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1) The war of the worlds

Author

Wells, H. G

Series

Dover thrift editions
Smart Pop
Timeless Classics
New York Review Books classics
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle

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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...

2) The house with a clock in its walls

Author

Bellairs, John

Series

Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna and her husband built a timepiece into...

3) The trolley to yesterday

Author

Bellairs, John

Series

Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass series volume 6

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass discover a trolley which transports them back to Constantinople in 1453 as the Turks are invading the Byzantine Empire.

4) The mansion in the mist

Author

Bellairs, John

Series

Anthony Monday and Miss Eells series volume 4
Anthony Monday Mysteries

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth.