Stars, Specters, and Super-Powers includes the following short stories:The Black Sphinx of Dover: An encounter at a sci-fi convention after-party changes everything for two newcomers. The protagonist's hazy memories of a disturbing incident haunt her until she returns to find out what really happened.Starshadows in Sideways Time: In the far future, a space ark fleeing the dying universe is assaulted by mysterious alien enti...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Stars, Specters, and Super-Powers includes the following short stories:The Black Sphinx of Dover: An encounter at a sci-fi convention after-party changes everything for two newcomers. The protagonist's hazy memories of a disturbing incident haunt her until she returns to find out what really happened.Starshadows in Sideways Time: In the far future, a space ark fleeing th...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Zira, a roguish explorer and treasure-hunter from a medieval world, is drawn into the multiverse-spanning machinations of a charming, amoral mystic. She finds herself exploring the between-space known as Qalidar and strange echoes of her own home world. While dealing with a terrible loss, she discovers disturbing things about the forces that shaped her universe and the inhuman intelligences that are trying to warp it even further.

Zira, a roguish explorer and treasure-hunter from a medieval world, is drawn into the multiverse-spanning machinations of a charming, amoral mystic. She finds herself exploring the between-space known as Qalidar and strange echoes of her own home world. While dealing with loss, she discovers disturbing things about the forces that shaped her universe and the inhuman intelligences that are trying to warp it even further.

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Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone contributions.”In The Buried Cause, historians, curators, p...

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Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town—which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it's become the scene of a crime . . .Needlepointers Angie and Sarah are helping with set design for the movie being shot in their little New England hometown—but as the lighthouse and the wharves bustle with activity, a real-life drama is about to unfold. The director, Marv Mason, has been harassing the pretty young female lead, and the two exchan...

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After leaving a decade ago, Angie Curtis has been called back to Harbor Haven, Maine, by her grandmother, Charlotte, who raised her following her mother's disappearance when she was a child. Her mother has been found, and now the question of her whereabouts has sadly become the mystery of her murder.The bright spot in Angie's homecoming is reuniting with Charlotte, who has started her own needlepointing business with a group called the Mainely Needlepointers. But when a shady busin...