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NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events described herein are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Learning Curve
Copyright © 2013 Michael S. Malone
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by Sharon Morton Smith
Cover artwork by Craig Jennion (www.craigjennion.com)
Inset artwork by Carol Marschner Malone (www.marschnermalone.com)
Barking Rain Press
PO Box 822674
Vancouver, WA 98682 USA
www.barkingrainpress.org
ISBN print:1-935460-62-5
ISBN eBook:1-935460-63-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013937571
First Edition: July 2013
Printed in the United States of America
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