Here are fifty-two time travel books published in September that have come to our attention, although there are probably many more. Happy reading!
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The Girl with the Red Balloon (The Baloonmakers, Book 1)
Katherine Locke
9/1/2017, Young Adult, Science Fantasy
When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she’s caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall—but even to the balloon makers, Ellie’s time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything—including her only way home—to stop the process.
Keepers
Emily Grace Bell
9/1/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
When Mac, a trainee with Vale Enterprises, a group of time Keepers, seeks to escape imprisonment under self-made leader Dax, she soon discovers a bigger purpose of love, regret and an all time-changing story of life in the year 2508.
Time in My Pocket
Gina Dewink
9/1/2017, Historical Fantasy
She woke up in 1947…in someone else’s body.
When Liza Anderson looks into a locket’s mirror, she suddenly finds herself in a younger woman’s body in 1947. Believing she has traveled more than 60 years back in time, Liza comes face to face with the reality of life during the golden age of Hollywood–glamour, communism, smallpox and all–only to discover that the Barbara Jane Miller she’s become is caught up in a drug-selling scheme that could get her killed.
Will Liza survive the dangers of her new world? Will she ever return to her own time and the children she left behind?
The Selah Branch: A Novel of Time Travel and Race in America
Ted Neill
9/2/2017, Science Fiction/Thriller
As a black college student in the rural West Virginia town of Selah Station, Kenia Dezy already feels out of place. But when an unexplained phenomenon starts transporting her back to pre-civil rights 1953, she finds herself woven into a tapestry of racial triumphs and tragedies. She begins to unravel secrets that powerful men would rather keep hidden, even if it means massacring an entire town through an industrial disaster. At the intersection of race, gender, class, and privilege, Kenia must navigate a community and a country wresting with its past, present, and future identities.
My Ten Legs
Jack Littlejohn
9/3/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
At eight years old, Max Redmond must learn to live with paralysis from the waist down after a falling accident. She quickly proves to be up to the challenge. With rehabilitation going well, and soon to enter a video game competition – Max demonstrates she is capable of anything!
Fast forward eleven years and Max is well into her first year at university. Doing a course in environmental sustainability, Max wants to do her part to remedy environmental ills spread by the hands of humankind.
As busy and successful as Max appears to be, she is to be truly tested once more. This time it will be up to Max, with some aid from her brother Sam, to save the world from a threatening alien invader!
With just a smidge of good luck, will Max save humankind? And, is something magic afoot?
Sentinels of Lightning Creek (The Lightning Creek Series, Book 2)
John D. Smith
9/3/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Lyle Koffer is a modern-day young man who is sucked into the timeline and taken to the nineteenth century. Before he can return to the future, he must solve a decades-old murder mystery. Once the mystery is solved, the ramifications of his actions require multiple adventurers to travel through the timeline repairing the damage from ever-expanding waves of destruction.
Just when Lyle thinks he is on top of the damage resulting from his actions, the love of his life involves herself in the effort of repairing time itself, and finds she is in deeper damage than Lyle could have ever conceived.
False Invasion (The Maze, Book 4)
George Willson
9/4/2017, Science Fiction
Blake, Perry, and Michelle return to save seven-foot tall, four-armed aliens from the local population.
Blake, Perry and Michelle emerge onto a familiar world during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of their arrival. In the midst of the revelries, a ship carrying a species that had once attacked the fledgling colony many years before and had sworn to leave them alone crashes near the landing site of their colonial craft.
Harold Andersoppen is the head of the society that maintains the sacred terraforming device that the people are convinced that the aliens tried to attack in order to destroy since they believe they will die without the terraformer in place. He believes the aliens are mounting a second invasion and only sees the visitors as cold-blooded killers. Seeing the crash as an honest accident and not an attack upon the people, Blake tries to persuade the people to help, but he is taken away along with the crash survivors.
Assisted by a descendant of the officer who had written the ship’s log that Perry and Blake had seen in the future, Perry and Michelle attempt to break out the captured aliens and Blake only to have some of them recaptured along with Michelle instead. They learn from the aliens that they are part of the interplanetary federation that Earth is in and realize that if the locals can get past their fear of these visitors, they might be able to make contact with Earth.
Desperate to assist these aliens in their hour of need, the team divides while Michelle is held captive and tries talking sense into Andersoppen. Blake reveals the truth behind the terraformer’s operation to a local scientist, and with the assistance of one of the aliens, attempts to contact their home planet for a rescue while Perry tries to convince everyone else that the aliens are harmless and that judging them according to local law could put everyone’s lives in jeopardy before Andersoppen puts them all to death along with Michelle and anyone else they believe worked with the aliens to bring about their demise.
