Stefan Rudnicki
1) Ender's game
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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut―young Ender is the Wiggin...
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Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences,...
3) Lost boys
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Blackstone Publishing
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2004
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Unabridged
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The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.