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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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In this "they come here" SF novel, the Solgren, intra-galactic colonists from another planet, have their eye, and their man, on Earth. The Solgrens are ethereal beings who have long since forgotten the burden and the pleasures of being confined in a physical body. They are entralled with humans' ability to focus the physical, the mental and the emotional on one project at one time. Earth might just be a perfect new home. Simon Stark has donned a brand...
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On future Earth, there are only six nations. They are governed, loosely, by a compendium of delegates, one from each nation, to the World Dominion.
But among any six humans, there is always one who wants to be dominant. When that one, by happenstance, is contacted by extra-terrestrials who believes him to be the ruler of Earth, he is not inclined to correct them.
Instead, as a response to their request to colonize, he levies certain requirements....
6) The Portals
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You can't go home again, right? That's a different time in a different place. In fact, everything and everyone is different, and they will remain so for all time. Or maybe not.
Past, present, and future-every present-day step leads from a singular past to a limitless number of futures. Step this way, you're in one future. Step the other, you're in a different future. Step through a portal and there's no telling where you might end up.
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What happens to the earth when we're attacked by aliens from outer space? Independence Day? But what if they don't come in space ships, ray guns blazing? What if they are much smaller than the millions of mibrobial creatures we breath in every day? And what if they're deadly on contact?
8) Dave
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Two officers stop by a party to ask the revelers to quiet the music and they do. But one officer, a new guy on the force, is flirting with one of the partygoers. Or is she flirting with him? Perhaps Julie isn't quite the nice girl she seems to be. Perhaps Dave isn't what he appears to be either.
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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...
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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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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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The Battle of Tres Caballos is Book 8 in the Wes Crowley novel series. The titles are arranged chronologically as one long saga, but each also is a stand-alone novel.
Wes is well settled in his life as a married man and the marshal of Agua Perlado, but life and fate have a great deal more in store for him.
As he and his beautiful Coralín are returning from their honeymoon, they are set upon by banditos. Although protective of all people by nature,...
13) 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.
14) 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...
15) Georgette Tilden
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Georgette Tilden, wife of Blackwell Ops operative Jack Tilden and an operative in her own right, returns to tell her own unique story.
A deadly combination of charm, looks, and skills, Georgette will disarm, disable and drop you - you won't have a chance to blink.
TJ Blackwell, the owner of Blackwell Ops, has always encouraged his operatives to work solo. In fact, most of them don't even know who the other operatives are.
Way back in Book 1, TJ...
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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...
19) Pete & Repeat
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C'mon, everyone knows the old non-joke about Pete and his buddy, right? Still, seems like there's always one more young'un wantin' to put an old timer to shame. Only it doesn't always happen just that way.
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