Here are fifty time travel books published in November that have come to our attention, although there are probably many more. Happy reading!
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Jack and the Tree of Life
J.M. Cooke
11/01/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Historical Fantasy
Jack is curious when he sees a strange flash of light from inside the hollow heart of a massive tree. He goes to investigate – and is sent on a terrifying trip through time when the mystical powers of the ancient tree transport him back to Roman Britain!
Jack discovers he’s caught in the middle of a deadly struggle between two aliens with amazing powers and very different plans for the future of earth… And his courage is put to the test when disaster threatens to trap him in history. Can a fearsome warrior queen save him after he’s condemned to a life as a slave? Can his new friends Daryn and Anwen – and her pet psychic wolf – help him stay alive when death lurks around every corner?
What’s the sinister reason he’s trained as a boy gladiator? And most important of all, can he succeed in the quest for the magical gold neck ring that holds the key not just to his own destiny – but the very survival of mankind!
Mona Lisa’s Ghost (Lucy Nightingale Adventures, Book 2)
Nancy Kunhardt Lodge
11/01/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy/Mystery
During a class video about the Mona Lisa, Lucy Nightingale and her best friend, Sam Winter notice that the painting seems to be melting. Sam thinks it has been attacked by a molecule-destroying syndrome called Zoom Seizure.
On winter vacation, Lucy and her parents go to Paris where she can investigate. In the Mona Lisa Gallery of the Louvre Museum, Lucy bumps into Melissa Blackwood, a classmate from home. Melissa shocks Lucy telling her that she is the reincarnation of Mona Lisa and that she has come back to steal the painting. That night, the painting is mysteriously stolen and Lucy must find it before Zoom Seizure destroys it.
In an adventure that takes Lucy through the ghost-infested Catacombs of Paris, down underground rivers, and back to sixteenth-century France, she solves a mystery that would shock the world if it were ever made public. This coming-of-age series is sure to entertain and inspire young readers as Lucy learns to trust her intuition, see herself, others, and the world around her with greater clarity, and to believe in the magic that lies inside every one of us.
Poof
Craig H. Ohmer
11/01/2017, Science Fiction
In 2051 the commercial time travel industry is in full swing. Jen is a travel agent for the Time Travel Adventure Agency and she has an ambition: to earn a time travel guide’s license; not because she craves the adventure of traveling though time—she doesn’t—but because she wants to avenge a horrific incident from her past.
Under the tutelage of Geoff, a seasoned time travel guide, Jen’s training progresses bumpily until she accidentally discovers a secret with the potential to change everything. Now only she, Geoff, and her friend Estanzio can move quickly enough to stop a murderous genius from changing time to suit himself and offhandedly snuffing out every trace of her existence.
Sophia, The Tenth Muse
Katherine Maynard
11/01/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction/Historical Fantasy
Millions of light years away, two massive colliding black holes have created a gravity wave altering time lines on earth! The nine Muses must rely on a girl from California to go back in time to visit the great artists, scientists, and writers to help them remember key ideas crucial to their masterpieces.
Journey with Sophia who must be brave, smart, funny, and creative as she finds herself in seemingly impossible situations in a breathtaking adventure of a lifetime! If she fails her mission, all will be lost!
Present, Past & Future (Carrie Calacapers, Book 1)
Barbara L. Svoboda
11/04/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
The year is 1963. When a strange boy, from the future, leads Carrie to a magical book, she and her best friend, Bud, are transported precisely ninety-nine years and nine months back in time.
In the midst of the Civil War, our two heroes must quickly adapt to their new surroundings, as they struggle to find meaning in their plight. The children are taken in by famed human activist, Susan B. Anthony, who finds them cold, hungry and alone. They are expected to work hard and attend school, which is a 3-mile walk back and forth each day. There is no central heat. Fires must be lit and firewood must be hauled. Cooking is done over an open fire or in a wood-burning stove. There is no electricity. People read by candle light or by the light of a kerosene lamp. Outhouses and chamber pots are the worst!
In time, the magical book reveals that there will be three disasters. One by one, the children learn what they will be. As they follow the clues, they encounter the Underground Railroad, Union spies, Confederate spies, counterspies, a clan of Seneca Indians, a mysterious grave that glows, and much more. Will they be able to do what is required of them? Will they ever return home?
Mars Out of Time (Hitler Out of Time, Book 2)
David Avoura King
11/05/2017, Science Fiction/Adventure
A Nazi flag is seen on Mars by a NASA rover, so Norton Blake and Katrina Williams are sent there in the time machine to investigate.
Nazis there are planning to return to Earth.
And in Germany, Frederick Hitler plots to take over EU and conquer the world.
The stakes are the highest — can Norton and Katrina stop Nazis and their Martian allies from taking over the world? Or are we all doomed to be trampled on by the Nazi Beast?
How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe (And Put It Back Together Again)
David Teague
11/07/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction/Sports
Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he’s nervous when he has to fill in for his team’s injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar’s the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend.
But the universe is a precarious place, and you can’t just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn’t find a way to return the time he stole, the universe will unwind completely.