The Wave of Time
Clif Graves (Editor)
9/4/2017, Short Story Anthology, Science Fiction
Do we simply ride the wave of time, like a piece of flotsam on the ocean? Do we get thrown up on the ever-changing shore of a future that was always there? Do we create the future by our actions, or do we have no control or impact on it?
This collection includes eight classic tales of time travel that were published in science fiction magazines between 1931 and 1956. Some of the authors were well known at the time and some were not. Each story was chosen to represent a different take on the nature of time and time travel.
Discover how the first group to build a working time machine protect their intellectual property. Find out what it is like to remember the future. Look for the answer to the question “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” Travel a billion years in the past, to the far future, and so much more.
Project Mastodon – By Clifford D. Simak
The House from Nowhere – By Arthur G. Stangland
Prison of a Billion Years – By Stephen Marlowe
The Man From 2071 – By Sewell Peaslee Wright
Lost in the Future -By John Victor Peterson
The End of Time – By Wallace West
The Edge of the Knife – By H. Beam Piper
Unborn Tomorrow – By Mack Reynolds
Conspiracy in Sleepy Hollow
Jeffrey Tannen
9/5/2017, Science Fiction
Out-of-the-box thinker Jeffrey Morgan and his girlfriend, Lisa, find a diary detailing the plans to a hushed-up presidential killing in 1939. Time travel & hypnosis in the same adventure – Morgan goes back to 1939 in search of answers.
Intersect
M.C.I Hinchliffe
9/5/2017, Science Fiction
In the thirty first century, mankind was all but wiped out after the failed war against the alien Warrian Empire. Possibly the sole survivor of his race, Ryan Williams a Starfighter pilot, escapes the horror of the future using his father’s invention and travels back in time to the late twentieth century.
The Warrian Emperor bent on wiping out all of the human race, sends his battle fleet after Ryan. Unknown to Ryan is the true reason for the Emperor’s relentless pursuit, for within his possession was the greatest power in the universe. If the Emperor was to get possession of this ultimate weapon, he could destroy the human race and rule over all creation.
To stop the Warrians and save the universe, Ryan sets about creating an advanced space force with the aid of his ancestors, and that space force is named Intersect!
This is the first in the action-packed two part series. For the exciting conclusion, see the – The Great Talisman!
Time to Lie (Landon Bridges’ Story, Book 1)
Phil Taylor
9/5/2017, Science Fiction
Remember that time you dated that complete nutcase and said to yourself, I wish Future Me would have come back and warned me about this. Remember when you and your drunk friends said, If it’s such a bad idea, someone would come back from the future and stop us, right before it blew up in your face and got you in trouble? It would be great to have someone from the future to guide your life, wouldn’t it?
Landon Bridges’ life hasn’t always been perfect, but now he’s in college and determined to make a fresh start and transform himself from high school geek to college chic…well less geeky guy. He’s finally attained his life-long goal of studying physics in college under a renowned professor. He’s met the girl of his dreams and made friends with some of the cool frat guys.
Things are going great, until He shows up. A mysterious stranger intervenes to help Landon out of a terrible, possibly life changing situation, but what does he want? Why does he keep showing up? Who is he? Landon’s esteemed professor suddenly seems like a flake. Landon’s briefly idyllic college world seems to be spinning out of control.
Landon needs to control his world and in the process of regaining his sanity and his grip on reality, he discovers that he has talents and allies that he never imagined. But is what they’re telling him the truth? The truth is just the lie we’ve chosen to believe, and yours may be different than mine.
The Tower of Refuge (TimeDrifter Series, Book 3)
Lauren Lynch
9/5/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Religious
Fearing an end to his time with Anna, Brendan attempts to take matters into his own hands, leading a group of newfound friends on a desperate journey across two continents in an attempt to steal time. Join Anna and Brendan for a life-altering adventure across the Via Egnatia and into ancient Cappadocia in their final confrontation with evil.
Nexus
Harry Bradford
9/6/2017, Science Fiction
Michelle Jackson was six when a freak accident damaged her spine, leaving her with a loss of function in her legs and feet. Twenty years later, randomly surfing eBay, she downloads an item that will change her life and the lives of those around her. Follow Michelle as she copes with her abusive Father, inadvertently travels to the 17th Century and finds out what true love means.
Doctor Who: Tales of Terror
Various authors
9/7/2017, Short Story Collection, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
A new spine-chilling collection of twelve short illustrated adventures packed with terrifying Doctor Who monsters and villains, just in time for Halloween 2017!
The six authors featured are Jacqueline Rayner, Mike Tucker, Paul Magrs, Richard Dungworth, Scott Handcock and Craig Donaghy. The illustrator is Rohan Eason. Each short story will feature a frightening nemesis for the Doctor to outwit, and each will star one incarnation of the Doctor with additional appearances from favourite friends and companions such as Sarah Jane, Jo and Ace.
