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P. G. Wodehouse meets space opera, as Ensign Thomas Innes Loche Kinago,fresh from the Academy is given his first command. A crumb from the upper crust,he’s eager to uphold the traditions of his family, and in particular, hismother, a distinguished Admiral of the Imperium. Of course, he’s aware ofthe importance of always having simply smashing tailored uniforms on hand, andhaving his camera ready to record memorable moments for his scrapbook. In themeantime, a charismatic leader has arisen who seems able to control the minds ofanyone he meets, and may be on his way to taking over the entire galaxy. CanKinago’s aristocratic bearing and unbridled snobbery stand up to such achallenge? Fortunately, his constant companion, the unflappable Jeeves,er, Parsons, is on hand to look after the young, impulsive master, andsomehow help his charge bumble his way through, perhaps even saving the galaxyin the process.

Book 2 in international best-selling author Anne McCaffrey and Jody LynnNye's Planet Pirates series.Desperate circumstances forced Lunzie Mespil, Healer, to abandon thestarship on which she was a passenger. Since she made it to a lifeboat, Lunzieis not too worried; she will spend a month or two in cryogenic stasis awaitinginevitable rescue, and then proceed with her life. Only it's not a month or two.Lunzie waits for sixty-two years before she is finally picked up. How Lunziedeals with being reborn to a world she never made, a world that has grownstrangely dark and dangerous during her long sleep, is the story of The Deathof Sleep.

MIDDLE GRADE, 10 YEARS AND UP. FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS TRAVIS S. TAYLOR AND JODY LYNN NYESTAY ALIVE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOONWhat happens when you get the one thing you wanted most in life? Lonely 16-year-old farm girl Barbara Winton has been following one reality show for years. Then in an instant she goes from fangirl to participant when the call comes from Dr. Keegan Bright: She’s been selected out of a horde of applicants to join him on the Moon.

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With her family’s finances in a downward spiral and taxes threatening, Margaret de Beauchamp is in London as her family’s emissary to the Earl of Cork, the king’s chancellor. While waiting for an audience, she decides to indulge her curiosity and visit the new “up-timers,” ambassadors originally from somewhere called West Virginia, and reportedly “the future.” They are imprisoned in the Tower of London, but are able to entertain visitors, becoming the latest curiosity of the fashionable set. An escape plan is in place, but vital parts are missing. Margaret might be able to make Harry Lefferts’s wild scheme possible. Agreeing to assist the charming rogue, she finds herself ever more involved with the up-timers, visiting Magdeburg and bringing back technology that could save her family and the entire wool trade from the chancellor’s greed. But all of England is in chaos with mercenaries everywhere and the crown stealing estates all over the North. By introducing aqualator computers to save the wool trade and weavers, the young gentlewoman and her new up-timer allies find themselves threatened by spies, raiders, and even pirates.