Oscar wants nothing more than to ask Lourdes for help, but what would a baseball star like her think of a guy whose fake home run actually destroyed the universe? But as he and Lourdes grow closer, Oscar understands that it isn’t always what you do that makes you special—but who you are. And that confidence just might be the key to fixing the universe.
Weather Menders
Debra Denker
11/07/2017, Science Fiction
What if Time Travel were real? What if Time Travelers from 300 years in the future told you that there was a chance that you could prevent catastrophic climate change, plagues, and wars by going back in time to key Pivot Points and ethically altering the outcome of rigged elections? What if failure would result in the destruction of the biosphere? Would you go?
In post-plague 2050 Britain, palm trees tower over the rice paddies of Stonehenge. Tara MacFarlane, a weary 96-year-old anthropologist originally from Taos, New Mexico, longs only to finish out her life in peaceful Buddhist meditation, and rejoin the great love of her later years, the humanitarian Scottish-Afghan doctor Xander, in a future incarnation. Suddenly one stifling autumn day Tara, her great-granddaughter Leona, and Leona’s boyfriend Janus are faced with a trio of Time Travelers from a future alternate Timeline where humanity and the eco-system survived and thrived.
The fate of Earth’s biosphere falls squarely on the shoulders of Tara, Leona, Janus, and Tara’s small gray cat, Georgie, who shows a surprising aptitude for telepathy. Time is short to reverse catastrophe that will bleed through into the alternate Timeline, and the Time Travelers must first determine the ideal Pivot Points by reading Time Code vibrations off the great standing stones of Avebury. Unexpectedly joined by the brave and wise cat Georgie, the six plunge into the Time Circle of Stonehenge on their mission. Where and when will they go, and will they succeed in restoring the Earth and humanity to balance?
Attack of the Tiny Tornadoes (The Secret List, Book 1)
Kelly Tully
11/08/2017, Chapter Book, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Ren Singerson is nine year’s old and has an embarrassing secret: he’s a scaredy-cat. He decides to write a list of everything he’s afraid of and hides it so no one can ever know. When a mysterious stranger gives him a bag with a magical gift inside, the list is no longer just writing on paper; it becomes real. Follow along with Ren and his twin-sister Evie as they go on a journey inside their 125-year-old house that will put Ren face-to-face with one of his biggest fears. Will he be able to put aside what scares him in the present to save the lives of three children who live in the past?
Mayor Sly and the Magic Bow Tie: A Kansas City Adventure
Aja James, Audrey Masoner
11/08/2017, Picture Book, Children, Historical Fantasy
What would you do if you could travel back in time in your favorite city? Kansas City is a gem in the Heart of America! And to understand why it’s such a great city, one should learn about the events and people behind its rich and remarkable history. So, what about a time travel adventure to explore Kansas City’s history as it happened? And who better to be our guide on this fascinating journey than Kansas City’s Mayor Sly James.
Presenting the wonderfully illustrated adventure, Mayor Sly and the Magic Bow Tie for your bookshelves! When it comes to all things Kansas City, there is no one better to take you on this adventure than Kansas City’s Mayor Sly James. Since he grew up in Kansas City and is now its mayor, Sly knows the city better than anyone. Mayor Sly will take the reader on an adventure back in time, through the magic of his trademark bow tie. You will visit some of his favorite locations and landmarks, with a first person preview of key events in Kansas City’s exciting history.
At each time-travel stop, you’ll learn about Kansas City’s past and meet some of the influential leaders who made a lasting impact on the city and the region. In addition to the tale of the Mayor’s time travels, the book includes a special section called All Things Kansas City. This special section revisits the book’s people and places in detail. The educational and fun-fact packed section also offers other interesting facts and stories from Kansas City history.
Mayor Sly and the Magic Bow Tie is a fun and surprising adventure for young readers. Intended to educate and inspire younger readers,it is also a good resource for older children. It’s the perfect book for children and parents to read together, share in the adventure, and then go explore the fascinating city of Kansas City.
Threshold of Eternity
John Brunner
11/08/2017, Science Fiction
The legendary John Brunner wrote the original Threshold of Eternity in 1957. Sixty years later Damien Broderick revisits the world Brunner created in that classic, forward-looking story and modernizes it to retell the exciting tale of time travelers, augmented intelligences and aliens.
When Korean war vet Ret. Corporal Lawrence “Red” Hawkins stumbles across a doctor from the future, he embarks on the most important journey of his life…with the future of humanity at stake. For he must travel thousands of years into the future to join in a galactic Time War where alien beings are poised to eradicate humanity in a conflict that never ends.
Spearheading the fight against the alien race (known only as the Enemy) is Artesha, a human so advanced, so damaged by a war she’s been fighting across endless time and space, that her physical form has been destroyed; she not only has been uploaded into the Center’s web where she runs humanity’s vast communication network–she has become it.
While Artesha tries to calculate the best way to victory in a playing field being continuously altered by time surges, it is all that she and her fleet coordinators, Paulo Magwareet and Burma Brahmasutra, can do to keep up with the fallout. For there is also another presence at play whom the humans know as the Being, and the Enemy label the Beast. It will take all of the time travelers, across many different eras of humanity, working together to uncover this mysterious entity’s goal, to make right a time torn asunder so they can forge a future for the human race.
