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When Riley finds her grandmother dead, she knows her world is about to collapse. Determined to find the father she knows only by an address, Riley and Mia take off on a journey with so many twists and turns Riley begins to doubt they'll ever find a real home. She ignores the question that keeps popping into her mind-if they do find her father, will he even want them? Or will he send them away?

Writers live in a strange world - they tend to sit at their computers and make things up all day. Often, especially during the moments when writing in "the zone," life outside the story ceases to exist. But even writers have to eat. From Procrastinator's Bread to Deadline Chicken - come along for an inside look at some of the top recipes that help keep writers writing!* Everyone who worked on this cookbook, including Lucky Bat Books staff, donated their time, and 100% of the proceeds will go to Beach Bark, an organization of animal lovers who work with the Central Coast Humane Society for the benefit of animals in north Lincoln County, Oregon. * Includes story excerpts and writerly musings

Starship Century is an anthology by authors from both science and fiction writing backgrounds, illustrating some of the tech and ideology behind the illustrious goal of traveling to another star within the next century. Edited by Gregory Benford, New York Times bestselling science fiction author, and James Benford, leading expert on space propulsion, Starship Century includes science fiction by Neal Stephenson, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, John Cramer, Richard A. Lovett, and Allen Steele, as well as scientific articles by Stephen Hawking, Freeman Dyson, Robert Zubrin, Peter Schwartz, Martin Rees, Ian Crawford, James Benford, Geoffrey Landis, Paul Davies and Adam Crowl.This groundbreaking anthology of science and science fiction is based on findings and discussions of the 100-Year Starship Symposium held in 2011. In it, top scientists tackle the opportunities for our long-term future in space. Alongside them, science fiction authors explore the dream and the possibilities.

When Susanna Solomon turned fourteen, her father told her that he was going to Paris to be alone. She believed him. Instead, he went to be with his mistress, an event that changed the trajectory of her family's life forever. When he returned, her mother confronted him, and he lied to her. Fed up and in despair, she took her own life.Fifty years later and long after he was gone, Solomon felt an urge to see where her father had gone.The result is Paris Beckons, her collection of vignettes told in the voice of our narrator, Nina, who sets out to follow in her father's footsteps in Paris. When she returned to places where she had been with her parents, Nina finds her mother standing beside her while holding her hand on the quai, and her father criticizing her everywhere they went. Confronting them gave her a chance to heal, and she returned home transformed.Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, these short stories reveal what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories and will appeal, especially, to adult children with pasts that refuse to remain buried."Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, Susanna Solomon's Paris Beckons showcases 34 stories revealing what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories. Poignant and for those with pasts that refuse to remain buried.">"Often heart-rending, sometimes surreal, but always intriguing, Solomon's Paris Beckons transports the reader to amazing places in and around Paris and in and around the human heart.">"Susanna Solomon's fantastical musings reveal a clandestine Paris of temptation, imagination, and unease-ghostly "Shakespeare & Company," time-bending "The Clock," Twilight-Zone-esque "The Teddy Bear," and Oscar-Wilde-reminiscent "Hello, Human." Other tales derail the mind's comfort zones-risky soul-searching in "Among My Own Kind," braving Parisian streets as a first-time motorcyclist in "Julia," and communing with a Musée D'Orsay sculpture that thinks outside the box in "The Dancer." Deft, whimsical, with the hovering shadow of a domineering father, these stories rank among Solomon's best.-J. Macon King, Mill Valley Literary Review, author of Circus of the Sun and Drinking with a Dead Cat.

In a world turned upside down by the God of Potency's prancing dickishness - Queen Elizabeth II in orbit, the Dalai Lama partially digested - two heroes set out to restore natural order, overcome crippling dandruff and escape the pull of the Mongolian Illuminati. Chul, a self-righteous South Korean salaryman, vows to find and consume the vaunted Twinkie of Destiny, achieve 15 minutes of earthly omnipotence, restore the honor of Korea and lay Japan low. He is joined by CJ, a vengeful American plumber who seeks to punish the God of Potency and strike at Islam to avenge the tragedy of 9/11. Can anyone stop the God of Potency? Can our heroes find the Twinkie of Destiny before it's too late? Will either CJ or Chul stop being an asshole? There's only one way to find out!

Once again in its long life, the Book of Hours was in danger. And Alphaios had put it there... While recreating a resplendent fifteenth century Book of Hours as a gift for the pope, Brother Alphaios and archivist Inaki Arriaga discover shreds of an ancient parchment thrust into its covers. Though warned away by a visibly shaken Prior Bartholomew about the danger it holds, they pursue the few haunting words that remain, only to stumble on a dark secret that could undermine the very foundation of Catholicism. Now they are torn in a battle between the Church, which wants to destroy the parchment or bury it forever, and its owner, real estate mogul Salton Motice, who wants to use it for nefarious purposes. Meanwhile, the brothers of St. Ambrose learn that Motice intends to buy their midtown cloister and replace it with a skyscraper. The monks will be displaced from their home of nearly two centuries with no certainty at all about their future. Drawn ever further from the cloister into the chaotic city, Alphaios again encounters some of its most intriguing residents-a strange young woman obsessed with painting enormous replicas of master artworks under one of the city's great bridges, and a couple who, decades later, are still coping with having to flee from despots in their own country and almost certain death. Through it all, Brother Alphaios wrestles with allegiance to his religious vows as he searches for a way to protect the document for the terrible truth it tells.

Susanna Solomon, a resident of both San Anselmo and Point Reyes Station, finds humor and delight in the Sheriff's Calls printed in the local newspaper the Point Reyes Light, where she draws inspiration for her short stories. This is the second collection.