Addy. Hoping to forget his past, Tim immerses himself in the ancient world and soon learns that two other Americans have preceded him through the time portal...Categorized as:
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![Malice by Pintip Dunn]()
Malice by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat I know: a boy in my school will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus. What I don’t know: who he is. In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I’ll have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I’m starting to realize no one is telling the truth...Categorized as:
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![The Edge of Forever by Melissa E. Hurst]()
The Edge of Forever by Melissa E. Hurst
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 2013, sixteen-year-old Alora is having blackouts. Each time she wakes up in a different place with no idea how she got there. The one thing she is certain of? Someone is following her.In 2146, seventeen-year-old Bridger is one of a small number of people born with the ability to travel to the past. While on a routine school time trip, he sees the last person he expected—his dead father...Categorized as:
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![Drawn by Marie Lamba]()
Drawn by Marie Lamba
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s the artist that finds him in her drawings. He’s the medieval ghost that conquers her heart. And their time is running out. Michelle De Freccio moves to England seeking a normal life, but someone starts appearing in her sketches. Then he grabs her at the castle, his pale green eyes full of longing... -
![A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole]()
A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOlivia A. Cole blends a richly imagined world, fantastical creatures, family secrets, and a simmering romance in her cinematic sci-fi/fantasy YA debut, perfect for fans of Amie Kaufman and Pierce Brown.Octavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv...Categorized as:
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![Invictus by Ryan Graudin]()
Invictus by Ryan Graudin
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsTime flies when you're plundering history.Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature...Categorized as:
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![CLOCKWISE: A Young Adult Time Travel Romance by Elle Strauss]()
CLOCKWISE: A Young Adult Time Travel Romance by Elle Strauss
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here.Casey Donovan has issues: hair, height and uncontrollable trips to the 19th century! And now this --she's accidentally taken Nate Mackenzie, the cutest boy in the school, back in time. Protocol pressures her to tell their 1860 hosts that he is her brother, and when Casey finds she has a handsome, wealthy (and unwanted) suitor, something changes in Nate...Categorized as:
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![Undying by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner]()
Undying by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTrapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed...Categorized as:
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![Dearest Josephine by Caroline George]()
Dearest Josephine by Caroline George
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsCaroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story that prompts us to reimagine what it means to be present with the people we love.2020: Chocolate and Earl Grey tea can’t fix Josie De Clare’s horrible year. She mourned the death of her father and suffered a teen-life crisis, which delayed her university plans...Categorized as:
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![The Whitecoat’s Daughter by Olivia A. Cole]()
The Whitecoat’s Daughter by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe Whitecoat’s Daughter is a science fiction/fantasy work set on a planet called Faloiv, where a small community lives despite the fact that the place was never intended to support human life...Categorized as:
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![The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler]()
The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen Jo steps onto Tau Ceti E, it should be the happiest moment of her life. After all, she’s been training for as long as she can remember to be a cadet pilot in the International Space Agency. She’s dreamed of the day she and her family would leave Earth forever and begin life as pioneers on a new planet...Categorized as:
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![The Messenger by Pamela DuMond]()
The Messenger by Pamela DuMond
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"All the excitement of OUTLANDER if it was a YA series." This novel is optioned for film/TV. Sixteen-year-old Madeline's meant to fall in love with Samuel in every lifetime. But she meets him for the first time when she accidentally time travels into the past—hundreds of years before she's even born. Their relationship is forbidden—Samuel's half Native, Madeline's white...Categorized as:
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![So Close to You by Rachel Carter]()
So Close to You by Rachel Carter
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLydia Bentley has heard stories about the Montauk Project all her life: stories about the strange things that took place at the abandoned military base near her home and people who've disappeared over the years. Stories about people like her own great-grandfather... -
![Skip by Perrin Briar]()
Skip by Perrin Briar
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Mysterious Clock Controls Time. What Happens When It Breaks? The clock tower is the center of the town of Time. It counts down the hours, minutes and seconds of every passing day. But unbeknownst to the local inhabitants, it is at the center of a great deal more than that. It is the center of the universe and controls time itself...Categorized as:
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![Timekeeper by Alexandra Monir]()
Timekeeper by Alexandra Monir
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhen Philip Walker appears as a new student in Michele Windsor's high school class, she is floored. He is the love she thought she lost forever when they said goodbye during her time travels last century. Overjoyed that they can resume the relationship they had a lifetime ago, Michele eagerly approaches him and discovers the unthinkable: he doesn't remember her...
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