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Going on a quest with a handsome prince might sound like a dream, but Prince Rupert''s cousin Carole comes to feel it isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Carole agrees to accompany her hunky cousin to Miragenia to christen his baby niece. But it is really hard to even explain the situation to anyone; how the little Princess was stolen from her mother''s side by Miragenians who demanded fifteen years of the first-born''s life in exchange for a bit of help during wartime. Or how the baby was taken before magical christening gifts could be bestowed upon her for her protection and character development. The ladies surrounding Rupert (also known as Rowan the Romantic and Rowan the Rake) don''t care about some baby and don''t hear anything about the mission because they''re too busy sighing over him. Crowd control is an obvious problem, as is extricating Rupert from more than one involuntary engagement. When at last the two, with the help of dubious questing companions including a love-stricken pink and purple dragon, arrive at the theocracy of Gorequartz where the baby had been fostered out to a queen, they find themselves in trouble of a completely different complexion. Their most deadly nemesis is none other than a giant crystal "god" seemingly created in Rupert''s own image!

Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father s) and heads east for the Wild West. She finds it in spades in the Texas Big Bend when she is kidnapped from a mule train by Comanches and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are distracted by a. . .dragon? Fort Draco, as the comanchero fort is known, is as full of intrigue and nighttime carryings-on as a modern day romantic novel, but Frank Drake, the owner, is no hero. If Valentine wants to save herself and the less-guilty if not entirely innocent folks who live there, she must defeat heat stroke, gunslingers, a couple of fake rainmakers and their camel, hostile Indians, the voice haunting her dreams (not in a good way) and a dragon who not only is gobbling all the livestock and transportation in the area but is guarding the only water hole in fifty miles of drought-ridden desert. And she must do it all while taking good notes, of course. This is a western but not as we know it and a fantasy set where we re not used to it.

Progress has transformed Queenston, capital city of Argonia. Once the land of witches, wizards, fairies, and other magical people and animals, since the Great War, the country has changed. Queenston, particularly, is now the city of contraptions and conveyances, including a modern international railroad. In the Great War Argonia''s dragons allied with the armies to push back an invasion. For their assistance, the beasts shared what food remained as the country rebuilt itself. But with the war won, the allies came to "recover" the war-torn country, bringing with them new ideas and inventions, most of which only needed a supply of iron and a reliable source of heat for their boilers. The dragons were again recruited, tamed, altered and virtually enslaved to power Progress. Verity Brown is a modern girl. The magic of her witchy foremothers has become, if not actually illegal, highly unfashionable. The only magic that matters to Verity is her own curse, forcing her to know and tell the truth regardless of convenience. On Verity''s 16th birthday, a hot-air balloon crash kills her father. The balloon''s dragon and wrangler rescue Verity, but are blamed and sentenced to be put to death. Her honorable quest to save them and find her father''s murderer takes her straight into the den of the wild and ferocious Dragon Vitia.

Queen Verity is queen only because her mother has said she has to be. She agrees because, after all, somebody has to liberate the dragons who have long toiled in the boiler room bowels of the city. Now that they are free, nobody has any idea what to do with them or how to feed them. Everyone is used to dragons being docile cogs in the machinery of industry, tamed into tranquility by food treated with a hypnotic tranquilizer, now largely destroyed, leaving a lot of huge hungry beasts roving the capital city of Queenston. Verity needs to act fast, before the dragons remember what dragons once did to feed themselves. The crown has scarcely mussed her hair before her political enemies have her shanghaied and sold to an outward bound vessel, leaving the kingdom to the random mercies of her erstwhile assistant, Malady Hyde.

The spacefaring Barque Cats are valued members of every vessel’s crew, thanks to their special bond with humans. Then Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with highly advanced knowledge, gives the felines the power of telepathy. When panic over a virulent plague drives the government to exterminate animals, Pshaw-Ra guides the cats and humans of the starship Ranzo to safety on his home planet, Mau. But Pshaw-Ra has a hidden agenda. His ultimate goal? Mate the Barque Cats with their godlike counterparts who rule on Mau and create a superior race to conquer the universe. His plans, however, may be doomed by his daughters’ battle royal to become queen, by a suspicious Barque Cat with an equally curious human friend—and by something stirring deep beneath the city with a hunger to devour all life . . . and an undying hatred for cats.

Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, two of science fiction''s favorite authors,created the world of Acorna, the unicorn girl. Now Acorna''s children start to have their own adventures. FIRST WARNING Acorna''s daughter, Khorii, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own. A simple journey to visit her relatives turns into a race against time when Khorii comes across a derelict spacecraft drifting in space, its crew dead in their seats. But this gruesome discovery is only a dread harbinger - a deadly plague is spreading across the universe and not even the healing powers of the Linyaari can slow its horrific advance. Khorii, one of the few unaffected by the outbreak, must find a cure before the disease consumes all in its path - including her beloved parents.

Leda Hubbard, a forensic pathologist, gets the job of her dreams when an old school friend hires her to collect and authenticate the DNA of the famous Cleopatra. It s all great fun for Leda until, during a massive disaster, her colorful dad, the dig s security specialist, is killed by a group trying to hijack the precious material for a blend, a process in which the queen s DNA is used to import her memories, personality, and character traits to a new host. They screw up, however, and get Leda s dad s DNA instead. To keep the queen from going to the murderers, Leda blends with Cleopatra herself, learning a lot more about Egypt than she ever wanted to know.

