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Kit Wilder is all washed up at the ripe old age of twenty-three. Blackballed by the producers of her hit TV show, she returns home to the affluent town of Westdale, chock full of Mayflower descendants, to enroll in college and lead a quiet life...until she discovers a skeleton in her house.Kit quick

This *tour de force* by a master of experimental novels finds the author reflecting on her old age and its effects on her writing. As she reflects on her own career, her experiments with narrative, and on the narrative she writes here, she ultimately reasserts herself and accepts the life behind her

_Rebellion, war and survival. Love's a bitch._ _Hellscape, Book 1_ Tuck's a Gutter, one of a gang of violent orphans running level thirty-six of Hell's End, the solar system's outermost space station. There's only one way out of this brotherhood of blood--grow up and be killed and eaten by other G

_Rebellion, war and survival. Love's a bitch._ _Hellscape, Book 1_ Tuck's a Gutter, one of a gang of violent orphans running level thirty-six of Hell's End, the solar system's outermost space station. There's only one way out of this brotherhood of blood--grow up and be killed and eaten by other G

### From Booklist In Carver's complex new novel, space "riggers" use the currents of an amorphous, mind-altering continuum called the Flux to guide sleek starships through space. But the Flux also has frightening, deep calms. A rigger needs emotional control and concentration to avoid being trapped

The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empires decline alone. And so Stenmaster spy, military strategist, and assassinfound himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Altaic Cluster,

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The Flying Dutchman of the stars! Rigger and star pilot Renwald Legroeder undertakes a search for the legendary ghost ship Imprisand her passengers and crewwhose fate is entwined with interstellar piracy, quantum defects in space-time, galactic coverup conspiracies, and deep-cyber romance. A stand-a

SUMMARY: In the century since the devastating War of a Thousand Suns, humanity has stagnated, staying in the cocoon of the Centrist Worlds while the rapacious pirates of Golen Space prey on ships that venture too far into the interstellar Flux. And starship Impris, lost in the war years, has becom

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**_The past is never truly buried..._ ** Generations of Jillian Cley's family have been tasked with a strange duty--tending the burial plot of Gabriel Vane, whose body was the first to be interred in the Hode's Hill cemetery. Jillian faithfully continues the long-standing tradition--until one Octo

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