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The Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer · 448 pages

Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.

Time TravelPlot-DrivenScience FictionFantasy
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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Egyptian MythologyLondonPlot-DrivenFantasy
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Extracted

R.R. Haywood

Time TravelPlot-DrivenLondonScience Fiction
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Sapphire Blue

Kerstin Gier

Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.

Time TravelPlot-DrivenLondonFantasy
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Off to Be the Wizard

Scott Meyer · 373 pages

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little "tweaks" have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard. What could possibly go wrong?

Time TravelPlot-DrivenScience FictionFantasy
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Mummies in the Morning

Mary Pope Osborne · 65 pages

Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.

Time TravelEgyptian MythologyFast-PacedFantasy
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The Necromancer

Michael Scott

Egyptian MythologyPlot-DrivenTime TravelFantasy
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The Skin Map

Stephen R. Lawhead · 377 pages

Time TravelPlot-DrivenLondonFantasy
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Sent

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 320 pages

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 repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.

Time TravelLondonScience FictionFast-Paced
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A Tale of Time City

Diana Wynne Jones · 336 pages

In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.

Time TravelLondonFast-PacedScience Fiction
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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 114 pages

A reprinting of the 1843 first edition, complete with the original illustrations, is supplemented by over eighty related sketches and annotations on and analyses of the text and historical notes on the writing of "The Christmas Carol."

LondonPlot-DrivenTime TravelFast-Paced
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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · 432 pages

Body SwapPlot-DrivenScience FictionMale Lead
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Hollow City

Ransom Riggs · 399 pages

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

Plot-DrivenLondonTime TravelFast-Paced
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Quantum Leap: Double or Nothing

C.J. Henderson, Laura Anne Gilman · 204 pages

Body SwapTime TravelScience FictionMale Lead
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Departure

A.G. Riddle

"The world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind.Struggling

Time TravelPlot-DrivenScience FictionFast-Paced
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Redshirts

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)

Time TravelPlot-DrivenFast-PacedWriter Protagonist
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A Darker Shade of Magic

Victoria Schwab · 430 pages

STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered--and where Kell was raised alongsid

LondonPlot-DrivenFantasyFast-Paced
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The 13th Hour

Richard Doetsch · 338 pages

Accused of murdering his wife Mary, Nick Quinn travels back in time to find clues to the identity of her real killer and perhaps save Mary's life. But all his good intentions may in fact lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have imagined.

Time TravelPlot-DrivenScience FictionFast-Paced
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Lightning

Dean Koontz · 363 pages

When a bolt of lighting brings a blond-headed stranger into Laura Shane's life, she wonders if he's the guardian angel he seems - or the devil in disguise.

Time TravelPlot-DrivenScience FictionFast-Paced
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Rewinder

Brett Battles · 251 pages

Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes abruptly change when the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruits him to be a Rewinder, a verifier of personal histories. The job at first sounds like it involves researching old books and records, but Denny soon learns it's far from it. A Rewinder's job is to observe history. In person.--from back cover.

Time TravelPlot-DrivenFast-PacedScience Fiction
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling · 352 pages

Time TravelPlot-DrivenFast-PacedFantasy
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The Map of Chaos

Felix J. Palma · 592 pages

LondonPlot-DrivenTime TravelFantasy
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Charlotte Sometimes

Penelope Farmer · 189 pages

Body SwapTime TravelFantasyFemale Lead
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Amulet Keepers

Michael Northrop · 191 pages

Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city. Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city. Book #2

Egyptian MythologyLondonFantasyFast-Paced

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