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John A. Heldt

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in Portland, Oregon, The United States

Website

http://johnheldt.blogspot.com/

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Genre

Historical Fiction, Romance, Time Travel

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John Jakes, Vince Flynn, Nelson DeMille, Clive Cussler, Nicholas Spark ...more

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John A. Heldt is the author of twenty-six bestselling time-travel novels. The former reference librarian and award-winning sportswriter has loved getting subjects and verbs to agree since writing book reports in grade school. A graduate of the University of Oregon and the University of Iowa, Heldt is an avid fisherman, sports fan, coin collector, and reader of thrillers and historical fiction. When not sending contemporary characters to the not-so-distant past, he weighs in on literature and life at johnheldt.blogspot.com.

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Average rating: 4.26 · 18,105 ratings · 2,492 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mine (Northwest Passage, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 2,549 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journey (Northwest Passage, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 1,509 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fire (Northwest Passage, #4) 4.11 avg rating — 1,331 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Show (Northwest Passage, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 1,010 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	September Sky (American Journey, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River Rising (Carson Chronicles, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mirror (Northwest Passage, #5) 4.06 avg rating — 845 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indiana Belle (American Journey, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 815 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mercer Street (American Journey, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 742 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camp Lake (Carson Chronicles, #5) 4.57 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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"Imagine, if you will, the ability to live your life a second time. Would you take that risk, knowing you might end up in a world that looked vastly different from our technology-riddled world of today?"

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Northwest Passage (5 books)
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American Journey (5 books)
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Time Box (5 books)
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Second Chance (3 books)
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“I pity the man who does not respect the power of women.”
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“We all have our time machines. Some take us back. They're called memories. Some take us forward. They're called dreams. – Jeremy Irons”
― John A. Heldt, The Show

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“Survivors of disasters did not create conditions and circumstances. They reacted to them.”
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