The Mirror of Pharos
J.S. Landor
11/09/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
An action-packed, high concept, time-travelling adventure Full of animal magic and with an epic wolf character. Linked to a website with `Meet the Character’ profiles, book excerpt and background stories.
Jack Tideswell’s parents died in a tragic diving accident while exploring the underwater ruins of the Pharos lighthouse in Egypt. So Jack wants nothing to do with adventure.
Until, that is, a seagull delivers a strange disc – addressed to him in his own handwriting – and he’s catapulted briefly into another time. In the blink of an eye, all kinds of magic are let loose, and Jack finds himself aboard an ocean liner in the throes of a Titanic-like disaster.
It all links back to Pharos, the seventh wonder of the world. An ancient power needs to be restored. Can Jack learn to navigate time before it’s too late to save the one person who can help him unravel the secrets of the disc? Whether he likes it or not, there’s no more hiding away. And no looking back. Especially when Alpha is watching. A wolf who sees all there is to see…
Time Everlasting
Anthony Blair Henrion
11/09/2017, Romance / Religious
Ben Ryder believes he has found the woman of his dreams―his soulmate. If he loses her, his one chance for true love will be gone forever. Yet problems exist: she is already in a serious relationship with someone else, and her faith in God is on a different level than his own. Still, she is the one. He can feelit. Surely this is the relationship he has been praying for since he was 13, so God will ultimately unite them, right?
Fortunately for Ben, he has an extremely valuable tool to help him overcome these problems―the ability to travel back in time. Through much study, effort, and an extraordinary clock―created by a timeless soul named Alden―Ben can head back to an important age in his life when he believes his destiny is still up in the air. He can alter his future to what was originally intended. However, he soon discovers much more than he ever anticipated and his faith is tested as his plans to “win the girl” do not go accordingly.
Time Everlasting is for anyone who has ever wondered if the circumstances that make up one’s life are destiny, or merely random coincidences that ultimately mean nothing. Readers will ask themselves whether they would change their own―or someone else’s–past if they had the ability to travel back in time? Should they? Is there a force guiding our destiny as we live? And if so, what role is left for free will to play?
Think you already know how you would answer those questions? After reading Time Everlasting, you might think differently. Then again, this story may just reinforce what you already believe to be true.
Passage (The Emperor’s Men, Book 3)
Dirk van den Boom
11/10/2017, Historical Fantasy
The victory over the Goths has only brought temporary peace to the Roman Empire. Unrest and intrigues threaten to jeopardize the achievements made. The time travelers from the Saarbrücken not only help to reform Empire but also have to take first steps against the threat posed by the Huns.
An expedition is sent to Africa to spread new ideas in the Empire and begin the search for profitable commodities. But the opponents of the new order are not asleep and begin their preparations to restore the old ways – and this with the help of a man who was believed to be dead.
Dimensional
Koa Kathleen Safe
11/11/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Science Fiction
In 1921, World War I had just ended. But, for a young, 12 year old boy, a new battle was just beginning. Jed Safstrom makes a shocking discovery about the existence of another dimension. He learns that his doppelgänger, Joriah, is in a life-threatening situation; Joriah’s world is in jeopardy of being destroyed.
The only hope of saving Joriah’s world is with the help of the reclusive, unfriendly genius, Nikola Tesla. The boys have a critical decision to make: face the most unapproachable man Jed has ever known or risk the loss of everything that binds them together. Is there a link between their worlds? Only time will tell. The only problem is: time isn’t talking… It’s running out!
Shadow of the Savernake
Jayne Hackett
11/11/2017, Fantasy
Aborologist Florence Brock, steps into the hollow of an ancient tree, and awakes transported several hundred years into England’s past. Thrust into a land at war, where her skills count for nothing and her life even less, Florence has to forget everything she once knew and become something more.
Her fate is entwined with Nat Haslet, a savvy and resourceful soldier marooned beyond his own time, desperate to get back home. Nat has learned what it is to survive in this broken land, doing what he must to stay alive.
Their incursion in the time-line alerts both friend and foe. There are those who would help them – The Taxanes – a secretive order as ancient as the trees themselves, who protect the time-line from ripples that were never meant to be. And there are those who would seek to use Florence’s knowledge for a far darker purpose, twisting history to their own malevolent ends.
Now, Florence and Nat must forge an understanding if they are to navigate the treachery of England’s lost and brutal past, before time itself runs out.
The Patsy
Jay Fitzpatrick
11/13/2017, Science Fiction/Military
A satirical time travel political thriller that demonstrates to the world what happens when America is forced to destroy itself to survive.
President Tommy Burk has just been re-elected to his second term as POTUS and is looking to establish his legacy. The president, working with NASA plasma physicists and engineers at the Tesla Space Flight Center, have opened doorways into time. The president’s first test is to send time jumpers into the past to find the truth about a crime that has haunted America for fifty-three years. Did Lee Harvey Oswald take the shot that killed JFK or was he just a patsy?
