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Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies...
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Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.
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Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in-demand as it is today; we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we've grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of stimulation and distraction. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey - described by TED.com as 'the most productive man you could ever hope to meet' - provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes...
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Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature - it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen 'shining girls' through the decades - and cut the spark out of them. He's the perfect killer. Unstoppable. Untraceable. He thinks. Chicago, 1992. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Tell that to Kirby Mazrachi, whose life was shattered after a brutal...
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When Charles goes searching through a wrinkle in time for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as it. The book describes how Charles, his sister Meg and his friend Calvin find and free his father.
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Crown
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking ?the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder? (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as ?a magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as it is captivating? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Centuries of June is a bold departure, a work of dazzling...
9) Space hopper
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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This is a story about taking a leap of faith And believing the unbelievable They say those we love never truly leave us, and I?ve found that to be true. But not in the way you might expect. In fact, none of this is what you?d expect. I?ve been visiting my mother who died when I was eight. And I?m talking about flesh and blood, tea-and-biscuits-on-the-table visiting here. Right now, you probably think I?m going mad....
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Outlander volume 9
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English
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The author of the Sunday Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family...
12) The variable man
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Start Classics
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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He fixed things-clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope-and its sure failure!.
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Wildside Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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The third volume in the Science Fiction MEGAPACKʼ series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete novel by H. Beam Piper! Included in this volume are: "The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity," by Fritz Leiber "Time Bum," by C.M. Kornbluth "The Human Equations," by Dave Creek "The Gun," by Philip K. Dick "Not Stupid Enough," by George H. Scithers "Jackpot," by E.C. Tubb "The Killing Streets," by...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Five seminal SF masterpieces are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, Francis de Wolff, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Hugely influential on first publication, these five landmark science fiction classics continue to enthral today, and these thrilling radio adaptations are full of surprise, suspense and excitement. Frankenstein, first broadcast in 1994, is adapted from Mary...
15) The shadow
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English
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Only two people know Lamont Cranston?s secret identity as vigilante crime-fighter the Shadow: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. When Khan ambushes the couple, they must risk everything for the slimmest chance of survival ? in the future. A century and a half later, Lamont wakes in a world both unknown and strangely familiar. The first person he meets is Maddy Gomes, a teenager with her own secrets, and more than passing...
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Outlander volume 6
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Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The sixth novel in the bestselling Outlander series. Their love has survived the test of time. But can it survive fate? America, 1772. It is only a few years before the war of independence and the colony seethes with unrest. As battle lines are drawn up and loyalties tested, no one is safe in this new country. Jamie Fraser receives a message from Governor Josiah Martin. He wants Jamie's help to keep the backcountry safe for King and Crown. But Jamie...
17) The infinite
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman 'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo 'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin Zephaniah FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME! Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bb̕i-Imbel ̌If ̈̕has The Gift, but she?s never used it. Until now. On her twelfth birthday, Elle...
18) time twister
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Children of the Red King volume 2
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy. Join Charlie Bone as he discovers the truth about the Red King, and the key to his own past ... January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor's in the 21st century, and realises...
19) Agency
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2020
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English
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San Francisco, 2017. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened - and Verity Jane's got herself a new job. They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid - which is just...
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Children of the Red King volume 1
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy. Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices. Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone and her scary sisters soon find out and send him to Bloor's Academy. Charlie quickly...
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