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Seventeen-year-old Reuben had been born into a community that had been hiding from a totalitarian government for generations. He'd long dreamed of breaking loose and living above ground, free. Renzo had been born into the society run by the totalitarian government and had served it most of his life, unaware of the hidden civilization burrowed in around his remote outpost in western Northam - until he had been declared an experson, and Subterrans had captured him and taken him underground to save his life. When war broke out between the Subterrans and the Era forces and it looked like the ...

You might think that retiring to a little mountain village in rural France would result in a quiet life, but Richard and Emma Hugh, formerly of MI5 1/2, and their friend Leandre Durand, formerly of French secret services, are not finding it so. There are suspicious characters living on a boat on the lake. There are tourists all around. There are children and grandchildren to keep up with. Durand's son-in-law suspects he has human traffickers staying at his hotel. This is just for starters. All this is happening while they are facing up to their past and questioning how to go forward. Not ...

Tomas is living in a time of turmoil but, wrapped up in his government job, he doesn't know it - until war breaks out, and he suddenly finds himself caught between the totalitarian government he's loyally served his entire life, and some fascinating rebels he never dreamed existed. He doesn't trust either side, and it appears that people on both sides are all too happy to return the favor. Meanwhile, he's surrounded by too many available women, but in the Subterran world, the rule is 'hands off the women' except for a man with his wife. But it's harder than he could have imagined to find a ...

It wasn't supposed to happen. Retirement just wasn't supposed to happen. Richard Hugh, aka Triple-O Five, had more or less planned on dying in the line of duty. But bureaucrats and life intervened. Now Richard must face enemies without the help of the agency. Worse yet, now he must face his past. Are we having fun yet?

Eleven-year-old Shayna Miller lives in the Subterran world where people hide from the totalitarian government that rules topside. But her dad keeps moving their family from place to place, almost as if he's running from something in Subterra itself. But what? This book is set in the same time and region as The Birdwatcher, with which it shares a few characters. The Forgotten Ways is a sequel to both of these. This book was originally published in 2013. This is the 2015 slightly revised edition. Novels set in the Smolder Era, following different characters in different places, are The ...

Joanne, who is Japanese-American, is tired of her friend Molly wishing she had thick, black hair. So she invites her to touch it during an outdoor concert on a hot, sunny day. That little science lesson leads to one thing after another for Joanne, Molly, and their friends in the band. Children's fiction. Roughly 8,900 words. Revised edition.

When MI5 1/2 pushed Richard Hugh (aka Triple-O Five) into early retirement, he was expected to go from saving the world to merely living in it. He's finding that he really isn't prepared to do that. Besides, even in retirement a man can stumble across people who are in need of rescue, and surely in cases like that he should step up and help. If he can.

When Palena's high class parents buy her a piano, they have no idea what societal heights and depths the instrument will help cause, in their lives, and the lives of others. Nor do they yet fully understand the perils of masquerade balls. But they will. Oh, they will. Novella length (roughly 17,500 words).

Verity, Pash, and Jeorj are among the inmates of a remote prison camp where misfits with promising genetic characteristics are held in reserve, away from a Society that the government doesn't want contaminated either with persons not meeting breed standards, or with unsanctioned thought - but on hand should scientists want to add some new blood to their human breeding programs. Until now, life has been one of general indignities and close scrutiny, but not quite close enough to keep them from secretly keeping several people hidden and alive despite government orders that they should be ...

Kisa and Morgan are best friends despite coming from radically different families. When they find a stray dog that's wearing a tag that says "You may keep this dog if you want - but I warn you, she's trouble" their lives get turned upside down. This little dog really is Trouble with a capital T. Or is she? Accidental time travel can be fun, right?

Fifteen-year-old Isannah has lived her entire life inside an old prison camp out in the wilderness, with no contact with the outside world. On the upside, Genesee Settlement is a rather nice community, and large enough to have several young men her age as a prospective husband. Better yet, all but one of them seems like someone worth marrying. So, her life looks like it will be fairly smooth and as pleasant as a life of exile could hope to be. But then the ongoing war that sent her parents into isolation comes closer and closer, and Isannah is face to face with possibly losing all she holds...

When he is 17, Norwegian fisherman Lars is sent to live with his uncle in Dakota Territory in America, at least until a famine lets up back home. His parents send his little brother along with him, and the two of them must deal with a world unlike anything they could have imagined, while also coming to grips with the challenges of growing up. And falling in love. And surviving calamity (not to mention embarrassment - like the time Lars bought his first horse, which turned out to be a strange beast that made him a laughingstock). Some of their adventures and misadventures are recounted by a ...

The Billboard War was launched by people who had been hiding from a worldwide totalitarian regime for generations, but five years in it's not going as well as hoped in portions of Northam. People on the rebel side are increasingly turning on anyone not seen as properly devoted to the cause. Those who refuse to pick up weapons out of religious conviction are especially likely to be shunned, shamed, jailed, or worse. At the same time, despite the hatred and violence launched at them from both sides in the war, the number of people who are laying down their weapons to follow the peaceful ways ...

When the Forresters' favorite cow horse has a colt, everyone assumes he'll be a good cow pony just like his mother. But Billy isn't good at any sort of ranch work. He's silly, friendly, and lots of fun - but the Forresters can't afford to keep a horse who doesn't earn his keep. So Mr. Forrester keeps trying to find something Billy can be good at. Children's fiction.