In Powers That Be, Power Lines and Power Play bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough told the story of a sentient planet, Petaybee. In Changelings, the first of a new series of novels, they return to Petaybee. Ronan Born for Water Shongili and Murel Monster Slayer Shongili are the twin son and daughter of Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili. Born on Petyabee, their destiny is deeply intertwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human. Like their father, each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet''s creatures - such as the friendly otter whose life they save one day from a pack of ravenous wolves. But the twins'' bravery has unforeseen results when a visiting scientist witnesses their startling metamorphosis and becomes obsessed with their capture. To protect their children, Sean and Yana send them to stay with a powerful family friend on an orbiting space station. But no one realizes how curious Ronan and Murel are to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent - and that their search for knowledge will place them squarely in the path of peril. Meanwhile Petaybee is changing - and much faster than an ordinary planet''s natural evolution. It appears that portions of the sea are heating up and a landmass is suddenly rising from the depths. To investigate the startling occurrence, Sean heads out to the open water in his seal form. But the newly unstable region holds untold mysteries - and the potential for disaster.

Nadie le dijo a la teniente Kitty McCulley que eso era lo que tenía que hacer una enfermera. Nadie le dijo que a Vietnam no iba a curar pacientes, sino a contemplar, impotente, su dolor. Que no estaba allí para aliviar el sufrimiento ajeno, sino para convertirse en objeto del desprecio de sus congéneres, y de su lujuria. Que no salvaría las vidas de las víctimas, sino que los propios médicos la abofetearían con su indiferencia. Nadie se lo dijo. Aunque no habría cambiado nada. Cuando uno de sus pacientes, un hombre santo venerado por los vietnamitas, le entrega a Kitty un amuleto con unos supuestos poderes inexplicables, su mundo cambia para siempre.

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Spam the cat thought he''d seen a lot of the world in his nine months of life. After all, he was the foremost vampire hunter of Port Deception, WA. (SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE)! This was his first Christmas, however, and from what he''d heard on TV, on Christmas all was supposed to be calm, all was supposed to be bright. The deer and Renfrew the raccoon had other ideas however. In an attempt to keep Renfrew, aka "The UPS Bandit" from ruining a lot of Christmases, Spam begins a task that leads to his being the sole protection of a new mother and child, and a less-than-warm-and-fuzzy reunion with his feral father. Altogether, his first Christmas eve is a less than Silent Night. The proceeds of this book from whatever source will be donated to the Humane Society of Jefferson County for the benefit of the animal shelter.

Um die aus den Fugen geratenen Familienverhältnisse der Ebereschs wieder in Ordnung zu bringen, machen sich Gretchen Grau, die Herdhexe, und Colin Liedschmied, ein fahrender Sänger, auf die Reise nach Ablemarle, um Näheres über das mysteriöse Verschwinden Frau Ebereschs zu erfahren. Was passiert, wenn Hexen der verschiedensten Disziplinen, feuerspeiende Drachen, Zauberer mit überaus bösen Absichten, Hausgeister, verwunschene Könige und einige beinahe gewöhnliche Sterbliche aufeinandertreffen, und das manchmal mit ganz unterschiedlichen Zielen und Absichten – das alles wird auf fesselnde und zugleich amüsante Weise erzählt. »Zauberlied« ist ein heiteres Stück abenteuerlicher Spannungsliteratur mit märchenhaften Elementen, der erste Band der äußerst witzigen »Geschichten aus Argonia«. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

A ragtag band of folksingers in possession of an enchanted banjo enters the land Great Britain, where the banjo stirs up the ghost of Sir Walter Scott, who is intent on saving the last of the folk songs

Accompanied by her android "brother," Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, searches for the cause of a mysterious and deadly plague before those responsible use it to cripple an entire star system.

Acorna a retrouvé son monde et sa race, mais regrette ses amis humains qui l''avaient recueillie et accompagnée dans d''incroyables aventures. Qui, à son âge, peut se vanter d''avoir sauvé une planète et repoussé une invasion galactique ? Menacée par les insectoïdes Khleevi, elle embarque alors à bord d''un vaisseau bricolé par un ferrailleur des étoiles. Le capitaine Becker est mal embouché et doté d''un humour dévastateur. Son chat Road Kill, ex-chat sacré d''une religion lointaine, règne sur ce groupe d''humanoïdes squattant son vaisseau. Ken l''androïde, ex-garde du corps d''une folle, a des muscles synthétiques très utiles et se débranche régulièrement pour économiser ses batteries. Il y a aussi Aarl, le seul compatriote d''Acorna ressorti vivant des mandibules des Khleevi : sa corne a été arrachée, ses pouvoirs télépathiques réduits à néant. Acorna le trouve charmant et veut l''aider à retrouver ses parents perdus dans l''espace. Répondant à un appel de détresse, Acorna et ses amis découvrent une planète où les plantes sont douées de conscience et où des signes inquiétants confirment leurs craintes. Leur galaxie est de nouveau en danger...

Using lawyers as their weapons, a cabal of devils attempts to wipe out folk music--one of the few tools humans can effectively use against the demons

Intergal ne cherchera plus, c''est promis, à extraire le minerai de la planète Effem. Du coup, la société évacue tout son matériel : les indigènes redeviennent libres et pauvres. Enfin, c''est ce qu''ils peuvent espérer de mieux - car Matthew Luzon et Torkel Fiske n''ont pas désarmé. Le premier monte un service touristique propre à inonder Effem d''étrangers, chasseurs, mystiques ou représentants en pharmacie attirés par les remèdes miracles de ce monde. L''indépendance est là, mais le pillage continue. D''ailleurs, l''indépendance va-t-elle durer longtemps ? Fiske s''entend avec un pirate de l''espace pour menacer Yana et Marmion, deux femmes d''origine terrienne qui ont beaucoup milité pour la liberté de ce monde. Mais suffit-il de menacer ? Encore faut-il s''assurer que les armes ne peuvent pas être retournées contre ceux qui ont été les premiers à les brandir. Les armes n''appartiennent à personne ; la planète, au contraire, est fidèle à ceux qui l''aiment.