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A Planet Called Heaven

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A Planet Called Heaven

Stranded on a Hell planet ironically named Heaven, the Thomas family must flee their protective biodome in order to have any chance of survival on this strange new alien world.

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Carrots and Miggle: A Novel of East...

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Carrots and Miggle: A Novel of East Texas

After the Ramsdens lose their father, Charlotte («Carrots»), her brother, her young sister, and her mother continue to operate their East Texas dairy farm. Then their cousin from Eastern Europe, Emiglia («Miggle») is orphaned, and is forced to come live with them. When she arrives, she's shocked to find her relatives engaging in manual labor, which her late parents considered fit only for peasants. But as the two girls begin to find some common ground, they discover that they're...

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Feud at Sweetwater Creek

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Feud at Sweetwater Creek

George Fitch, an ex-Civil War soldier, is summoned to his parents' New Mexico homestead. He arrives accompanied by an ancient Indian medicine man and two trappers, to find that his mother's cousin, on a neighboring homestead, is methodically depopulating the valley. The great railroad barons are stealing huge tracts of land, using imported gunslingers to run off or murder the legitimate homesteaders. Only George, his three friends, his mother, his father (lamed by a...

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High Mountain Winter: A Novel of th...

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High Mountain Winter: A Novel of the Old West

When the Stonor family joins the last wagon train to Oregon in the 1840s, little do they realize that disaster awaits. Suddenly 17-year-old Maryla Stonor is left to fend for herself in the mountains of Wyoming, just before the onset of winter. And even if she does survive the endless blizzards and numbing cold, when spring finally arrives, how will she find her way back to civilization? A gripping tale of survival.

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How the Gods Wove at Kyrannon

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How the Gods Wove at Kyrannon

When the Tyrant seizes power in the city of Lirith, capital of Kyrannon, his ambition for conquest and his need for the great horses of Fallowden create a vortex of conflict and powers. Into this the Raithes of Fallowden – Tisha the Wise and her daughter Cara, Lengalyon the hermit of the heights, and even the infant Ashraf, son of Shanah ni Raithe do Raithe – are drawn. Five Raithes survive the battle with the Tyrant's troopers. Each flees in a different direction and performs a different...

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Hunters of the Plains: A Novel of P...

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Hunters of the Plains: A Novel of Prehistoric America

At a time when volcanoes were being born in what is now New Mexico, clans of hunter-gatherers were already living in the Great Plains. Primordial beasts roamed the land: creatures like the giant sloth, the flat-faced bear, the woolly mammoth, and the dire wolf hunted there, often coming into conflict with their two-legged prey. When Do-na-ti reaches adulthood, he slays the badger for his ceremonial cloak. By wedding E-lo-ni, he unites their clans. Together they must face battle with...

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Khi to Freedom

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Khi to Freedom

Only Hale Enbo can defeat the illegal exploitation of alien species by the Ginli scientists.

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Lone Runner: A Novel of the Old Wes...

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Lone Runner: A Novel of the Old West

When Katharine's father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin «sells» her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O'Neill to track the girl across the wasteland to «save» his investment. "A classic tale of survival against all odds, Lone Runner is a superb cat-and-mouse western suspense tale filled with tension, poignancy, and gritty realism"–Robert Reginald.

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Lords of the Triple Moon

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Lords of the Triple Moon

The Old Lords of Rehannoth have been overthrown by rebel leaders who use the powers generated by the great machines to maintain their brutal rule. Only the two surviving children of the Lords, Johab and Ellora, can restore the balance and free their people. But first they must free themselves from captivity–and find the Chasm of Genlith! Part of the series, Tales of the Triple Moons.

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Makra Choria: A Novel of High Fanta...

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Makra Choria: A Novel of High Fantasy

The hereditary rulers of Sherath have psychic powers that can bring great good or evil to their people. When the Makra Theora murders her father and seizes his throne, her sister, the Makra Choria, raises an army, captures her sibling, and removes the «Gift» from both of them. Then Choria tries to undo the damage that her sister has done to Sherath and the surrounding states–and to fix Theora herself, if that's possible. "A fantasy world of great beauty, beautifully...

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Medicine Dream: Being the Further A...

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Medicine Dream: Being the Further Adventures of Burr Henderson

Young Burr Henderson, who survived an airplane crash in the Arizona desert in Medicine Walk, returns to fight for the ranch that he inherited from his father, and must survive another encounter with death in the unforgiving wasteland.

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Messengers in White: A Science Fant...

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Messengers in White: A Science Fantasy Novel

Colonized and left to its own devices, the planet on which Lehnik the horsemaster lives has, over a thousand years, reached a medieval level. Sent with an orphaned child to the hold of the Sisters of Silence, the soldier learns that their order exists to guard the very sophisticated – and perilous – weapons left to them by their Terran ancestors. When Garrouche invades Trans-Kell, after its ruler has overcome the Order in his own country and stolen its weapons, Lehnik joins the Order...

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Monkey Station: The Macaque Cycle,...

