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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
2) The Lilies
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a mysterious time loop on the day after a member of the Lilies Society disappears, four Archwell Academy students discover they each hold a clue that will unlock the truth about the Lilies, but they're each harboring a secret they would do anything to hide.
Author
Series
Rip through time volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Series
World's worst time machine volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Legend says that an eccentric millionaire hid a treasure somewhere inside the legendary 'White City' of Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Elsa Rutledge believes that treasure may hold the key to finding her long-lost grandfather. Relying on the World's Worst Time Machine once again, Elsa and Liam are on the hunt! They're not the only ones. To stay one step ahead of all the other time travelers, the kids must upgrade their technology, forge new friendships,...
5) MAO: 14
Author
Series
Mao (Takahashi) volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nanoka continues to make progress controlling her sword, Akanemaru, but when Mao's life is on the line, will it be enough? Then, our friends come between a pair of jealous sisters. Don't they know it's dangerous to interfere with a domestic dispute? Plus, an ambiguous hug followed by an unofficial date...at the public baths?!"--
6) MAO: 13
Author
Series
Mao (Takahashi) volume 13
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of our friends confesses to setting the Goko clan treasure house on fire centuries ago. But why did they do it? Then, Mao has a revelation about Byoki the cat demon, the gang takes on a corrupt polluting industrialist, and Mei, the guardian of the Garden of Longevity, reveals new facets to her personality. Plus, a mysterious water wielder appears--whose side is he on?"--
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