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Unable to afford an apartment on their own, fifteen-year-old Katie and her mother reluctantly go to live with stubborn, eccentric Aunt Rose, who turns out to be not just a source of embarrassment, but an inspiration as well.

Half Navajo American Jamie Waterman is a geologist whose dream comes true when he is selected for the first landing team on Mars. He endures the rigors of training, the personality conflicts and political intrigues, as well as the dangers of traveling over 100 million kilometers in space. Once the international crew lands on Mars, they discover they must battle not only the alien land they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. As they head...

"Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse,...

A thriller set in the world of virtual reality. In Florida, a company creates an amusement park which gives people the impression they are walking on the moon, swimming under the ocean, or playing major league baseball. But delusion has its downside and in this case it is deadly. By the author of Dream of the Wolf.

Story of a world wasted by ecological disaster, fueled by a black market in everything from semi-legal narcotics to human organs.

In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own.

Set in twenty-first-century Shaghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin name Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.

Ned Henry is sent back in time to the 19th century to obtain the original plans of Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. A rich American wants to rebuild it. Problems arise when Henry's lady friend saves a cat from drowning, an act that threatens to alter history.

A collection of eight Christmas stories by science-fiction author Connie Willis about church choirs, presents, pod people from outerspace, wishes that do and don't come true, stars and shepherds, wise men and Santa Claus, and other trappings of the season.