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In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning adult with autism, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, independent life but then is offered a chance to try a new experimental "cure" for his condition. With the treatment, Lou would think, act and...
2) Cold welcome
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Vatta's peace volume 1
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English
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"Kylara Vatta is summoned back to the world of Slotter Key, the home planet of the Vatta empire. Ky had never meant to return...but sometimes family summons cannot be ignored. Yet nothing about this trip will go as planned. When her shuttle is sabotaged, she ends up crashed in artic waters along with a desperate handful of strangers. It falls to Ky, as ranking officer, to help them survive and find land, but when they arrive on a frozen island that,...
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Vatta's peace volume 2
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English
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"As Admiral Kylara Vatta learned after she and a ship full of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, the secrets she and her makeshift crew uncovered were ones someone was ready to kill to keep hidden. Now, the existence of the mysterious arctic base has been uncovered, but much of the organization behind it still lurks in the shadows. And it is up to the intrepid Ky to force the perpetrators into the light, and finally uncover...
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Moon Elizabeth volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
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Captaining a rich lady's interstellar pleasure yacht, former navy fleet officer Heris Serrano finds an opportunity to restore her tarnished reputation by intercepting mafia plans to invade the galaxy.
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Series
Serrano legacy volume 6
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of a dictatorial family in space. They are the Familias Regnant and they must handle a riot on a prison planet, a controversy over rejuvenating drugs with nasty side effects, and the murder of one of their members.
Author
Series
Serrano legacy volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
In their last adventure, Hunting Party, Captain Heris Serrano and her employer, Lady Cecelia, had just triumphed over a heinous cabal that used human beings as prey. Now it turns out that one of the hunters was Prince Gerel, first in line to the throne. The prince, proclaiming his innocence, is spirited home by Captain Serrano and Lady Cecelia, but soon a foul plot is afoot.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 5
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
9) Once a hero
Author
Series
Serrano legacy volume 4
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c1997.
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English
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A battle over a starship in space. The ship belongs to Earth and is commanded by Lieutenant Esmay Suiza, a woman who has already proved herself in battle. The attackers are Alien barbarians and they capture the ship, but Esmay and her team counter-attack and save the day. By the author of Remnant Population.
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Series
Serrano legacy volume 5
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c1998.
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English
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Esmay, a gifted Fleet officer, and Brun, daughter of the Speaker of the Grand Council, have much in common, but their enmity is the talk of the base. When Brun falls into the hands of a fanatical religious militia group, Esmay finds herself in disgrace, suspected of conniving in the abduction.
11) Command decision
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Series
Vatta's war volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
With most of her family dead, slaughtered in brutal attacks aimed at destroying the Vatta interstellar shipping empire, Kylara Vatta struggles to rebuild her family business and recruit allies to strike back against a fleet of pirates.
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Series
Vatta's war volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of assassinations that have left her parents dead and their shipping empire in ruins, Kylara Vatta, the unorthodox renegade heir to Vatta Transport, Ltd., one of the galaxy's wealthiest merchant houses, sets out to avenge their death.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in businessthe kind thats anything but usualin the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon. The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the groundbut Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her familys...
14) Oath of fealty
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Series
Paladin's legacy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
As the half-elven heir to the kingdom of Lyonya, Kieri Phelan, prepares to ascend his throne and protect his new kingdom from his enemies, Prince Mikeli prepares for his own coronation in the neighboring kingdom of Tsaia, until an assassination attempt nearly succeeds.
15) Against the odds
Author
Series
Serrano legacy volume 7
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
As Fleet is threatened by mutiny, class conflict, and power struggles, Esmay Suiza-Serrano finds herself unceremoniously dismissed from Fleet and hurtled into the midst of warfare that threatens all galactic civilization.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, a young woman who has chosen a military career instead of joining the family's shipping business. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. But after a single error in judgment she is expelled from the Academy in disgrace. The chance to captain a Vatta Transport ship gives her a face-saving shot at redemption. It's a simple assignment: escort on the Vatta fleet's oldest ships on...
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