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When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his twentieth-century existence and step into New York City in January 1882. Aside from his thirst for experience, he has good reason to return to the past--his friend Kate has a curious, half-burned letter dated from that year, and he wants to trace the mystery. But when Si begins to fall in love with a woman he meets in the past, he will be forced to choose between two worlds--forever. Praised as "pure New York fun" by Alice Hoffman, Time and Again is admired for its rich, painstakingly researched descriptions of life in New York City more than a century ago, and for the swift adventure at its core.

Gabaldon matches Niffenegger's once-in-a-lifetime romantic passion and adds some graphically depicted torture sessions in this lively time-travel romance set in 18th-century Scotland

World War II has finally ended and Claire Beauchamp Randall, a British Red Cross nurse, has gone off to Scotland with her historian husband, Frank, to try to resume their married life where it left off six years before: Their diligent attempts to make a baby come to a halt, however, when Claire discovers an ancient stone circle on a nearby hilltop, slips between two mysterious-looking boulders, and is transported willy-nilly to the year 1743. Stumbling down the hillside, disoriented and confused, Claire is discovered by Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall, an evil English officer who happens to be her husband's direct ancestor and physical look-alike. Randall notes Claire's revealing 1940's summer dress, assumes she is a whore, and attempts to rape her, whereupon she is rescued by the fierce MacKenzie clan, who take her to their castle and confine her there. Claire adjusts to her changed circumstances with amazing ease, using her nursing experience to tend to her hosts' illnesses while she impatiently awaits a chance to return lo the circle of stones. Before she can get away, circumstances force her into a marriage with James Frazer, a Scottish renegade from English justice and Jonathan Randall's archenemy. Young Jamie's good looks, passion, and virility soon redirect Claire's energies to defending her stalwart new husband against her former mate's evil clone, and the fierce, courageous but historically doomed Scottish clans against the course of destiny itself.

In 1979 Shay Garrett, who’s about to marry, looks into an antique Chinese mirror in her family’s historic home and faints. Shay wakes in the body of her grandmother in 1900. Her grandmother, Brandy, wakes up in Shay’s body. The Mirror relates the story of how these two women deal with this strange situation and the effect it has on their family.

An epic tale of passion, betrayal and survival in World War II Russia.

Set in St. Petersburg in 1941 against Hitler’s invasion of Russia, Simons tells a story of an impossible love between a young Russian girl, Tatiana, and a young officer in the Red Army called Alexander. Tatiana lives in a cramped apartment with her parents, brother and sister before Hitler invades. As St. Petersburg suffers from Hitler’s siege Tatiana and Alexander are drawn together, threatening to tear her family apart and reveal his dangerous secret.

From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.

After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.

Fascinated by love challenged or thwarted by the extraordinary trick time can play?

In Ysabel a pair of teenagers, Ned and Kate, stumble into a 2,500-year-old love triangle involving Celtic spirits in which truth, love, courage, and sacrifice are the only things that matter. Historical detail, evocative writing and fascinating characters—both ancient and modern—will appeal to mainstream as well as fantasy readers.

With sharply drawn characters and spare imagery both nightmarish and intimate, Blum tells the stories of Anna Schlemmer and her daughter, Trudy. Alternating between the perspective of Trudy, in modern-day Minnesota and Anna in World War II Germany, Those who save us explores what people endure to survive and the legacy of shame.

Trudy, a history professor, collects oral histories of WWII survivors. But her mother refuses to speak of her/their lives in Germany during WWII. Trudy’s sole evidence of her mother’s past comes in the form of a photograph showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.

Drabble artfully stitches together the disparate strands of two women’s lives, Dr. Barbara Halliwell, a forty-something academic and the 18th-century Korean Crown Princess Hyegyong.

Barbara is preparing for her trip to Soul when she receives the Crown Princess Hyegyong’s memoir. Hyegyong’s memoir is rich with the ways of the Korean court. Something in Barbara responds to Hyegyong’s story. Is it the loss of a child? The family dramas that cost Hyegyong her husband? Or is it something else?

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, THE LOVELY BONES succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.

A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness with a beautiful woman in the past. Starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

A story about life and the triumph of love over time. Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.

Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control.

Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.