Infinity (The Gravity Series, Book 3)
A.B. Bloom
9/7/2017, Young Adult, Paranormal Fantasy
The last installment in the thrilling Young Adult Gravity Series.
Bronte Bell is the last of the Star children, the last of her race, but there are those that would see her kind eradicated in a long-running battle for darkness over the sky.
On her own and lost in space and time Bronte must try to find her own path towards her destiny while uncovering the truth about who she really is. When one discovery finds her at odds with her partnered soul, Nick, and fighting a broken heart, will Bronte be able to keep battling her way to the truth so long withheld?
With forces closing in, and friendships shattered in a war to destroy the world, Bronte must discover the true meaning of Infinity before she can fulfill her destiny and save those she loves.
But in war, freedom comes a price. Will it be a price she is willing to pay?
Under Two Moons: Paradisi Chronicles (Caelestis Series, Book 2)
Louisa Locke
9/7/2017, Science Fiction/Adventure
Mei Lin Yu, a shy studious young woman from a Founding Family, and Silence, a fierce snowcat running with outlaws, shouldn’t have anything in common. But on New Eden, a world where the native Ddaerans have psychic abilities, a world ruled by the Founders who fled a dying Earth…anything is possible.
When Mei Lin is forced out of the comfortable refuge of Mynyddamore and confronted with a secret from the past that is very much alive, will she be able to save herself and Silence to gain the trust of a man who has no reason to trust anyone from a Founding Family?
Under Two Moons, a science fiction action adventure novel, is the sequel to Between Mountain and Sea and is the second book in Louisa Locke’s Caelestis series in the Paradisi Chronicles (an open source science fiction series created by multiple authors).
Continuum
Mary Marshall
9/8/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Without warning, Kate Taylor is transported from Chicago 1992 back in time to the 1950s. She struggles with many personal and relationship conflicts throughout, while trying to adjust to the new, old world she is living in. She fears at times that her very existence is being threatened. Kate tries to find a way home to the period of time from which she came.
That is, until she meets, and falls in love with Stephan Adler. What happens next is sure to astound you as it has yet to be explored by other writers. Weaving in historically accurate information and scientific theories of the time, the author keeps you in suspense as this surprising story unfolds.
Counterparts
Marcus Herzig
9/9/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/LGBTQ
Knowing the future doesn’t mean you’re meant to change it…
His senior year in high school couldn’t be more boring for overachieving science nerd Taylor Young, but things quickly change the moment he falls hard for Brad, the strange but hot new character that walks the school halls.
Taylor doesn’t care much about the rumors running rampant among his friends. So what if they call Brad a loon? In this day and age, everyone is a little crazy. Looking past Brad’s underlying secrets, buried deep among the cold case files, Taylor only sees what he wants to see: a fellow man of science, a potential business partner… and soul mate.
The yearbook superlatives would have never guessed that years later, Taylor and Brad would be raking in billions with their prized invention, the Jump Box, a piece of teleporting technology that is going to change the world forever.
But when a catastrophic accident threatens not only their own future but the fate of the entire planet, Taylor is pushed to the brink of his sanity, and with their love and livelihood at stake, it takes a blast from the past to uncover the hidden truths that Brad had so carefully buried and worked so hard to forget.
Legends (Freedom, Book 1)
Stephen Arseneault
9/9/2017, Science Fiction
For 500 generations Humans have been addicted to a drug called Shackle. We are slaves to the alien species of the galaxy. Bought, traded, sold, and hunted for sport, our value only measured in credits. But a virus is sweeping through the Human population. Altering a gut bacteria, the virus is making Humans immune. As we become aware of our condition, we begin to yearn for change. Will the legends of our past be enough to show us the way to FREEDOM?
Perpetual Words of Hatred
Jot Russell
9/10/2017, Science Fiction
The threads of hatred and bigotry are sowed deep within the fabric of time. But if you could unravel those threads, what would you change? Who would you save? Who would you kill?
Elaine’s Stoked on her Tesla! (Mayor Silicon Meowy, Book 1)
Jeremy Greenberg
9/11/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
Occasionally great beings arise to help humanity find a better path. On this occasion, the great being is a highly-intelligent, hilarious, half-dead cat who in addition to ushering in a new age of enlightenment by way of the Silicon Valley, would really love his beloved human to clean his litter box and smoke a bit less pot. As funny as it is philosophical, as twisted as it is true, as poetic as it is profane, welcome to a novel that is so much more than a story. Welcome to a narrative as innovative and focused on saving humanity as any entrepreneur who calls this place home.