The president’s intent is not to change history but to uncover the truth and change history books. But there are those within the government who do not want the truth to be revealed. The president, the most powerful person in the world, serves at the pleasure of his own Congress and mainstream media, both whom are determined to destroy him and his legacy.
The IC intelligent community uncovers a plot involving North Korea, ISIL, and Iran to launch an High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse missile over the East Coast of the United States. Before the president and his team can prevent the attack, they stumble on a diabolical conspiracy between the past, present, and future, between Congress and a high-ranking CIA director with a scary past, intent on overthrowing the government and eliminating President Burk.
The president sends his time travel jumpers into the future to witness the terrorist attack and its aftermath and bring back the means to prevent it. When Congress and the media attempt a coup d’état against President Burk, he is forced to declare martial law to save himself and the country. Democracy must die, be cleansed and be born again to survive.
The world sees President Burk as a dictator and North Korea sees weakness. Just a heartbeat away from World War III, President Burk summons the one man who can eliminate Kim Jong-un and prevent the coming storm: The Irish Jew, Israel Colburn, aka Icy. America has come head to head with the worst kinds of evil, the evil from within that has nothing to lose.
Hold on for a thrill ride through the river of time past the predictable, towards the unspeakable, and into the deep darkness of the abyss.
CrossTown
Loren W. Cooper
11/14/2017, Dark Fantasy
Zethus is a sorcerer―a self-described spiritual thug for hire. He makes his living in CrossTown, a place where the manyworld hypothesis of modern physics manifests itself, where possibilities and probabilities overlap. Caught up in a web of intrigue as he investigates the death of his master, Corvinus, and pursued by agents that want to erase all knowledge of Corvinus’s work, Zethus discovers that the key to his master’s murder lies in the last project he had pursued before his death.
The roots of this project lie deep in the past, at the origin of CrossTown’s fractured reality. Once he understands the stakes, Zethus must make the dangerous journey to the cradle of history. The price he must pay to find the answers he seeks will threaten everything he holds dear―including his own humanity.
The Discovery of Ramen (The Asian Hall of Fame, Book 1)
Phil Amara, Oliver Chin
11/14/2017, Picture Book, Children, Historical Fantasy
Enjoy the first English children’s book about ramen!
The new series Asian Hall of Fame shows how some cool things were created in Asia. In the debut adventure, the cute red panda named Dao guides the school kids Ethan and Emma back in time to discover how ramen was made!
As Dao spices up history, children learn fun facts, travel worldwide, and zoom back to the future. Get ready to explore more fantastic inventions in the Asian Hall of Fame!
Out of Remote Control (The DATA Set, Book 7)
Ada Hopper, Graham Ross
11/14/2017, Children, Science Fiction, Humor
In this seventh DATA Set adventure, the kids fast-forward and rewind time with an all-controlling TV remote!
Dr. Bunsen has built an all-controlling TV remote that the DATA Set use to fast-forward and rewind through real time. But things get out of remote control when they accidently change the channel! Now the kids must hop back and forth from train-robbing, Wild West cowboys to hungry underwater sharks to evil space aliens until they get back to their own reality show. Can the DATA Set find a way to reset time before the universe is broken forever?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The DATA Set chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.
Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time
Alex Milway
11/14/2017, Picure Book, Children, Fantasy
Time travel runs amok as Pigsticks and his loyal sidekick commandeer a faulty time machine, catching comical glimpses of history along the way.
Pigsticks aspires to be a brilliant inventor like his great-aunt Ada Lovepig, and the Tuptown Science Fair would be the perfect showcase for his skills — except his spaceship invention is a mess, and it’s already the day of the competition. He needs more time!
Luckily, his great-aunt Ada happens to have left behind an intact time machine, and fueled by the thought of future cakes not yet invented, Harold signs on for another Pigsticks scheme. When the lever breaks on the time machine, however, Pigsticks and Harold are catapulted back and forth through history — way back to the era of the dinopigs, ahead to the building of the Statue of Pigerty in New York, back to ancient Rome and its famous Julius Squealer — with no way to make the traveling stop, and with dangerous moments at every turn.
Can they buy themselves enough time — and a new lever for the machine — to make it home again in one piece? Piece of cake! (They hope.)
Skavenger’s Hunt
Mike Rich
11/14/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
After young Henry Babbitt tragically loses his father, he can’t help but remember the promises of the great adventures they would now never take. Then, on a snowy Christmas Eve, his grandfather reveals that he’s tracked down a series of mysterious century-old clues left by Hunter S. Skavenger, the eccentric magnate who launched the first and greatest scavenger hunt.
Hours later, on Christmas Day, Henry finds himself magically transported back to 1885, where he teams up with a ragtag band of youngsters in a quest to solve Skavenger’s elaborate puzzle. From New York to the Mississippi riverboats to the streets of old Paris, Henry and his new friends face off not only against brilliant competing teams, but also Skavenger’s own dark and elusive nemesis: Hiram Doubt.
