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A newly terraformed Earth is ready for its population, traveling in cryo-chambers on interstellar arks to return. Earth is now a vast ocean planet with three major landmasses and humans will have to learn how to coexist in smaller distances. The aliens are glad to see them home. There's one catch. The Arenans, a race of guardians charged with of our sector in the galaxy, want to ensure humans do not venture too far outside our solar system. They feel...
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When two husbands, best friends, turn up dead in a wealthy suburban town, FBI VICAP Special Agent Chloe Fine, 27, is called in to unmask the lies in this small town and to find the killer.
Chloe will have to penetrate this town's perfect façade, to get past its public appearances to understand the truth of who these men were, and who may have wanted them dead. And in a town that thrives on its exclusivity, that won't be easy to do.
What secrets...
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Homecoming (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Cynthia Voigt
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.
Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:
chapter-by-chapter analysis
explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
a review quiz and essay topics
Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for...
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The same streets that made him, tried to break him.Justin lost his status as gangster-on-the-rise after being sent to prison. 5 years later, he's out and determined to stack enough money to exit for good.The world is different though. Power has shifted, and Justin is forced to learn first-hand how quickly the streets forget.Balancing family drama and personal desires, Justin is tested in a number of ways. Witness as he attempts to forge alliances,...
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Homecoming tells the story of a survivor of childhood trauma.
In Maggie Bowyer's fifth poetry collection, they take us on a deep, sometimes dark, journey toward healing. The collection starts with Bowyer running from the places, people, and things they once called home. Eventually, they realize they cannot outrun memories. They face the worst of it, only to come out the other side with the chance to rebuild a new home, a safe home.
Bowyer aims for...
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"He knew he didn't have any other choice if he wanted to keep his head."
The Great War is over and millions lay dead across the nations of Europe. John finally makes it home one year after the armistice. Embittered and with nothing to come back to, John settles in London.
After a smuggling deal gone wrong, John is, once again, forced to flee to the only place he knows: Motbridge. But the memories of the locals are long and they haven't forgiven...
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Part of the award-winning Five Worlds series. Contains strong language.
After escaping the laboratory where he was imprisoned by the scientific mega-corporation GenTech, Kata wants just one thing: to go back to his homeworld of Trandellia with his friend Tau and forget all about what happened. Forget about being imprisoned and mutated, forget about GenTech's attempts to break and sell him as a piece of livestock, and above all, forget the tortures...
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Homecoming, by Susan Palwick, is a dark fantasy novelette about a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who yearns to leave her village and go to sea with her best friend, a boy about her own age, despite natural and supernatural dangers.
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Adam: a Cro-Magnon hunter, taken from Earth 30,000 years ago by interstellar alien explorers, educated in advanced learning techniques and returned by them to the present.
Sylvie: rendered mute by a childhood trauma, brought up by her devoted mother Linda in the Washington State wilderness.
When these two meet, Adam must overcome Linda's suspicions and draw out Sylvie's inner strength to overcome her disability. Then can they avoid those who would...
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Fury Falls Inn in 1821 Alabama. A place for ghosts, witches, and magic. A place of secrets and hidden dangers. A place Reginald Fairhope built to keep his family safe from vengeful witches.The inn was supposed to be a haven, a place where Reggie's powerful magic would protect both his wife and daughter. He trusts a young innkeeper to care for them while he travels on urgent business. He returns exhausted, longing for peace and quiet along with a stiff...
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Alanna is surprised by the return of her step-brother and former lover, Kyle, when he shows up to work at the newspaper she writes for as the new head photographer. Unbeknownst to him, they have a daughter from the night before they last saw each other eight years previous. Can they forgive each other and rekindle the trust and love they once shared?
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Life for Darius changes completely when he meets Lulu, an alien, living spaceship.
Now they must run far from her home systems. Dare they return to human-operated space?
What sort of homecoming awaits them? Particularly since no one apparently knows about the aliens?
Be sure to read all the labors of Darius Linard:
The Claim Jumper
Wild One
Runaways
Homecoming
Hero
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How do you welcome home a hero?After a ten-year absence Ex-Delta, Jake Randolph, returns to the small Kansas town where he grew up. He finds life there not as peaceful as he remembers. Faced with a serious drought, his mother and father and brother Dex are struggling to keep the family farm afloat. His once sweetheart, Lorie, has divorced an abusive husband, and is raising her son as a single mother.Lorie's ex-husband, Strom Garrison, has joined a...
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Raqia, a teenage girl who immigrated to Texas from Lebanon as a toddler, has felt the subtle pang of loneliness most of her life: she has no siblings, and her widowed father stayed behind, when Raqia and her grandmother left Beirut to escape dangerous wolf packs terrorizing the city. These wolves were not just animals, however. They were also people.
Homecoming is set in a present-day world where one's Animal Affinity emerges, usually during adolescence,...
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It's the aftermath of the events from The Broken Grit: Wrestling from the Past novel; Alex, "The British Invader," is the world champion and is still talked about amongst his fans after the chair shot that was heard around the world against Chang Chen Haung in Madison Square Garden on April 15, 2020. Now, it's 2021, A tragic death sends shockwaves through the wrestling community and Alex has decided to put The British Invader mask away for good, wrestle...
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Fiona's dad comes home after sixteen months and eight days in jail. Along with her mother and family friends, she awkwardly welcomes him home. Uncle David is there, because he picked Dad up at jail. Dad's best friend Simon, his wife May and neighbor Elisabeth are also at the house to greet Dad. He's been away so long, it's an uncomfortable reunion for Mom and Fiona, who have suffered financially, emotionally and socially in his absence. Even the dog,...
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Humanity is us, but we are not the same. We hope that we are evolving towards a better version of ourselves. However, that evolution is not a strait trajectory and progress is not evenly distributed.
Elizabeth Chang crafts an exciting interplanetary adventure where space is capricious and unpredictable. This story is a grand adventure on an epic scale where familiarity and strangeness are woven together with seamless ease. Her ideas about science...
19) Homecoming
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Hayley Newman, a college student graduating from journalism school, finds herself searching for answers--answers to questions that go back to a missing girl from high school have haunted her. She was the last one to see the girl before her disappearance. With the help of a college classmate and her lifelong friends from home, she discovers things she never dreamed could happen. From ghost stories, to a trip to a cemetery, to old police reports and...
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It's homecoming week, but everything is going wrong.
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