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Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.

From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the event

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller.

The kids in class call Natalie "Bluish" because her skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Though weak, she also wants to be independent.

As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime.

A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.

Miles has put his clone, Mark, in charge of a mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole. But the mission goes awry, and Miles' rescue attempt goes even more wrong.

During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjami

A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls.

Earth-scientist Rocannon has been living on a world shared by three native humanoid races: cave dwellers, elves, and warriors.

Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward.

Relations are strained between the planet Werel's native people and its colony of stranded Earthmen, but they share a common genetic heritage as well as common enemies.

Since the golden age of the League of All Worlds, the people of Earth have fallen into semibarbarism and paranoia, ruled by the mind-controlling Shing.

When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty.

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her.