Boundary (Field Series, Book 3)
Simon Winstanley
11/15/2017, Science Fiction
Archive had failed: Mankind’s extinction began.
A solitary intellect drew one conclusion: Adjust the past to ensure a future. The interventions were set: Across 64 years, events converged… It was now just a matter of Time.
As the convergence event draws closer, survival will depend on the evolution of mind, an encrypted message, and the Boundary.
Dark Side of the Museum
Randy Attwood
11/15/2017, Science Fiction/Occult
A pinch of paranormal. A dash of time travel. A deliciously outrageous look at the inner workings of an art museum.
Time Loop (The Rewind Conspiracy, Book 2)
Jill Cooper
11/15/2017, Science Fiction/Technothriller
A vindictive assassin. A time traveling teen stuck in an endless loop. The virtual reality world that keeps her trapped. Can Lara break free from her own mind? Lara Crane is stuck in her mind, in an indefinite stream of timelines where her life is perfect, just the way she wants it to be.
But it’s not real. It’s all made up to give those who want to use time travel for their own personal ambitions. She’s forced into a VR world so they can study her natural abilities and train her to be a deadly time travel assassin. To stop them, Lara needs to risk her own mind and soul to get out of a prison so perfect it completes the one dream Lara has always had.
Family.
**Previously published under the title Plugged. Freshly edited with 10,000 words of new content.**
Time Scape (The Rewind Conspiracy, Book 3)
Jill Cooper
11/15/2017, Science Fiction/Technothriller
A time cop from the future. A time traveling teen desperate to be free. The conspiracy that must be unraveled to stop a dystopian future. Lara may never be free. Life was easier in the cage. She thought she was out, ready for a normal life, but with the Feds’ endless questions and tests, Lara realizes she might never be free.
Lara is fitted with a time travel restraint, designed to not only stop her, but to save her life as her mind spirals out of control. No more second chances. No more time travel to revert everything back the way it was once before. As the danger increases, so does Lara’s headaches and nightmares. Her brain is desperate to be free, loose, and as the future begins to flash all around her, Lara is terrified the end might be near.
And maybe she doesn’t have a future at all.
*Previously published under the title Detached, this version is freshly edited and with new content and a new ending.*
After the explosion, Will didn’t expect to wake up again, especially in the past. Alive is good. Except he finds himself at the Alamo in 1836 in the body of another man doomed to die. If history repeats itself, Santa Anna is coming soon and the Alamo will fall, along with himself and 189 others.
In a race against time itself, Will uses his knowledge of the future to change the past. He will use every means necessary, even if it means abandoning the fort.
He is determined to forget the Alamo!
Izzy and the House of Secrets
Cindy Buckley
11/17/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
What if the house you grew up in had a big secret? And what if that secret took you to your new best friends – from different centuries?
Those are the questions that twelve-year-old Izzy Cooper faces one night when she’s home alone in an epic blizzard. As her present-day best friend Emma says, “It’s a strange way to make new friends, but that’s what we are now.”
Midnight in Massachusetts (The History Mystery Kids, Book 3)
Daniel Kenney
11/17/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
April, Henry, and Toad have finally found April and Toad’s father, Professor Abner Jerfferson. He’s hiding in a barn in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Revolutionary War is about to start! But April and Toad can’t even think about getting their father home to modern-day New York… yet.
Because right now, there’s a man named Paul Revere roaming about, and he needs to take a very important ride. Can the three kids find the missing pieces to the puzzle… or will they be stuck in history forever?
The History Mystery Kids 3: Midnight in Massachusetts is the third book in an exciting new time travel series meant for children who have already been reading chapter books and are ready for something more advanced. In each book, this funny adventuresome series transports children back in time to one of American’s fifty states.
The Mystery on Lost Lagoon (Nikki Landry Swamp Legends, Book 4)
Rita Monette
11/17/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Legend has it… if you go onto Lost Lagoon, you never return.
Nikki Landry and her friends are off on a quest to track down the prehistoric-looking bird that’s been flying around a nearby swamp island. However, their plans get sidetracked when they meet a stranger in their small town who seems to have some secrets to hide.
The sleuthing group soon learns of a legend about a hidden lagoon. Is it all connected? Before they can find out, they are kidnapped by a mysterious scientist on a mission of his own.
Is there any truth to the legend that says if you go onto Lost Lagoon, you will never return? Is the eerie whirlpool that sits waiting to suck you in really a passage to another world?
Join Nikki, her friends, and one neurotic parrot, as they discover the truth behind the Mystery on Lost Lagoon.
The Unlikely Intrusion of Adams Klein (The TimeFall Series, Book 1)
J.R. Greco
11/17/2017, Science Fiction
A Refugee in Time, an Ancient Secret, and a Plot to Rewrite History. Hidden away in our time, Adams Klein lives by one simple rule: don’t do anything that might change the course of history. But when he witnesses a tragedy unfolding before his eyes, he discovers he can’t stand by and do nothing.
Now history is being changed, and Adams and his new friends are being hunted by a villain who’ll stop at nothing to retain his iron grip on the dystopian world of the future, even if it means destroying the past.
