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You think you know how the world works? Think again. From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller that questions the very foundations of the modern world. Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics expert at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of government, leads to the uncovering of a distant past.

The exciting conclusion to Across Time! Separated from Henri by 20 years, Amelie discovers that what she thought was a weakness may be her greatest strength, and that nothing about her family and her gift is what it seemed. Now, with war on the horizon and a challenge she never saw coming, Amelie will learn what the prophecy really means for them—herself most of all.

In a dangerous time before her own...a dangerous attraction. Amelie Besson is on the cusp of attaining the life she’s dreamed of—until she finds herself stuck in pre-war France, fifty years before her time. The country is about to be under German rule, but her most immediate problem is Henri Durand, the arrogant and infuriatingly handsome vineyard owner upon whom her survival depends.

In this history-bending adventure, the ragtag team of ex-D.O.D.O. agents must traverse time and space to stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from reversing the evolution of all modern technology. From Jacobean England to the ancient Roman Empire, Mel Stokes and her fellow outcasts must untangle the knotted threads of history while the diabolical Gráinne jumps from timeline to timeline, always staying one step ahead - or is it behind?

Quem você gostaria de encontrar, uma única e última vez, se fosse possível viajar no tempo? Em uma ruazinha estreita e silenciosa de Tóquio, num subsolo, existe um estabelecimento que, há mais de 100 anos, serve um café cuidadosamente preparado. Graças a uma lenda urbana, o local recebe diversos frequentadores que esperam ansiosamente para viver uma experiência única: fazer uma viagem no tempo. Aqueles que retornam ao passado devem estar cientes dos riscos e também das regras.

On the 13th day of Harvest, a mysterious woman enters Haven's house of government and unleashes a devastation unlike anything this world has seen before. Reluctant hero, Sham, is caught in the blast—and is thrown back in time armed with a legendary new skill. Now he has just nine days to find this would-be terrorist before she can destroy the city of Haven and take countless lives in the process. But an investigation like this is never so simple.

PARA QUE NOSSAS LEMBRANÇAS JAMAIS SE APAGUEM Aos pés do Monte Hakodate, no norte do Japão, bem no meio de uma ladeira, existe um estabelecimento – assim como o Funiculì Funiculà de Tóquio – onde, apesar das irritantes regras, é possível viajar no tempo. No Café Donna Donna, vamos reencontrar Nagare e Kazu, e conhecer sua adorável filha Sachi, de sete anos. Em Antes que o Café Esfrie 3: a morte não precisa ser o fim da vida, conheceremos quatro pessoas que precisam viver essa experiência.

Du glaubst, Du weißt, wie die Welt tickt? Schon mal von D.O.D.O. gehört? D.O.D.O. - das Department of Diachronic Operations - ist eine Geheimorganisation der amerikanischen Regierung, die es sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die Magie in unsere Welt zurückzuholen. Denn selbst wenn Zauberei heute nur noch Stoff für Märchen und Mythen sein mag, so war sie doch real, bis sie 1851, dem Jahr der Great Exhibition in London, für immer verschwand. Melisandre Stokes, Linguistikerin in Harvard, und Tristan Lyons, ein geheimnisvoller Agent der amerikanischen Regierung, haben eine Mission: in die Vergangenheit zu reisen und den Niedergang der Magie zu verhindern.

Os frequentadores do mágico café Funiculì Funiculà conhecem bem a sua. famosa lenda e a extraordinária oferta de uma viagem no tempo. Muitos. clientes já vivenciaram essa incrível experiência, foram até lá com antigas. dores e velhos arrependimentos, fizeram as pazes com familiares queridos. – fizeram, principalmente, as pazes consigo mesmos – e visitaram seus entes. preciosos. Mas essa viagem não é isenta de riscos, e há algumas regras a seguir. Em Antes que o Café Esfrie 4, conheceremos quatro pessoas que precisam. viver essa experiência.

Sitting by the campfire, Brandy admitted a secret to her friends. She swore she saw a ghost when exiting a cave earlier that day. Was she seeing things? Did they believe her? The next day, breaking a cardinal rule, she snuck back to the cave alone. No one knew where she was. What if she fell or was trapped? There would be no rescue....

William Wells, a gifted but risk-averse US college dropout living an unadventurous life in London, stumbles upon a mysterious timepiece with the ability to alter time. When the Timepiece's previous owner is brutally murdered by unknown assailants, Will flees, only to see his girlfriend, Abigayle, vanish before his eyes when she comes into contact with this remarkable watch. He now finds himself alone in an unfamiliar city, wanted for a murder he didn't commit and the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance.

Why couldn’t Alan be cool like people in the ‘70s? After breaking up with his girlfriend Sheila and unsatisfyingly teaching English in South Korea, he befriends an alien grad student, Coff, who lets him time-travel to swingin’ 1967 England to live out his retro-boogie fantasy. But now 70 years old in Edmonton, Canada, Alan takes a chance in meeting Sheila again to confess his past. That causes problems in time that Coff will need more than Fleetwood Mac and fuzzy dice to fix.

Time itself can be wound back like a clock. The power of Winding can fix mistakes and prevent disasters. Or, in the wrong hands, it can be used as a weapon against the world.... Juniper Trask is a prodigy, raised under the Council’s strict Code, which allows Winders to exist in secret among average humans. After the shocking murder of her mentor, she is chosen to take his seat on the Council. But as Juniper settles into her new role, cracks of dissension are forming around her, and she uncovers the dark truth behind their power.

For “One,” an illegal clone who generates distance-bending wormholes, time is good for measuring how much longer she can survive in her home, Sector 215, an impoverished remnant of North America ruined by multiple nuclear blasts.

This is the story of Jake and Anna set against a backdrop of adventure, emotion, and inspiration. The book follows Jake as he travels across time and space into his past and struggles to take the lessons learned in his life and apply them to carefully create a brighter future and save his family.

Stroj času je dílo, které předběhlo svou dobu a ovlivnilo celý jeden literární žánr. Wellsův román nebyl několik desetiletí v češtině publikován, nejspíš pro podobnosti ani zdaleka ne náhodné. Poslechněte si příběh Poutníka, který vynalezl stroj času. Jednoho dne se při práci přenese do světa roku 802 701. První věc, kterou uvidí v hluboké tmě je zářící okřídlená sfinga. Ona je klíčem k jeho minulosti i přítomnosti. Brzy nato zjistí, že lidstvo této doby se dělí na dva typy osobností. Jedni jsou Eloiové, žijí na zemi a bojí se šera. Ti druzí jsou Morloci, procházejí tmou a žijí v podzemí.