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Daphne Griffin is a first-year Minnesota resident in emergency medicine when she rides her bike into a man who appears out of thin air. Physically, he’s fine. Confused? Very. He claims he’s Henry MacDonald, from Edinburgh, Scotland, 1885. The closer Daphne gets to Henry, the more probable the impossible notion of a time traveler looks. The how and why are vitally important to Henry, who needs to return home before his widowed mother and two sisters lose the family business. In the meantime, he’s adjusting to the marvels of twenty-first-century life and his feelings for the irresistible Daphne.

Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.

Leave your preconceived notions at home as you embark on a mind-bending journey with six of today’s most visionary authors. Brimming with humor and heartache, this collection of short stories maps the roads we took to get here and the paths that lie ahead. The present may be a gift, but the future and the past both come with a price.

Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract", which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg's father had been experimenting with time travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

Sixteen-year-old Nathan Shepherd has a great life traveling where the careers of his father, an investigator, and mother, a renowned violinist, take him … until his parents are found murdered. Left with only a mirror and notes from his father’s last case, Nathan goes into hiding at the remote country home of Tony, his father’s college buddy, and Tony’s teenage daughter, Kelly. The mysterious mirror must be a clue to what happened to his parents, and when images appear in it — people and things that don’t exist — Nathan and Kelly painstakingly gather evidence. But the killers ...

Years ago while vacationing in Scotland, Katherine St. Claire believed she'd found the love of her life. She shared a night of passion with a stranger, in a hotel castle called Duncreag. But come morning, her lover had disappeared. And she has spent the last eight years trying to convince herself it was all a dream... Living in the 15th century, Iain Mackintosh remains haunted by the memory of his greatest love. Eight years ago, she disappeared, leaving behind a cairngorm earring as the only evidence of her existence.

The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black's stunning adult debut, Book of Night. This program features multicast narration. "Award-winning YA author Holly Black has created an imaginary masterpiece yet again with her first foray into adult fantasy...

Exploring the grounds of the Family's old English manor, Rebecca stumbles upon a ramshackle, long-forgotten summerhouse. She enters the slightly eerie, but oh so intriguing building and uncovers a spiral staircase hidden away for generations. With the smell of almonds in the air, and a tad uneasy, Rebecca allows her intrepid curiosity to take over and lead her up the stairs and into the darkness. Fumbling on the first floor, her hand clasps an icy cold door handle. She breathes deeply, opens the door and enters a pitch-black room. The room suddenly fills with sunlight, and she hears a voice...

Fabienne Beaumont lies bleeding in a filthy alleyway. Desperate to escape the bloody War of Rebellion, she and her siblings had been trying to hustle passage back home to their native France. Instead, she fell victim to a card shark's bullets. As everything fades to black, Fabienne thumbs the hands of her old pocket watch—unaware that she's about to awaken from one nightmare straight into another.

Setting: Tomorrow After Rebecca had affectively brought a stop to global warming, she was certain her jaunts into the past or future were over and her destiny fulfilled. Now happily married and with two young girls, her focus was on family life. Then one cold February morning, the disappearance of her six-year-old daughter, sent her life spiralling down a path of anguish. Her intrepid, fearless nature immediately took over, suggesting she could journey back through time and prevent this painful event from ever happening. Stepping into the unknown, she soon established for every good time-...

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Marjory Macpherson rejoices at the news of her husband's death, only to find that he is, in fact, very much alive. Marjory has spent her life hating the Camerons, waiting for the day that she can avenge her father. Now suddenly, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to a man who is the enemy.

Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now, as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime - and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all.

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.

Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos) and an ensemble cast led by award-winning actor Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) perform this dramatic story tracing Albert Einstein's discovery of the general theory of relativity.

In 2016, with the addition of four final elements - nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson - to make a total of 118 elements, the periodic table was finally complete, rendering any pre-existing books on the subject obsolete. Tim James, the secondary-school science teacher we all wish we'd had, provides an accessible and wonderfully entertaining 'biography of chemistry' that uses stories to explain the positions and patterns of elements in the periodic table.

What listeners really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible.

What you can expect from volume 3 What if you travelled way into the future and witnessed our planet centuries after human life had vanished. Mankind wiped out by its own greed and relentless destruction of Mother Nature. Mother Nature will bounce back, but can humanity? That’s the destiny that faces intrepid time explorer, Rebecca. Follow her as she journeys into the future and then right back to the cradle of civilisation. Along the way, she’ll meet other time travellers of her making... ...all having failed this task that now falls to Rebecca, mankind’s last chance. Now ...

Setting – modern-day – 1827 – and beyond For 41-year-old Rebecca, life was running in a positive, straightforward direction. She had two beautiful daughters and a wonderful marriage. Ever since the first time she entered the summerhouse, climbed the old spiral staircase, and ended up back in 1853, she had learned to accept the mysterious directions her life could and would follow. Now though, life was stable, and importantly there were no impending twists afoot. In fact, she felt she’d fulfilled her life’s destiny. So, when she entered the secret garden, hoping to see Meredith one...

Setting: Modern Day After years of inexplicable journeys into the past and beyond, Rebecca is ready for anything Even so, nothing could have prepared her for what was about to unfold. Unimaginably, she wakes to find herself locked in a cold, foul-smelling 14th-century witch’s jail. To confuse her scrambled senses, she’s somehow jumped six centuries while asleep. She’s not alone in jail though. Tangling this chaos further, she’s imprisoned with a leading member of the Royal Family, also accused of witchcraft. Knowing the likely consequences for them both, she must quickly gain this ...