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    "title": "A Second Chance",
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    "description": "<p>The third book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary&rsquo;s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don&rsquo;t call it &ldquo;time travel&rdquo;&mdash;these historians &ldquo;investigate major historical events in contemporary time.&rdquo; And they aren&rsquo;t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary&rsquo;s tells the chaotic adventures of Madeleine Maxwell and her compatriots&mdash;Director Bairstow, Leon &ldquo;Chief&rdquo; Farrell, Mr. Markham, and many more&mdash;as they travel through time, saving St. Mary&rsquo;s (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea. In A Second Chance, it seems nothing can go right for Max and her fellow historians. The team confronts a mirror-stealing Isaac Newton and later witnesses how the ancient and bizarre cheese-rolling ceremony in Gloucester can result in CBC: Concussion By Cheese. Finally, Max makes her long-awaited jump to Bronze Age Troy, only for it to end in personal catastrophe. And just when it seems things couldn&rsquo;t get any worse, it&rsquo;s back to the Cretaceous Period to confront an old enemy who has nothing to lose.</p>",
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