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Before the coffee gets cold volume 4
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The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series. The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks, and there are rules to follow. In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational Before...
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Anna Bentley gets more than she bargains for when she inherits a haunted Victorian home on the Northern California coast. The ghost lures her back in time to the year 1880, and right into his lusty arms. She solves the mystery of her adoption and falls in love with the rugged man whose very essence holds her in the past. Sea Captain James Duncan is set on avenging his father's exile from Scotland, until Anna appears quite suddenly onboard his lumber...
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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...
5) 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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This is a fictional, short western story. The story begins in the current day of 2017 while at a cowboy competition shoot, dressed in an era custom representing 1860 to 1899 with two replica revolvers, a rifle, and shotgun representing the era. Then due to an event occurring during a competition shoot, the story's main character is flipped back in time to 1880.
Once in the past, now our main character must adapt to the era without injecting 2017...
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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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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...
11) 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...
12) Alternitech
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"Alternitech" is a company that sends prospectors into alternate but similar timelines where tiny differences yield significant changes: a world where the Beatles never broke up, or where Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't gunned down after the Kennedy assassination, where an accidental medical breakthrough offers the cure to a certain disease, where a struggling author really did write the great American novel, or where a freak accident reveals the existence...
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Jimmy and Steve are college freshmen in Nashville, Tennessee. Neither can afford to spend spring break in Florida with their friends. They looked for a less expensive way to spend a few days and found an ad in the newspaper for canoeing on the Red River in the next county north, about thirty miles away. This trip turns into an unbelievable adventure which changes them both forever. Do you believe in time travel? They did not. Do you believe in spirits?...
14) Freehand 2173
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In "Freehand 2173," reporter Dorothy Holiday is on assignment in a cold, rainy, dystopian Los Angeles with only a few weeks of breathable air left on Earth. The climate crisis of the 21st century has spiraled out of control, millions have died, millions more have been displaced, and everything is falling apart, including Dorothy. She drinks too much and not enough, and every day she wakes up grasping for just one reason to keep going. The end is near,...
15) Homecoming
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Hayley Newman, a college student graduating from journalism school, finds herself searching for answers--answers to questions that go back to a missing girl from high school have haunted her. She was the last one to see the girl before her disappearance. With the help of a college classmate and her lifelong friends from home, she discovers things she never dreamed could happen. From ghost stories, to a trip to a cemetery, to old police reports and...
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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....
17) Beltaine Fire
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Barely married, Judith Ryan, young American college student, is whisked away to Ireland by her husband, Professor Peter Ryan. It isn't long before Judith realizes that she really does not know Peter, and what she does know sends her running in terror into the storm-ravaged night. She finds herself at the side of the druid well with nowhere else to run, and Peter is closing in on her. Leaning far out over the side of the ancient well, she prays to...
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Join Quinn, her husband Aldric, and the people of Norsewood in an impoverished, war-torn, medieval-like world of magic and monsters as they continue to save lives, feed the populace delectable food, and build a kingdom in the process! Having saved the refugees from the mining dungeon and inviting them into Norsewood, Quinn and her hunky warrior husband Aldric now concentrate on the rebuilding of their community and land. Naturally, with Quinn, no...
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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...
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