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Time Changes Stars

Books that play with time - set in one day, etc..

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • Vertical Run
    Author: Garber, Joseph R.
    Publisher: Bantam $ 21.95 ISBN: 0553100335 Date: 1995
    star Booklist
    A hot, compelling thriller sure to be one of the biggest hits of the summer. Every morning, in his 45th-floor executive office, David Elliot savors the moments before his workday begins--until the morning his boss aims a gun at him. For the rest of the day, everyone David meets will try to kill him. He has 24 hours to find out why.
    Suggested Reading: Time Changes | The Office | Survival
    Updated 8.24.05
  • 24 Hours
    Author: Iles, Greg
    Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399146245 Date: 2000
    star PW
    The bestselling author of Mortal Fear and The Quiet Game crafts the story of a psychopathic kidnapper who has perfected the unbeatable crime - man who has never been caught and whose victims have never talked to the police. But this man has never met the likes of Will and Karen Jennings.
    Suggested Reading: Psycho Killers | Serial Killers
    Updated 7/26/00
  • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
    Author: McGregor, Jon
    Publisher: Mariner $ 13 (paper) ISBN: 0618344586 Date: 2003
    star Booklist
    McGregor pens a haunting story of the events that transpire over a single day at the end of summer on a small urban street in England.
    Updated 10.23.03
  • A Day at the Beach
    Author: Schulman, Helen
    Publisher: Hougton $ 24 ISBN: 9780618746545 Date: 2007
    starLJ
    Taking place over a manic 24 hours, this is a fast-paced, razor-sharp story whose personal tragedy contains sparks of dark humor about American life pre- and post-9/11. It is a story that speaks to memories.
    Suggested Reading:Time
    Updated 3.2.07