Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind. While she is in the peaceful graveyard of nearby Barkerville she...
Space and time
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Author:Walsh, AnnSummary: -
Author:Cox, BrianSummary:The authors offer a highly accessible explanation of Einstein's equation, using everyday life to explore the principles of physics.
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Author:Lawson, JulieSummary:On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award —...
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Author:Jacques, BrianSummary:Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave...
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According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should...
- Author:Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity watches, waiting.
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Cats don't really have nine lives, but they can visit nine different lives, anywhere, anytime. This is the secret Jason's cat, Gareth, tells him. When Jason hears this, he begs to go along. Soon cat and boy find themselves in...
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Author:Halpern, PaulSummary:In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The...
- Author:Thompson, KateSummary:
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his...
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Author:Banks, Lynne ReidSummary:As Omri, his father, and other members of his family learn more about the cupboard in his room, together and separately they are caught up in several dangerous adventures that reveal more about its powers.
- Author:HALDEMAN, JoeSummary:
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty...
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Author:Kern, StephenSummary: -
Author:BOSTON, Lucy M.Summary:When Tolley goes to live with his great-grandmother he is unsure what life will be like with this unknown relative. He finds a great friend in his great-grandmother, and is delighted to find that children who lived at Green Knowe...
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Author:Colfer, EoinSummary:Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
- Author:Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
The Firstborn have returned Bisesa Dutt to the Earth of 2037, where scientists have discovered an anomaly in the sun's core that reveals a chilling alien plan to destroy Earth's life through radiation.
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Author:Favro, TerriSummary:A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart
Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No...
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Author:Musser, GeorgeSummary:Physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. This strange occurrence has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions, and even the workings of gravity. If space isn't what...
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Author:Webb, PhilipSummary:Cass and her brother Wilbur scavenge in the ruins of a future London seeking an artifact for their Russian masters, but the search takes on a new urgency after the arrival of Erin and Peyto, strangers from afar who claim to hold the key...
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Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to...
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Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period...
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