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Her Mother's Secrets [MultiFormat]
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 Violet only had one year of pretty; the year before her boyfriend shot her in the face. She went on to put her life back together and find a man to care for her despite her scars. But now, as an adult, her mother has died and she must arrange the funeral. She had no idea that he would show up at the funeral, and what secrets would be revealed about her mother. 1999
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Coolhunting [MultiFormat]
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She was a coolhunter with forty different legal identities. Her job: to drive fads; to find the "next cool thing" five to ten times per week. She was one of the best. Entire corporations rose and fell under her influence. But then some really uncool things start to happen…
Words: 23035 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
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Going Native [MultiFormat]
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In an age where travel is primarily by teleportation, a reporter must journey the old fashioned way (by train) to report on the annual meeting of a group of luddites who are against the use of teleporters.
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Monuments to the Dead [MultiFormat]
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A reporter is sent to cover an amazing story: something inexplicable has happened to Mount Rushmore. This story contains enlightening perspectives on how Lakota Native Americans view the carved mountain. Year's Best Fantasy Selection
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June Sixteenth at Anna's [MultiFormat]
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After his wife dies, Mac finally decides to view the most important day of her life--one that has been recorded, like a live jazz album, in a holographic time-travel memory. 2003 Asimov's Reader Poll Top Ten Pick
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Phantom [MultiFormat]
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The Dixon theater is haunted, not just by a vengeful ghosts, but by its own past. On this night, when everyone comes together for the concert of the year, secrets will be revealed and long-hidden terrors will rise up to destroy everything.
1989 Bram Stoker Award Recommendation
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Double Helix Omnibus [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by John Gregory Betancourt & Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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 This Omnibus collection contains the six Double Helix novels: Infection (#51); Vectors (#52); Red Sector (#53); Quarantine; (#54) Double or Nothing (#55); The First Virtue (#56). Double Helix is the story of the Federation's hardest battle yet--a decades-long war against bio-terrorism. Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestsell... more info>> 2002
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The Silence [MultiFormat]
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Written long before the TV series Cold Case, "The Silence" is the ultimate cold case stories. New York City has gone fifteen days without a homocide, and the detectives decide to close their most interesting--and difficult--homocide cases. But are all these strange cases and the lack of murders in the city connected? Or is that simply a science fiction fantasy brought on by coincidence? 2000 Year's 25 Best Mystery and Crime Stories
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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
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Millennium Babies [MultiFormat]
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It is thirty years since the turn of the second millennium, and University of Wisconsin professor Brooke Cross is approached by a colleague in the sociology department to participate in his study of successful--and unsuccessful--Millennium Babies. Brooke was one of the unsuccessful ones. She was born at five minutes past midnight 2000, and the extra four minutes cost her mother the fame and fortune of having the first baby of the new millenium--and has never let her forget it. As Brooke progress... more info>> 2000 Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee
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Harvest [MultiFormat]
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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
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Results [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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An engaged couple undergoes extensive genetic testing to ensure that their progeny will be above average. Short story that poignantly explores issues of genetic testing, parenthood, and issues that society will soon face.
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After the Fall [MultiFormat]
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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
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Stille Nacht [MultiFormat]
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A single mother tries to make a nice Christmas for her daughters 2004
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Echea [MultiFormat]
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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
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Fast Cars [MultiFormat]
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Carren and her four best friends in high school perform a risky experiment with their biochemistry project ... on themselves. 1989 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
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Trains [MultiFormat]
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Silas appears to play his banjo only for those who need him most; Corrine can see him play for others--but when will it be her turn? 1990 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
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Little Miracles [MultiFormat]
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The burglar killed all five members of the Torgenson family with a knife as they prepared breakfast, and the police detective's best hope for a solution is the injured family cat. 1992
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A Time for Every Purpose [MultiFormat]
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Time Force homocide detective Mike Shaunessy travels back to 1994 to prevent Ray Rothke from committing the first of his 25 murders. Mike knows that if the first crime is prevented, the others usually are too ... and maybe his daughter will be waiting for him when he returns. 1990 Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Year's 25 Best Mystery and Crime Stories
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The Destruction of a Goddess [MultiFormat]
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Vi used to work for one of the most famous dance companies on the West Coast. Now, because of professional jealousy, she consults at a small regional theater. When her nemesis gets murdered, Vi offers to help a police detective solve the case. But will he consider her guilty? 2003
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ProtectVision [MultiFormat]
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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
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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
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The Devil's Churn [MultiFormat]
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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
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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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Duplicate Effort [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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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