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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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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...
4) Plague Ship
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Solar Queen volume 2
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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...
5) Star Hunter
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In the future, advanced technology has made it possible to perform "mind-swapping" procedures that implant one person's memories, skills, beliefs, and feelings into another's brain. Predictably, scam artists have begun to employ this technique for nefarious purposes. In Star Hunter, that's exactly what happens to down-on-his-luck janitor Vye Lansor, who finds himself on an unfamiliar planet with a new set of memories. Will the ploy work,
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Andre Norton is best known for her science fiction and fantasy novels. However, she was a woman of many interests and in her 'Rebel' series her considerable writing skills are on full display as she brings the story of Drew Rennie to life. In the first book of this duology, 'Ride Proud, Rebel,' Drew is a fifteen year old boy who joins the confederate army to defend his home and ideals. He fights this losing battle with honor and courage and is, in...
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Garin Featherstone is a pilot on an Antarctic expedition to investigate strange readings near the South Pole, when he is compelled to fly his plane down into a mysterious crater. There he finds an alien race and an ancient evil that he must face and destroy if he wants to leave the crater alive.
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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.
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Time traders volume 4
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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...
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Time traders volume 3
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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...
11) 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...
12) Sword in Sheath
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Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and by the 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. V-E Day and V-J Day are in the past, but the war is not over. Not for Lorens van Norreys, the new master of the House of Norreys, not as long as Nazi criminals are still at large. And not for...
13) Stand to Horse
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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. In Andre Norton's action-filled story Stand to Horse, the tensions of men against men are balanced by the tensions of men against nature, often a cruel and unequal struggle. Throughout it all, the reader...
14) 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...
15) The Time Traders
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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...
16) Voodoo Planet
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Solar Queen volume 3
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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...
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Collected here in one amazing omnibus edition are twelve complete novels and two bonus short stories. That's more than six-hundred-thousand words of pulse pounding adventure by one of the science fiction field's brightest stars. Hours and hours of reading enjoyment await. Included are: 'Plague Ship,' 'Voodoo Planet,' 'The Gifts of Asti,' 'The People of the Crater,' 'Ralestone Luck,' 'The Time Traders,' 'The Defiant Agents,' 'Key Out of Time,' 'Ride...
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The Solar Queen is a trader ship crewed by Dane Thorson, Tau, and Captain Jellico. These are her voyages. 'The Plague Ship:' The Solar Queen and her crew have the trading rights to the wealthy planet Sargol, but to take advantage of them and see any return on their investment they must fight the Reptilian Gorp, negotiate with the cat-like Salariki, and find a cure for the sleeping sickness that has caused the Solar Queen to be called a plague ship...
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Science fiction meets sword and sorcery in these three novels by the legendary New York Times–bestselling author. On a planet in a parallel universe where magic is a reality, these three high fantasy novels of the Witch World set on the eastern continent of Estcarp once again illustrate why prolific author Andre Norton was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Trey of Swords: A trilogy of swords, sorcery, and...
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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. A secret plan, a mystery cave... and a summer full of excitement! When Christie Kimball and her family start a new life on a run-down Arizona ranch - once a bustling stagecoach stop in the Old West...
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