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eBooks for August August 2017
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Escape the heat...with a little time travel! All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com Questions? Call Cary at the library, 603-757-1838.
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11/22/63 by Stephen KingReceiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
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All our Wrong Todays by Elan MastaiLiving in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by an accident of fate that leads to a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life.
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Angel Time by Anne RiceA metaphysical tale by the best-selling author of the Christ the Lord series finds contract killer Toby O'Dare accepting a seraph's offer to leave his violent existence in order to save lives, an opportunity for which he is transported to thirteenth-century England and challenged to defend falsely accused Jewish citizens.
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Blackout by Connie WillisWhen a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control.
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The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeIn a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean GreerAfter the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. In these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well--though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband...but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well?
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve CogmanAn undercover librarian who works for an occult organization that collects books from different realities must determine what happened to a particularly dangerous book that has been stolen and becomes mired in a mystery infused with peril and conflicting clues.
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The Jane Austen Project
by Kathleen Flynn
Arriving in 1815 London, two time travelers from a technologically advanced future, a disaster-relief doctor and an actor-turned-scholar posing as wealthy West Indies planters, infiltrate Jane Austen’s inner circle to recover a suspected unpublished novel, but when a special friendship forms between them all, they must make a tough choice.
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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi TaylorMadeleine Maxwell, new recruit to St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, discovers that the society members travel through time to thwart time-traveling terrorists and investigate major historical events.
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Man in the Empty Suit by Sean FerrellWearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own 100th birthday celebration every year with other versions of himself and encounters in his 39th year his murdered 40-year-old body, a situation that compels him to prevent his own death.
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A Murder in Time by Julie McElwainWhile attempting to flee an assassin, Kendra Donovan, a rising star at the FBI, inadvertently travels back to 1815 and becomes involved in discovering the identity of a vicious serial killer, without the benefit of her 21st century tools.
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Outlander by Diana GabaldonHurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself in the midst of an world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution, and haunted by her feelings for a young soldier.
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The Scribe of Siena by Melodie WinawerTaking an unexpected trip to a Tuscan city to settle her brother's estate, a grieving neurosurgeon discovers the journals and paintings of a 14th-century artist before finding herself transported through time to the artist's world just prior to the outbreak of a devastating plague.
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Taft 2012 by Jason HellerAfter his mysterious disappearance on the day of Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, William Howard Taft's sudden arrival in Washington nearly one hundred years later marks an expected change in the course of the 2012 elections.
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Time Travel by James GleickThe acclaimed author of Chaos presents a thought-provoking exploration of time travel that details its subversive origins, evolution in literature and science, and enduring influence on our understandings of time itself.
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Timeline by Michael CrichtonIn an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it.
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Version Control by Dexter PalmerA woman deals with a strange and persistent sense of everything being slightly off, which may or may not be related to her scientist husband’s pet project, a “causality violation device” that might actually be working.
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Weapons of Choice : World War II With a Startling Twist by John BirminghamIn a first installment of a three-part alternate history epic, America's World War II fleet is decimated by a multi-national task force sent back in time from the year 2021, forcing Admiral Nimitz and Rear Admiral Spruance to make the potentially consequential decision to fight their own possible descendants.
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