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Time Travel: Adult Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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The Book of Doors
by Gareth Brown
When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
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A Quantum Love Story
by Mike Chen
When strangers Mariana Pineda and Carter Cho get stuck together repeating the same four days, finally reaching Friday might mean having to give up the connection growing between them.
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Flux
by Jinwoo Chong
Brandon experiences his reality unraveling when he begins losing chunks of time and finding himself in an apartment he doesn't recognize and starts to suspect his new employers have discovered time travel and are covering up violent crimes.
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The Good Part
by Sophie Cousens
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
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Calico
by Lee Goldberg
A disgraced ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, tries to start over in Barstow, California, and investigates an old skeleton buried in a shallow grave, uncovering a series of disturbing clues that force her to confront her troubled past.
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The Day Tripper
by James Goodhand
After an altercation with a former childhood bully leaves him bruised, bloody and almost drowning in the Thames, 20-something Alex Dean wakes up each day in a different year and must piece together what happens in his life after that fateful night to save himself and the people he loves most.
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The Invisible Hour
by Alice Hoffman
Abandoning the rules of the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden and books are considered evil, Mia Jacob, after secretly reading The Scarlet Letter, discovers the power of the written word, which leads her on a journey of love, heartbreak and self-discovery.
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The Other Valley
by Scott Alexander Howard
Vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil, 16-year-old Odile, who lives in an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, discovers her friend Edme is about to die, and sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, instead finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future.
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Earthdivers. : Kill Columbus
by Stephen Graham Jones
The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on a bloody, one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. But there are steep costs to disrupting the timeline, and taking down an icon isn't an easy task for an academic with no tactical training and only a wavering moral compass to guide him. As the horror of the task ahead unfolds and Tad's commitment is tested, his actions could trigger a devastating new fate for his friends and the future.
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Five First Chances
by Sarah Jost
Lou feels like she is stuck on the wrong path: alone, in a city far from home, watching other people be happy. When the man she's in love with announces his engagement to someone else, Lou is consumed by 'what ifs'. That's when she finds herself slipping back in time to a night two years ago, where one small decision changed everything... Suddenly, Lou has a chance to fix her mistakes. But as her choices lead her down roads she never could have imagined, she finds herself stuck in a time loop of her own making. And with each slip, Lou notices her life intersecting with one person again and again. A friend of a friend who once lived on the periphery, who is slowly becoming the one person who makes her feel like she might finally be on the right track. Lou is about to realize that our greatest love stories aren't always the ones we expected, but are the ones we choose to fight for.
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Woke Up Like This
by Amy Lea
When a prom-decorating snafu sends her crashing into her archnemesis J. T. Renner, Charlotte Wu wakes up in an unfamiliar bed at 30 years old next to her fiancé—J. T., and together they must find their way back to 17, making some surprising discoveries about each other along the way.
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Time's Mouth
by Edan Lepucki
Still heartbroken over the abandonment of the mother she never knew, teenager Opal journeys into her own past to reveal the generations of secrets that gave rise to the shimmering source of her family's painful legacy—one that grows more powerful with time.
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The Seven Year Slip
by Ashley Poston
In Red Mountain, where everyone's lives are intertwined like the vines in the town's beautiful and renowned vineyards, the secrets of four complicated people are revealed, and they each wonder if this town filled with eccentrics will rally around them—or turn their backs.
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Cassandra in Reverse
by Holly Smale
After an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth's boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse, in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem.
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The Blue is Where God Lives
by Sharon Sochil Washington
A powerful work of magical realism that interrogates the legacy of slavery and roots of poverty, witnesses the beauty and power in survival, and asks whether belief, magic, and intention can forge new realities.
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The Second Chance Year
by Melissa Wiesner
When her wish to redo her awful year comes true, Sadie Thatcher, with her life in shambles, navigates her this second chance, seeing the red flags she missed in both her relationship and career while harboring a secret crush on her brother's best friend.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
by Adrienne Young
Determined to end the curse that has plagued their family line, June Farrow, after her grandmother's death reveals clues to her mother's decades-old disappearance, embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.
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