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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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A haunted painter's past life visions are not the creative inspiration they seemed. They're a harbinger of her ancient revenge vow, and her FBI husband won't find the serial killer until she fulfills it. But it may already be too late.
"Past and present lives collide in Vera Bell's hauntingly beautiful debut. A sexy, sensuous tale, where connections are never truly lost and love is the most powerful force of all."
- Julie McElwain, national award-winning...
4) Typhoon Time
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"If Tom Clancy wrote science fiction, this is the novel he'd have written. If Larry Niven wrote military fiction, he's be proud to call this book his." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of Quantum Night
The Hunt for Red October meets Timeline!
Martin Richter, a pacifist history professor specializing in pre-WWII Germany, has two passions in his life-history . . . and opposing nuclear weapons.
Eric Sobol, a terminally ill...
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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...
7) 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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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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In "Part 1: Ancient Astronauts - A New Moon," delve into the enigmatic realm where science fiction and ancient alien theory collide, as acclaimed author Jonathan David weaves a mesmerizing tale that challenges our understanding of the universe and the origins of life.
Unravel the secrets hidden in the celestial tapestry and embark on a thrilling journey across time and space. As humanity grapples with age-old questions about its place in the cosmos,...
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Der Journalist Lennard hat durch seinen fordernden Chef einen zwielichtigen Ruf. Seine unpopulären Artikel sorgen für Negativschlagzeilen und stoßen nicht selten auf wenig Gegenliebe. Auch seine Ehe mit Caroline leidet darunter, weil er seinen Beruf oft über seine Familie stellt.
Als Lennard jedoch den Auftrag erhält, ein Interview mit dem fast 100-jährigen Hans Finkbeiner zu führen, um dessen Ehrenstatus zu hinterfragen, ändert sich alles....
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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...
12) 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...
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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...
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Welcome to 1985... Cyril StoneOne minute it's 1985, the next I'm waking up at the top of the Empire State Building thirty-seven years in the future. Everything I worked toward is gone. I'm lost in a time that's not mine. Kate and Arthur are the only ones who can help me. But when I find their daughter bent over the hood of a '74 Dodge Swinger, I'm a goner. Jessica MaxwellMy father always told me this car would kill me, but I never expected it to be...
15) Time Is Lost
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Time Is Lost - The Guild of Travelers is off again on their adventures through time. Don sets up a visit to The Lighthouse of Alexandria, Mars and the beginning of Humans are revisited.Lon decides to introduce his friend to the Time Machine. When they get lost and cant be located it's all hands on deck and boots on the ground to try and retrieve them. New trips and revisiting old friends make for plenty of adventures. Danger is just around the corner...
16) New Amazonia
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In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved...
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Gideon Pierce returned to Liberty to stop Lloyd Mitchell reaching the apparition in the sky, but in a town controlled by Lloyd and his seemingly invincible guards his chances appear remote. His best hope is to free Lloyd's prisoner, a woman who is defying Lloyd and who might know of a way to defeat him, but when Gideon's rescue attempt goes awry, his hopes are dashed. He needs a new plan, and he reckons the answer might just lie with the mysterious...
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"When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. "Time Machine" is a dystopian story of time traveller who witnesses...
19) Das blutige Buch
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Luther ist auf der Straße aufgewachsen. Da lernt man selbst mitten im 21. Jahrhundert schnell, sich seiner Haut zu wehren und nicht wählerisch in der Wahl seiner Mittel zu sein. Er hat nur eine Schwäche: Das Sammeln alter Bücher.
Beim Stöbern in einer fast vergessenen Buchhandlung stößt er auf ein kleines, unscheinbares Buch, das sofort sein Interesse weckt, denn auf dem Buchdeckel sind Spuren von frischem Blut.
In dem Buch wird die Geschichte...
20) Shadow Jumper
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Sucked into a time warp, Sinead, Kailum, Yolanda and Elicia, four cousins living very different lives around the world, are thrown together and embark on an incredible adventure, uncovering a mysterious future where children do not exist. The cousins become fugitives as they elude hybrid beasts, angry mobs and a tyrant ruler and learn that they must work together if they are ever to find their way back home.
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