space and time

"On the last leg of a month-long expedition to the farmland planet Spiralite, the Guardians run into a blockade of drones that impound their ship and see them imprisoned.... again. Despite Gamora's suspicions about Spiralite's involvement, the Guardians quickly find a way to complete their mission. But when they arrive at the drop-off planet, things take a bizarre turn-the original deal maker has no recollection of their agreement, and the planet's citizens are acting strangely robotic..."--Back cover.

Nearly a thousand years in the future, a sheltered and spoiled girl named Lah Lia was raised for a single purpose--to be sacrificed into the mysterious spacetime diskos that hovers over the Cydonian Pyramid. Just before she is killed, however, a strange boy appears from the diskos, and helps her escape. Now her fate and the boy's--Tucker Feye--are inextricably linked.

It's August 1892, and Sophia has just returned from a foreign Age to find herself on a ship with nothing but a cryptic map to lead her to her missing parents. Meanwhile, New Occident is at war, and Sophia's uncle has been blackmailed into aiding the deadly mission.

"In Fall 1939, Richard Feynman, a brash and brilliant recent graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The prim and proper Wheeler timed their interaction with a watch placed on the table. Feynman caught on, and for the next meeting brought his own cheap watch, set it on the table next to Wheeler's, and also began timing the chat. The two had a hearty laugh and a lifelong friendship was born. At first glance, they would seem an unlikely pair. Feynman was rough on the exterior, spoke in a working class Queens accent, and loved playing bongo drums, picking up hitchhikers, and exploring out-of-the way places. Wheeler was a family man, spoke softly and politely, dressed in suits, and had the manners of a minister. Yet intellectually, their roles were reversed."--Provided by publisher.

"Two strangers: the Doctor, charming, eccentric Time Lord with a past as dark and heavy as a black hole; Gabriella Gonzalez, waitress and wannabe artist with a future dragging her down like lead chains. Hurled together by a wave of psychic horror haunting New York, they embark on an epic new adventure across time and space when a left turn in the Time Vortex strands them in the bomb-besieged trenches of World War I! And it's not just the churning mud or the constant bombardments they have to worry about... the fearsome Weeping Angels are here and feasting on the futures of the soldiers on all sides! There's barely time for Gabby to catch up with her best friend Cindy Wu before a cosmic terror causes chaos across the city! When an aging Hollywood star is empowered by an extraterrestrial artefact, the Doctor, Gabby and Cindy are swept up in their biggest adventure yet!"--OCLC.

Contains 14 stories from the "Doctor Who" universe, based on Greek mythology.

". . . Tiffany and her fellow newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac, and KJ are launched from prehistoric times into the year 2000, where they finally get some answers about what . . . is happening. In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl from 1988"--Back cover.

"... internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world that underlies reality -- and how we find our place within it"--Jacket flap.

"The year is 1645, and Edinburgh is in the grip of the worst plague in its history. Nobody knows who will be the next to succumb--nobody except the Night Doctor, a masked figure that stalks the streets, seeking out those who will not live to see another day. But death is not the end. The Doctor, Bill and Nardole discover that the living are being haunted by the recently departed--by ghosts that do not know they are dead. And there are other creatures lurking in the shadows, slithering, creeping creatures filled with an insatiable hunger. The Doctor and his friends must face the terrifying secret of the Street of Sorrows--that something which has lain dormant for two hundred million years is due to destroy the entire city... "--Back cover.

"In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites [the reader] to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike" -- Provided by publisher.