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TOP SECRET PERSEUS (EYES ONLY) PERSONNEL: OConnell, Night. Profile: Programming genius, project head revolutionary VR technology. Location: Vacation resort, downtime reward for exceptional work. Status: Recovering from brief hospital stay. PERSONNEL: Kovach, A. B., 1st Lt. Profile: Recon fgtr pilot, Starhawk III, exemplary record, auth. in-flight plasma shuriken testing. Location: Star Cruiser Heart wielder, Gorgonea Tertia region. Status: Training...
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The King shall lose both head and crown… Doomed by ancient prophecy, the ineffectual ruler of the Remish Empire faces countless enemies: rebellious nobles, an insurgent middle class, nationalistic rebels from breakaway provinces, a restive serf population. The King summons the one man in all his empire who can save his dynasty: the janissary General, Dmitry Konchak. But can the King truly trust...
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Mark My Words is a saga about Allan Christopher and his family. Allan is a self-made, African-American multimillionaire approaching sixty. He and his wife Maureen have been married for forty years, and they have eight children and seventeen grandchildren. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, starting out with nothing but family, very high intelligence,...
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Bobby Fowler is the first and only out gay kid at Dunston High School. Unathletic and small for his age, Bobby was orphaned soon after moving from New England to Dunston, a ranching town in central Texas, just before freshman year. Deeply scarred from a near-fatal beating during sophomore year, Bobby finds solace in his drums, composing music, and his two closest friends. Only two types of students go to Dunston High School, according to his soul...
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Thomas Wolfe may have said that you cant go home again, but nobody told Jewell Mattingly Garrett, who, once more, takes us back to rural Buck Creek, Kentucky, circa 1977, to re-visit the goings-on in her own hectic life (through new personal diary entries), in the lives of her growing family (via more letters to her younger, more sophisticated sister, Ruby JaNelle Mattingly Clarkson, in Falstaff, Arizona), and in the lives of her friends and neighbors...
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The fundamental subject of Not Most People: The Pornographists Tale is death as a philosophical problem of which all thinking men and women are conscious. Set in an unidentified state penitentiary, the play dramatizes love as that human possibility which enables us to live fulfilled, purposeful lives despite our mortality and our lack of knowledge of what, if anything, may await us after death. The playwright argues that, given our mortality, no form...
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A tongue-in-cheek, bittersweet, dark, comedic drama, Highway 71 describes the life and times of quirky, gay Sean Quigley. His ancestry is briefly sketched, and his childhood finds him intrinsically at odds with the lackluster monotony of his early, rural environment. The story chronicles the demise of an outwardly ideal, yet dysfunctional American family. As Sean's later years are chronicled, the book often resembles a memoir-like collection of short...
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Vincent Miles sat on the low stone seawall feeling wholly restored. To what exactly he had been restored, he couldn't say. He only sensed that he had felt like this before light and content and nothing more. If he tried to picture something more, then he would surely see a world of sorrow and doubt. There was none of that here, not now. The view was everything and everything was the view. From here he could only move on, to some kind of summit, a...
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The Door of the Heart By Diana Finfrock Farrar Tammy is the wife of Ed Sloan, a prominent figure in the Texas political scene who is struggling over the fallout of the bullying of gay student Jamie ODell, which also involved Sloans son. The issue sends shockwaves through the lives of Ed and his colleagues, friends, and family, especially Tammy, who begins to consider gay rights from a new angle. The author follows Tammys journey as the once-dutiful...
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I asked him if he thought that he might be gay. He didnt have a definitive answer to that question. All he could tell me was that the night before was the first time he ever had the desire to kiss anyone like that. He asked how it made me feel when he did it. I told him I didnt understand what I felt. I was always brought up that guys didnt do things like that and that it was wrong. But I had to admit that even though it shook me up a little there...
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The Journey of The Silent Vow primarily takes an intelligent and healthy boy through the experience of a drug cult world where his physical and mental health, are taken for granted. There was nothing wrong with the life given to this boy, yet the feelings received from the consumption of drugs and alcohol were more important than the boys own safety. Through use and abuse, this boy forfeited his wellbeing as he subjects his life to trials and tribulations....
12) (1) New Message
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Samuel Smith had been depressed ever since tragedy struck and had been staying inside his room, far away from the world. However, when his roommate forces him to talk, he finds a stranger on the internet and realizes that maybe he can take back control of his life and change. Caleb Hughes was just enjoying his every day life when a random message appeared from a stranger, and it doesn't take long for him to realize that the stranger needs help. Over...
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Sebastian is in his early 20s and looking for adventures in New York City. Sebastian has a heart of gold and a head full of dreams despite his many major setbacks he experienced from his childhood. After a series of bad events Sebastian decides to seek help for his battles with self-esteem and identity issues. With every new encounter Sebastian is often surprised by what he thought he already knew versus what he still has yet to learn.
14) The Precedence
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Chance or Fate- Our human hope rests upon one star. One sunny and rather warm spring morning, in a more than well-respected neighborhood of Louisville, high school senior and star-athlete, Lance Buchannan, awakens to discover strange bruises and scars across his body; but theyre not from wrestling or football practice. Nor did they come from a wild night on the town. Where did they come from? And whats gonna happen to me? he can only wonder. And to...
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This is the tale of a boy caught up in a Redneck place and time. Chock full of love and terror, it is an intriguing mix of true family fun, American values circa 60s/70s and strange accounts of individual survival. Granny Boop's Big House is the saga of seven kids and their alcoholic mother living life in the little pink house they called home. Bear witness as the generations pass and Bobby Lee, the youngest brother harboring his special secret, revealsall....
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A child discovers a deity in Godzilla. After being involved in a horrific family tragedy, a teenage girl avoids suicide by taking long walks with her little brother. A young Marine goes to war with his identity. A teacher with bouts of depression suspects cheating from a talented adolescent whose hormones cripple his ability to prove his innocence. A sixteen year old goes on an acid trip and unknowingly sets a farmers field on fire that threatens...
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On a hot June day, Liliana, a brilliant, young woman of Native American, Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon heritage is irresistibly drawn to a cowboy despondently leaning on his truck on the side of the highway as she drives home to Grants. "Reflections of Love and Loathing" takes place in New Mexico, where Liliana loses her loving parents when she is five. Secret resources enable her abusive, alcoholic grandmother, Carla, to keep her; so Liliana is forced...
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Back in the Day 3: The Final Chapter starts in more modern day and is designed to take you back almost 3 decades to where Back in the Day 2: The College Years left off. Through the use of reflection you go from more current time back to 1978 where the 2nd book of the Trilogy leaves off and eventually comes to an end. The story tells of good times and sad times and what the characters did to make it through it all.
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In the early 1980's, James Sovyer was the definition of Hollywood success. A wealthy and powerful movie director, he and his super model wife, Jessica, had the world underneath their feet with no holds barred. They were a match made in Tinseltown lore, looking down at the world from the top of their Malibu mansion. But when a terrible plane crash takes the lives of both Jessica and their three year old son, Cullen, James finds himself at war with...
20) Vantanahon
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The themes of nature and saving the planet compelled me to write this somewhat parallel story set in a possible future. Quantum physics tells us of the probabilities of multiple universes. I see this as one. On the planet Vantanahon, a quest to save the planet has formed of characters human, animal and spirit. Their mission is to save the planet from an energy imbalance. Investigation shows that imbalance is due to too many humans. When the planet...
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