In a Pickle
Beth Overmyer
11/19/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
As if angry nuns and bullies weren’t enough to handle, a time-traveling orphan gets caught up in a murder. Charlie Pickle can’t stay put in the year 1920, due to an annoying habit of time-traveling.
On a trip back to 1910, he meets a man with a secret. Murder makes the headlines that day, and Charlie’s new friend knows who the guilty party is. Now, not only does Charlie have bullies and murderers to contend with, he’s got some history to fix.
Saving Anny
Danny Davis
11/19/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Anny, the girl of Bernie’s dreams, is half a world away, but that’s not the problem. Much more troublesome is that Anny has been dead for 71 years.
She and her mother were arrested in a Nazi-directed Jewish roundup in Paris during the summer of 1942. They were packed into overcrowded cattle cars, deported to Auschwitz, and murdered in the gas chambers.
So now in 2013 it’s up to Bernie to rescue the girl he loves. Only Hitler, the whole Nazi army, and those 71 years stand in his way.
Dangerous Pages (Mattie McClagen Series, Book 1)
Sheila Britton
11/20/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
In 1852 England, 10-year old orphan, Mattie McClagen, secretly hopes that one day her parents will return for her, but those hopes are shattered when she is told she’s being adopted. She leaves the next day for her new life.
Later, following a confrontation with her adoptive mother, she turns to a book she was given before she left the orphanage, a McClagen heirloom, and she quickly discovers that it’s no ordinary book. Swept into the story, she finds herself, literally, on the streets of London. There, she faces danger and adventure and makes new friends, all, as it turns out, with connections to her birth parents.
She also learns of the dangerous and deadly Bookmaster, who has been after the McClagen book for years. He is aware that the book is being used currently and arrives in Canterbury under the guise of the Earl of Edinburgh and just in time for her adoptive mother’s annual summer gala.
Now it’s up to Mattie and her friends, Simon, Alex, Bear and Henry, to come up with a plan. Initially crippled by fear, Mattie must dig deep to find the courage to face the evil man and hopefully end his reign of terror once and for all. Only then can she secure the future of the literary world and protect her family’s very special book.
On the Precipice
Roger E. Arnold
11/20/2017, Science Fiction
The truck grill filled his left peripheral vision. His head snapped left, and then there was darkness. He felt himself free-falling …
A Mack truck appeared out of nowhere to her left. She barely had time to wonder what the heck a Mack was doing in her office. Then she was free-falling …
Two strangers are thrust into a land seemingly untouched by other humans. The land is beautiful, but perilous, filled with exotic, predatory animals. Unusual twists and turns entwine the characters as the story explores psychic phenomena, relationships, love, and adventure. Their journey becomes one of growth and love as they learn the rules of their mystifying situation and fight to survive.
Point of Origin (The Circle of Time, Book 1)
Emil Roberts
11/21/2017, Science Fiction
Mankind is winning its struggle to survive. After centuries of fighting the battles are finally on the enemy’s turf, not theirs. It is the enemy that is retreating and losing worlds, not Man.
Yet, success is a two-edged sword. Things have begun to go so well that many, including Mankind’s politicians, are questioning why the sacrifices must continue. If Humanity is truly winning, why do they need more ships, more warriors and more powerful weapons. Some are even calling for peace!
To counter this blasphemy, Humanity’s military does what it always has. It invents a more powerful weapon. Surely once they end the war, destroying their enemy completely, a grateful Mankind will return their pivotal role in guiding the future. Never mind it has never worked before, that each increase in Man’s weaponry has resulted in a corresponding response from their long time enemy, leading to billions more deaths.
Never mind that this weapon is different, working at a level of unprecedented power, disrupting the bonds of time itself. What could possibly go wrong?
Hindsight
Matt Keegan, Marc Godsiff, Paul Jones
11/22/2017, Science Fiction/Thriller
The year is 2065. The super-rich have a new way to vacation and collect rare items, Time Travel. One man can allow you to travel back in time to witness a major event, see an old friend or relative long gone or to attain a rare work of art. But you cannot interact, you cannot divert from the path and you must not change what takes place.
Thomson Carr is the creator of the Market, a man ‘out of time’ most of his life, and with the assistance of a specially selected team he can offer these services. Martin Townes is a man that simply wants to right a wrong. Nothing more, and he’ll do whatever it takes to achieve it. Even if it means shattering time.
Spanning hundreds of years in time, The Market will take us to places and lead us to mysteries we never had fully answered, offering a glimpse of what was, and always asking the question… What would you change…in hindsight?
Pangaea: Exiles
Jeff Brackett
11/22/2017, Science Fiction
Tried and convicted for his crimes, Sean Barrow is sent into temporal exile—banished to a time so far before recorded history that there is no chance that he, or any other criminal sent back, has any chance of altering history.
Now Sean must find a way to survive more than 200 million years in the past, in a world populated by monstrous creatures that would rend him limb from limb if they got the chance. And that’s just his fellow prisoners. The dinosaurs are almost as bad.
