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  The Tuesday Club Murders: A Miss Marple Mystery

  by Agatha Christie

  The unifying premise for this short story collection is the Tuesday Club: six people who meet socially one evening at Jane Marple's home and then decide to meet regularly each Tuesday night to solve a mystery which a group member must relate.
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  The White Mountains

  by John Christopher

  35th Anniversary Editon with new Text and a New Preface by the Author! Long ago, the Tripods -- huge, three-legged machines -- descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each persson's life -- in childhood -- he is not a slave. For Will his time of freedom is about to end --... (more)
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  The Fountains of Paradise

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  Vannemar Morgans dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all timea 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.
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  Mrs.McGinty's Dead (Poirot)

  by Agatha Christie

  When an old lady with no enemies is bludgeoned to death, suspicion falls on her lodger who has no alibi. With every piece of evidence working against him, he has only one hope: Hercule Poirot.
• The Lion of Comarre and Other Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, 1937-1949 (Unabridged)Arthur C. Clarke

  

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  The Lion of Comarre and Other Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, 1937-1949 (Unabridged)

  by Arthur C. Clarke

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  .and the Horse He Rode in on: The People V. Kenneth Starr

  by James Carville

  EXCLUSIVE: CARVILLE RESPONDS TO THE STARR REPORT ... And the Horse He Rode In On gives the first full accounting of what's really behind the longest-running, most expensive dirty trick in politics: Ken Starr's investigation.
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  Snares of Ibex: Book VIII of the Diadem (Snares of Ibex)

  by Jo Clayton

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  Faded Sun Trilogy

  by C. J. Cherryh

  They were the mri-tall, secretive, bound by honor and the rigid dictates of their society. For aeons this golden-skinned,golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability. But now the mri have faced an enemy unlike any other-an enemy whose only way of war is widespread destruction. These "humans" are mass fighters, creatures of the herb, and the mri have been slaughtered... (more)
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  The Color Bind: The Campaign to End Affirmative Action

  by Lydia Chavez

  "The Color Bind" tells the story of how two unknown academics wrote Proposition 209 in 1992, thereby setting in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next generation.
• Drum Warning - Book One of The Drums of ChaosJo Clayton

  

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  Drum Warning - Book One of The Drums of Chaos

  by Jo Clayton

• Skeen's LeapJo Clayton

  

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  Skeen's Leap

  by Jo Clayton

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  Inheritor

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  Pride of Chanur

  by C.J. Cherryh

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  How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Writer's Digest Genre Writing Series)

  by Orson Scott Card

  From AmazonFinally, Orson Scott Card's Hugo award-winning classic on the art and craft of writing science fiction and fantasy is available in paperback! Card provides invaluable advice for every science fiction and fantasy writer interested in constructing stories about people, worlds and events that stretch the boundaries of the possible...and the magical. They'll learn: * what is and isn't science... (more)
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  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  by Agatha Christie

  The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Agatha Christie's eccentric and hugely popular detective, Hercule Poirot, was introduced to the world in this book, which launched her career as the most famous... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot Mystery: Book 23

  Evil Under the Sun : A Hercule Poirot Mystery

  by Agatha Christie

  Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea.
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  A murder is announced : a Miss Marple mystery

  by Agatha Christie

  You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of murder mystery fun and games at the home of Letitia Blacklock is an invitation that Miss Jane Marple cannot pass up. A good thing, too, because when the lights are dimmed real gunshots ring out, killing a young boy. Now it’s time for a new, much more serious game of “whodunit.”
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  The Canterbury tales

  by Mike Poulton

  Two-part adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales by Tony award winner adaptor Mike Poulton. All the famous characters are here as well as many less well-known but equally full of life. Each of the stories has its own style-heroic verse for the Knight's Tale, vernacular rhymes for the Miller's Tale etc.-echoing the many narrative voices employed by Chaucer himself.
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  ReVisions

  by John McDaid

  Fifteen original tales of "what if" Some of today's top science fiction writers explore the futures that might have been, including original stories from Julie E. Czerneda and other great names in the genre.