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Terrance is a bullied high schooler who frequently takes the long way home to avoid trouble. It is a plan that usually works-until the day that the bowling ball falls from the sky. He barely escapes the ensuing devastation that turns a sleepy suburban neighborhood into a disaster zone. In the media frenzy that follows, the incident is dubbed ""the bowling ball bombing"" and overnight Terrance becomes an unlikely national figure and high school celebrity. Experts are baffled by the incident while crackpots suggest theories that range from alien tractor beam malfunctions to government conspiracies. Most reasonable people, including Terrance, conclude that the world will never solve this mystery. Then Terrance receives an unusual puzzle box with an inscription that claims that he will learn the secret when he opens the box exactly five months after the bombing at 7:57 pm. He assumes that it is a joke until the prediction comes true. He soon finds himself in the hands of a benefactor who claims that Terrance had unwittingly inspired the creation of time travel. As an alleged favor, Terrance is sent 98 years into the future where he discovers evidence suggesting that his benefactor has sinister intentions. While fleeing through time and space, Terrance tries to take control of his destiny, only to find himself in an epic battle for his freedom.

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Every week I read at least three books, so I am not easily impressed, but I really love this book. Weeks after finishing, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It is one of those stories that stays with you-in a good way. Sherri, age 69 Really an amazing idea. It got the time travel absolutely correct, like Time Traveling with a Hamster. Providence, age 13 It has a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibe to it. I dig it! Caleb, age 24 This is a terrible book! I cannot put it down! Bess, age 84, who went on to finish the entire trilogy in three days then added: It is not a book that I would normally select... However, it was a good story that held my attention and moved along... Overall, I would recommend it, even to non-sci-fi readers.

"""Every week I read at least three books, so I am not easily impressed, but I really love this book. Weeks after finishing, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It is one of those stories that stays with you-in a good way."" Sherri, age 69 ""Really an amazing idea. It got the time travel absolutely correct, like Time Traveling with a Hamster."" Providence, age 13 ""It has a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibe to it. I dig it!"" Caleb, age 24 ""This is a terrible book! I cannot put it down!"" Bess, age 84, who went on to finish the entire trilogy in three days then added: ""It is not a book that I would normally select... However, it was a good story that held my attention and moved along... Overall, I would recommend it, even to non-sci-fi readers."""

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Kordel Lentine was the kind of high school freshman who once wrote a how-to paper about how to write a how-to paper. No kidding. It was the most boring paper ever written. Even worse, when the teacher offered bonus points for students to read their papers in front of the class, he volunteered, as though his A+ in the class needed a boost. As far as horrible public readings go, it was not quite on par with Vogon poetry (since no one had to gnaw a leg off in order to survive), but it was nonetheless quite dismal, both for him and for everyone else in the room who happened to have ears. Kordel still bemoans that he simply could not think of anything more interesting to write about that fit the assigned criteria. It was the first time that he shared something he wrote, but thankfully not the last. Now that Kordel gets to choose his own topics, he likes to write science fiction novels with time travel and digital dinosaurs and no sign of how-to papers as far as the mind can see. Kordel was born and raised in South Bend, IN where screaming at the top of your lungs at the TV during Notre Dame football games was a regular family event. He now lives in Kansas City and has five awesome children. Four of his children have flown the coop while Kordel's brilliant wife still homeschools the remaining two. (No, that wasn't a typo or bad math-sorry unnamed not-awesome child!). Kordel is a CPA, his best time solving the Rubik's Cube is 47 seconds, he has a black belt in Taekwondo, and he enjoys activities that can be shared with his family such as scuba diving, board games, riddles, digital scrapbooking, and amateur astronomy.

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