Your adorable little guide is Mayor Silicon Meowy, a formerly feral and super stupid tabby who accidentally catches fire inside the Tesla factory only to awaken realizing he hasn’t merely survived, but suddenly has a lot more on his mind than “meow.” Emboldened by his new abilities and the transformative love of the woman who adopted him, he sets off into the arenas of technology, business, politics, culture, and cat food, determined to make the world way better. Or at least significantly less crappy.
Let’s just hope humanity remembers to feed him before it’s too late…
Open Doors
Judith Sealy
9/11/2017, Fantasy
London shop girl, Glennis, is terrified and intrigued when on a visit to the National Gallery, she discovers that she can walk into two-dimensional paintings. As doors open, she meets artists like Monet and Picasso and her life changes completely. These changes are helped by the people she meets in her own time.
The Disappearance
Gillian Chan
9/12/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Fantasy
This novel centers on the unlikely friendship between two boys, Jacob Mueller and Mike McCallum. Jacob seems to be from a different world. After mystifying experts and doctors, who finally decide that he is an elective mute, Jacob ends up in a juvenile group home, isolated and withdrawn, the butt of teasing by the other kids.
Mike exists in his own private hell. Scarred physically and emotionally after the murder of his younger brother, his one aim is to survive the system until he is legally old enough to get out. He uses his horrific appearance, imposing size, sharp intelligence, and a calculated brutality to keep everyone at bay―until he encounters Jacob.
Almost despite himself, Mike is fascinated by Jacob, particularly the way in which he seems able to shut out the world around him. This fascination deepens and becomes tinged by a mixture of awe and horror when Jacob starts to talk, and appears to have knowledge of Mike’s past, and in particular of his dead brother.
Mike takes it upon himself to solve the puzzle that is Jacob Mueller, and when he comes to what seems to him to be the impossible conclusion that Jacob is from another time, he makes it his mission to return him home. In order to do so, Mike has to make hard choices: choices which could offer the chance of redemption, but only at great cost.
Ellie’s Paris Adventure (Travel Through Art, Book 1)
Molly Totoro
9/12/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Twelve-year-old Ellie Taylor dreams of traveling the world. She wants to experience life, not read about it in a textbook. Forced to study boring paintings for an art history exam, she finds herself transported to 19th Century Paris and the world of the French Impressionists.
There, Ellie befriends the famous American artist, Mary Cassatt, who needs help finding her runaway dog, Batty. Ellie chases the dog throughout the city, which also introduces her to such famous places as the Louvre museum, Notre Dame cathedral, and the Paris Opera House.
In the end, Ellie discovers art is not dull, but rather filled with grand adventures to places she may never visit otherwise.
Flare: Faction 13 (The Isa Fae Collection, Book 13)
H.J. Lawson
9/12/2017, Young Adult, Paranormal Romance
Steal a human’s breath to strengthen a Fae. Steal the last breath, humanity is dead.
The modern world holds many secrets, the most astounding being that there is a parallel world Faction Thirteen filled with Fae. Warrior Fae Alva, was banished from Faction Thirteen for falling in love with a human. In the moments before Alva was sentenced, he was cursed with immortality, forever separating him from his wife and daughter in the afterlife. Alva vowed to protect humans from their hidden enemy witches which lived along them, he became a witch hunter.
Raven is a witch and the humans are on the brink of nuclear war. Faction Thirteen is opened to protect the Fae. If humanity falls, the fae fall with them.
Now a witch and witch hunter need to unite in an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race.
Through Ddaera’s Touch: Paradisi Chronicles (Caelestis Series, Book 3)
Louisa Locke
9/12/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Ddaera, the planet the Founders from Earth call New Eden, changes all she touches, including Mei Lin, the studious daughter of a Founding Family, Silence, a sentient snow cat, and Jaxon, a man displaced by space and time. Can these three find common ground in order to save Ddaera and the people they have have sworn to protect?
Through Ddaera’s Touch is an exciting action-adventure novel that tells the story of the emergence of a Resistance Movement that begins to unite disaffected New Eden citizens, the native Ddaerans, and the Reachers, new arrivals from Earth, against the Founding Families of New Eden.
Time Games (Pike Gillette Time Travel, Book 3)
Rex Bolt
9/12/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Pike didn’t sign up for this.
And he would ignore it. Except his conscience won’t let him. All he wants is to finish his senior year. Like any normal kid. With a minimum of drama.
But that would be way too simple.
On a family vacation . . . A Perfect-Storm . . . And he discovers he can pick and choose events and re-set them. And when a present-day tragedy hits too close, messing with the laws of the universe becomes the diciest proposition of his life.
