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From the plot description of Time and Again on Wikipedia it doesn't sound very similar, though it does look worth a try, so I've added it to my TBRL, thanks. |
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Amazon.com very definitely gives different result depending on where you browse from (it recognises the general location of the IP address being used to browse the site and alters its content accordingly). The other sites also do this to a greater or lesser extent. The only way to (reasonably) reliably check availability is to pretend to be calling from the country in question. This can be achieved via various VPN services - most of the paid versions let you specify where you want to pretend to be calling from. I forgot to do this for my first nomination and so got fooled by Amazon.com just as you have been recommending. If necessary I can send you screen dumps in a private message as proof of the difference ... or you could just believe me. |
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Members shouldn't feel as if they have to provide exhaustive links. A couple are handy if only to check local price, but if more are too much of a nuisance don't let that keep you from nominating the perfect title.
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I would like to nominate Their Finest, by Lissa Evans--original title is Their Finest Hour and a Half, which makes it a time-ly selection. The original title references a Winston Churchill speech about Dunkirk; the hour and a half is the length of a propaganda movie about Dunkirk being made to boost British morale during WWII, which is the subject of the book.
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I'd like to nominate Connie Willis' time travel novel The Doomsday Book. The book is the first in a series, but the novels are unconnected save for a few characters. This novel may be read completely as a standalone with no cliffhangers or leftovers. From the description:
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But, there's one problem here. We've already read this for the Book Club. |
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I'd like to nominate Making History by Stephen Fry.
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