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This is the ninth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, it's time to set the ship down on the new human home world, which General Amanda Lowrey has named, appropriately, Terra 2.
There is Landing Site Eden, where she will attempt to set down a ship that was never meant to land. There are the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west.
There are the advance teams, whose only job is to...
2) The Storm
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Harold Sloan is the chief terraformer on Galen, a planet in another solar system.
Harold is also a man who lives very much within himself, and he loves nothing more than his work. Or so he believes.
Which is worse? The work-stopping storm that sometimes rages outside his annex apartment window? Or is it the internal storm, the one he can never escape?
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Between Books 2 and 3 of the 12-volume Wes Crowley saga, there's a 15-year gap. This is the fifth book that sets out to fill that gap. Hence, the Wes Crowley Gap Series. Much more about Four Crows, the young Comanche war chief; Red Hawk, the old Comanche chief and brother of Four Crows' mentor, Iron Bear; Rafe Wilkins and other outlaws; and Francisco "Paco" Messina, the most dangerous and wily of the comancheros. Enter Carmen Morales, who, with the...
4) Memory
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A wreck is a wreck, right? Whether it's a '72 Lincoln or a life. Come along on this exciting ride through a sleepy small town.
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These tales range from the merely odd to the fantastic, from the tragic to the magical. In one story you'll accompany a Cajun on a single-minded mission into the backwoods of Louisiana on a deep, humid night. In another, you'll witness the life or death struggle between a fifteen year old boy and the mean drunk who's been his oppressor for years. There's also a story about writing and the writer stalking his mentor; a job that very few could do but...
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In this "they come here" SF novel, the Solgren, intra-galactic colonists from another planet, have their eye, and their man, on Earth. The Solgrens are ethereal beings who have long since forgotten the burden and the pleasures of being confined in a physical body. They are entralled with humans' ability to focus the physical, the mental and the emotional on one project at one time. Earth might just be a perfect new home. Simon Stark has donned a brand...
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Sometimes what might have been gets in the way of what is.Philip Dunstan is in the midst of a career as a hit man, and it suits his nature to a T. Until it suddenly doesn't. Odd how a split-second look on a woman's face can change a life forever.Can his boss, TJ Blackwell really be as omnipotent and all-knowing as he seems? Is he a demon, a god, or only human? In the first Blackwell Ops book, Jack Tilden showed us how difficult it is to get into Blackwell...
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The Scent of Acacias is Book 9, the final book in the Wes Crowley novel series. The titles are now arranged chronologically as one long saga, but each also is a stand-alone novel.In this final installment of the Wes Crowley Saga, Wes has one last opportunity to "ride wild on a strong horse in a good cause." Then he's planning to retire. But will he lose everything that's most important to him?Once again Wes comes face to face with a pair of enemies...
9) The Portals
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You can't go home again, right? That's a different time in a different place. In fact, everything and everyone is different, and they will remain so for all time. Or maybe not.
Past, present, and future-every present-day step leads from a singular past to a limitless number of futures. Step this way, you're in one future. Step the other, you're in a different future. Step through a portal and there's no telling where you might end up.
10) Family
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There are families, and there are families, and family members come in all kinds. Some are good to talk with, some to hang out with, and some will kill you. The characters in this story use strong language.
11) Pete & Repeat
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C'mon, everyone knows the old non-joke about Pete and his buddy, right? Still, seems like there's always one more young'un wantin' to put an old timer to shame. Only it doesn't always happen just that way.
12) There's No Fool
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Reginald Cranston, senior partner in the law firm of Cranston, Cranston, Swain and Devereaux, is about to lose Devereaux. And he doesn't want to lose her. She's the junior partner at only 29 years old, but she's also his fantasy.
14) Elegant Gestures
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In Elegant Gestures: A Collection you'll discover a ghost story; a young mother-to-be, maybe, who is nothing short of mental; proof that one man's god is another man's monster; a family coven; and the rag-draped bones of a reluctant prophet, perhaps, moving along the street cursing your life with his existence. Oddly enough, if it weren't for men like him, you wouldn't have the freedom to avoid him.
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This is the long-awaited sequel to The 13-Month Turn. Rose Perkins has led a mostly sheltered life. In a first strikingly radical decision, she has left the lunar colony and her husband and returned to Earth.
But her timing is horrible. Soon after her shuttle landed, so did the forces of the Stirchian kingdom. Among the many changes they institute, one is forcing human women to participate in the birthing process to create a new race of Stirchian/Earthian...
16) The Claim
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Adolph Hitler, terrible as he was, was nothing but a pawn. One in a series of strings tugged by a puppeteer. Hitler was vanquished, but the entity that gave him rise never went away. Two centuries and two decades after the rise of Hitler, the same entity is still pulling strings. And he's almost accomplished the goal of his father and grandfathers before him.
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Aliens and alien invasions take many forms. To the hard-working residents of a newly constructed ant hill, when a massive creature places a size 10 shoe atop their home, the invasion is blatant and destructive. Their children, the zygotes still wrapped in a protective shell, are crushed beneath the surface. They weep. They mourn. They cart off their dead. And they rebuild. There are also other kinds of intra-planetary alien invasions. Every day, every...
18) The Source
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Jonathan Kirski is tasked with the job of mining bones from the Siberian death fields. It shouldn't be a problem. After all, it's just ore, from which will be derived a calcium extract. But Jonathan's past says otherwise.
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His prophets promised a king who would restore justice on Earth. But it's a tall order, and prophecy can be interpreted in many ways.When the 13th daughter of a 13th daughter meets the 13th son of a 13th son, she is ecstatic. Their union will break the curse that has plagued both their families for generations.But over time the line blurs. Is the child a cursed remnant of a prophecy gone awry? Or is he the fulfillment of that prophecy?
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