Andre Norton
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The Time Traders Andre Norton - The first novel in the classic series, in which wars are no longer fought on land, in the air, or on the sea-but throughout time and space itself . . .
The never-ending tension between Russia and the United States has been escalated by a stunning new variable: time travel. While the Americans can roughly utilize the technology, the Russians have learned the secret of space travel-and that makes the US vulnerable. What...
2) Rebel Spurs
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After suffering defeat in the Civil War, a young man struggles to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw and unsettled land. In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived, leaving everything he owned behind, he knew his business would not be...
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This sweeping story chronicles one young man's experience with family and fighting during the Civil War. Drew Rennie is a rebel in more ways than one. Since childhood, he has defied the stern, unforgiving grandfather who reared him and who made no secret of his hatred for Drew's Texan father. And when the Civil War began, Grandfather's sympathies with the North, the smoldering feud erupted into a violent quarrel. Now, eighteen-year-old Drew has...
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A battle for survival begins and ends in the human mind in the third thrilling novel in the Time Traders series following Galactic Derelict. The latest gambit by the Western powers to outmaneuver the Russians was Operation Cochise-which launched Travis Fox and his crew on a ship bound for the planet Topaz. At least that's what Fox thinks . . . All he knows for sure is that something went wrong and they crash landed. Everything else is a fog of warped...
5) Star Born
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The saga begun in The Stars Are Ours! Continues as the growing human colony settles onto their new home world only to discover an unforeseen enemy. . . Generations after landing on the planet Astra, humankind is still working alongside the friendly aquatic native merpeople to survive and thrive. But young Dalgard Nordis is yearning to see more. Taking his man-journey, he sets out to find and explore the ruins of a city rumored to have belonged to...
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Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the pen names Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. "Storm Over Warlock" is...
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Time Agents Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe have accompanied a group of settlers to the planet Hawaika, which is populated by descendants of Earth's Polynesia. But while it seems like a tropical paradise, there are some disturbing signs of previous inhabitants who apparently vanished. Accompanied by Karara-a local girl who can communicate with dolphins-Murdock and Ashe travel to the past to see if the disappearance is connected to the mysterious alien...
8) Plague Ship
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The Solar Queen series continues with a riotous adventure in space and a battle against a deadly plague. Apprentice cargo-master Dane Thorson and the crew of the Solar Queen travel to the new planet Sargol to trade with the Salariki, a strange race of cat-men, for the fabulous Koros stones. When an Inter-Solar trading ship tries to cut in on their trading rights, they're forced, according to Salariki custom, to fight a duel with a representative...
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A gripping story of otherworldly mystery and magic from an acclaimed Grand Master of Fantasy. When Captain Jellico and the crew of the interstellar tramp freighter Solar Queen are invited to visit the planet Khatka by Chief Ranger Asaki, they anticipate a brief respite from the boredom of their mail route. But there is more danger on the verdant jungle world than they know. Founded as a refuge by Earth Africans, Khatka is a global safari where hunters...
10) Ralestone Luck
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Three siblings search for a mystical sword and unearth family secrets in this adventure novel. Returning to "Pirate's Haven," their ancestral home in the Louisiana bayou country near New Orleans, is something of an adventure for Ricky Ralestone and her two brothers, Rupert and Val. None of them had ever laid eyes upon the great old house, which was built by their pirate kin during the eighteenth century and was witness to so much romance and excitement...
11) Catseye
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A refugee fleeing the oppression of a police state must go on the run with animals who can communicate with him Exiled after his home planet was turned into a military outpost following an interstellar war, Troy Horan is relocated to the planet of Korwar. Under the watchful eye of the police state, he lives in the slums in a restricted area for sub-citizens. He works as a day laborer in an interplanetary pet shop and has no idea why the Terran...
13) The elvenbane
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Halfblood chronicles volume 1
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Raised by dragons, the halfbreed Shana is the fulfillment of the Prophecy that will change the world of Elvenbane.
14) Dragon magic
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Four boys of Scandinavian, Welsh, Chinese, and African origin, respectively, find a puzzle in an abandoned house whose magic power takes each of them back to a time related to their ethnic history.
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Halfblood chronicles volume 2
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A fantasy adventure of two young people in Elvenbane, a land of humans, dragons, shapechangers and other fantastic creatures. The land is ruled by oppressive lords who have the power to remold a person's body or mind. By the authors of Elvenbane.
17) Golden trillium
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With her world facing annihilation, one of three powerful sisters must cross over into a forbidden dimension of vanished gods to confront an all-consuming terror in the continuation of the phenomenal Saga of the Trillium The three royal daughters of the Black Trillium brought a welcomed peace to Ruwenda and the World of the Three Moons by defeating the dark sorcerer Orogastus. Now it is time for Kadiya, the Seeker-Warrior, to return the powerful Three-Orbed...
18) Gryphon in glory
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Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. The Waste was stirring and strange forms of the Dark, long quiet began to wake as Kerovan-whose cloven hoofs marked his kinship with the Old Ones-journeyed into the Waste on a secret mission, leaving...
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Steena of the spaceways-that sounds just like a corny title for one of the Stellar-Vedo spreads. I ought to know, I've tried my hand at writing enough of them. Only this Steena was no glamour babe. She was as colorless as a Lunar plant-even the hair netted down to her skull had a sort of grayish cast and I never saw her but once draped in anything but a shapeless and baggy gray space-all.
20) Star Hunter
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Vye Lansor is an orphan with no expectations of a future until Ras Hume arrives, danger and adventure chasing him. Soon Vye finds himself swept up in a plot to swindle a vast fortune from an intergalactic trading company. His mind is wiped and he's given false memories. But all is not lost as he struggles to regain his memories and stay free of an alien intelligence that threatens more than just his life.