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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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This is the eighth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. What does it take to shake these people up? How are they not all glued to the view screens? For over a decade the view was populated with nameless stars and galaxies, and now its filled with a brand new solar system. And a brand new planet. Why do they not recognize what's right there before them? Come along and join in the wonder.
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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 second book that sets out to fill that gap. Hence, the Wes Crowley Gap Series. The Comancheros in the northwest corner of the Texas panhandle are planning something big. But even as they plan, someone is wreaking havoc on farms southwest of Amarillo. The MO is the same, as is the signature, but can it be the same groups? Can Wes and the other Rangers stop the...
6) Transitions
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Nick Spalding and Mary Jo McWherter partnered up in Book 1. Things are great when hell is all around, but sometimes you have to go in search of it.
Now in Book 2, they've traveled to a different country, a different conflict.
Nick Spalding has been a warrior, both military and civilian, most of his life. His partner, Mary Jo McWherter, was much the same.
But Nick hasn't seen Mary Jo for awhile. Did she leave on her own? Was she taken? He has no...
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For a boy born and bred in Florida, hanging out in the drizzly, frozen northwest is far from ideal, or even possible. Even if he is in witness protection. What will Harold Nickel risk to feel the sun on his face again, smell the salt air. And how far will he go? And go? And go?
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia de Mendoza is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She is dimunutive in stature, has a disarming nickname, and an unusually calm demeanor. Most of the time.She is also among the best operatives in TJ Blackwell's network of assassins. And in the story that precedes this one, she thought she was settled.But things don't always work out the way you think they will. Nothing is permanent, and as it turns out,...
10) About Town
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"The Old Jenkins Place" is an odd compound on the outskirts of a small, religious community. Very fitting for all sorts of rituals. In "Paper Hearts," a story reminiscent of Hemingway's work, a waiter works his way through a shift at an all-night café. On the table in the back booth he finds a pair of paper hearts. But when exactly did he find them? In "Finding Harold," Mavis sets out to find her husband, who's been gone longer than she thinks he...
11) Leaving Amarillo
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Although it was the first novel written in the series, with the advent of three prequels, Leaving Amarillo actually is Book 4 in the Wes Crowley saga. The titles are arranged chronologically, but each also is a stand-alone novel. Wes Crowley and Otis "Mac" McFadden are lifelong friends. Wes is a year younger and has always looked up to Mac, so when Mac joined the Texas Rangers in the 1870s in the Texas Panhandle, Wes goes along as usual.
But placing...
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) 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,...
14) 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...
16) 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.
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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...
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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,...
19) 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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Long before he went into private practice as a P.I., Stern Talbot was a detective for the LAPD. Some cases are better than others, not so rattling. Not so sleep-depriving. Not so insane.
But the evidence in a brand new missing persons case echoes the evidence in a three year old cold case that ended with a missing body. Now it's time to figure things out and close them both. How could Stern know what was waiting at the end of the line? The twists...