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Blunt Force Kharma is a suspenseful and intense urban sci-fi noir from the author of the long running noir fantasy Miki Radicci series that throws Raymond Chandler into a William Gibson world. Barely making ends meet in Central District, Private Investigator Kelly Kharma takes on the cases others might not. With the police backlogged, a working class mother hires Kharma to find her daughter who didn't come home from school. In another case,Kharma...
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On a distant planet, private investigator Kelly Kharma wallows in a pit of depression. The love of her life left her and society grows worse. She keeps moving forward, though. To keep her sanity and fixing what she can of society.
When she's asked to recover a stolen artifact and protect a dancer from a stalker, she discovers that moving forward might not be the best option. Old enemies and love still won't let her go.
Bodies drop and questions...
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In the crumbling Central District, private investigator Kelly Kharma can't afford a cup of coffee. Watching burning buildings out her window highlights her days until Pinback Boiler walks into her office.
Breaking a custody agreement, Boiler's wife kidnapped their daughter Gwendolyn. He needs Kharma to find her and bring her back.
Kharma follows Gwendolyn's trail into the industrial South District, where underground abortionists and criminals mix...
4) The Creative
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The Indomitable has killed most of my people and sent the rest of us to a prison planet with poisoned air. With my sister Nora, I wait for death. But there is hope in the Creative who leads the revolution. She will set us free. All our hope dies when a new prisoner enters our cell. The Creative has been captured and wounded. Soon, she will die. No matter how hard I try to help her. But is it all lost? A new Creative must rise. Someone not chosen by...
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The weird and supernatural comforts him. When it moves in next door, it could kill them all. Living with his mom in a New York City apartment after the Great World War, Stephen spends his free time outside of middle school at the movie theater or the library when not terrorized by neighborhood bullies. Stephen never thought his life could turn worse until Mr. Goodis, an anti-social writer who types day and night, moves in next door. A man more dangerous...
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When Cormier Oil and Gas sends geologist Warren to the planet FH-358, they assume it's lifeless. But instead, Warren discovers something unexpected: a teenage girl named Mina who knows where the oil comes from. The company desperately wants Mina's knowledge, but she doesn't know how to communicate with them. Out of time and frustrated, they decide to risk Mina's life for the location of the oil. In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, Warren will have...
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In a new society on a distant planet, Kelly Kharma struggles to operate a private investigation agency in the Central District. As a former cop, she has the skills to maneuver through the dark city. As a righteous woman against the system, she has the determination to help her clients find justice and peace.
Even if it means being enslaved by kidnappers or finding a dead client's killer.
Can she save herself from a past that haunts her? A violent...
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They've always wanted a child.
But would the child want them?
Ten-year-old Peter doesn't belong. He sucks at algebra but he excels in surviving dodgeball. He has no friends but breaks the challenges of a post-asteroid world.
Peter only wants to feel accepted and secure as he does in his dreams.
Dreams that could be memories.
Memories of being an old man.
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Sometimes the strangest of people become the ones you need to survive the end of the world. With only a few weeks left until the Texas-sized asteroid hits the Earth, Jack and Marie try to live peacefully in their retirement development despite the world falling apart around them. When the electricity goes out for everyone, Jack and Marie cope with the new struggle. Not everyone, though. Strange old, child-like Astrid and her overly-mature grandson...
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In the near future where the government deals with a rising illegal inter-planetary alien problem, Officer Rau messes up a bust that takes the life of citizens and his partner. All's not lost for Rau. He could join a new program that makes officers effective and objective. Whether he likes it or not. Even if it might not work. A sci-fi crime short story about a man tangled inside and out.
12) The Morrows
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"Have you ever had an author that no matter what they write you just can't wait to devour it? I have had only a handful of authors that do it for me. M.E. is one of those authors." - Fallen Over Books. All teens are stifled with a device around their mouths until they are adults. But one boy sees a way to be free from them. And he is willing to sacrifice anything. A police officer screws up again. This time he may be made an example. Or, he can join...
13) The Satellite
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When it hits, it will be a monster. While on the run towards a fresh start in life, Regina picks up a teen-aged girl off the bitter winter turnpike. The strange girl seems harmless aside from her jerky movements, weird way of talking, and talent with wild animals. The girl soon pales in comparison when news about the speeding asteroid the size of Texas heading to Earth strikes the media. An asteroid the teen-aged girl knows all about before anyone....
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