Welcome to Crash
Lina Langley
9/12/2017, Science Fiction/LGBTQ
At first, Damien feels lucky to land a job at an influential art studio, but it soon becomes obvious that something’s not right. His gorgeous boss, John, is interested, and he’d be the perfect man for Damien–if Damien wasn’t already in a relationship. It isn’t long before Damien is at the center of a love triangle, forced to choose between hot, punk John and his secret affair with his professor, Levi. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, because something impossible is happening to Damien–and it’s having a drastic effect on his health as well as his perception of reality.
Each time Damien goes to work, things grow more bizarre, starting with Sam–an artist who has been dead for years and now somehow… isn’t. Damien’s unusual circumstances also free him from the restrictions of monogamy–or so he thinks. Levi, who cannot believe Damien’s claims, fears for his sanity. John also has strong doubts when Damien reveals knowledge of a catastrophic event looming in John’s future. Whether the men he loves believe his wild claims or not, neither can deny Damien is languishing, and if they cannot save him, he’ll be lost. More importantly, they must convince Damien to save himself.
Divided In Time: Future Lies And Secrets
Roger David Francis
9/13/2017, Science Fiction/Suspense
Amy is curiously drawn to a dating site on the internet, and in particular a guy called Martin.
She agrees to meet him and naively gives him her address. Unfortunately for Amy, Martin is not everything he seems. Having spent several hours preparing for the date, she receives a message to say the date is cancelled.
Livid at being stood up she decides to track him down in order to confront him. She suspects he may be married and has been stringing her along. Piecing the information from their conversations together she tracks down his location, a dilapidated old Victorian terrace house that seems out of place in a modern end of town.
Why does he believe she is his wife? And how is he able to be in two places at one time? What is The Void and who are the mysterious Elders of Time?
Amy’s world is about to change forever.
Erebus (Sleeping Gods, Book 2)
Ralph Kern
9/13/2017, Hard Science Fiction
“You’re going to learn a thing or two about space-time. Probably more than you ever wanted to know.”
Humanity has tamed the worlds of Sol and taken the first, tentative steps to the stars. It’s an age of peace and prosperity.
For most.
In a country long since abandoned to its own devices, Inspector Layton Trent is investigating the massacre of fifteen people when an event occurs in Jupiter space.
The sparsely populated moon, Io, is destroyed in a terrorist attack. Hundreds are dead in the cataclysmic explosion. Thousands are refugees as the shattered remnants of the moon threaten the Jupiter Alliance. Billions throughout the Solar System are wondering, Where next?
Those responsible must be found and brought to justice.
The explorer ship, Erebus, is reassigned from its mission and sent to Jupiter to investigate this atrocity with Trent’s international team onboard.
Their enemy is lethal, elusive, with access to vast resources and advanced technology.
So begins a hunt across space and time that will take Trent from the burning deserts of Africa to the cosmopolitan space cities of the Jupiter Alliance. From the heart of civilization to the very frontiers of human space and far beyond.
And what Trent discovers, out among the ancient relics of the alien Sleeping Gods, will change humanity’s place in the universe forever.
The Device
Dale C. George
9/14/2017, Science Fiction
When George d’Clare receives the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, he and his wife Madison organize a support group. This noble endeavor eventually leads them to meeting a strange man with an incredible story – a captivating tale about a device that could transport a person into the future and return them safely to the present. His far-fetched account also comes with an equally fantastic offer: to help him in a daring plan to use the device to bring back the future cure for the disease. Thinking the man suffers from dementia, George dismisses him as delusional.
But when the strange man is later killed in a deliberate hit-and- run, the couple embarks on a search for the truth about the device, beginning with the perfectly-handwritten diary he left behind. They soon discover that they are involved in a deadly cat-and- mouse chase through time, whose origin dates back to the final days of World War II, and to a highly-classified Nazi operation, codenamed “Firebird.”
Could there actually be a device capable of time travel? And if so, can George and Madison find it in time to stop the next phase of the inconceivable Firebird plan?
The Pocket Watch
Bosco the Dog
9/16/2017, Picture Book, Children, Fantasy
Twins find a watch with life-changing magical powers.
Blowback ’63 (Blowback Trilogy, Book 2)
Brian Meehl
9/18/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
The battle between teenage twins, Arky and Iris, is about to explode into war–the Civil War.
The war that spans centuries–between brother and sister, pitcher and batter, blue and gray, love and loss–is fought to the last page.
Heavy Metal Scientology Aliens
Phony McFakename
9/18/2017, Science Fiction
Intergalactic aliens are destroying 1987 L.A.! It’s not EXACTLY your fault, but this wouldn’t be happening if you hadn’t time-traveled back to 1987 to hang out with your favorite heavy metal bands. You kind of wrecked the spacetime continuum there.
