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  A Thin Line - A Child's Eyes...

  Anthony Whyte

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  A THIN LINE 
  When police officer and parent, Rita Sanchez, finds out that her husband may be involved with illegal export of narcotics, she is quick to let him know that he must cooperate with the investigators and tell all he knows about the Motzies, their Nigerian neighbors. After learning about her husband’s involvement with an illegal smuggling ring run by her neighbors, Rita Sanchez chooses to stay on the side of the law. When the Motzies are murdered, Rita remains on the right side of justice, but her resolve is tested when police improperly interrogate her 12-year-old son Shareef without her consent. This act forces her to break her silence, revealing the intense rage of a mother hurt deeply. 
  Shareef learns about the death of his best friend, Lolo, but it is his strange reaction to police officers that drives Rita to confront the entire department. She uncovers that she is dealing with a group of rogue officers, and her actions put not only her career at risk but also her own life and the safety of her family. 
  In A THIN LINE, a mother’s love and her duties as a police officer clash because of an oath. But promises can be broken. Are the bonds of love any easier to shatter?  

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  The Time of Cold

  Mary Carlson

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  The Time of Cold by Mary Carlson - Queer creatures! They fled the life-giving sun and hid where even tin froze solid! 
  Curt felt the airship going out of control as he passed over a rock spattered stretch of sand. Automatically he looked for a smooth place to land and steered the bucking ship for it. The jolt of the landing triggered the ejector seat and in a second he was hurtling through the air away from the explosion of the damaged vehicle. Just before he blacked out, he thought—almost calmly—"a good hundred and fifty miles from the colony." 
  When he regained consciousness, night was passing and the first of the three suns was peeking over the horizon. Curt lay still for a while, afraid to find out what might be wrong with him. And the rescue ship could take anything from an hour to a week to find him. He moved his head to discover if there might be anything left of his ship; he saw nothing but pieces. 
  "Well," he said aloud, "so much for that." He reached back gingerly and undid the seat straps. Carefully, he sat up and began to ease his weight onto his feet. A sharp twinge of pain in his knee dropped him back to a sitting position. He probed at the knee but found no broken bones. 
  "Well," he said again, quietly. The colony leaders had had very little to offer in the way of survival. Rule number 1: Mark the crash site and your direction of travel. Number 2: Get into shade before the combined heat of the three suns boils your blood. Number 3: Carry your pistol for protection against liquid scorpions, and always save the last pellet for yourself.

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  The Cat Saw Murder

  Dolores Hitchens, Joyce Carol Oates

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  When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, California, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her—but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic basket and bringing her along for the ride. Samatha, it turns out, is an heiress, the inheritor of a fortune left by a wealthy relative, and so the attempt at the cat's life, made right after they arrive, comes as a shock. The cat survives, but unfortunately, Lilly, murdered soon thereafter, is not so lucky. 
   
   
   
  By the time the police arrive, the clues are already falling into place. The source of Lilly's trouble is revealed to be a gambling debt incurred during an attempt to cheat at bridge, and the suspects in her slaying quickly pile up. But then another corpse is discovered, buried in the nearby sand, and it becomes clear that the killing spree concerns more than just the young lady's personal money trouble. With the authorities distracted by lurid details, it's up to Rachel and her furry friend to uncover the subtleties containing the solution to the puzzle. 
   
   
   
  A prototypical early "cat mystery," written before the subgenre became a staple of cozy mystery fiction, The Cat Saw Murder is an entertaining and endlessly surprising whodunit.

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  Enchanted Escapades: 28 Bedtime...

  Legacy Fairy

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  Are you searching for a children's story book that is filled with positive life principles that can teach your little one to dream, solve problems and steward nature? This collection of 28 fiction stories is inspirational as well as entertaining. It’s great to read to your children or could serve as a shared experience to walk your young readers through a “read along”. This book is jam-packed with positive and safe bedtime stories that speak into wisdom, sharing and the adventures of going of many different journeys. 
  This is an ideal story book collection for regular bedtime tuck in, or for an activity when the babysitter arrives. Each chapter is simple to read and share as the animals, trees and other inanimate objects get personified for young readers! 
  These bedtime stories are especially great for traveling, bedtime, and reading aloud even bfore naptime. Also available hardcover and audiobook formats!28 imaginative bedtime stories for kidsIdeal for early readers to hear or enjoy a read along with the parent(s)Wise short stories that teach a variety of principles even if it’s a quick bedtime read 
  These chapters are great and with 28 of them, perhaps there can be one read for each evening a month, as there are layers of lessons to be discussed and learned about! 
  Sample Table Of Contents (some of the chapters!):The Enchanted ForestThe Dancing StarsThe Magical CarouselThe Mischievous PixiesThe Rainbow KingdomThe Secret GardenThe Brave Little Mermaid

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  Elder Race

  Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. 
   
   
   
  Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. 
   
   
   
  But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it). 
   
   
   
  But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon . . .

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  Life After Kafka

  Magdaléna Platzová

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  A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice 
   
   
   
  Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler's Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka's entourage—including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken—as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka's son approaches Felice's son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka's letters to Felice begins. 
   
   
   
  While taking the measure of literary fame's long shadow, Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one.

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