Time Travel Fiction | Oak Lawn Public Library

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If what you love about time travel is contemplating the merits (ethics, even) of changing the past, then this is for you.

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"In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly's daughter Raisa, and put their...

2) Tales from the cafe: a novel

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Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

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Before the coffee gets cold volume 2

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Charming and comforting time travel stories perfect for cold and dreary days.

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"From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café. In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the...

3) Oona out of order

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Montimore, Margarita

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Thorndike Press large print core

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Time travel with a heavy dose of pop culture and humor. You'll love Oona!

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"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...

4) Recursion: a novel

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Crouch, Blake

Series

Thorndike Press large print basic

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Do you prefer your time travel to be more science based and suspenseful? Try the mind-bending Recursion.

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"That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first...

5) A rip through time

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Armstrong, Kelley

Series

Rip through time volume 1

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Armstrong puts her own clever and fresh spin on familiar time travel tropes.

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"In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland-in an unfamiliar body-with a killer on the loose. May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869: Housemaid...

6) Here and now and then

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Chen, Mike

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It's got science and heart AND Booklist says it's a winner for fans of Doctor Who.

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Stranded for eighteen years since the 1990s, time-traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally arrive, he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind in the future.

7) The future of another timeline

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Newitz, Annalee

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Newitz's 2019 novel combining time travel and feminism could not be more prescient.

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"1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to...

8) The rehearsals

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Christie, Annette

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Less traditional time travel and more Groundhog Day, this rom-com is sure to win you over.

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After a disastrous rehearsal dinner, Megan Givens and Tom Prescott vow to call their wedding off, until they wake up the next morning stuck together in a time loop, destined to relive the worst day of their lives.