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A band of 18th Century Highlanders are each offered a second chance at life, but there are some catches. First, they must perform a noble deed. Second, most must do so in the 21st century. And finally, they only get two days to pull it off. If they succeed, they'll win the revenge for which they've waited nearly three hundred years-unless they choose door number two…
This volume contains The Gathering and the individual quests of the first four...
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Una historia de épocas, donde el amor transciende la lógica y hasta el tiempo.
"Es duro ser mujer. Y mucho más si no has nacido de alta alcurnia, destinada para un noble propósito. No obstante, el destino nunca fue algo que me importara especialmente".
Eugenia Cobalto es una mujer inteligente y prometedora, tanto como para comprender que nacer en la Málaga de mediados del siglo XIX concede tan pocas libertades como oportunidades, lo que condena...
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Lo más maravilloso e inquietante de la vida es que puede cambiar en tan solo un instante.
Blanca, una joven de Gijón sin familia y con una vida absolutamente convencional, sale a dar un paseo y sufre un extraño desvanecimiento. Lo que en principio parece algo inocente va a ser el punto de partida de un viaje extraordinario que la trasladará al siglo XIV. Allí tendrá que sobrevivir o, mejor dicho, empezar a vivir mientras conoce a personajes...
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Este libro es un homenaje a los grandes títulos de un género –el de los viajes en el tiem-po– que bajo el amparo de la ciencia ficción ha conmovido generaciones de espectado-res, ya sea en las salas de cine o ante la pantalla de un televisor.
Escrito de una manera cautivadora y amena, Doc Pastor nos recuerda, a través de es-tas páginas, que la cultura popular también está hecha con los mejores mimbres del buen entretenimiento.
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Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge, a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But, Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is the present. At the other end-New York City, 1963.
His journey back to the early 1960s seems to offer him the chance to start over in a simpler, safer world. But, he finds that the tunnel holds a danger...
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Imagine being born the son of a slave with the mind of a genius. That was Simmie Johnson in the years following the Civil War. After a perilous escape from lynch mobs in Mississippi, he manages to earn a PhD in physics at Tuskegee, and in his research discovers the secret of time travel. He develops a design for a time machine called a Chronocar, but the technology required to make it work does not yet exist.Fast forward 125 years. A young African...
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Seit Jahren umkreist ein unbekannter Koloss die Erde, bis schließlich ein Team zusammengestellt wird, das die Technologie dieses vermeintlichen Raumschiffs bergen soll. Doch niemand reißt sich um diese Aufgabe, so findet sich eine Crew, die nicht wirklich etwas Besseres zu tun hat. Zu ihr gehören die drogensüchtige Journalistin Dysti und der ausgemusterte Cyborg Xell.
Als der Trupp dem Geheimnis des Kolosses auf die Spur kommt, können sich Dysti...
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Following an inexplicable teenage experience, physician Victoria Becquerel stayed as far away as possible from her grandfather's estate. She put her head down and kept herself grounded in science... in the here and now. When circumstances beyond her control put her back there anyway, she comes face to face with the one thing that haunted her half her life.
Colonial planter Grant Laurent stayed to himself. Although one of the most eligible and...
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In the hollowed-out skull of the sixteenth President of the United States, a miserable time traveler builds a modest studio apartment and isolates himself from his own time, his own space, his own species, and his own past. But when gruesome reminders of his life prior to intracranial habitation begin appearing in his freshly constructed apartment, the time traveler is forced to either contend with his memories or, failing that, to run further away...
12) A Rebel In Time
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Can history be changed?
Can the South still win the War Between the States?
Colonel McCulloch thinks so...and his gold, his gun, and some very special blueprints stand behind him to help him prove it.
Sargeant Harmon is a black man who hopes not...and only his readiness, ingenuity, and wit stand behind him to help him stop it.
In the corridors of contemporary Washington and on the fields where Civil War battles have yet to be fought, these two...
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In Time After Time, H.G. Wells used his time machine to chase after Jack the Ripper who was on a killing spree in 1979 San Francisco. After H.G. met Amy Catherine Robbins, the love of his life, and banished the serial killer to the indefinite future, H.G. and Amy returned to 1893 London, believing they could live happily ever after.
But that wasn't the end of the story. In Jaclyn the Ripper, Amy returns to the present to tell her parents what happened...
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Chris would rather be anywhere but here, cleaning out his deceased, hateful grandparents' house with his relatives. Each room he visits takes him back in time to another traumatic memory. To escape this house and his grandparents and his past, he'll need to take time travel into his own hands.
Content warning for fictional depictions of verbal, physical, and sexual child abuse.
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Emma Becquerel needed a husband in order to escape the iron fist of her mother. But none of the eligible bachelors coming to her door stood a chance when compared to the man who haunted her dreams.
When modern CEO James Boucheron lost everything, he found his way to the one person he knew would help him get back on his feet. A friend of his father's who may or may not remember him.
James reminds Emma of a man she saw three years ago, but...
19) Twist of Fate
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Erika Becquerel finds herself in an impossible world. A Harvest Moon Ball in her beloved grandfather's home? As she struggles to make sense of claims that she fell into the year 1837, her grandfather's life hangs in the balance.
Resigned to a life of misery, colonial man Charles Becquerel faces a life already mapped out for him. But when Erika suddenly and inexplicably appears in his life, he senses an unexpected change.
Though from two different...
20) Metanoia
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Dentro de unos años, en una lúgubre cárcel subterránea, el funcionario de prisiones Asur conocerá a la interna Domnita, una mujer excepcional envuelta en el misterio. A través de ella, conocerá el devenir de los tiempos y se verá envuelto en una vorágine en la que deberá luchar para salvar su vida.
En un mundo en el que la civilización se desmorona y la era glacial avanza por culpa de quienes manipulan el tiempo, solo el amor les permitirá...
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