Willis, Connie.
Summary: When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: Francie is in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding-- complete with a true-believer bridegroom. Aliens obviously don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. She's not the only victim of the alien's abduction spree. He has acquired a con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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Summary: Ori's holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave's latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving grandmother of Dave's fourth wife--and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth's in the 1950s. And, of course, she hates being condescended to by beautiful, popular Sloane and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2020
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Summary: Journeying back in time to the year 1320, twenty-first-century Oxford woman Kivrin arrives in the past during the outbreak of a deadly epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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Summary: A collection of 23 novellas and short stories by the author, including "It's a Wonderful Life," "Fire Watch," "Even the Queen," "The Last of the Winnebagos," "Nonstop to Portales," "Newsletter," "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know," "Cash Crop," "Daisy, in the Sun," "The Winds of Marble Arch," "The Soul Selects Her Own Society...," "A Letter from the Clearys," "Chance," "At the Rialto," and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2007
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Summary: When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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Summary: Sandra Foster studies fads, from Barbie dolls to the grunge look - how they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theory scientist studying monkeys' group behavior. They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package brings them together. It's a moment of synchronicity - if not serendipity - and they find themselves in a chaotic system of their own,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: Theodora Baumgarten has just been selected as an IASA space cadet, and therein lies the problem. She didn't apply for the ultra-coveted posting, and doesn't relish spending years aboard the ship to which she's been assigned. But the plucky young heroine, in true Heinlein fashion, has no plans to go along with the program. Aided by her hacker best friend Kimkim, in a screwball comedy that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1987
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Summary: When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spectra/Ballantine Books 2010
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Summary: A romantic comedy on two scientists using the chaos theory to predict fads in our society. They are Sandra and Bennet, working on the premise that a tiny action like the flap of a butterfly's wings in Arizona has an impact on the whole world, perhaps resulting in a hurricane in China. The couple's work on fad-diffusion produces comic as well as tragic results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: In a not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure that has been promised to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. So when Briddey Flannigan's fiancé proposes that he and Briddey undergo the procedure, she is delighted! Only--the results aren't quite as expected. Instead of gaining an increased empathetic link with her fiancé Briddey finds herself hearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: "A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors--including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin! The latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROGSummary: "Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEFelice, Cynthia.
Summary: On her mother's death, Delanna Milleflores returns to the planet Keramos to settle her estate. A law to prevent land speculation requires her to live with co-owner Sonny Tanner as his wife for a while. At first Delanna hates it, considering Tanner beneath her, but with time he grows on her. By the authors of Water Witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELSummary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007