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Monkey Station: The Macaque Cycle, Book One

A plague is devasting mankind. Deep within the Amazon jungle, scientists have altered the genetic makeup of macaque monkeys, making them self-aware and giving them the power of speech. Only by working together can the two races–man and monkey–find some common road to a future earth.

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People of the Mesa: A Novel of Nati...

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People of the Mesa: A Novel of Native America

Uhtatse becomes the «One Who Smells the Wind» for his Anasazi clan, and sends his mind searching outward for enemy tribes in the Great Plains. When he finally senses peril, he fails to convince his Elders to seek shelter. The attack, when it comes, decimates the Anasazi, forcing them finally to build their cliffside cave dwellings at Mesa Verde. "Ardath Mayhar is superb at creating an alien world from another time and place"–Robert Reginald.

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Prescription for Danger

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Prescription for Danger

TEXAS GUNSMOKE! When Dr. Nicholas Blasingame joins his cousin Alicia and her husband in East Texas, he is scarred from political battles in Baltimore, where he lost his efforts at reform. In this new place he hopes to practice medicine and rebuild his life without conflict. Unfortunately, he finds political corruption as deeply entrenched in Moreno, Texas, as it was in Baltimore, this time in the hands of the elected officials, including the sheriff. Joining Alicia and Bart...

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Runes of the Lyre

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Runes of the Lyre

Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through doors on Hasyih, one of the keys to which is the Lyre. Now danger threatens both Hasyih and Ranuit, the only inhabited worlds in the group, and when a young girl takes the Lyre from the willow tree, a set of interlinked activities is set into motion....

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Soul-Singer of Tyrnos

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Soul-Singer of Tyrnos

Tyrnos needs no armies, no police, no enforcers, for it has its Soul-Singers. These carefully trained and strongly talented people travel the country, showing the truth of their souls to nobles and commons alike, often resulting in the removal or reform of those needing it. Yeleeve, newly sent forth from the School for Singers, encounters, early in her journey, disturbing indications that something is seriously wrong in Tyrnos. Finding along her way such allies as Lisaux of the Black Shield and...

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The Ardath Mayhar MEGAPACK®: 38 Fan...

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The Ardath Mayhar MEGAPACK®: 38 Fantastic Stories

Ardath Mayhar is one of the best kept secrets of Texas. Over the course of her career, she published novels, short stories, articles, and more with a unique voice and vision. The Ardath Mayhar MEGAPACK® (originally published as Crazy Quilt: The Best Short Stories of Ardath Mayhar). INTRODUCTION: ARDATH MAYHAR, EAST TEXAS MAGICIAN, by Joe R. Lansdale FIDO IS A LOVING BEAST A HARPING OF WATERS A PAINTERLY EFFECT THE WEAPON GRYPHON’S...

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The Clarrington Heritage

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The Clarrington Heritage

When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor–but never told why! As the family members begin perishing in odd circumstances, Marise must try to uncover the secret of…The Clarrington Heritage

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The Door in the Hill

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The Door in the Hill

When twins Bud and Lindy discover that the Little People–the Turnipins–are real, they must fight to preserve their wee friends' tree home from the ravages of modern developers.

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The Dropouts: A Tale of Growing Up...

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The Dropouts: A Tale of Growing Up in East Texas

When their parents are killed, Nick and Nita find themselves destitute. Only an uncle they've never known offers them a refuge on his East Texas farm. The culture shock is intense for Nita, but Nick takes to farming, learning how to plow with a mule, bale hale, milk cows, and tend gardens. "Mayhar's roots in East Texas are never more evident than in this lovely tale of teenagers forced to re-evaluate their lives. Poignant and moving."–Robert Reginald.

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The Exiles of Damaria

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The Exiles of Damaria

The Ancient Race of enhanced humans in Damaria has been all but destroyed by a revolt of the New People. The two survivors, Riddle the Poet and his nephew, young King Lute, flee to the City of the Mist. There they and the many other refugees plan to build a great ship to ferry them to safety in the Western Isles, where some of their kin remain. But the evil worm Dinorm, their old enemy, is not finished with them yet. The longest and best-realized of all of Ardath Mayhar's epic...

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The Fugitives: A Tale of Prehistori...

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The Fugitives: A Tale of Prehistoric Times

In prehistoric Europe, Bain of the Hunting Clan flees his people, eventually encountering Arma of the Farming Clan. But the Hunters have followed their lost sheep, and when the two peoples clash, Bain and Arma rescue the Farmers' clan healer, Kalva, and flee with her to the east. There they must overcome many dangerous challenges to establish a brand new society. "Another marvelous fantasy by a master writer"–Robert Reginald.

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The Second Ardath Mayhar MEGAPACK®:...

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The Second Ardath Mayhar MEGAPACK®: 27 Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales

The author of sixty-two books, more than forty of them published commercially, Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012) began her career in the early 1980s with science fiction novels from Doubleday and TSR. Atheneum published several of her young adult and children’s novels. Changing focus, she wrote westerns (as Frank Cannon) and mountain man novels (as John Killdeer), four prehistoric Indian books under her own name, and historical western High Mountain Winter under the byline Frances Hurst. This...

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