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From Far Away, Vol. 01 by Kyoko Hikawa, Trina Robbins
On her way home from school one day, Noriko is unexpectedly plunged into a strange and extraordinary fantasy world. Her troubles compound exponentially when she is rescued and befriended by a handsome Young man by the name of Izark. He may be brave and courageous, but inside Izark lurks the darkest evil imaginable... -
![Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman]()
Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsNew York Times–bestselling series: The War of the Lance has ended, and the darkness has passed. Or has it? Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, and surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, archmage Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness—to bring it under his control.Two people alone can stop him...Categorized as:
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![Throwback by Maurene Goo]()
Throwback by Maurene Goo
Back 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's Divide by Rysa Walker]()
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 Ugly Stepsister by Aya Ling]()
The Ugly Stepsister by Aya Ling
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAn alternative cover edition of this ASIN can be found here.When Kat accidentally rips apart an old picture book, she's magically transported into the world of Cinderella--as Katriona, one of the ugly stepsisters! Life turns upside down now that she’s a highborn lady and must learn how to survive the social season, including how to get through the door in a huge metal hoop skirt... -
![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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![Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker]()
Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel 2083. London. Wake Romeo.It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind...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...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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![A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole]()
A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 27 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 · 32 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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![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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![Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson]()
Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by.Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant.He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night, when he passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected...in 1969, where he connects with a magnetic boy named Michael...Categorized as:
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![The Time Traveler's Guide to Modern Romance by Madeline J. Reynolds]()
The Time Traveler's Guide to Modern Romance by Madeline J. Reynolds
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElias Caldwell needs more than his life in nineteenth-century England has to offer. He'd rather go on an adventure than spend one more minute at some stuffy party. When his grandfather gives him a pocket watch he claims can transport him to any place and time, Elias doesn't believe it...until he's whisked away to twenty-first-century America.Tyler Forrester just wants to fall hopelessly in love...Categorized as:
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![The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle]()
The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsThe greatest mystery of all time...the history of human origins...will be revealed.In Antarctica, researchers discover a mysterious structure, buried in ice.In a lab in Jakarta, an autism researcher identifies a revolutionary treatment that could change everything.But these two incredible discoveries aren't what they seem...Categorized as:
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![Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds]()
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving.When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard...Categorized as:
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![The Next Together by Lauren James]()
The Next Together by Lauren James
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHow many times can you lose the person you love? Katherine and Matthew are destined to be born again and again, century after century. Each time, their presence changes history for the better, and each time, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be tragically separated...Categorized as:
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![The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen]()
The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has grown from an awkward teenager into a powerful monarch and a visionary leader.And as she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, she has transformed her realm...Categorized as:
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![The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness]()
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception...Categorized as:
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Changing Nature by April White
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImmortal Descendants are disappearing and seventeen-year-old Clocker Saira Elian is next on the list… Saira and Archer’s romantic London summer is shattered by the bold kidnappings of Immortal Descendants. It’s clear Mongers want control of the Descendant Families, and when they target a powerful Shifter, there’s no doubt they will eliminate anyone who stands in their way... -
![Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier]()
Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier
Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She’s only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her... -
![Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell]()
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time...Categorized as:
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![Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness]()
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
IT BEGAN WITH A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library,she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew...Categorized as:
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![Never a Hero by Vanessa Len]()
Never a Hero by Vanessa Len
This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and even more danger await. Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened... -
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![The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen]()
The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Kelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her youth, she has quickly asserted herself as a fair, just and powerful ruler.However, power is a double-edged sword, and small actions can have grave consequences... -
![Time's Edge by Rysa Walker]()
Time's Edge by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTo stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people...Categorized as:
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![The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell]()
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsStop the Magician. Steal the book. Save the future.In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives... -
![A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray]()
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray. Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own...Categorized as:
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![Twisted Fates by Danielle Rollins]()
Twisted Fates by Danielle Rollins
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe thrilling follow-up to Danielle Rollins’ epic time travel romance Stolen Time, which Kirkus called “pure fun with an explosive twist.”As far as anyone in New Seattle knows, Dorothy has disappeared. The stowaway from 1913, the girl that Ash maybe—possibly—could’ve she’s gone. And in her place is bloodthirsty Quinn Fox, silver-haired and vicious...Categorized as:
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![Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini]()
Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe exhilaratingly seductive new series from the author of the bestselling Starcrossed seriesLove burns. Worlds collide. Magic reigns.This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying many of the experiences that other teenagers take for granted... which is why she is determined to enjoy her first (and perhaps only) high-school party...Categorized as:
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