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"The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly...
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Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Over the past few decades physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. Nonlocality is the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't come to terms with it, calling it 'spooky action at a distance'. This strange occurrance, which has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions and even the workings of gravity,...
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2018.
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"Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzlephysicists and philosophers alike."--
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Time quintet volume 1
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Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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195 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mary and Eddie are meant for each other-- but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon, a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future...
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Beyonders volume 1
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
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454 p. ; 22 cm.
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Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
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Dragon heart legacy volume 1
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In the realm of Talamh, a teenage warrior named Keegan emerges from a lake holding a sword-representing both power and the terrifying responsibility to protect the Fey. In another realm known as Philadelphia, a young woman has just discovered she possesses a treasure of her own... When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she's an anxious twentysomething mired in student debt and working a job she hates....
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
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71 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
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Beyonders volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
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483 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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After Jason succeeds in finding a way back to Lyrian, he's immediately in more danger than ever. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have made their own progress--as well as discovered new enemies. As the group ultimately rejoins, they strive to convince their most needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph against the emperor.
12) The long cosmos
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Long Earth volume 5
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Artemis Fowl series volume 6
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Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet--his younger self.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 5
Pub. Date
c2006
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Once again, Artemis will have to pair up with his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him before the time spell dissolves and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.
15) The long war
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Long Earth volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
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421 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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426 pages ; 22 cm
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As eighteen-year-old Marguerite struggles to get to the heart of the corrupt company that almost killed her father, she tries to save the boy she loves, whose soul is scattered in various dimensions.
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Interdependency novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm.
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"The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it--unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the...
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Firebird trilogy (Claudia Gray) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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360 pages ; 22 cm
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"When eighteen-year-old Marguerite Caine's father is killed, she must leap into different dimensions and versions of herself to catch her father's killer and avenge his murder"--
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Artemis Fowl series volume 8
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Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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328 p. ; 21 cm.
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"Teenage genius Artemis Fowl and his arch rival Opal battle to the last in this eighth and final book in series"--
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