The Green Bough
Lily Penter
11/23/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Under achiever, book worm, good friend. Early one September evening, fifteen-year-old Hank goes running through the woods in his small New England town, fearing his best friend Jane is in trouble. When he stumbles down an embankment alongside the path, he finds far more than he was looking for…
Hank has been transported back in time to 1786, a time when tensions ran high in Massachusetts and rebellion, just three years after the end of American Revolution, seems inevitable. Now, Hank must push forward, attempting to survive in these dangerous ‘bygone’ times, not knowing if Jane is safe, not knowing if he’ll ever get back to his own time.
Or if he’ll still belong there if he does. When a person “loses the bubble”, he or she becomes disoriented and confused by what is going on around them.
Gravity’s Loop (The Peer Through Time Chronicles, Book 2)
David T. Pennington
11/25/2017, Science Fiction
Northern California, 1966. Dr. Sam Westmoreland never believed his mother’s tall tales of time travel. His concern for her mental health motivated him to study psychiatry. When Sam discovers his boss is conducting mind-control experiments on their patients, he’s taken prisoner. Alone in an isolation chamber, Sam believes he’s hallucinating when the ground opens and he is transported through time.
Californialand, 2109. Vittie Westmoreland, genetically enhanced since before birth, is learning to control the time portal her family stumbled upon long ago. As an experiment, she pulls her ancestor Sam into the present. Sam wants to get back to the asylum to ensure the safety of his patients, but he’s trapped in a world of shapeshifting buildings, AI governments, superhuman freaks, and a Golden state that has declared itself a nation.
He meets a younger, pregnant version of his mother, desperate to return to her own time. Long-kept family secrets are revealed as Sam and his mom race against Vittie for control over the portal, and potentially over time itself.
Shocked! (Time Traveler, Book 3)
Katrina Kahler
11/25/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Shocked continues the suspenseful story of Holly and her brother, Oliver as they travel through time in a desperate attempt to search for their father. Joined by Holly’s best friend, Kate, the trio find a lot more than they have bargained for.
Holly is also confronted by Jade, the bully from school who appears to be suspicious of the secret that Holly is desperate to keep hidden. Will this affect her friendship with Zac, the boy she has had a crush on for so long? And will the group be able to find their way out of their shocking ordeal?
Time Traveler is a series of books for girls who enjoy suspense, mystery and drama. It is a story about time travel and the consequences of messing with a concept so complex that only terrible things can eventuate.
Another wonderful book for girls of all ages!
Wormholes
David Hitchcock
11/25/2017, Screenplay, Science Fiction
No one believes ten-year-old Patricia Cromwell when she says that her parents were killed by a mysterious wormhole that disappeared as quickly as it formed. Likewise, twenty years later, no one believes thirty-year-old Patricia Cromwell, Ph.D. in radio astronomy, when she gives a presentation of her research into Long Delayed Echo (LDE) radio signals indicating alien transmissions.
Patricia quickly discovers that Earth coordinates hidden in the radio message point to a Zinc mine in Alaska. Determined to see this through, Patricia cashes out her life savings and with some “borrowed” lab equipment, heads for the frozen northland.
Sneaking into the Alaskan mining complex at night, Patricia discovers a hidden entrance leading to an underground alien ore processing center. Her insatiable curiosity leads her on an unimaginable trip through space and time to an Alien world on the brink of destruction.
Ultimately, the alien’s actions put the survival of both worlds in Patricia’s hands.
Hope Remains (Beyond Time, Book 2)
Rob Buck
11/27/2017, Science Fiction
When Cassie and Daniel Eagan find two undelivered letters in an abandoned shack deep in the woods, events are set in motion which radically change their lives and the lives of many others. One of the letters is an apology and proposal from Jacob to his estranged girlfriend, Sarah. Cassie takes up the cause of delivering this letter because she believes the couple still loves each other. Her mission to reunite the ex-lovers is a salve to her pain at the separation of her parents a year earlier.
Professor Peter Anderson, Sarah’s long-time friend and inventor or the EMSM (a device that can send Morse code signals back in time through a black hole), gets involved in the effort to deliver the letter to Sarah. His involvement brings a twist to the story no one could have anticipated.
The other undelivered letter, one steeped in evil, was also from Jacob. It uncovers an old plot by his ancestors to wipe out an entire family, the Hopes. Daniel takes up the cause of this letter, which includes a map where the Hopes were buried. He follows the map and this choice puts his life in danger.
Hope Remains is a story of enduring hope. It’s a story of the Hope family and its fight to survive, as they are brought to the brink of extinction. It’s a story of joyous reconciliation, of unswerving redemption through a steady hope. But it is also a story exploring the possibilities of changing an event by sending a message back in time.
Time Break (The Rewind Conspiracy, Book 4)
Jill Cooper
11/27/2017, Science Fiction/Technothriller
Time and danger clash.
Lara Crane thought she left time travel behind her, but when a remnant from her past arrives to settle a score long thought settled, Lara must find a way to reset the timeline before it unravels the fabric of her life.
With just a week until her fairytale wedding to successful businessman Donovan James, one of Lara’s oldest friends is murdered and thrusts her into a cat and mouse game with a dangerous time travel assassin. With her own powers long dormant, Lara struggles to cope with a danger she can no longer fight.
