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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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You wake up after a long nap. You reach over to see whether your partner's awake, and discover she's dead. Of a cut throat. In your bed.
You didn't do it. But who did? How did they do it without waking you? And when? And why? Stern Richards, PI, has to find out. Or go to prison.
5) Line of Duty
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The mob boss wants to test a rookie driver and maybe teach him a lesson too. How to Get the Boss Out of Harm's Way 101. Surely nothing will go wrong. Surely.
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This is not your typical Christmas story. The unnamed speaker is unnamed for a reason that becomes clear later in the story. But what he has to say is more interesting than who he is anyway. Why won't he get in the Christmas spirit and just go along? And what's he doing with that shovel?
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In these five stories, a woman is drawn to a shop that looks like an antique store; she's looking for furnishings for her home in the French Quarter, where she lived a very, very long time ago. Jim Cable has been sent to stabilize the Grenlow, a Morgan-class interplanetary transport, and bring it home. The engine room holds a mystery he didn't bargain for. Marco and the author chase down Joey Bones to teach him a lesson. Joey's been trash talkin'...
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The Wes Crowley Saga: Part One contains the first five novels from the Wes Crowley series in order, as well as the original book covers. This is effectively an electronic "boxed set" of five novels. The Wes Crowley Saga: Part Two contains the last five novels from the Wes Crowley series in order, as well as the original book covers. This is effectively an electronic "boxed set" of five novels. The overall Wes Crowley Saga spans almost 50 years. It...
9) Loose Ends
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What deep personal fantasy can sustain an unrequited love for forty years? How can a jilted lover watch and learn and plot and plan, yet miss the most valuable lesson of all?
Come along on this tension-filled journey of intrigue, suspense and atonement with city police detective Del Samuels and PI Stern Talbot. Help unravel the truth and discover the one glaring, major lesson buried deep within.
10) The Clearing
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This is a strongly emotional, fast-paced crime thriller / psychological suspense novel. On one side, Randall B Cregg's father has always hoped his son would feel a calling to take over the church someday. After a particularly troubling traumatic experience, the boy does feel a calling, but it is not the one his father hoped for. And Randall's mother is a veritable fount of Christian charity, even in her traditionally submissive role in the family....
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From the opening: Of the three wingback chairs in my library, only one is upholstered in human skin. There's a reason for that.
Charles Claymore Task has been labeled a psychopath by hypocrites who see themselves as "normal." And a group of wealthy investors want to know what makes him tick.
They ask him to detail for a film crew what makes people like him tick. At least that's the initial plan.
On film, Charlie describes the abandonment, disillusionment,...
12) Without A Clue
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The young new guy is more defective than detective. But his snitch gave up the information so he's in charge. It ought to be a routine takedown, albeit of a rising Mafia star. But old age and treachery will overcome youth and vigor every time. On both sides of the law.
13) Situation Solved
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Detective Kelli Holt is on a routine assignment, investigating the murder of an elementary school teacher.
But the investigation itself is far from routine. Why does an elementary school teacher have 1.7 million dollars stashed in her floor safe and in her purse? What does her pupil and 7-year-old neighbor know? And who or what exactly is Situation Solved?
Before she can find any answers, she is assigned to a second murder investigation that might...
14) Johnny Baby
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Johnny's about to get luckier than he's ever gotten. And with the new girl in school, a leggy wonder who sends his imagination to places it's never been. When he finally gets her alone, she's even more than he hoped for. Up to a point.
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Jeremy Stiles balances his life with an avocation. When he isn't taping the popular television game show The Way Things Go, he's an operative for TJ Blackwell and Blackwell Ops. And with taping not set to resume for months, he's at it again. This accounting of Jeremy's life begins with a bang. Well, several bangs over a period of several weeks. Including one he might never walk away from. If you enjoy high-tension, page-turning stories, plunge into...
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All good fiction is character-driven. Learn where to get story ideas and how to write a hook and an opening. Learn how to write captivating settings, scenes and endings. Replete with examples and containing two extremely important writing exercises, this concise book is all you need if you want to learn to write character-driven fiction.
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In this collection of five intense short stories, a writer and his friend travel to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, the friend's attempt to truly live just one more time; Training can take many forms, from a good old-fashioned thumping to much worse treatment (that will leave you smiling); A young couple arrive in a bus terminal. Both are nervous at their impending separation. We assume it's a sad time for both, but is it? Are they running...
18) Mobster Tales 2
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In this rollicking, gat-filled collection of eleven short stories, you get to see both sides. The mobsters and the cops. The perps and the victims. The guilty, the innocent and the merely complicit. These guys create and dispose of bodies, brag and complain and finagle a way out where no way out existed before. Come along for a wild ride!
In most of these stories, we hear from the mobsters themselves. And these are not mere "gangstas," wearing filthy,...
19) The Tarp
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Salvatore "Little Sally" Picarilli is having a rough day. On one front, his wife is being demanding. On the other, his boss is loading him up with extra, less than usual tasks. What gives?
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All lesser species eventually complete their life cycle with evolution and extinction. It is the natural order of things. But as Othgygnrk King Elder Griesch Mor has recently learned, humans don't like to be rushed. And apparently they aren't willing to accept a premature, forced extinction to make way for his species. Oddly, they don't see themselves as the lesser species at all. In the genesis novel of this story of planetary invasion, the upstart...