It’s okay, though! You just need to combine the forces of Scientology and the cheesiest heavy metal band of all time to defeat these aliens once and for all! But only if you truly believe in metal…
Memento Mori (A Time Traveler’s Best Friend, Book 2)
W.R. Gingell
9/18/2017, Space Opera
Even time travellers can run out of time. Marx and Kez have been skipping through the known Twelve Worlds, keeping one step ahead of certain capture by the seat of their trousers, and the vastness of time and space is feeling a tad too small. Kez has always been a bit crazy, but now it’s Marx who is getting mad.
Someone is trying to kill them, and that’s the sort of thing he takes personally. To add to their difficulties, there are Fixed Points in time that are beginning to look a little less…fixed. Between Time Corp, WAOF, Uncle Cheng, and the Lolly Men, it’s beginning to look like there’s nowhere safe in the known Twelve Worlds for Kez and Marx. Here be monsters…
Nairobi Jack (Saving Time, Book 3)
Monique Martin
9/18/2017, Historical Fantasy
Jack Wells barely has time to recover from his last assignment when he’s sent on a new mission. He’s an emergency replacement and there isn’t time for the usual prep. All he knows is the name of the man, David Grant, and where he’ll find him, 1932 Nairobi, Kenya.
In Colonial Africa, wild animals aren’t the most dangerous creatures around. Hedonistic aristocrats and vicious criminals are much bigger threats. The mission is more complicated than Jack could ever have imagined as he struggles to save Grant from an unknown assassin and faces someone from his past he never thought he’d see again.
The Mind Field: The Ultimate Virtual Reality
M. Footer
9/19/2017, Science Fiction
A brain researcher, a coder and a former drug addict invent a virtual reality visor that uses a wearer’s own subconscious to create amazingly vivid virtual worlds to explore. But they get more than they bargain for when they discover deeper levels of a vast field of consciousness — one that connects all beings, past, present and future, to each other and to ultimate reality.
Morna’s Magic (Magical Matchmaker’s Legacy, Book 3)
Bethany Claire
9/19/2017, Young Adult, Romance/Fantasy
Haunted by their pasts. Healed through love.
Baodan McMillan is kind, loyal, and strong, but tragedy haunts him. After the death of his wife, he hardened his heart, closing himself off to any possibility of love. There is only one woman who can save him from his isolation–a lass he’s never met, born centuries ahead of his time….
Mitsy Fredrickson’s life is upended when a painful divorce causes her to rethink her future. With her best friend now living thousands of miles away, Mitsy uses the turmoil in her life as an excuse to escape and heads to Scotland to reunite with the one person who can help her through this challenging time. Little does she know that her trip will land her in the year 1647, and that girl time with her best friend is the last thing fate has planned for her.
Thrown together with McMillan Castle’s handsome laird, Baodan, Mitsy finds one of the few men she’s ever known who knows how to handle her modern and fiery personality. The more time she spends with him, the harder she falls, but something holds him back–a secret from Baodan’s past that even he doesn’t fully understand. If Mitsy can solve the mystery, will Baodan be free to love her? Or will the dark truth unleash an evil that will destroy all they both hold dear?
Collision: A Time Traveler’s Nightmare
Gary Naiman
9/20/2017, Science Fiction/Thriller
The richest man on Earth is about to change his world. Harold Tensley will soon launch himself backward in time to re-create his planet and people in his own image. Armed with an annoyingly intrusive computer, he has spent his wealth building a time device capable of reaching his goal. There is only one problem, Tensley will soon encounter a dimension beyond time through a collision with one of its occupants, and both men’s struggle for survival will begin.
Collision is Gary Naiman’s fourteenth novel and his fourth science fiction adventure, a time travel journey into the past with unexpected consequences.One of his books is being considered for a motion picture.
The Mouse Thief: A Disney Tale of Time Travel
Scott M. Madden
9/20/2017, Science Fiction/Fantasy
A world without Mickey…
He couldn’t take it any more. Disney! The laughs, the fun, the noise. How to make it stop? Of course! Use the time machine. Go back and stop Walt Disney from creating Mickey Mouse. Without Mickey, there would be no Disneyland, no Disney films, no Disney…
It all started with the theft of a mouse.
As Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks worked in a backroom of Walt’s studio to create the first Mickey Mouse animated cartoons in 1928, a most unwelcome visitor from the next century swiped Mickey from under their noses, dismantling the Disney empire before it ever took shape.
He didn’t count on Walt Disney following him into the future to get his mouse—and his life—back.
An alternate history of a world in which there is no Mickey Mouse.
Tom and Huck’s Howling Adventure
Tim Champlin
9/20/2017, Historical Adventure
A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim.
It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain’s novels, while they finally conclude he’s a traveler from a future time.
