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121) Assassin
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Depik. The race of cat-like assassins is feared galaxy-wide. Few living people have seen them, as the sight of one is usually the last thing its victim sees.
Clan politics on the Depik home world of Khatash are complicated, with clans jockeying for contracts and the prestige and wealth they bring. There's only one rule-Depik do not kill other Depik. Ever.
When Reow is implicated in killing the Depik Governor, though, her clan is declared anathema....
122) Onward, Drake!
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A stellar line-up of writers pays tribute to Drake with stories as broad in range as his “own” fiction. In Eric Flint's "A Flat Affect," a king is no match for a pair of storytellers. Gene Wolfe takes us to a strange and wondrous future in "Incubator." Larry Correia examines what it's like to face Hammer's Slammers from "The Losing Side." S. M. Stirling offers an insider's view of "Working with Dave, or, Inmates in Bellevue." Mur Lafferty shows...
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Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on the trail of a string of magical thefts. But first, she has to pick up the kids from school.
Talk about trying to find a life and work balance.
Dylan is in that awkward middle school phase when magic can turn a friend into a frog and back again. Did anyone notice? And third-grader Ashley keeps recruiting friends for her own secret agency to fight magical crime.
Kids these days. The Heron children are even...
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Is it just a nightmare or a premonition? The suburban witch, Lucy Heron isn't sure, but she has a bad feeling something is coming, not just for her family, but the entire city.
Sometimes intuition isn't wrong . . .
Shadow Men are on the prowl, trying to return the world to shadow by fulfilling a prophecy. A prophecy that would plunge Los Angeles, then the world, into darkness.
It could be the end of the world as humans know it.
Magicals are losing...
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Has anyone noticed Los Angeles is going to the monsters?
The City of Angels is under attack and the Silver Griffins are calling all agents. What monster is making the rounds and threatening to expose magic?
Gruffbar has returned and is invading dreams. The sinister Dwarf has figured out how to sap away magicals' dreams and aspirations. Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on it!
But it's getting worse.
How will she protect a growing band of...
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Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She's also Silver Griffins Agent 485.
The suburbs will never be the same.
Fighting supernatural crime from a minivan while keeping the magical world a secret is a full-time job. Then there's the PTA bake sale and the neighborhood barbecue.
Hard to balance even with a wand.
And now, a monstrous loan shark is spreading his shadowy empire from a hidden kemana....
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Magical medieval artifacts are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They are the perfect target for magical thieves.
Look out Lucy Heron. It's not the usual menace looking to steal a strange magical crown.
Good thing Lucy and the Silver Griffins are on the case.
Meanwhile, the Underfoot Brigade are on a case of their own. Monsters are in the underground tunnels. Time to find out why.
The answers to both problems are hidden in plain...
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Leave it to a Magical Mom to clean up the streets of the city of Los Angeles. Lucy Heron, Agent 485, is on the job, and trying to keep things together at home.
It's not an easy job... Especially when pipes are bursting, your kids are trying to solve crimes, and a dangerous new monster is polluting the city.
Gives a whole new meaning to the LA smog.
More people, magical and mundane, are getting sick from breathing in the poisoned air. Do Lucy and...
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It's getting harder to keep magic hidden from the mundane population of Los Angeles.
Good thing Lucy Heron and the Silver Griffins are working overtime to keep it a secret. Will it be enough?
More magicals are flexing their powers. Nuada Industries' magical owner is trying to take out the competitors so he can grow his business. But something's off about Finn Nuada.
There's something hinky about what he's doing.
Meanwhile, the younger Herons have...
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Though it defies consensus, between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts. Attracting impressive support from citizens that helps separate regimes from their main sources of power, these campaigns have produced remarkable results, even in the contexts of Iran, the Palestinian Territories, the Philippines, and Burma. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of these...
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Robyn O'Brien is not the most likely candidate for an anti-establishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food-until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and everything changed. The Unhealthy Truth is both the story of how one brave woman chose to take on the system and...
132) Collision Course
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The Gedri System is at war with Silstrand. As the Alliance reels, Scipio readies its forces, smelling blood in the water. Meanwhile, Kylie awakens aboard a warship captained by her brother. Her family, the peaceful, low-tech Rhoads, have changed. Establishing a line of pure humans is all they care about. Her father, the preacher, is set to rain armageddon down on any system that opposes him. His first stop? Silstrand. Kylie is on a collision course...
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If there was one thing Torie Bliss knew, it was that her marriage and life of luxury was going to last for ever. Until it didn't.
One humiliating divorce later, coupled with a loss of everything she owns, and Torie finds herself doing the one thing she never imagined a woman over the age of forty would ever have to do: move in with her mother.
But that is exactly what she has to do as she picks up what's left of her life and dignity, and moves to...
134) Strike Vector
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Kylie Rhoads risked life and limb to rescue a girl, thrusting the Dauntless and its crew in the middle of an interstellar tug of war. Now, running from Silstrand Alliance, the Gedri Freedom Federation, and The Black Crow, Kylie fights against the very thing she set out to save. Advanced nano-technology is slowly changing her body and rewriting her brain-a process she may not survive. The nanotech is priceless, and some people-maybe even some in her...
135) Easter Basket Murder
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EASTER BASKET MURDER by LESLIE MEIER: Tinker's Cove businesses are clashing over a new Easter Basket-themed promotion to boost in-store sales. When the one-of-a-kind art piece is stolen, it's up to part-time reporter Lucy Stone to investigate three struggling entrepreneurs who stick out in the local scene. But a huge town scandal comes into focus when a harmless shopping spree turns deadly, leaving Lucy to stop a murderer from springing back into...
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Forget everything you know about reality. The quantum world doesn't play by those rules.
Daniel Rice is a government science investigator whose specialty is solving seemingly intractable problems through scientific inquiry.
But Daniel's intellectual strength is sorely tested by the bizarre realities he finds in the quantum world. Extra dimensions of space trap the unwary, probability replaces cause and effect, and time isn't what anyone imagined....
137) Close Proximity
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Kylie Rhoads is a junker. She makes her living traveling the stars, salvaging abandoned ships left over from pirate attacks on the edge of the Gedri system. Some of the hulls are legal for the taking, most aren't. When a salvage job goes bad, Kylie finds herself on the wrong end of a gun. The hand holding that gun? The SA Space Force, just the people Kylie wants to avoid. To avoid prison, Kylie makes a deal to go deep into the Gedri System and rescue...
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Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy.
Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once? Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other person? Interrupt hateful or habitual forms of discrimination in new ways that foster deeper change?...
139) Agents Of Chaos
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Special Agent Diana Sheen has been targeted...
… by magical villains determined to bring her and her agency down. The bad guys have something big planned, and like a storm over the horizon, she can feel it coming but doesn't know how bad it will turn out to be.
The answer? Really, really bad. Diana and her team will need to be at the top of their game to survive.
The troll that's adopted her patrols in the night, searching for the cosplaying...
140) Rogue Rescue
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One of their own is in the hands of the enemy.
Diana Sheen's worst fear has come to pass. The government agency chasing her has taken one of her people prisoner. Now all her team's secrets are at risk, and all their lives are on the line.
Will the captive give up the location of their new base? The outcast team's plans to take on the hidden darkness within the government? Or their new mission against the Rhazdon-artifact cult?
One thing is certain....