Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
21) Strum Again?
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What started in the States ends in the States. The song-saving musicians are back home, with heads and hands full of songs they saved with the help of the Phantom Banjo, Lazarus. The soul-destroying devils haven't given up on killing off the music though, along with everything else that's maybe a little fun or keeps people human and sane. Even the debauchery devil, AKA Torchy Burns, AKA Lulubelle Baker (of Lulubelle Baker's Petroleum Puncher's Palace...
22) Phantom Banjo
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"Contemporary" in the above review means the world as it was in 1992 when the book was written. The rapid changes in recording and communications technology make it seem like a period piece now, which is entirely appropriate for the subject matter. This is a fantasy series about a bunch of folk musicians, good pickers and flawed but likable human beings, trying to reclaim songs destroyed by the evil forces (or devils, including but by no means limited...
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Cindy Ellis knows about fairy godmothers. Her almost-stepdaughter is studying to be one, and she is a close personal, friend of Felicity Fortune, an Irish godmother. But, she didn't suspect when she picks up Grandma Webster that the elderly, seemingly lost American Indian woman in traditional dress was a magical godmother too. When a self-serving skinwalker/witch inflames tensions between neighbors and pits sisters against each other in the best fairy...
24) Scarborough Fair
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Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes ten works by the author of the Nebula Award–winning The Healer's War and many other novels. In "Final Vows," Mu Mao the Magnificent, the feline bodhisattva from Scarborough's novel Last Refuge, helps guide a reincarnated cat in solving the mystery of his own betrayal and murder. "Whirlwinds" takes place on the Diné Trail of Tears, when the US military force-marched ninety-five hundred Navajo people from...
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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,...
26) Song of Sorcery
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Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch, who takes an unlikely revenge. The witch's granddaughter rescues him from the dire threat of being, eaten alive by the cat. She hears the song, which happens to concern her recently married sister and a gypsy. Convinced that she has to save her sister, she takes the minstrel, the cat, and her magical resources to Rowan Castle. The story is rich with descriptive details of setting and encounters with magical...
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"Get the past life of your dreams!"*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,...
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Spam and the other cats at website designer Darcy Dupres' house are frantic with worry. Darcy walked out the door two (missed) wet meals ago and didn't return or send anyone else to look after her beloved furry friends. The other cats think she has abandoned them, but her office cat and (unbeknownst to her) protégé, Spam, suspects darker forces are at work.*Darcy's last project was helping a suspicious character who called himself Marcel deMontreal...
29) Father Christmas
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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,...
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1996
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"Monica Banks is a workaholic. There's no room in her life for home, family, or love. Until on snowy night when a ghost from Christmas past - a spirit named Ebenezer Scrooge - appears to take her on a journey through her own life to teach her that it's never to late to let the joy of the season into our heart..."--BOOK JACKET.
31) Acorna's People
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Acorna series volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 18
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With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari.
32) Acorna's search
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Acorna series volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
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The homeworld Acorna has never known was horribly scarred in the brutal attack by the cold-blooded Khleevi, but the Linyaari -- the unicorn girl's gentle, spiritual race -- live on. Now is the time for healing and rebuilding, for restoring the natural beauty corrupted by the savage insectile oppressors. But Acorna's Linyaari friends and colleagues begin mysteriously disappearing soon after work gets under way, among them her beloved Aari. And her...
33) Power lines
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"Yanaba Maddock's short-lived career as a company spy had ended the moment the planet Petaybee and its people had adopted her as one of their own. Now she was dedicated to keeping Intergal from exploiting and wounding--or even killing--the world she had come to love. For Intergal persisted in denying that Petaybee was sentient, and nothing would stop it from stripping the ore-rich planet--sentient or not. Only solid evidence would convince the company...
34) Acorna's Triumph
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Acorna series volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
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Acorna looks forward to rebuilding her home world with her newly returned life-mate Aari, but something seems very wrong with Aari's behavior.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.
Now the exciting saga of the next generation begins.
First WarningKhorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her...
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From the team of Anne McCaffrey (author of Dragonriders of Pern series) and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough comes a thrilling new science fiction tale featuring telepathic cats which are invaluable to the spacefarers who own them. Thomas's Duchess - or Chessie, to those who love and depend on her services - is no ordinary cat. She's a purebred Barque Cat, trained to patrol the ship on which she serves, sniffing out oxygen leaks...
37) Deluge
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Twins of Petaybee volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Leaving Petaybee to help rescue a family friend, selkie twins Ronan and Murel are imprisoned by the Company, which wants them as workers, and an unscrupulous scientist, who hopes to study their unusual shape-changing talent.
38) Powers that be
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Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted, while some people were simply disappearing. None of the locals were talking to the company, so the company sent disabled combat veteran Yanaba Maddock to spy. But a strange thing happened. With her relocation to the arctic planet came a return of Yana's health and strength. And the more she got to know the people of Petaybee,...
39) Maelstrom
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Twins of Petaybee volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Sean Shongili and his children, Ronan and Murel, must draw on their changeling ability to transform into seals when a mysterious race of aliens is discovered to be living in the depths of the ocean on the planet Petaybee.
40) Power play
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Petaybee trilogy volume 3
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A feeling planet organizes its defenses against uncaring humans. The planet, which can even speak, is home to some ecologically minded people, but its riches are attracting hordes of outsiders with no feeling for nature. Planet and residents join forces.