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Emma Vieceli

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Premise labels used: time travel, alternate realities, multiverse, identity reveal, homecoming quest, truth confession, romantic reunion, search for missing love

Themes labels used: identity, alternate selves, consequences, grief, memory, choice, acceptance, belonging, letting go, self-expression, truth, connection across realities, fate, mourning, living on

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Life Is Strange Vol. 4: Partners in Time - Tracks

Emma Vieceli · 2021 · Life is Strange Comics

Max keeps chasing her way back across timelines on a multiverse road trip where love, loss, and reality keep colliding.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate realities · road trip · parallel timelines · reunion quest · multiverse journey · coming together

Themes labels: identity · loss · grief · hope · connection · parallel lives · choice and consequence · belonging · memory · acceptance · love across realities · alternate paths

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Life Is Strange Vol. 2: Waves

Emma Vieceli · 2019 · Life is Strange Comics

A displaced time traveler tries to live in an alternate reality while old bonds, new powers, and hidden truths unsettle everything.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · parallel timelines · multiple realities · powers · new mystery · identity crisis · displaced protagonist · missing life

Themes labels: guilt · trauma · grief · abandonment · belonging · identity · alternate selves · consequences · memory · loss · acceptance · fate · secrets · trust · loneliness · what-if

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Portal

Imogen Rose · 2010 · Portal Chronicles

A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.

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Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · identity swap · double life · family mystery · hidden portal · changed life · second chance · parallel world · teen romance

Themes labels: identity · belonging · choice · family relationships · trust · self-discovery · free will · regret · love versus duty · memory · reality · consequences · change · coming of age

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The Girl with the Red Balloon

Katherine Locke · 2017 · The Balloonmakers

A teen accidentally time-travels to 1988 East Berlin and joins a magical resistance while history and family secrets collide.

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Premise labels: time travel · magical escape network · oppressive regime · history alteration · mystery of arrival · homecoming quest · forbidden romance

Themes labels: freedom · oppression · resistance · hope · memory · history · identity · belonging · perseverance · survival · morality · choice · cultural guilt · justice · self-discovery · religious identity · intergenerational trauma · anti-racism · antisemitism · bigotry · loss · grief · bystander responsibility

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The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare

M.G. Buehrlen · 2015 · Alex Wayfare

A teen outcast discovers her visions are past-life time travel—and someone is hunting her across time.

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Premise labels: past lives · time travel · reincarnation · soul travel · hidden identity · mysterious mentor · secret power · outcast heroine

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · choice and consequence · fate · memory · reincarnation · change the past · belonging · family responsibility · trust · power and corruption · coming of age

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The Memory Collectors

Dete Meserve · 2025

Four strangers get one hour in their past, but a time-travel glitch strands them together and exposes a shared tragedy.

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Premise labels: time travel experiment · past revisit · shared tragedy · second chances · closure quest · intertwined strangers · hidden secrets

Themes labels: grief · loss · forgiveness · regret · redemption · second chances · fate · memory · closure · love · hope · identity · perspective · moving forward · trauma · accountability

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Bridge

Lauren Beukes · 2023

A grieving daughter uses a mysterious worm to search alternate realities for her missing mother—and for herself.

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Premise labels: alternate realities · multiverse search · grieving daughter · missing mother · consciousness swap · identity search · dangerous discovery · rival pursuit

Themes labels: grief · identity · choice · self-discovery · fate · closure · bereavement · family estrangement · moral ambiguity · consent · addiction · control · danger of knowledge · race · class · representation · search for self

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The Taking

Kimberly Derting · 2014 · The Taking

A teen returns after five missing years unchanged, and must uncover what happened while her world moved on without her.

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Premise labels: alien abduction · missing time · memory loss · returnee · special powers · identity crisis · lost life

Themes labels: change · identity · loss · moving on · trust · belonging · fate · acceptance · free will · memory

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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

Themes labels: family · loss · grief · survival · identity · self-discovery · fate · time and memory · human condition · loyalty · homecoming · history · paradox · cause and effect

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Ursiderne

Nanna Foss · 2020 · Spektrum

A grieving teen is pulled into a time-travel mystery that forces her to confront a past she wants to forget.

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Premise labels: time travel · grief · loss of parent · teen ensemble · mystery · seeking answers · hidden past · return to the past

Themes labels: grief · mourning · memory · loss · trauma · identity · belonging · trust · fate · choice · acceptance · healing · time · change the past · secrets

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Wander Dust

Michelle Warren · 2011 · The Seraphina Parrish Trilogy

A teen discovers she can time travel and is drawn into a secret society, a strange school, and a risky love choice.

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Premise labels: time travel · secret society · boarding school · special abilities · team dynamics · mystery identity · search for mother · forbidden romance · coming of age

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · family estrangement · parental neglect · grief · loyalty · betrayal · trust · destiny · choice · growing up · finding belonging

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Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Spider-Geddon

Seanan McGuire · 2019 · Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2018)

Spider-Gwen is stranded in a parallel world during a multiverse crisis and must find a way home while facing a darker twin.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate Earth · trapped protagonist · lost device · multiverse crisis · homecoming quest · identity variant · rescue mission · post-event fallout · grief processing

Themes labels: grief · loss · trauma · closure · identity · self-acceptance · belonging · responsibility · heroism · friendship · multiverse identity · alternate lives · survivor guilt · duty

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