Anne McCaffrey

Margaret Ball

The Unicorn Girl (Acorna (Paperback))

Acorna

Nancia, a new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds and the brain of one of the most advanced stellar ships, finds her innocent vision of human nature shattered when she is paired up with brutish partner Forister. Original.

PartnerShip

Long ago, wicked Kit Arundel had been spirited away by the Queen of Faeries because of his musical masque, leaving his lover Eleanor bereft, and now, Ellen Ainsley flies to England as the spheres of Earth and Fairie collide once again. Original.

No Earthly Sunne

A mild-mannered suburban mom in this world, a warrior woman in an alternate reality, Riva Konneva is determined to secure her daughter's proper Earth education, but old otherworld enemies make the process difficult

Mathemagics

a novel of Eleanor

Duchess of Aquitaine

Acorna 02. Die Fahrt zu den Sternen.

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 her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces---and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her. Eleanor, though, is not content to sit idly by and let herself become a victim, and devises a plan to marry the heir to the throne of France. While her alliance to Louis VII may be a dazzling one, her husband is a cautious man whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor's own, and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. Sweeping from the courts of Paris to the perils of the Crusades, Duchess of Aquitaine gloriously illuminates the life of one of the most powerful, resourceful, and fascinating women in all of history.

A Novel of Eleanor

Mercedes Lackey

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.

Brain Ships

"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 girl might grow up free. But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by "The Piper" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own. . .

The Unicorn Girl

"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 for her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces—and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her. In order to safeguard her lands and her life, Eleanor devises a scheme to marry the heir to the throne of France. But she must learn to be careful what she wishes for. Eleanor's alliance to Louis VII may be a dazzling one, but her husband is a cautious man, originally intended for the priesthood, whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor's own; and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. Sweeping from the courts of Paris to the perils of the Crusades, Duchess of Aquitaine gloriously illuminates the life of one of the most powerful, resourceful, and fascinating women in all of history.

Exiled from his Suffolk birthplace by his superstitious neighbors, Stephen of Dunwich finds shelter with the cold-hearted Brother Daniel, under whose tutelege he gains his training as an architect, in the story of the rise of a young medieval architect

A Bridge to the Sky

La petite Acorna est devenue grande. C'est maintenant une belle adolescente et les garçons tournent autour d'elle. Ils adorent sa corne au milieu du front, sa chevelure blanche et ses curieux petits pieds. Se posent-ils des questions ? Acorna n'est sûre que d'une chose elle s'en pose, elle, des questions. Le bébé qu'elle était et que trois protecteurs humains - ses oncles - ont trouvé dans l'espace, dérivant à l'intérieur de sa capsule, n'a mis que trois ans à atteindre sa maturité sexuelle. Combien d'années la séparent du déclin et de la mort ? Et dans cet intervalle, que peut-elle faire avec des hommes et pour quels résultats ? À ces problèmes il faut qu'elle trouve les vraies réponses. Elle pressent qu'elle doit les chercher sur sa planète natale où demeure son peuple. Abandonnant tous les humains qui l'aiment et l'admirent, elle entreprend le long voyage initiatique par-delà l'espace qui la ramènera aux siens. Ce qu'elle ne sait pas encore, c'est que son peuple est arrivé dans cette partie de la galaxie pour y apporter une terrible nouvelle une flotte ennemie a pris l'espace humain pour cible.

La quête d'Acorna

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

The Shadow Gate

TO ESCAPE PURSUIT, SHE TOOK ON ANOTHER'S IDENTITY¾ AND FOUND HERSELF MARKED FOR DEATH! Maris's work with the local underworld on the huge space station was anything but honest, but life was much more pleasant than it had been before the gang's leader had picked her up from the slums. Then her boss grabbed a visitor to the station who was asking too many questions, only to find out that she was a very important diplomat. Worse, his prisoner had apparently committed suicide by jumping through an airlock into hard vacuum. To avoid dangerous questions from station security, he decided to let Maris's corpse be found with the diplomat's IDs; but Maris saw through his plot and used those IDs to escape to the planet the Diplomat was about to investigate. Unfortunatley she landed in a hornet's nest of corrupt officials conspiring with a local tyrant. Surrounded by people who wanted her eliminated, the only person she could trust was Gabrel, a young officer who set off with her on a cross-planet trek to get evidence that would expose the tangled web of corruption. Maris was strongly attracted to Gabrel and the feeling seemed to be mutual. But then, he thought she was a high-ranking government agent. What would happen when he found that she was only a petty criminal on the run At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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