Fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner accompanies his photographer father to France, where he is working on a coffee-table book. As Ned strolls along roads walked by Celtic tribes and Roman legions, he discovers a very old story playing itself...
Space and time
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Auteur:Walsh, AnnSommaire:Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind. While she is in the peaceful graveyard of nearby Barkerville she...
- Auteur:Cox, Brian, Forshaw, JeffSommaire:
The authors offer a highly accessible explanation of Einstein's equation, using everyday life to explore the principles of physics.
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Auteur:Lawson, JulieSommaire:On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award —...
- Auteur:Stead, RebeccaSommaire:
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe...
- Auteur:Norris, KateSommaire:
Teenage Winnie can see splits, the moment when outcomes in the multiverse diverge. In the middle of WWII, and afraid of what her ability could be used for, she keeps it hidden. Only her father knows. But he has a plan.
- Auteur:Card, Orson ScottSommaire:
Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. When he wakes up on a seemingly abandoned Earth, a question haunts him: Who woke him up, and why?
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Auteur:Jacques, BrianSommaire:Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave...
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Auteur:Vonnegut, KurtSommaire:According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should...
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Auteur:Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSommaire:Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity watches, waiting.
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Cats don't really have nine lives, but they can visit nine different lives, anywhere, anytime. This is the secret Jason's cat, Gareth, tells him. When Jason hears this, he begs to go along. Soon cat and boy find themselves in...
- Auteur:Pratchett, TerrySommaire:
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. On the Discworld time management is the job of the Monks of History...
- Auteur:Fadugba, FemiSommaire:
During arguably the worst week of Esso's life, an accident knocks him into an incredible world, a place beyond space or time, where he can see glimpses of the past and future. But if what he sees there is true, he might not have...
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Auteur:Norton, AndreSommaire:The first novel in the classic series, in which wars are no longer fought on land, in the air, or on the sea-but throughout time and space itself ... The never-ending tension between Russia and the United States has been escalated by a...
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Auteur:Baille, MarthaSommaire:From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel following Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into the interior of Baffin Island. His...
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Auteur:Halpern, PaulSommaire:In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The...
- Auteur:Rovelli, CarloSommaire:
"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book."--The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and...
- Auteur:Thompson, KateSommaire:
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his...
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Auteur:Baxter, Stephen, Pratchett, TerrySommaire:War has come to Long Earth. Joshua, now married and a father, is summoned by Lobsang. It seems that he alone can confront the perfect storm of crises that threatens to plunge all of the Long Earth into a war unlike any that has been...
- Auteur:Baxter, Stephen, Pratchett, TerrySommaire:
2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien race intends to capture and...
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