He agrees to accompany them as they prepare “for howling adventures” into Indian Territory. Their plans are halted when Becky Thatcher is kidnapped and criminals demand a $12,000 gold ransom.
During their fast-paced adventure, Zane realizes this is a totally different and, in many ways, better world than the one he left behind. He survives, but then has no idea how to return home.
Time Enhancers (Cravenstone, Book 1)
Dage Corvish
9/22/2017, Science Fiction
Out of the Pacific Northwest rainforest, a young girl, naked and speaking no English, arrives in the dark of night on Cravenstone Island. Finding herself at the door of the one home on the planet in which the inhabitants are most likely to guess her origin, she, and they, believe she was meant to be with them, that she has a destiny, a destiny yet to be revealed.
Almost nothing in this world is familiar to her, but she finds the one thing lacking in her previous existence–the love of a family. Nurturing her as their own daughter, now named Faye, they invent a story to explain her arrival, trying to keep her safe from a world perhaps not ready for a challenge to its own reality.
Visiting the island from the city, Rick, a young boy of similar age to Faye, witnesses her astounding arrival, but after telling his mother, who thinks it a dream, he generally forgets about it, except on rare occasions, such as when he visits the island. Danni, several years older than Rick and Faye, occasionally has dreams about two young kids, but dreams are just dreams and she sees no significance to them.
Although their lives sometimes intersect through family and circumstance, Faye, Rick, and Danni remain unknown to each other in real life, and though possessing gifted intellectual and physical abilities, for various reasons, they lack confidence in interpersonal skills.
The arcs of their sometimes tragic lives eventually intersect on Cravenstone Island, where their lives collide with each other, with their dreams, with a universe in which time is multidimensional, and with monsters wishing to destroy them and their families. To fulfill their mysterious destiny, they must survive the attacks of anonymous beasts hiding in plain sight.
Gettysburg: The Crossroads Town
Tim Black
9/23/2017, Young Adult, Historical Science Fiction
History teacher Nathan Greene’s plans for his students to hear Abraham Lincoln present his Gettysburg Address go awry when two ghostly historians secretly change the plans. Instead, the time-traveling classroom portable lands just before dawn on July 1, 1863, the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Greene and his students, Victor, Minerva and Bette, find themselves marooned in the tiny Pennsylvania town at the beginning of the pivotal battle of the Civil War.
The intrepid group of time travelers must survive the battle and its aftermath until the classroom portable returns to rescue them. In the ensuing weeks, as they witness historic events, they also work as nurses, grave-diggers, and more–and find themselves in the midst of a war that doesn’t just divide the country, but also their team. Victor soon encounters legendary notables such as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Confederate General George Pickett, while Bette and Minerva cross paths with Union General George Meade, Minerva meets noted Gettysburg diarist Sarah Broadhead, and Mr. Greene overhears a conversation between General Lee and General Longstreet regarding battle tactics.
Can the teacher and his students make it through one of the most dangerous times in U.S. history to hear Lincoln’s famous speech? And, more importantly…can they make it safely home to their own time?
Time Traveler: The Oddities and Adventures of a Key West Bartender
Key West Chris Rehm
9/23/2017, Fantasy
Mark Straight, Key West bartender, wakes one morning after the most peculiar dream. Everything in the dream proceeded as in real life and affected all of his five senses, unlike a normal dream. His sixth sense told him something unusual was afoot. His dream placed him back in time in 1935 Key West slinging drinks at the Victoria Restaurant, drinking long since forgotten beers and dating a hot Cuban woman. After waking, his pocket contained coins from nearly a century ago and he felt as if he hadn’t slept at all. What the hell was happening? His bewilderment was just beginning…
Follow Mark Straight on his wild journey through time as he discovers a new identity, shares the company of artistic and literary legends and has an adventure of several lifetimes.
Magic in Michigan (The History Mystery Kids, Book 2)
Daniel Kenney
9/24/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
April Jefferson doesn’t know why she and her friends are traveling back in time.
All she knows is that she and Henry and Toad are now in Michigan! They still don’t know where there father is and they have no idea how to get home. Can they find the missing pieces to the puzzle or will they be stuck in history forever?
The second 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.
Sacrifices
Daniel Shaw III
9/24/2017, Science Fiction
If a mysterious stranger offered you a life of adventure traveling in a time machine, would you take it? Would you leave behind the family and life you knew for the unknown?
The adventure-seeking Vicki knew her answer when Mr. Smith, an odd time traveler, showed her an incredible metal machine, and asked, “Would you like to fly away?” Journeying through time and to other planets, she never regretted saying “yes.” However, that choice is tested when Mr. Smith leaves her on an alien moon near the forbidden planet Fensgsele. More questions are raised when a passing ship discovers her, and Vicki meets Captain Carol, a militant, composed woman who harbors hidden motives and an arcane agenda.
