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Christopher Watkins, his mother and little brother board the Titanic to meet his father in the United States. When the giant ship strikes an iceberg and the unthinkable happens, Christopher must quickly become the man of the family and find a away to keep them all safe. Written in graphic-novel format.
6) Displacement
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"In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather's WWII memoir, which...
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In the distant future, kid-genius Robin Hood works for a time travel company that makes sure no one messes with history. But Robin is tired of watching people in the past suffer and decides to jump back in time and help throughout the ages. With Robin's heartless boss chasing after him, how long can the boy continue his noble quest? Written in graphic novel format.
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"In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster Town" in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan"--
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Tío Hector sends Fiona, Amy, and Elena back in time to the 1940s and a huge shipyard in Bath, Maine. They meet Rosie the Riveter and the other women workers building huge ships to fight in World War II, but the trio needs to find a huge red dragon before history learns of its existence.
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Tío Hector sends monster hunters Elena, Jorge, and Fiona back in time to the southern lowlands of Central America where they must find two poltergeists who are forcing the Mayan people to endlessly play their once-fun ball game, ulama. Includes content on the social structure, government, and fashion of the Maya civilization.
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"A graphic novel about the Northwest Resistance of 1885. In this book, the protagonist Echo Desjarlais encounters the Metis people of the Northwest Territory, including leaders Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont and Mistahimaskwa, in Batoche and other sites of the Resistance. After victories, then defeat, at the hands of the Canadian Forces, Riel surrenders. Echo travels back to the present, where she discovers her own ties to the Métis who fought there....
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"After their showdown, Negi asks Tōta to follow in his footsteps. The request brings Tōta and Kirië to Kyoto in search of an old workshop owned by Nagi Springfield, Negi's father and Tōta's great-grandfather. But uncovering the workshop isn't such an easy task, and with Kirië struggling over her conflicted feelings for Tōta, the trip might be more than the two of them can handle."--Page [4] of cover.
15) Bermuda
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"There's a region in the Atlantic Ocean where planes disappear, ships are lost, and traveling souls go missing... never to be heard from again. And there's an island within this place, mysterious and uncharted, untouched by time and civilization, where all who are lost end up. Bermuda lives here. She's a normal, everyday 16-year-old girl, who just so happens to live in an otherworldly dimension swarming with dinosaurs and pirates! It's made her scrappy,...
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Tōta and the rest of UQ HOLDER successfully travel back in time and stop the nuclear missile from hitting the orbital elevator...but just as they do, they discover that another attack is headed their way! And with Kirië's save point destroyed, it means that this time, there are no do-overs. With only one chance to save humanity from destruction, can Tōta figure out a way to save everyone, or will it take a great sacrifice to avert an even greater...
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"A RACE AGAINST TIME - Just as Tōta and Kirië are about to make their way back from Kyoto, the Senkyōkan is attacked by none other than Tōta's younger sister, Cutlass! While Jinbei and Makabe manage to keep her attacks at bay, Cutlass soon reveals that the orbital elevator is the target of an impending nuclear missile attack--which claims the lives of over ten thousand civilians. Tōta, Kirië, and the rest of UQ HOLDER travel back in time...
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"Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a 'Pied-Noir,' the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother's death, Olivia found some of her grandmother's journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself....
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Echo Desjardins is adjusting to her new home, finding friends, and learning about Métis history. She just can't stop slipping back and forth in time. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory as Canadian surveyors have arrived to change the face of territory, and Métis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to...
20) Retroactive
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Temporal agent Tarik Abdelnasser is trapped in a time loop, living and dying over and over again. The discovery of time travel is unknown to the general public, but a new Cold War rages between global intelligence agencies as they attempt to alter historical events in favor of their respective futures. When new intel points the U.S. Bureau of Temporal Affairs (BTA) toward a hostile anomaly in the past, veteran field agent Tarik and his new partner,...