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Fear Itself by Bette Bono

Synopsis: After a threat at her home, retired teacher Aggie May drives through a blizzard to return to the Lodge, the quiet retirement village that serves as a meeting place for a group of senior time travelers who solve mysteries from the past. She reconnects with Lodge director Abe Irving and other friends and is soon involved in a new mission. The source for the mission is Chaya Reese, an elderly woman who escaped Nazi Germany as a child when her parents put her on...

The Better Angels by Bette Bono

Synopsis: Aggie May, newly and unhappily retired from teaching, fears dementia when she begins to see visions from the past, like a 1950s-era Super Constellation at JFK airport and World War II soldiers at Grand Central Terminal. Then she gets a recruitment visit from Abe Irving of the American Association of Remarkable Persons (“the other AARP”) who explains she has developed the ability to travel through time. Soon Aggie joins other “Remarkables” on a mission...

The Finder's Tales: Marco by Tiffany Jo Howell is an enchanting young adult story. Imagine an eleven year old boy making a living from his fishing boat in the Caribbean. On a happy, sun-filled day he is out on his boat when suddenly...he isn't. He's been kidnapped, or captured, or something but he finds himself waking up to a strange man (at least that's what he believes). The 'man' introduces himself to the boy Marco and informs the lad that he is on his way to his new home on a faraway...