When secrets and pasts emerge, Vicki questions the one aspect of her travels she never wanted to: why did Mr. Smith choose her? And more importantly, what wickedness lies beneath the surface of Fensgsele? When an adventure turns into danger and worlds are hunted by an ancient evil, sacrifices must be made. Can the universe live with the consequences? Can they?
With every decision comes a price, and sometimes, an ultimate sacrifice.
Valley to Valley (America, Book 2)
Zubair Simonson
9/24/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
Joseph Heyward, a struggling nerd in Silicon Valley, loves the Wild West. Joseph’s impossible dream to see the Old West for himself becomes a reality when he and his two closest friends land an opportunity to serve as guinea pigs for a company exploring the possibility of time travel for tourism.
But when the equipment malfunctions during the test trip, the three friends find themselves stuck in Idaho Territory, circa 1884. While a crew in present-day California struggles to bring them back, Joseph and his buddies must adjust to a rugged time and place, one that modern-day nerds were clearly not cut out for. Can they ever get used to outhouses? How will they deal with an outlaw gang (even with a little help from Wyatt Earp)? Who will fall in love with a prostitute? And just how embarrassing is it when an Indian tribe learns that they are comic fans? They will soon find out…
The Boy in the Coffin (The Coma Mysteries, Book 2)
Bambi Harris
9/25/2017, Mystery
It’s early 1967 and after six weeks of unconsciousness, Abbey Roads wakes into a harsh winter storm. Within minutes she comes face to face with the apparition of an 18th century boy and that’s when she knows nothing is going to be the same.
It’s been over six months since she awoke into the beautiful historic sanitarium in the hills, Castlereagh and she has come to love her life there. But little did they know this majestic building harbored some dark secrets. The day after she sees the boy, some workmen come to fix some broken pipes, they soon find a group of coffins buried beneath the old manor house.
After the kindhearted genius doctor, Arthur Cromwell, had taken her under his wing and into his confidence, she learned of his unique abilities. Not only did he work out how to communicate with his unconscious patients, he stumbled upon a way to send their minds into the past. While he and Abbey share a love of unsolved mysteries, she and the other occupants of Castlereagh, have gone on missions to learn what happened to the many cases that, until now, remain unresolved.
But this case is personal and with the handsome and dashing Rupert, and the uniquely brilliant, Nigel at her side, she is determined to find answers about this boy. Along with her nurses, Felix and Clara, who have their own hands full with lost love and adventure, Castlereagh’s eclectic dreamers band together to investigate what happened to the boy and the other children found beneath their foundations. And as they go into the past to rewrite history,they inadvertently discover what’s necessary to face their future.
Starship Genesis
Linda M. Miller, Marcus De Moberleigh
9/25/2017, Science Fiction
In an attempt to save their race, the crew of the Starship Genesis scours the Universe looking for uninhabited planets that can support life; while Archaeologists, Drs. Matthew Vaughan and Ray Smith are recruited to join a Secret government operation to investigate the wreckage of an ancient UFO crash site. Join them as worlds collide in this exciting adventure.
Ben Franklin’s in My Bathroom (History Pals, Book 1)
Candace Fleming
9/26/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Nolan is a typical kid living in a typical 21st century American town. Ben Franklin is, well, Ben Franklin—Founding Father, inventor of the lightning rod and bifocals, and more. When, through a bizarre set of circumstances, Nolan and his little sister, Olive, find Ben in their house, chaos isn’t far behind.
From introducing him to the toaster to taking him to the public library (another Ben invention) to preventing a nosy neighbor from blowing Ben’s cover, Nolan does his best to be Ben’s tour guide to the new world he helped form.
With tons of funny illustrations throughout—plus graphic novel-style sections interspersed—readers will love adventuring alongside this awesome threesome.
Invictus
Ryan Graudin
9/26/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Paradox Bound
Peter Clines
9/26/2017, Science Fiction/Horror
Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town’s still got a video store, for god’s sake.
So why doesn’t Eli Teague want to leave?
Not that he’d ever admit it, but maybe he’s been waiting—waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who’s roared into his life twice before, pausing just long enough to drop tantalizing clues before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. The one who’s a walking anachronism, with her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model-A Ford.
The one who’s being pursued by…something.
So when the mysterious traveler finally reappears, Eli’s determined that this time, he’s going to get some answers. But his hunt soon yields far more than he bargained for, plunging him headlong into a dizzying world full of competing factions and figures straight out of legend.
To make sense of the mystery at its heart, he must embark on a breakneck chase across the country and through two centuries of history—with nothing less than America’s past, present, and future at stake.
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