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The Retrieval Artist [MP3 Audio]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Retrieval Artists find people who have Disappeared. But people Disappear for a reason--they don't want to be found. When Anetka Sobol shows up at Miles Flint's office on the Moon, he immediately knows that this case is going to be complicated. 2 hours in length. 2000
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Category: Science Fiction
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Cowboy Grace [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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One of this year's Edgar nominees for best short story, "Cowboy Grace" is a tale of a woman who starts a new life, only to be haunted by her old one. 2003 Edgar Award Nominee
Words: 13457 - Reading Time: 38-53 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Echea [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A couple decides to adopt a starving refugee child from a war-torn city. The unusual thing is that the war-torn city happens to be on the moon. Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, HOMer Award Winner, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee
Words: 14331 - Reading Time: 40-57 min.
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Harvest [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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This quiet fantasy about family, quilts, and secrets passed down through generations is one of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most popular stories. First published in Amazing Stories, "Harvest" was later chosen for the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. 1990
Words: 4343 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Star Trek: Enterprise: By the Book [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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The Fazi, whose ultraregulated culture ranges from strict conversation protocols to unvarying building designs, inhabit half of a planet discovered by the Enterprise. But after a disastrous first contact with the ruler of the Fazi, Archer must depend on Vulcan science officer T'Pol and communication specialist Hoshi Sato to help him mend relations with the people of this planet, and unravel the mystery of the other creatures living on the world. 2002
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Heroics [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Maxwell Sobel made his living writing about action heroes. Only when strangers kidnap his little girl, he learns how difficult fighting crime truly can be. 2002 Edgar Award Nominee, Ellery Queen Magazine Reader's Choice Winner
Words: 10643 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Dead Line [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Set on the Titanic's sister ship the Olympic in 1911, in Andersonville prison during the Civil War, and in the heady days when the war just started, "The Dead Line" follows Nathaniel Garrison as he tracks one of the South's most successful spies. 2001
Words: 10885 - Reading Time: 31-43 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Familiar Territory [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Winston's familiar, an elderly black cat named Buster, has a last wish: He wants a Viking funeral. Winston, a shy man who is on the run from the police, doesn't want to call attention to himself in his new hometown, but he promised his old friend that last wish. Now Winston has a two-pronged dilemma: how to perform magic without his familiar and how to send a burning long boat out to sea without being arrested. A gentle story about love and funerals. 1997
Words: 3695 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Collateral Damage [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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In a world where children learn about war so that they won't fight each other, the man who teaches children about war commits an atrocity of his own. Only it's not like any atrocity you'd ever expect... 2004
Words: 5695 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Dragonslayer [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Originally written for a German anthology, 'Dragonslayer' makes its first English language appearance here. A young dragon discovers the dead body of another dragon--with dire consequences for the entire dragon community. 2003
Words: 6895 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy
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ProtectVision [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Walter bought a special device for his daughter's car. One that monitors not only how fast she's going, but whether or not there are pheromones present. In a near-near future twist, the device works, trapping his daughter and her boyfriend inside on a dangerously cold, horribly deadly night. 2004 Ellery Queen Magazine Reader's Choice Winner
Words: 7208 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Retrieval Artist [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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In a future where humans engage in galactic commerce with a multitude of unscrupulous aliens, Earth's mega-corporations are held to strict alien laws, and relatives of corporate executives are often abducted as cruel alien revenge for the slightest business infraction. The only chance for a target to hide ... is to Disappear--erasure of all personal records, genetic alteration, and a new life with a new name in a new place. For an exorbitant fee under non-negotiable terms of employment, private ... more info>> 2000 Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, AnLab Award Nominee
Words: 18270 - Reading Time: 52-73 min.
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Destiny [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A rarity--a short story written in Rusch's popular Fey universe. "Destiny" is a prequel to the Fey novels. The shape-shifter Solanda must choose between an enemy's child and going to war. 2000
Words: 9169 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Burial Detail [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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In the shadow of the American Civil War, a freed slave is trying to earn money by burying the dead at Cold Harbor ... and hides a secret that makes his burial detail one of the most horrible jobs of his life. 2000
Words: 3315 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Duplicate Effort [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Retrieval Artist Miles Flint is on a personal missionto bring down the corrupt law firm of Wagner, Stuart, and Xender. Then a journalist working with him is murdered, and Miles may be next. But before he can begin to investigate, he has a more personal crisis to deal withhis daughter Talia is missing. Taliaone of six clones of Miles long-dead childhas gone off to find the other five. As Miles pursues her, he begins to fear that her search for her sisters and his for the killer are on a collision... more info>>
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After the Fall [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Pete hates dogs. But one afternoon, while hiking, he falls down the side of a cliff. Will he live or die? It all depends on ... dogs. 2004
Words: 9270 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Cat Nap [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Mr. Triwell found the cat, Missy, on the beach, obviously abandoned by her former owners. But when the owners returned to the beachfront town nearly a year later, they want their cat back. Missy doesn't want to leave--and she has some secrets of her own. 2003
Words: 5078 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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Strange Creatures [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Set in the same world as Rusch's Homer- and Stoker-nominated story, "The Women of Whale Rock," "Strange Creatures" is the story of what looks like small town crime--the murder of a seal pup on the beach--that becomes a cosmic event. 1999
Words: 10911 - Reading Time: 31-43 min.
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Spirit Guides [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Murders haunt Kincaid. He has a gift for finding himself at murder scenes and often he knows exactly who caused the crime. But after a spree killing in a fast food restaurant, he decides to change his life. Instead, he learns that he may not have understood the nature of his gift after all. 1995
Words: 5141 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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Strays [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Set in the first 100 days of the Clinton administration, "Strays" is a humorous cat mystery story with a political twist. Picked up for The Year's Twenty-Five Finest Crime and Mystery Stories in 1993. 1993
Words: 7676 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
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The Perfect Man [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Paige is a romance writer who goes on a blind date with the perfect man--or the man she thought would be the perfect man. He uses her novels as a blueprint for the romantic hero. Only she discovers that what's romantic on the page is creepy in person. A romantic suspense story about romance itself, and being careful what you wish for. 2001
Words: 11888 - Reading Time: 33-47 min.
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Parking Space Vigilantes [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Stacy volunteered for the city's new police program--which allows citizens to ticket cars illegally parked in handicapped spaces. What Stacy doesn't realize is that her new job puts her in the front line of a war that could kill her. 2000
Words: 7841 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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Sparks in a Cold War [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Bryer organizes hunting expeditions to strange alien worlds. On this trip, three difficult women ignore his recommendations and complete an action that might start a war. Bryer, somehow, must stop them. 2003
Words: 6486 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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The Devil's Churn [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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In 1939, a freak storm blew across the village of Dory Cove on the Oregon coast, destroying homes and boats, and leaving three people dead. Young Spence Chadwick was swept into the sea at the treacherous Devil's Churn, a huge cleft in the rocks next to the ocean. His body was never found. Fifty years later, Spence's old sweetheart, Addy, comes across a young man in the yard of her recently deceased mother, a young man who looks just like her beloved Spence did--fifty years ago. At first she cann... more info>> 1996
Words: 77855 - Reading Time: 222-311 min.
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Recovery Man [A Retrieval Artist Novel] [Secure Mobipocket]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Retrieval Artist Miles Flint has uncovered a long-held secret to his past linked to the Aleyd Corporation-and a kidnapping by the mysterious Recovery Man, in a case that threatens the entire Earth Alliance legal system....
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