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	Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury Celebrating the final days of summer, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his friends declare war on the stuffy older set of their community.  The boys plot to stop the courthouse building clock as a means of staying young forever. Also try: Dandelion Wine by the same author and Stillwater by William F. Weld
	Eifelheim by Michael Flynn Tom, a modern-day historian and his girlfriend Sharon, a theoretical physicist, search for the truth about the 1349 disappearance of the small German town of Eifelheim.  They are unaware that Father Deitrich, the village priest in 1348 became the first contact between humankind and a mysterious alien race. Also try: Colonization -- Second Contact by Harry Turtledove and Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
	Second Wave: Acorna's Children by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Scarborough Accompanied by her android "brother",Khori, the rebellious daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate Avari, searches for the cause of a mysterious and deadly plague before those responsible use it to cripple an entire star system. Also try:First Warning by the same authors (the first in the Acorna's Children series)
	Beguilement: the sharing knife by Lois McMaster Bujold Fleeing her family farm after becoming pregnant, unwed Fawn Bluefield encounters a patrol of enigmatic soldier-sorcerers under the leadership of Dag, a knife-bearing, one-handed patroller who comes to Fawn's rescue when she is kidnapped by a dangerous magical entity. Also try: Children of the serpent gate by Sarah Ash and A Bite to Remember by Lynsay Sands
	Empire by Orson Scott Card In a near future world, the American Empire is shattered into a civil war between the Right and the Left, devastating the country while the peaceful majority uses all of its wits and technological ingenuity to hold the people and government together. Also try: Rules of the darkness by Harry Turtledove and The years of rice and salt by Kim Stanley Robinson