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The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right. He would try harder. With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick. Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway.

Alex Hawk has returned victorious from Drakana. He is a hero in Kragdon-ah and he and his daughters have decided to stay there forever. An effort is afoot to unite the far-flung tribes of Kragdon-ah and Alex's daughters Amy and Sanda are recruited to cross the wide land to help make that happen. Alex is forced to take another journey across the wilds of Kragdon-ah, encountering more fantastic creatures, new enemies, and old allies.

'A brilliantly clever tale about time travel gone wrong. Bold, convincing and beautifully told – I could not put this book down' – CLARE LESLIE HALL 'So impressive. It made me see London in a completely new way and brought the Blitz to life. Incredibly clever – I loved it' – HARRIET TYCE...

Penguin Classics presents H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Brian Cox. 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim...

When he stepped through a mysterious, shimmering door in his basement, Alex found himself flung through time. Now, he is called upon to rescue the young girl who is thought to be the Chosen One - the savior of Kragdon-ah. A dangerous journey, new and deadlier creatures, and hairs-breadth escapes make Lost in Kragdon-Ah a worthy successor to A Door into Time.

As Kinnall Darival writes "I" in his journal, he knows this pronoun is forbidden by his people of Manneran because it is too personal. But through the use of a powerful, mind-altering drug, he has learned to understand what people are really feeling and to speak for himself. Now he is compelled to share his message of liberation, regardless of the risk. This science fiction classic is a cult favorite from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.

Brought to you by Penguin. What if you didn't have to live with your mistakes? Across the world, thousands of people are shocked to receive an email telling them that they once chose to have a traumatic memory removed. Now they are being given the chance to get that memory back. For Mei, William...

In the Borrowed World Series, America is brought to its knees by coordinated terror attacks against the infrastructure. After spending weeks walking across a violent and horrific landscape to reach his family, Jim Powell hoped they could weather this storm on their secluded Appalachian farm. They had prepared for this. They had armed for this. They could live without power and fuel. What happens, though, when the same qualities that drew Jim to his isolated valley begin to attract another armed group looking for a place to hide from the unrest of a starving nation?

Cassie Conrad knew life was unfair, but she never thought the universe could be this cruel. Informed by her father that the world is going to end, she is torn between staying with her friend Sara or trekking across the country to the family’s farm in Idaho.

A glitch in time. A nation in ruins. One Marine’s fight to survive a future that shouldn’t exist. When Marine combat veteran Alan Carson sets off on a solo hike through New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, he’s searching for peace—and a path forward after years at war. What he finds is a dead man, a hidden cave, and a one-way passage seventeen years into the future… into a world where America has collapsed into chaos and survival is anything but guaranteed.

A college student in Knoxville. An Irish couple on their dream vacation in Orlando. A bank robber in an Atlanta prison...what do they all have in common? They are survivors of vPx073, the most deadly virus ever to be unleashed on the planet. One that has brought civilization to a standstill.

ArkTech’s forty-year anniversary is almost here, but Charlotte Vance has bigger things on her mind. She’s determined to protect her home and her best friend, Ben. That means stopping ArkTech’s curious AI from glitching – once and for all. When Ben wants to know why a young man is braving a violent storm, Charlotte follows a trail that leads to a strange new technology. It trades in the most valuable currency of all: time. But Charlotte soon finds herself in a race against the clock. A missing person case pulls her deeper into the mystery – and towards a chilling possibility…

The last survivors. The last chance. The last leap through time... In a crumbling biodome surrounded by endless seas and swarms of microdrones, humanity’s last survivors cling to hope. For Isabel, a dying scientist, and Diego, the man she loves, time is running out—literally. The Earth is ravaged, and the biodome that was meant to save them is failing. But when Isabel stumbles upon a long-lost time bridge, the possibility of changing the past emerges, offering one final chance to rewrite history. There’s just one problem: only one person can make the journey.

Something is wrong with the signal. It begins as a tone—barely perceptible, easily dismissed. A mistake in the air. A pattern no one remembers hearing, but no one can quite ignore. As the world edges toward war, Saul and Stretch find themselves pulled into something they cannot name. A sequence of events that feels less like coincidence and more like design. Others have heard it too. Some follow it. Some resist. None of them understand it. Not yet.

If you knew the end was here, who would you tell? Who would believe you? In Cady’s case, no one would take her word at face value. Not anymore. A microbiologist in another time and a prepper by choice, Cady hasn’t been in the science industry in years. She gave up a promising career to pursue life with her husband in the woods. When Jackson, a man from her past, resurfaces with vague warnings and promises to uphold overzealous plans from their college days, Cady must remember the details or lose more than a friendship. The entire human race stands in the balance.

Commander Jack Canida takes to the open road with his former lover to find their kidnapped daughter in the wildlands of the zombie apocalypse. Forced to tell lies to protect him, Lila Sterling denied Jack the daughter they share. Now they will confront their distrust, their old romantic feelings, and the undead to bring Selena safely home.

On Earth in the year 2148, the utopian city-state known as the New Republic is fractured and focused on maintaining an iron grip on its citizens as a growing resistance movement threatens to topple the old regime. Logan Yarbrough struggles with his loyalties. In his heart, he knows the cause of the resistance is righteous but he’s no longer willing to help their leaders train for the great uprising. The urge to fight in simpler times overwhelms Logan and he flees the conflict of the present to experience the challenges represented in the ancient past.

The Shattered Plaza remembers everything. And it's killing Coley Darkmoon. Neon signs flicker through collapsed centuries. A 21st-century noodle stall bleeds into a 30th-century monorail. The air tastes of ash, ozone, and a war that won't stay dead. When Coley activates an ancient artifact, reality tears open—and the past doesn't just return. It attacks. Now he's caught in a desperate alliance: Lyra ChronoMoon, a warrior fighting to stabilize timelines that are eating themselves alive. Arianna, a temporal analyst whose visions reveal the Obsidian Hand's true plan.

It's been 10 years since the triumphant return of Chuck, his family, and his fellow settlers to a new, post-nuclear-war Alaska. It's been nine years since the UN recognized Alaska as a new nation under United States protection. Now, a struggling United States has abandoned them again. Good people have died. New enemies have arisen. And once again, Chuck is faced with dragging a new Alaska, kicking and screaming, into the modern era. It won't be an easy road.

Phix has spent lifetimes traveling through humanity’s history, searching for the moment everything went wrong. He thought it was the rise of the machines. He thought it was the war that burned entire galaxies to dust. He was wrong. Something else has been erasing humanity before the war even began. Lagrange-4 station vanishes without a trace, its crew wiped from history like they never existed. Earth is next. The correction is accelerating. If Phix doesn’t find the first rewrite, the entire species will be erased—not just from the future, but from all of time.