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A wealthy young prankster is missing. So's an entire wind turbine. But is he the one responsible for the wind turbine vanishing? Lynne Throckmorton just wants to settle into her house in the small Texas Panhandle town near Lake Gambel and do her job. But her job is to find all the computer bugs in her new smart home, a tiny ecofriendly cabin manufactured by her brother's company. And there are no end of bugs for her to find. When an entire wind turbine goes missing on a nearby ranch, the local sheriff concludes it must have been a prank by the ranch owner's young brother-in-law, Noel. But Lynne's not so sure. After all, no one in town and the area surrounding was all that keen on the turbine. Or on Noel. And no one knows where Noel is hiding out . . . if he is just hiding out. Can Lynne navigate the feuds between extended families, energy companies, environmental campaigners, and end-of-the-world preppers and solve the mysteries behind what's missing so she can finally turn her tiny house into a home?
Missing cyber currency. A classroom full of suspects. And . . . poetic justice? One student demands to know which of his fellow students stole his cyber currency. Another hides a secret about his past. And a third just wants to disappear into her notebook. Can the professor figure out who stole the money before the semester ends?
Stacey Hengesbach has enough to worry about with a pecan harvest, festival preparations, and a daughter who's eager to leave their tiny hometown all needing her attention. So when a radio antenna tower falls, seriously injuring its owner, she's willing to believe it's an accident like everyone else in the county does, including the sheriff. But then another antenna tower falls, this time on her best friend's cafe while they're inside. With the help of her family, friends old and new, and the local ham radio club, Stacey races to solve the mystery of the falling antennas before another one comes crashing down.
A broken window and a fire that threatens her best friend. A brutal video game and a student who doesn't belong. And an elite professor who delights in putting her down. Can she solve the mystery of the arson before her career goes up in flames? Lynne Throckmorton just wants to teach her last computer science class of the week at the elite Dallas college where's she's a well loved lecturer. She's got enough to worry about, after all. Her daughter just moved to some small island off the cost of Scotland, her roommate and best friend is getting married and moving from their apartment, and the college's most prestigious professor has decided to target Lynne for her ideas about social justice and her lack of a PhD. All that and a body that doesn't always cooperate due to new health problems. When the window of the office she shares on campus with her best friend is broken by an incendiary device, Lynne wonders who's the intended target: Jennie, her best friend, or Lynne herself. With the help of her annoying tech millionaire brother, a little faith in herself, and a whole lot of logic, can Lynne solve the mystery before the arsonist strikes again?
Almost as soon as recent divorcee Amy Morrison begins her dream job as librarian aboard the world's most expensive luxury cruise liner, she nearly sinks it. She's tasked with hosting the debut of a painting celebrated but hidden for nearly sixty years. But the artist claims the painting isn't hers. And then, the artist goes missing. With the help of a retired academic couple lecturing aboard the ship, a dashing IT manager, and a housekeeping staff with a love of literature, Amy tries to solve the art fraud and kidnapping while rediscovering the adventurous side of herself.
Her grandson was literally on the brink of death's door. From as early as one month old, he was gravely ill with one illness after another. By the time he was three years old, he had been hospitalized more times than she could count. He would get better and then suddenly relapse with no reasonable explanation. When her granddaughter was born, she too started having alarming health problems. She had known that her daughter-in-law seemed to exaggerate but never could she have imagined this. The children's mother was so cunning and crafty in her manipulative deception that she fooled dozens of medical professionals along the way. After three years of her grandson being constantly sick with coun...
In the near future, kitchen appliances question, console, and bewilder their owners. Extraterrestrials leave behind sub-dermal implants and complicated daughters. A second moon settles into orbit around Earth, a moon which challenges those beneath it to see it, to name it, to explore it. And crew members aboard starships turn to fine and pulp art as consolation. The lyric poems in Small Waiting Objects reach back to feminist utopias and onward toward possible futures in which we find ourselves resisting the technologies-and their human implications-that we most desire.