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Acorna series volume 2
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English
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I must find my own kind! Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her "funny" feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her "Uncle" Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected,...
2) Dragonflight
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On a beautiful planet called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. The sole survivor of a noble ruling family, Lessa is an outcast-a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge for her murdered parents. Everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is...
4) Dragonquest
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Most Pernese are grateful to dragonkind for keeping Holds and Crafthalls safe from Threadfall. But some, resenting their obligations to the weyrs, have begun to complain about the privileged status of the dragonriders. Dragonrider F'nor, brother of F'lar, is intrigued by the suggestion that the dragonriders teleport to the Red Star to destroy Threadfall at its source. But his brown dragon needs an image of a place in order to go there, and the images...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"The dramatic conclusion to the breathtaking saga of the children of Acorna and Aari. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of Acorna, the near-mythic heroine of her people, has tried to follow in her mother's footsteps in this time of plague and terror. But the pressure on the courageous young woman to succeed is tremendous, and the legacy she is expected to fulfill is overwhelming. The insidious enemy that has ravaged countless known worlds has left Khorii's...
7) Dragonsdawn
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 10
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English
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The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists-a return to an agrarian way of life-until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Lethal spores began to fall like silvery thread-like rain from the sky, vaporizing everything-and everyone-in their path. The colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed. The colonists noticed that small, dragon-like lizards in their new world were joining the...
8) Power play
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Pub. Date
1995.
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First edition.
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English
Description
Day by day the sentient planet of Petaybee is learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech. But few outsiders truly care for the feelings and intelligence of what they perceive to be a giant hunk of rock or a mere oddity-and the Petaybeans have their hands full trying to protect their beloved planet from the sudden influx of visitors....
10) Maelstrom
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Series
Twins of Petaybee volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Anne McCaffrey, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, co-writes this sequel to the popular first Twins of Petaybee book, Changelings with fellow Nebula Award winner Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. As the series continues, Maelstrom follows Murel and Ronan Shongili-telepathic 10-year-old twins who have the special ability to turn into river seals. Murel and Ronan have been assigned with rescuing the inhabitants of neighboring planet Halau from their doomed...
11) Dragon's fire
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 25
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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When the last firestone mine explodes, Tenim contrives to turn this tragedy to his own advantage. Only Pellar, Halla and Cristov can stop him, and secure a future for the Dragonriders.
12) Dragon's time
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 29
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
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Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.
Now the exciting saga of the next generation begins.
First WarningKhorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her...
16) Dragon Harper
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 26
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
18) Deluge
Author
Series
Twins of Petaybee volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Between them, frequent collaborators Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough have landed both the Hugo and Nebula Awards while winning innumerable fans in the sci-fi and fantasy realms. In Deluge, a crisis point has been reached on the sentient planet of Petaybee. Marmion de Revers Algemeine has been arrested on bogus charges, and the shape-shifting twins have traveled off-planet.
20) Changelings
Author
Series
Twins of Petaybee volume 1
Pub. Date
©2008, ℗2006.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough add another thrilling chapter to their sweeping Petaybee saga with Changelings. Yana and Sean are beside themselves with joy over the arrival of their twins Ronan and Murel. But the children's shape-changing abilities attract unwanted attention from an off-world scientist. Now Yana and Sean will do anything to protect their precocious youths from danger.
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