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Dead Bang

Private Detective Art Hardin's caseload does not usually involve AK47s, but when an Islamic terrorist group uses an unsuspecting family friend to smuggle money into the country and the money disappears, Art gets in deeper than ever before. As the militant group weaves their way through suburban Michigan in search of their missing money, Art finds himself ensnared in a terrorist plot of violence and revenge that endangers his home, family, and way of life. The latest in the acclaimed Art Harding Mystery Series, Dead Bang is a fast-paced thriller that captivates from start to finish.**
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The Year's Best SF 12 # 1994

ContentsTitle PageCopyright NoticeDedicationAcknowledgmentsSummation: 1994FORGIVENESS DAY    Ursula K. Le GuinTHE REMORAS    Robert ReedNEKROPOLIS    Maureen F. McHughMARGIN OF ERROR    Nancy KressCILIA-OF-GOLD    Stephen BaxterGOING AFTER OLD MAN ALABAMA    William SandersMELODIES OF THE HEART    Michael F. FlynnTHE HOLE IN THE HOLE    Terry BissonPARIS IN JUNE    Pat CadiganFLOWERING MANDRAKE    George TurnerNONE SO BLIND    Joe HaldemanCOCOON    Greg EganSEVEN VIEWS OF OLDUVAI GORGE    Mike ResnickDEAD SPACE FOR THE UNEXPECTED    Geoff RymanCRI DE COEUR    Michael BishopTHE SAWING BOYS    Howard WaldropTHE MATTER OF SEGGRI    Ursula K. Le GuinYLEM    Eliot FintushelASYLUM    Katharine KerrRED ELVIS    Walter Jon WilliamsCALIFORNIA DREAMER    Mary RosenblumSPLIT LIGHT    Lisa GoldsteinLES FLEURS DU MAL    Brian StablefordHonorable Mentions: 1994
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3 a.m. (Henry Bins 1)

The average person is awake for sixteen hours a day. Henry Bins is awake for one. He wakes up each day at 3 a.m. then falls asleep at 4 a.m. Life is simple. Until he hears the woman scream. And sees the man leave the house across the street. But not just any man. The President of the United States.
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The Imperial Wife

"The Imperial Wife is a smart, engaging novel that parallels two fascinating worlds and two singular women. Irina Reyn writes beautifully of immigrants, art and the vagaries of love".—Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful RuinsTanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband.As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century woman who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. The Imperial Wife asks what female ambition means, today and in the past, and...
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The Last Pilgrims

Twenty years in the future is five-hundred years in the past. It is just two decades after the worldwide societal collapse and the Vallenses, an Amish-like “plain people” living and surviving in what was once Central Texas, are under attack by the King of Aztlan and his armies. The pacifistic Vallenses are defended by the shadowy Ghost Militia and their inspiring leader Phillip...
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Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys

A Bermondsey factory girl joins the fight against Hitler, in the wonderful new novel from the bestselling author of CUSTARD TARTS AND BROKEN HEARTS.

May Lloyd's father calls her his homing pigeon because of her uncanny knack of navigating her way around the streets of South London - even in pitch darkness. It is a gift that will save her life when the Blitz destroys nearly everything that she holds dear.

With her home in ruins, May joins the ATS - the women's branch of the British Army - and becomes a gunner girl, operating Ack Ack guns against the Luftwaffe. Meanwhile, her sister Peggy makes a daring bid to escape a stifling marriage and find love and freedom amid the heady chaos of war.

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John Berryman

This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America's most distinguishe
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The Bride of Fu Manchu f-6

A strange epidemic is sweeping the Riviera. In desperation the French authorities call upon Dr Petrie to find an answer. During this crisis, a mysterious siren on the beach captivates Alan Sterling. She tells him her name only – Fleurette – and flees. When Petrie’s lab cultures show up sleeping sickness and plague, they call in Sir Denis Nayland Smith. It is not long before their investigations lead them to Fleurette – and to Dr Fu Manchu.
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