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Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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Genius by Stephen Hawking volume 0
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Professor Stephen Hawking reveals our true potential in a radical new science show which challenges a selection of volunteers and the viewer to think like the greatest geniuses of the past and answer some of humanity's toughest and most enduring questions.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Resourceful Chitty rescues the Tootings from prehistoric times and takes them on an unexpected tour of Prohibition-era New York, where Chitty wants to compete in the famous Prix d'Esmerelda's Birthday Cake race to the lost city of El Dorado and back again, with misadventures and surprise stowaways along the way."--Dust jacket.
4) Hard time
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Time police novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The Time Police do not have problems. They have challenges. Idiots who want to change history have always proved 'challenging'. But now temporal tourism is on the rise - highly illegal but highly lucrative. If you're prepared to take the risk. To face down this threat the Time Police will despatch their toughest undercover agents. Which is fine until the unthinkable happens. Replacements are needed fast and who better than three young officers who...
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and All Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving father-daughter story, and a playful twist on the idea of time travel. What if you could take a vacation to your past? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice s life isn t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn t exactly the one she expected. She s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she...
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Last magician volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Hunted by an ancient evil, Esta and Harte have raced through time and across a continent to track down the artifacts needed to bind the mystical Book's devastating power, and now, with only one artifact left, they must find a way to end the threat they have created or the very heart of magic will die.
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Outlander novels volume 5
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English
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Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon's new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her. In the ten years since her extraordinary debut novel, Outlander, was published, beloved author Diana Gabaldon has entertained scores of readers with her heart-stirring stories and remarkable characters. The four volumes of her bestselling saga, featuring eighteenth-century...
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Outlander novels volume 2
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English
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For twenty years, Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time... and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of...
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2020.
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English
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"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no...
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The Book of Time trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Sam Faulkner journeys through time to ancient China, Renaissance Rome, and into the future to rescue his friend Alicia and prevent the death of this mother.
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Dara O'Briain's Science Club volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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In this episode of Dara O'Briain's Science Club, the team explores the human brain, with segments on optical illusions, human-computer interactions, mindreading via brain scans, and collective behavior. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Dara O'Briain's Science Club combines lively studio discussions featuring some of the world's most eminent scientists, with exciting experiments, studio demonstrations and film reports of cutting-edge science stories....
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 13
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.
16) Ruby Red
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2012.
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust."--
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[2015], c2014
Language
English
Description
What if we could travel not just through space, but through time itself? If you could travel through time, would you change the past or the future? What if you found it couldn't be changed? What price does the time traveler - and the people they are closest to - pay? This is a journey from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine through ideas like The Grandfather Paradox and The Butterfly Effect to the professional time traveler that is the ever popular Doctor...
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The Zack files volume 18
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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After falling through his computer screen, Zack travels back in time to a school in 999 A.D. where the students believe the world will end in the new millennium.
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[2012], c2008
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English
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Time travel has been the subject of many great science fiction novels and movies, but this video segment considers whether or not it is a real possibility. The segment takes a look at what the experts, like Craig Savage from the Department of Physics at the ANU and Stephen Hawkins, have said on the issue. Do the laws of physics actually permit time travel? And more fundamentally, what is time?
20) Blackout
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Oxford time travel novels volume 4
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English
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When 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...
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