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<\/a>Archive of Unknown Universes<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ruben Reyes Jr.<\/p>\nCambridge, 2018. Ana and Luis\u2019s relationship is on the rocks, despite their many similarities, including their mothers who both fled El Salvador during the war. In her search for answers, and against her best judgement, Ana uses The Defractor, an experimental device that allows users to peek into alternate versions of their lives. What she sees leads her and Luis on a quest through Havana and San Salvador to uncover the family histories they are desperate to know, eager to learn if what might have been could fix what is.<\/em><\/p>\n Havana, 1978. The Salvadoran war is brewing, and Neto, a young revolutionary with a knack for forging government papers, meets Rafael at a meeting for the People’s Revolutionary Army. The two form an intense and forbidden love, shedding their fake names and revealing themselves to each other inside the covert world of their activism. When their work separates them, they begin to exchange weekly letters, but soon, as the devastating war rages on, forces beyond their control threaten to pull them apart forever.<\/em><\/p>\n Ruben Reyes Jr.\u2019s debut novel is an epic, genre-bending journey through inverted worlds\u2014one where war ends with a peace treaty, and one where it ends with a decisive victory by the Salvadoran government. What unfolds is a stunning story of displacement and belonging, of loss and love. It\u2019s both a daring imagining of what might have been and a powerful reckoning of our past.<\/em> – Mariner Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War\u2013era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.<\/em><\/p>\n Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son\u2014but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn\u2019t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself.<\/em><\/p>\n In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past\u2014and the truth\u2014might not be as linear as she\u2019d like to believe.<\/em> – Atria Books<\/p>\n A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door.<\/em><\/p>\n Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China.<\/em><\/p>\n Memory, political revolution, generational change, and the ethical imagination are at the heart of Lina\u2019s illuminating conversations with her fellows in the Sea: how we come to believe what we believe, and how every person is an irreplaceable, unique vessel of history. Through the guidance of these great thinkers, Lina equips herself to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption when her ailing father begins to reveal his role in their family\u2019s tragic past.<\/em><\/p>\n As Lina confronts her father\u2019s troubling admissions, she begins to reconceptualize the world around her, gaining a deeper understanding of how our individual futures are shaped by our political circumstances, and she relies on the collective joy of art and intellectual endeavors to carry her through difficulty. A novel that voyages between centuries, generations, and ideas, The Book of Records is an indelible testament to the migratory nature of humanity and our ceaseless search for a home\u2014in the physical world, in cyberspace, in history, and in the imagination\u2014in the wake of catastrophe.<\/em> – W.W. Norton & Company<\/p>\n Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion\u2019s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children\u2019s books and recruiting posters\u2014but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.<\/em><\/p>\n Centuries later, Owen Mallory\u2014failed soldier, struggling scholar\u2014falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives\u2014and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.<\/em><\/p>\n But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una\u2019s legend\u2014if they want to tell a different story–they\u2019ll have to rewrite history itself.<\/em> – Tor Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n In Half Moon Bay, California, 2016, a young woman waits for her father\u2019s sailboat to arrive at port. They have agreed to meet on this day and time. Yet he never shows.<\/em><\/p>\n He has told her this event might come. And if it did, she was ready. Go to the library in Berkeley, find a certain book, follow the instructions. But what if the instructions lead to more questions than answers?<\/em><\/p>\n In 1933, a young man arrives in Vienna to begin a new post as a professor of mathematics at the university. There he finds himself part of the Engelhardt Circle, a group of intellectuals that have recently been targeted by a growing, anti-academic mob. The circle includes the preeminent minds of their time and a cast of characters desperate to get invited into their midst, many of whom will stop at nothing to get there. As fascism rises, and polarization increases, moderate voices are drowned out.<\/em><\/p>\n There are whispers of a machine, a music box, which can transport someone through time. But no one can confirm if it\u2019s a rumor or true. And the only people who know firsthand are not talking.<\/em><\/p>\n Between the young woman, who lives off the grid and spends her free time editing Wikipedia entries and picking fights with people online, and the circle of intellectuals debating space and time in Vienna on the eve of World War II, lie years of history that might easily be erased\u2014unless old secrets are unraveled. Kirsten Menger-Anderson\u2019s beautiful meditation on time, love, and obsession shows us how we never truly know what happened in the past, and often how the past eerily mirrors the future.<\/em> – Crown<\/p>\n Some murders can\u2019t be solved in just one lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they\u2019re frozen\u2014or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions.<\/em><\/p>\n As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery, yet danger lurks around every corner. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day.<\/em><\/p>\n Could the two cases be connected? In a race through and against time, Ali must find out before it\u2019s too late.<\/em> – Pamela Dorman Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n \u201cIf at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that\u2019s all fine and dandy, because \u201cwhatever will be, will be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there\u2019s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.<\/em><\/p>\n Feeling sorry for herself, Alexis finds a bottle of vodka from her college days and goes on a bender, blacking out in the process. Only this time, she doesn\u2019t wake up at home, or in the right city. In fact, she isn\u2019t even in the right year.<\/em><\/p>\n Alexis is back in her college town in the year 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n Convinced this is her chance to do things over, she heads to her dorm\u2014and comes face-to-face with her eighteen-year-old unruly self, who goes by Lexi because it\u2019s \u201csexier.