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Parallel Lives November 2021
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Come with me : a novel
by Helen Schulman
A part-time employee of a tech company owned by her friend's 19-year-old son acts as his guinea pig to test an algorithm that allows people to access their "multiverses" and see their alternative life choices and paths. 40,000 first printing.
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Heads you win
by Jeffrey Archer
A stand-alone epic by the best-selling author of Kane and Abel follows a 1968 Russian teen who escapes an oppressive life in Leningrad and is forced to choose between parallel lives in London and New York. Simultaneous
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She wouldn't change a thing
by Sarah Adlakha
When 39-year-old psychiatrist, wife and mother Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, she desperately tries to get back to her home and life, and wonders if she can change time and still keep what it’s given her. 150,000 first printing.
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1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
The internationally best-selling and award-winning author of such works as What I Talk About When I Talk About Running presents a psychologically charged tale that draws on Orwellian themes. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.
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My real children
by Jo Walton
Remembering two different pasts that reflect contrasting historical events and relationships with different people, an elderly Patricia Cowan wonders about her identity while gazing at a moon that might house benign or malicious technologies. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Among Others. 25,000 first printing.
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Oona out of order
by Margarita Montimore
A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms. Tour.
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The two lives of Lydia Bird : a novel
by Josie Silver
A woman grieving the loss of her fiancé finds herself swapping back and forth between parallel lives, including one in which her first love has survived and another involving a new person who is asking her to move on.
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Here and now and then by Mike ChenStranded for 18 years since the 1990s, time-traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally arrive, he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind in the future.
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The other me
by Sarah Zachrich Jeng
When she accidentally opens a door to an alternate reality where she never pursued her dreams, free-spirited artist Kelly, now married to a man she barely knows, tries to put the pieces together, shifting reality even more, which could cost her everything.
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Maybe in another life : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Feeling transient at twenty-nine, Hannah goes out with friends one night and runs into an old boyfriend, but when she is given the choice between leaving the bar and staying, two concurrent storylines follow the outcomes of both decisions
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Ex Marks the Spot by Gregory L. NorrisTen years ago on an August night, Steve Ranley crashed his ride into a tree, taking a big part of Oliver Canfield's soul with him. In the decade since, Oliver and Bradley MacIntyre have built a successful life together, but their relationship has always been haunted by Steve's death. During that lost summer, Oliver and Steve shared love in secret, and as the dark anniversary looms, Oliver unravels. Seeing ghosts, he is drawn to the malevolent oak that still bears the scars from Steve's impact. On August 30, at the exact instant Steve died, Oliver is thrust back counterclockwise in time to that other summer, before Steve's accident. Using his second chance, Oliver vows to alter the events leading to the tragedy.
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor
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Half life : a novel
by Jillian Cantor
A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices. 10,000 first printing.
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4 3 2 1
by Paul Auster
A single child born in 1947 experiences four parallel lifetimes poignantly marked by shifting family fortunes, athletic pursuits, friendships, sex, intellectual passions and the same intriguing woman. By the best-selling author of Winter Journal.
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Meet me in another life : a novel
by Catriona Silvey
A man and a woman continually cross paths in different realities in a speculative love story that explores what truly defines us and how our choices can change everything. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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