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  Palace Ghosts

  Becky Black

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  When evidence emerges hinting that a long lost starship wasn't destroyed after all, Ishir Jha has to investigate. His father sent the last desperate message from the ship before it was lost in a battle with pirates. Ish must learn the truth, even if he has to do it alone.
  But his husband Finn Moran isn't going to let him run off alone and get killed in the outer system, where the influence of the Li pirate empire is spreading again, this time under the command of the daughter of the warlord who once terrorized the colonies and the ships that plied their trade there. But Li Xhing doesn't want to terrorize. She wants to rule. 
  When Finn and Ishir end up as prisoners at Li's stronghold, The Red Palace, Finn appears ready to accept a recruitment offer to join their captor's ranks, since the other alternative is a life of slavery. Ishir can only wonder if his husband is losing his mind. 
  But thanks to Finn, plans are being laid elsewhere, to breach the Red Palace's impenetrable defensive barrier. One that only a few people can navigate, all of them ready to die before giving up the secret. The plans will change the destiny of the whole outer system and set Finn and Ishir onto a whole new path.

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  Halloween at the Baker Valley...

  Aleksa Baxter

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  It's Halloween at the Baker Valley Barkery and Cafe, which means it's time for a pet costume parade. And when Maggie leaves Sam and Jack in charge of finding contestants the results are definitely...interesting.Note that this is NOT a mystery but does include the characters from the Maggie May and Miss Fancypants Mysteries series and falls chronologically after book four in that series, A Missing Mom and Mutt Munchies. It can, however, also be read as a standalone short story.

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  The Strenuous Life

  Theodore Roosevelt

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  Theodore Roosevelt began this 1899 speech with his thesis: “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” He discusses how the many hardships of his life shaped him for the better. Roosevelt believed that if Americans wished to succeed in the world, they would need to embrace the virtue of hard work. He applied this same belief to foreign affairs, stating that America must establish itself as a powerful military force and exert this power when necessary.  

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 171 thru 180

  Voltaire, Andre Norton, Ray...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 171 thru 180 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s and one from 1752Micromegas by VoltaireFinal Victim by Ray Bradbury and Henry HasseThe Last Drive by Carl JacobiThe Red Room by H. G. WellsCurse of the Blue Man by Lawrence M. JanniferThe Nameless Something by Murray LeinsterThe Gifts of Asti by Andre NortonEncounter in the Dawn by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Foxholes of Mars by Fritz LeiberThe Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce

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  A Gathering of Crones

  Lydia M. Hawke

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  She’s running out of time. And so is the world.After learning on her sixtieth birthday that she’s one of five Crones destined to save the world, Claire Emerson has been desperately trying to acquire the lifetime of magic she missed out on. But the mages who are out to destroy everything she loves aren’t waiting, and when one of the other Crones ends up on Claire’s doorstep—wounded and unconscious—Claire knows she’s out of time.Leaving the safety of her warded house, she goes in search of the remaining Crones… only to find them under siege by the mages and their nearly indestructible monster. And without control over her powerful elemental magic, she has no idea how to rescue them.Can Claire harness her powers in time to help her fellow Crones defeat the mages—or will her efforts bring even greater disaster?

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  In the Country of the Blind - A...

  Edward Hoagland

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  A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICESixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne'er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight. Hoagland, himself, is going blind, and through this evocative, unsentimental novel, we experience the world closing in around Press, the rising panic of uncertainty, the isolation of exile, the increasing dependence upon the kindness of strangers, and a whole new appreciation of the world just beyond sight.

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