\u201d Getting acclimated to life in the early 2000s is the easy part. Dealing with Lexi is where things prove difficult.<\/em><\/p>\n They might be the same person, but they couldn\u2019t be more different from one another. Now Alexis and Lexi must learn to get along and come to terms with the fact that alone, they will never make things right, but together, they could change their life for the better.<\/em> – Hanover Square Press<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n What would you give to relive the past?<\/em><\/p>\n Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over it: Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four.<\/em><\/p>\n When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in a dangerous experiment that could result in something he thought impossible: seeing his daughter again.<\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Maya embarks on a journey back to her own past in Japan, and to a formative lover who once shattered her heart. As Noah and Maya grapple with hope and despair, new information emerges that the experiments might not be exactly what they seems.<\/em><\/p>\n A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where time is both a healer and a thief.<\/em> – Riverhead Books<\/p>\n Virginia, 1954. When a woman wakes on a patient transport bus arriving at Hanover State Psychiatric Hospital, she remembers nothing of her life before that moment, none of the dark things she must\u2019ve seen and done that forged her into the skillful and cunning fighter she is. Doctors tell her she\u2019s Dorothy Frasier, a paranoid schizophrenic, committed for her violent delusions. She\u2019s certain they\u2019re wrong\u2014until disturbing visions of a dystopian future in which frantic scientists urge her to complete \u201cthe mission\u201d and save mankind begin to invade her reality.<\/em><\/p>\n Believing it\u2019s Hanover causing the hallucinations, she tells no one and focuses only on escaping\u2014until there\u2019s a visitor. A man whose loving face\u2014and touch\u2014she remembers, a man who knows all about her visions, because he\u2019s spent years helping her cope with them: her husband, Paul Frasier.<\/em><\/p>\n Now she\u2019s sure of nothing, caught between two realities. Believe in the future, and she might save the world. Believe in her husband and doctors\u2019 plans for her treatment, and she might save herself. She needs answers, but to get them she\u2019ll have to harness the darkness inside her as she risks her freedom, her mind, and ultimately her life in a heart-stopping quest for the truth.<\/em> – Henry Holt and Co.<\/p>\n A family saga following four generations on a time-bending journey from coastal Scotland to a colony on Mars.<\/em><\/p>\n Hannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a visitor from the future, a young man from a human settlement on Mars, traveling backwards through time to try to make a crucial intervention in the fate of our dying planet, and he needs Hannah\u2019s help. Laboring in the warmth of a Scottish summer, Hannah and the stranger are on the path towards a breakthrough\u2014and then things go terribly wrong. Joe Mungo Reed\u2019s intricately crafted novel expands from this extraordinary event, drawing together the stories of four lives reckoning with what it means to take fate into their own hands, moving from the last days of civilization on Earth through the birth of another on Mars.<\/em><\/p>\n Roban lives in the Colony, one of the first generation born to this sterile new outpost, where he is consumed by longing for the lost wonders of a home planet he never knew. Between Hannah and Roban, two generations, a father and a daughter, face an uncertain future in a world that is falling apart. Andrew is a politician running to be Scotland\u2019s First Minister. Andrew believes there is still time for the human spirit to triumph, if only he can persuade people to band together. For his starkly rationalist daughter Kenzie, this idealism doesn\u2019t offer the hard tools needed to keep the rising floods at bay. And so, she signs on to work for a company that would abandon Earth for the promise of a world beyond\u2014in contravention of all Andrew stands for.<\/em><\/p>\n In considering which concerns should guide us in a time of crisis\u2014social, technological, or familial\u2014and reckoning with the question of whether there is meaning to be found in the pursuit of salvation beyond success itself, Joe Mungo Reed has written a novel of elegiac wonder and beauty.<\/em> – W.W. Norton & Company<\/p>\n Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She\u2019s built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time\u2014to any point in the traveler\u2019s lifetime\u2014and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it\u2019s not perfect: the traveler has no way to interact with the past. They can only observe.<\/em><\/p>\n After Beth\u2019s husband, Colson, the co-creator of the machine, dies in a tragic car accident, Beth is left to raise Isabella\u2014their only daughter\u2014and continue the work they started. Mired in grief and threatened by her ruthless CEO, Beth pushes herself to the limit to prove the value of her technology.<\/em><\/p>\n Then the impossible happens. Simply viewing personal history should not alter the present, but with each new observation she makes, her own timeline begins to warp.<\/em><\/p>\n As her reality constantly shifts, Beth must solve the puzzles of her past, even if it means forsaking her future.<\/em> – Orbit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>The Book of Lost Hours<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Hayley Gelfuso<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Book of Records<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Madeleine Thien<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Everlasting<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Alix E. Harrow<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Expert of Subtle Revisions<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kirsten Menger-Anderson<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Frozen People<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Elly Griffiths<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Girl I Was<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Jeneva Rose<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Lightbreakers<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Aja Gabel<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Once and Future Me<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Melissa Pace<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Terrestrial History<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Joe Mungo Reed<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Third Rule of Time Travel<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Philip Fracassi<\/p>\n