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41) Partnership
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Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. Enter a future world in which brains are connected to computers to help run cities and ships; brainless bodies or brawn do the physical work. In the second book of the Brainship series, a new "shellperson"-someone born with grave physical disabilities that required her human body to be encased in a massive titanium column-is provided a direct link between her mind and the computer of her ship, XN-935. Nancia...
43) Third watch
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Acorna's rebellious daughter risks everything in order to protect the universe from a mysterious plague-spreading enemy, an effort that is compromised by threats closer to home.
44) Nerilka's story
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A deadly epidemic is spreading over the land of Pern and Nerilka secretly leaves home to take supplies and medicine where they are needed.
46) The Coelura
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Princess Caissa leaves her home in the Blue City in hopes of finding more freedom in Yellow Triadic City, but along the way she meets a coelura, a mysterious rainbow creature.
47) Acorna's rebels
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Racing to save the Temple Cats from a deadly disease, Acorna uncovers a sinister plot to destroy the sacred felines and exploit Makahomia's people, an evil scheme that reaches out into the very depths of space.
50) 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,...
51) The Rowan
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A mud slide destroys a frontier settlement on another planet and a psychic cry unlike anything heard before floods the minds of the remaining inhabitants. After a desperate search by the authorities, an orphaned three-year-old girl is found. Called "the Rowan," she grows into a woman of beauty and immense telepathic powers.
52) Acorna's search
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Searching fro her belovid, Acorna makes an even more astonishing discovery; the remains of a subterranean world that beloned to the legendary Friends - a technologically advanced society that populated Vhiliinyar before the time of the Ancestors. Once again Acorna begins a quest that wll take her deep into the realms of limitless space to find the origins of her people.
53) Power play
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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.
55) Acorna's triumph
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Acorna, the brave unicorn girl, faces her most difficult challenge ever.
56) Maelstrom
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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.
57) Deluge
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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.
58) On dragonwings
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Presents three classic novels that chronicle the early years of Pern and the cooperative link that forms between the human colonists and Pern's dragons to battle a common enemy.
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On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, land holders and craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening thread. But it has been over 400 years since the last threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will ever strike again. But F'lar, rider of...