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Aiyana and Kendra Cassidy never anticipated becoming the key to humanity's survival. As leaders of the Heavy Lift Corporation, their objective is clear: secure humanity’s future among the stars. Politics? Who needs it, when the galaxy is calling? The consequences of failure are stark: three-quarters of Earth’s population face starvation within decades, and the Solarian Union’s dominance could become unassailable. Success, however, means a rebirth for humanity—a chance to explore the stars, establish new colonies, and reclaim control over their destiny.

Welcome to the world of 2113. The country has shattered into 10 squabbling nations, and the solar system is on the edge of colonization. Technologic wonders abound. Yet, it's not unlike our own. People meet, fall in love, face assassination at their wedding - well, perhaps not. Meet Aiyana and Kendra, Cass and Ken to their friends, a genius physicist and a retired movie star with a mysterious past. They live quietly, get along with their neighbors, don't have problems at work. So why did they have to run for their lives from their wedding?

Set 100 years in the future, the book opens with the wedding of two female friends - Kendra (Ken) Foster-Briggs, exotic actress and film producer and Aiyana Cassidy (Cass), half Irish/half Native American graduate from MIT with a doctorate in optical engineering to Derek James, a man of independent means. The only problem is, instead of the reverend marrying them, he pulls a gun on them, forcing them to run like hell.

Things have gone sideways for Cass and Ken. Kendra took on one final job for her employer, and has discovered the truth behind it. Cass recruited a pair of agents to help her rescue a friend. Now, they depend on their wit, skills, and a set of unlikely allies to escape with their skins intact. Dive into the exciting conclusion to The Cassidy Chronicles, Volume One!

Six months have passed since The Road to the Stars. An uneasy peace has settled between the Solarian Union and the Terran Federation. Negotiations continue, but seem to be going nowhere. But that doesn't mean Cass and Ken haven't been busy. Their second starship is about to commission. A new habitat is nearly complete. A new class of fighters is entering service. And they still have stars to explore. But within the Union, new plots are arising. New challenges are being prepared. Soon, they will be ready to strike. Will Cass and Ken be able to handle the latest attack?

Cass and Ken fled their wedding when an assassin tried to kill them. They ran from Los Alamos to Las Vegas to Massachusetts and finally to the flooded remains of New Orleans. Now Kendra will try to recruit her employer to help them get to the bottom of this mystery, but everything has a cost. She may have no choice but to pay it, however. Cass has problems of her own when she discovers that a friend is in jeopardy because of her. Can she organize a rescue attempt?

From 2013 to 2017, Linda Boström Knausgård was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at this 'factory' progressed, the writer’s memories began to disappear.

Five years after the events in Volume One, life is good for the Cassidys. Aiyana is perfecting her teleporters while running the Heavy Lift Corporation. Kendra is overseeing her ambitious starship project in her own, inimitable way. They want nothing more than to live their lives and raise their girls.

Three years after visiting with Mr. Darcy at Rosings Park, Lizzy finds herself at a house party where he is also a guest. A priceless pocket watch has gone missing, and Lizzy intends to find it to prevent the unwarranted discharge of the accused maid. Fitzwilliam offers his assistance, and they unravel the mystery of what happened to the watch.

This book contains two essays which were first published in the 1870s and describe how a vegetarian and a teetotaler became rich. It is a fascinating glimpse into the early days of vegetarianism and what people ate who adopted such a diet. Also, a deep insight into how giving up alcohol helped one man became wealthy back in the 19th century. Edited and selected by Professor David Christopher Lane, who, without irony, has been a vegetarian (now vegan) for the past 48 years.

Beth Llyndee cherishes her family's summers on a pristine Canadian lake, where she revels in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons' evening trills across the lake's many bays, and an unshakable bond with family, friends, and nature on their island of granite and pines. When that bond is threatened and then torn apart, first as her family's rights to the island are questioned and then by nature itself, Beth creates a new life in urban Chicago.

Nurse Kit Carson’s life hangs by a thread. The deadly grippe has the town of High Plains under the gun, and an assassin known as the Lone Gunman is delivering his own twisted form of justice. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bully Ratzer is hellbent on winning the governor’s seat, and Balmy Wether comes back to town to expose him. Fiction set in America’s New Wild West.

In November of 2014, nearing the 35th anniversary of the untimely death of her father, Deb learns the devastating news that the man she knew and loved as her biological father was not her DNA match. This unforeseen key unlocked a lifelong secret to her inexplicable childhood experiences with a narcissist mother and intensified her four-decade search for understanding of a mother-daughter relationship. Independence is a memoir of secrets kept by a mother, discovered by the daughter, and a quest to find forgiveness and acceptance for the unknown.

While dodging the West's deadliest virus, nurses Kit Carson and Tonto, along with Doc Halliday, are tasked with Infiltrating secret, high stakes card games and stealing scarce medical supplies stockpiled at the High Plains Fort. Will the Vigilantes succeed in bringing healthcare justice to High Plains in America's new Wild West? Episode number four in a serialized collection of short speculative fiction.

Nurse Kit Carson, working per diem as a hired gun in WellMart's emergency department joins a medical vigilante group intent on taking down the evil sheriff Bully Ratzer and his posse of thugs. In this episode, Carson has been assigned to deliver the exotic dancer Balmy Wether to Wyoming territory for safekeeping with the Arapaho people.