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Madeleine L'Engle

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Premise labels used: time gate, time travel, past world, return home, family visit, cross-temporal contact

Setting labels used: Connecticut, prehistory, 3000 years past, family home, woods, pastoral setting, time-spanning setting, North America

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Madeleine L'Engle · 1981 · Time Quintet

A teen, a unicorn, and a telepathic sister race through history to avert nuclear war by altering one crucial family line.

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Premise labels: time travel · nuclear war · world-saving quest · family legacy · ancestral change · might-have-beens · cosmic evil

Setting labels: contemporary family home · historical past · medieval Wales · Puritan New England · Patagonia · North America · space-time continuum

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Distance: 0.1928

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Flux

Jeremy Robinson · 2019 · Infinite

A security chief and stranded townspeople are hurled through time by repeating energy waves, fighting monsters to get home.

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Premise labels: time travel · temporal anomaly · small-town survival · rescue mission · return home · family reunion · scientific experiment · alternate timeline · collective displacement

Setting labels: Appalachian mountains · Kentucky · small town · 1980s · multiple eras · prehistoric era · mythic landscape · contemporary setting · alternate timeline · single-location time fracture

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Distance: 0.2140

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The Legend of the Bloodstone

E.B. Brown · 2017 · Time Walkers

A modern woman falls through a bloodstone into 1600s Virginia, where survival and forbidden love collide.

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Premise labels: time travel · star-crossed love · captor captive · cross-cultural romance · survival · history and danger · past meets present · forbidden attraction · cultural clash · return home

Setting labels: colonial America · Virginia · Jamestown · 1600s · early 17th century · Powhatan territory · Tsenacomoco · Native American settlement · English settlement · historical past · time slip setting · precolonial contact

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Distance: 0.2198

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Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle · 2007 · Time Quintet

Twin brothers are swept into a mythic pre-Flood world where they must survive, grow up, and find a way home.

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Premise labels: time travel · biblical retelling · Noah's Ark · twin protagonists · pre-Flood world · accidental transport · family adventure · desert oasis

Setting labels: ancient desert · pre-Flood · biblical era · modern America · New England · mythic world · oasis · Noah's time

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Distance: 0.2267

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The Portal

Kathryn Lasky · 2019 · Tangled in Time

A grieving middle schooler discovers a greenhouse portal to Tudor England and a family mystery tied to Princess Elizabeth.

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Premise labels: time travel mystery · family secret · search for father · grieving child · new school · historical court · portal fantasy · dual timeline · cross-temporal identity

Setting labels: modern day · 21st century · Tudor England · 16th century · royal court · greenhouse · school setting · Indiana · historical reality · portal setting

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Distance: 0.2270

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Out of Time

Deborah Truscott · Time Series

A troubled modern woman inherits a family home and meets a Revolutionary-era soldier who has slipped into her time.

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Premise labels: time slip · reverse time travel · fish out of water · inheritance setup · marital breakup · cross-century romance · mystery

Setting labels: Revolutionary era · 18th century · 21st century · historical contemporary crossover · Pennsylvania · Virginia · North Carolina · coastal setting · small town · family home · garden shed

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Distance: 0.2271

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Last Year

Robert Charles Wilson · 2016

A 19th-century local working a future-run time-tourism city uncovers smuggling, secrets, and a risky cross-time romance.

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Premise labels: time portal · alternate timeline · tourism · colonization · commercialized time travel · future to past · past as destination · ethical interference

Setting labels: near future · late 19th century · 1870s · post-Civil War America · Ohio · Illinois · San Francisco · alternate history · parallel universe · multiverse

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Distance: 0.2285

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Sparks of Light

Janet B. Taylor · 2017 · Into the Dim

A teen time traveler returns to Gilded Age New York to stop a dangerous device from rewriting the future.

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Premise labels: time travelers · secret society · race against time · timeline threat · dangerous device · historical mission · past intervention · future stakes

Setting labels: Scotland · Scottish Highlands · Gilded Age · Victorian era · late 19th century · 1895 New York City · historical setting · time travel world · alternate history

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Distance: 0.2300

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Time's Divide

Rysa Walker · 2015 · The Chronos Files

A time-traveling teen races through shifting timelines to stop a deadly global plan before the future locks in forever.

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Premise labels: time travel · timeline shifts · prevent apocalypse · save the world · race against time · hidden faction · betrayal risk · love triangle

Setting labels: past and future · alternate timelines · historical settings · American history · urban settings · 20th century

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Distance: 0.2307

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Time and Again

Jack Finney · 1970 · Time

A bored New York artist joins a secret time-travel project and is sent into 1882, where history, mystery, and love collide.

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Premise labels: secret project · time travel · past immersion · historical investigation · love across time · family mystery · observe the past · change history

Setting labels: 1970 New York City · 1882 New York City · Manhattan · Old New York · winter setting · historical New York · urban setting · past-present contrast · Gilded Age · boarding house

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Distance: 0.2309

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The River of No Return

Bee Ridgway · 2014 · River of No Return

A Regency aristocrat and a 21st-century time traveler are pulled into a secret war over control of time.

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Premise labels: time travel · secret society · forbidden return · cross-time romance · timeline control · missing person in time · battle for time · family secrets · quest object · future at risk

Setting labels: Regency era · 1815 · 1812 · 19th century England · 21st century London · modern London · Vermont · Spain · Napoleonic Wars · historical present · alternate history · time-shifted world

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Distance: 0.2321

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The Obsidian Blade

Pete Hautman · 2012 · The Klaatu Diskos

A teen chases his missing parents through time portals that warp history, faith, and his family’s future.

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Premise labels: time travel · family mystery · missing parents · portal travel · faith crisis · destiny · alternate realities

Setting labels: small-town Minnesota · rural America · future world · alternate reality · historical periods · religious community · postdigital future

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Distance: 0.2327

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