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(0)Margaret Ball
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Love is for peasants," Eleanor said. "We make alliances. And I intend to make a very good one."
Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love. For all of the duke's boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France. Everyone, that is, except...
4) Mathemagics
Author
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Warrior woman Riva Konneva has settled on the planet of the paper-pushers so her daughter can get a good education, but when Salla is labeled emotionally disturbed by an unreasonable, know-it-all teacher, Riva is tempted to take up her sword again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind speak by touching horns. With her "Uncle" Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid propestors who resued, protected, and raised her, she sets off to find her people. No sooner does she leave than a mysterious craft appears, piloted by the Linyaari, a gentle race with telepahtic powers. The Linyaari are roaming the galaxy, spreading the alarm about the deadly Khleev and searching for a beloved little...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
When the militant order of Durandine monks are determined to destroy them, the elves of the Three Realms send for help, bringing members of the New Age Psychic Research Center in Austin, Texas to their world.
7) Changeweaver
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of the Hindu Kush lies a land where women, and women only, are the bearers of true magic. In Gandhara, women rule. For most, this magic is an everyday thing: light a fire, lift a weight, summon an errant child, chastise a man. But for a few it is more. Every once in a whle a girl child is born with vast potential for wild magic, magic capable of awful harm. The only cure is early marriage and children of their own to "ground" them so...
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Long ago, in an English country mansion next to a deep, dark wood, Wicked Kit Arundel devised a masque, a musical "entertainment" to be performed on the eve of Midsummer's night 1594. It was supposed to be a quest for the perfect music, a mystic bridge to ultimate knowledge. What actually crossed the bridge was the Queen of Faerie. Entranced by his music, she has taken him away, leaving Kit's true love Eleanor bereft and mad with grief.
10) Flameweaver
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"The Russians are pushing south into the Hindu Kush, expanding their Empire at the expense of the forgotten tribes that surround the British Raj. Little did they expect such resistance as they found in the fabled city of Gandhara. Little did they expect the fables to be real. Just as little did the wisewomen of Gandhara expect their system of protection to begin to fail them after millenia of effective defense. But the Russians' new weapons don't...
Author
Series
Columbia university studies in English. Ser. II volume II, no. 1
Publisher
The Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
1907
Language
English
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 1
Publisher
HarperPrism
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A mysterious and magical "unicorn girl" is saved from the prisons of scientists and bureaucrats, only to find herself threatened by a man known as "the Piper," whose trade is child slave labor.
14) PartnerShip
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A new member of the Courier Service of the Central Worlds, Nancia's innocent vision of human nature is shattered on her first voyage. The last thing Nancia needed was a brawn partner, but Forister and Nancia together just might save the galaxy. Expands McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang.
15) Brain ships
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Now in one volume--in two bestselling sequels to to Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang," two physically impaired young girls become "brains" controlling their own starships.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something's Alive In There!"
She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the
...17) Brain Ships
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Top-Selling Sequels to Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang in One Volume
Two novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang:
The Ship Who Searched:
Tia, a bright and spunky seven-year old contracted an unknown neural disorder which made her lose control of her body. So she became a shell person—controlling a spaceship as if it were her body and searching for the origin
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