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Invictus
\"A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as \"one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race.\" The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to \"boss the whole country inside of three weeks.\" And so he does. Emerging as \"The Boss,\" he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot—with unexpected results.
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A tale of Time City
\"London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside because of the war. But she is being kidnapped--out of her own time. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys of her own age, from a place called Time City. Built eons ago on a patch of space outside time, Time City was designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a Twenty Century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl....\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Isola rasa: Reimagining Mallorca and Ibiza as a Blank Canvas for Tourism in Travel Fiction
This article looks at how travel writing, travel fiction, and the capitalist stage of tourism have together reimagined Mallorca and Ibiza as isolae rasae, or blank geographies. The notion of isola rasa grasps the commodification of these islands as idyllic, timeless spaces, devoid of any complex history and local community, and serving as backdrops for fantasies of Northern European tourists. This transformation, evident in literature, positions such Mediterranean islands as Mallorca and Ibiza as escape zones for travelers seeking a sensual remedy to the alienation they experience in their own societies. The article discusses the ways in which contemporary literary works both reuse and complicate these tropes. By examining works such as Luke Rhinehart’s novel Naked Before the World and Matt Haig’s novel The Life Impossible, the article argues that these works, by narrating the homogenized tourist experience that prioritizes visitors’ fantasies over local dynamics, provide a critical platform that enables a productive discussion of the environmental, social, and cultural costs of mass tourism.
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A wrinkle in time
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Kindred
NEW FOREWORD BY JANELLE MONÁE Experience the time travel science fiction classic from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and winner of the MacArthur \"Genius\" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo Awards.
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Tau zero
\"Aboard the spacecraft Leonora Christine, fifty crewmembers, half men and half women, have embarked on a journey of discovery like no other to a planet thirty light-years away. Since their ship is not capable of traveling faster than light, the crew will be subject to the effects of time dilation and relativity. They will age five years on board the ship before reaching their destination, but thirty-three years will pass on Earth. Experienced scientists and researchers, they have come to terms with the time conditions of their space travel.\"--Amazon.com
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Imagining the Mediterranean Again and Again: Touristic Imaginaries of the Mediterranean Sea, and How It Appears from a Lebanese Literary Perspective
In this article, I analyze the contemporary literary narratives that capture and (re)construct Lebanese imaginaries of the Mediterranean and compare these imaginaries to the ways in which tourists imagine and describe the Mediterranean and its coasts. My aim is to explore the Lebanese multifaceted local perceptions of the Mediterranean, which is viewed not only as sublime and life-giving but also as perilous and polluted. To this end, I analyze four texts: Lost in Beirut: A True Story (2021) by Ashe and Magdalena Stevens, Between Beirut and the Moon (2020) by A. Naji Bakhti, Spring Rain (2020) by Andy Warner, and “The Sea Closes at 7:00” (2022) by Sabah Ayoub. By juxtaposing these narratives with those constructed from a tourist perspective—or targeted toward tourists—I seek to illustrate how the generalized imaginary of the Mediterranean as a tourist haven fails to align with the Lebanese perspective, and how it is adapted to suit the unique reality of Lebanon. This reality often diverges significantly from the Mediterranean experience as rendered by the tourist industry of the Global North.
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Wayfarer
Etta finds herself stranded--cut off from Nick and her natural time--and must make her way back to him before the timeline as they know it is destroyed.
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