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|  | | Closest to the Fire: A Writer's Guide to Law and Lawyers
Write about the law--and get it right!
Or just learn to understand the legal landscape in which you live.
The world of law and lawyers, with its suspense, its moral quandaries, and its ripped-from-the-headlines subject matter, provides wonderful material for fiction. This guide will help writers explore these many story possibilities, while avoiding the pitfalls awaiting the unwary. It can also serve as an overall reference for law and prelaw students, or for anyone wishing to understand more about the American legal system.
Included throughout the book are ideas for stories or story elements based on the content and available for the readers' use. | |  | | Division
New cloning technology gives conjoined twins Gordon and Johnny the chance to live separate lives -- but only one of them wants that chance.
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Conjoined twins Gordon and Johnny have never let their condition keep them from living full and fulfilling lives. Gordon looks forward to many years of closenes | |  | | Leaders: a Twin-Bred novel
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They fled Tofarn and found a new home. Should they care what happens to the old?
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A technology with uses from entertainment to criminal justice may have unexpected capabilities--and consequences.
In the near future, new technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a lucid dreamer's erotic imaginings. Commit a crime, and you may be sentenced to endure the suffering you inflicted on others.
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div>But such recordings may carry more information than the public has realized. What will criminals learn about their victims? When a husband is wrongfully convicted of injuring his wife, how will their marriage change? And what uses will a sociop | |  | | Reach: a Twin-Bred novel
In this sequel to Twin-Bred, scientist Mara Cadell and the Twin-Bred she helped to create embark on a new and perilous journey -- except for one pair who remain on Tofarn, attempting to live in the human and Tofa communities. Meanwhile, events on Tofarn approach a crisis, in which former host mothers Laura and Veda are deeply involved.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Scientist Mara Cadell created the Twin-Bred -- pairs of fraternal twins, one human and one Tofa -- to bridge the profound and dangerous gap between the human colonists on Tofarn and the indigenous Tofa. Unexpectedly, it is the Tofa host mothers who now claim the capacity to bring peace between the two. The Twin-Bred themselves have been forced to abandon their mission and their planet, in the hope of finding a less hostile home. Only one pair remain behind, seeking to build new and sepa | |  | | Twin-Bred
After seventy years on Tofarn, the human colonists and the native Tofa still know very little about each other. Scientist Mara Cadell’s radical proposal: that host mothers of either species carry fraternal twins, human and Tofa, in the hope that the bond between twins can bridge the gap between species.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">Can interspecies diplomacy begin in the womb? After seventy years on Tofarn, the human colonists and the native Tofa still know very little about each other. Misunderstanding breed conflict, and the conflicts are escalating. Scientist Mara Cadell’s radical proposal: that host mothers of either species carry fraternal twins, human and Tofa, in the hope that the bond between twins can bridge the gap between species. Mara lost her own twin, Levi, in utero, but she | |  | | Wander Home
Why did Eleanor abandon her child? Reunited in the afterlife, Eleanor and her family must solve this mystery before they can reconcile and heal.
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span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Eleanor never wanted to leave the daughter she loved so much. The overpowering urge to wander -- to search, without knowing what she sought -- drove | |  | | Water to Water
Two young Vushla questioned what everyone knew about death. What should they do with the answer?
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When the time comes for Vushla to die, they go into the ocean and are dissolved away. Or so Terrill has always believed, and still believes after taking part in his father's final journey. But when he meets a young Vushlu who lives by the sea, Terrill must confront information that calls this fundamental belief into question. Will the two of them discover the truth? And what should they do with what they find?/span> | |  | | What Heals the Heart
A small town doctor, veteran of the Civil War and emotionally scarred by his experiences, has no intention of seeking a wife until his helpful new neighbor starts matchmaking. But the plain-speaking yet enigmatic armer's daughter who catches his interest is not the matchmaker's idea of the right bride.
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span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Joshua Gibbs survived the Civil War, building on his wartime experiences to become a small town doctor. And if he wakes from nightmares more often than he would like, only his dog Major is there to know it./ | |  | | Who: A Novel of the Near Future
Have they changed their minds? Or have their minds been changed?
Death is no longer the end. Those who prepare, and can afford it, may have their memories and personalities digitally preserved. The digitally stored population can interact with the world of the living, remaining part of their loved ones’ lives. They can even vote.br />
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After the young and vital Thea dies and is stored, her devoted husband Max starts to wonder about changes in her preoccupations and politics. Are they simply the result of the new company she keeps? Or has she been altered without h |
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The Rebecca Bride
by Charlene Tess
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Zeke Milligan is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He is desperately in love with Lynn, but a dark secret from his past continues to rear its ugly head. Worse yet, he persistently punishes the love of his life for events that took p |
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