But the timeline begins to reset. People die who were intended to live and everything Lara knows changes and morphs all around her, she grapples with a life-altering decision that won’t just affect her. It’ll change everything.
Lara’s race against the clock is on, and it puts her against enemies and family alike. Find out if Lara can save the future without destroying herself in the process.
A techno-thriller that awaits you in the slip stream. Join the most turbulent ride through time today!
Doctor Who: Offical Annual 2018 (Doctor Who series)
The BBC
11/28/2017, Television Guide, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Join the Doctor for brand-new adventures on board the TARDIS in this year’s Doctor Who Annual. With secrets from the latest series, fact files on the latest terrifying monsters, exciting comic strips, stories, puzzles and activities, it’s the perfect read for any fan of the brilliant BBC show Doctor Who.
Puppy Poor Paw and the Dinosaurs (Puppy Poor Paw, Book 2)
Pete Davies
11/28/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
A crazy, funny adventure including a magic puppy, dinosaurs, time travel and a mad professor!
When the little puppy Sukie disappears, Puppy Poor Paw believes she has been kidnapped by the idiotic teenagers, Nunky and Jerv and chases after her in hot pursuit. However, a chance encounter with Professor Mad’s Time Machine sends both Puppy Poor Paw and Snuffy back to the time of the dinosaurs!
Meanwhile, Himmat the pharmacist’s evil side has returned and gets the better of him when he drops his wife Ananti’s new phone into the MeatScruncha Mark II.
Finally, after after following a series of clues and an interesting talk with a crow about hairstyles, Puppy Poor Paw, the twins, Nunky and Jerv all head for a showdown at the local pub while all the time, evil Dr Kunopegos hovers in the background.
Will Puppy Poor Paw save Sukie, fight off Nunky and Jerv, and destroy evil Dr Kunopegos or is time running out?
Weave A Circle Round
Kari Maaren
11/28/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
When the unexpected moves in next door, anything can happen in Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren’s debut in this YA-friendly fantasy adventure.
Freddy doesn’t want people to think she’s weird. Her family makes that difficult, though: her deaf stepbrother Roland’s a major geek, and her genius little sister Mel’s training to be the next Sherlock Holmes. All Freddy wants is to survive high school.
Then two extremely odd neighbors move in next door.
Cuerva Lachance and Josiah definitely aren’t normal. Neither is their house, which defies the laws of physics. Neither is Freddy’s situation, when she suddenly finds herself stuck thousands of years in the past with her very, very weird neighbors. And that’s only the beginning.
Survival (Race – Survival, Tribulation, and Ascencion Book 1)
Lee Gliddon
11/29/2017, Science Fiction
A government pawn learns a secret that challenges his character. Does he go against his superiors for the sake of the human race, or does he fall in line?
Challenged by his government, alien beings, and his new harsh reality, Derrick August is in a race of survival for mankind.
What Time Is It There? (The Bean Books, Book 3)
Christine Potter
11/29/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Romance
Just over a year ago, Bean and Zak headed for colleges two thousand miles apart, promising to write, but to see other people … until Bean fell for the wrong guy and Zak fell off the planet.
Now, Bean’s got two weeks’ worth of Zak’s year-old letters that she still can’t bear to open—and a broken heart. Her new best friend, a guy named Amp, wants her to read the letters and be done with it, but he may have his own reasons for that.
When Sam shows up at Bean’s school unexpectedly and Bean tumbles into the 19th century from the cellar of a ruined church, things start making a bizarre kind of sense. That is, if she can just fit all the pieces together again…
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Helping to promote time travel fiction and the people who make it happen is central to our mission at the Time Travel Nexus. Our team doesn’t have the personal bandwidth to review all of the time travel books that come out each month, but we try to do our part to let our readers know about those that we discover. Have we missed any October releases (maybe yours)? Know of a book release in the coming months that we should have on our radar? Send us an email at suggestions@timetravelnexus.com with suggestions and corrections. Also, be sure to take a look at two of our lists – Books and Short Stories for Adult Audiences and Books for Young Adult, Middle Grade and Children’s Audiences. We’re always happy to receive suggestions for those too!
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Craig, As always, thanks so much for putting together this list. I have ordered the Oscar Indigo book.
Quite a few people have heard me use these exact words before, but they bear repeating: One of our key missions at the Time Travel Nexus is to promote time travel projects and the people who make them happen. We love telling people about time travel books, and love it even more when it leads to someone trying out a new book.
And when Susan tries out your time travel book, it generally means we’ll get to learn more about it on her blog (https://timetraveltimestwo.com), which is geared toward YA and younger readers. Thank YOU Susan, for regularly contributing your time and energy to the time travel conversation as well.
Authors – you can help us spread the word about your books by keeping us informed as you get closer to publication. Send me a note at craig@timetravelnexus.com and I’ll make sure it gets mentioned in this column the month following its release. Also, tell your readers and friends about this column and TimeTravelNexus.com so that all of the books we talk about will reach more eyes and ears.