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High Mountain Winter: A Novel of the Trail West [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Based on a True Story of a Pioneer Woman's Courage! Written by Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist, Ardath Mayhar, High Mountain Winter is a gripping novel with the ring of truth, because it actually happened. Left alone in a covered wagon in the most desolate, snow-bound mountains in the US, a young woman survives all that nature can throw at her. Here is how the author describes the genesis of this stunning novel. "With the westward journey of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in 1836, ex... more info>> 2005
Words: 86681 - Reading Time: 247-346 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Writing Through a Stone Wall: Hard Won Secrets of Success [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Multi-Award Winning Author Shares Her Writing Success Secrets! Here is an invaluable how-to book for writers, from a woman who has published nearly fifty books and won or been nominated for over two dozen awards and prizes including the Margaret Haley Carpenter Prize, the Omar Award, the Balrog Award, the William Allen White Award, The Western Writers of America Spur Award, the Mark Twain Award, and the Nebula Award. In this unique work, Ardath Mayhar, author of such impressive works as The Worl... more info>> 2005
Words: 37823 - Reading Time: 108-151 min.
Category: Self Improvement
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Forbidden Geometries [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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In The Tradition of Dune! Nebula nominee Ardath Mayhar's science fiction spellbinder is her most imaginative novel yet! The desert world Sherazade was settled long ago by desert peoples from Earth--Kushites, Apaches, Arabs--and then forgotten. Centuries later it is a world of city-states. One, Sathorn, has long been ruled by a weak family and a corrupt Council. The new ruler, Karenya, who possesses the ability to use the forbidden geometries that can predict the future, is determined to change t... more info>> 2005
Words: 70468 - Reading Time: 201-281 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Road of Stars: A Fantasy of Life, Death, Love and Art [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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A compelling fantasy in the tradition of William Jon Watkins and Shelia Finch. Cornelia Watson, foremost ballerina of her generation, has dedicated her life to her art. Traveling the world, she has collected paintings of all the intriguing roads, paths, streets, and trails that she has never had time to explore. Diagnosed with a fatal illness, Cornelia has retired to her family home, to wait out her last days. There, instead of rest, she finds troubled relationships with her family and, worse, t... more info>> 2005
Words: 59933 - Reading Time: 171-239 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Exiles of Damaria II: Ships and Seekers [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Enthralling Conclusion of Ardath Mayhar's Best Fantasy! The poet Riddle and his four-year old nephew, Lute, rightful heir of Damaria, along with their companions escape Lute's uncle who has seized the throne and seeks their lives. Safe in the City in the Mist, Riddle, Lute, Moonlight, Kilelli, and Gorghoz are soon rested from their harrowing journey. But, Moonlight's magical powers as a Dreamer have been weakened by the encounter with the malignant entity known as Dinorm, and she cannot go west ... more info>> 2005
Words: 52717 - Reading Time: 150-210 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Shock Treatment: A Novel of Future War [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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She Was the Ultimate Weapon Against War! Theron Standish, Commander of the agricultural planet Station, has gone mad and attacked the granges that are the only reason why Station exists. With the army on his side, Standish is opposed only by his own, formidable grandmother, Seleva Karmann, and a handful of others. Among them: a scattered bunch of farmers, the mad genius Jeroboah, a soldier named Falville, and Standish's former cohort, General Coville. This ragtag resistance is almost without wea... more info>> 2005
Words: 68421 - Reading Time: 195-273 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Things Come Out at Night and Other Terror Tales [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Must-Read Collection of Dark Terrors from the Balrog Winning Author! Here is how this famed fantasist describes herself: "To look at me, you would think I am a sweet little old lady without a mean bone in her body. You would be dead wrong. I grew up on a farm in East Texas, dealing with the worst that nature, cows, varmints, and weather could hand out. Those didn't manage to kill me, so they made me strong and tough and mean as a wet wasp, when circumstances call for it. They also honed my imagi... more info>> 2005
Words: 45500 - Reading Time: 130-182 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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The Tulpa: A Novel of Supernatural Horror [MultiFormat]
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The Horror She Summoned Couldn't Be Sent Back! When six-year-old Araminta Palomer, lonely child of a rich, aristocratic family, who is tormented by her cruel older half-brother, invents an imaginary playmate, she has no idea she is unleashing dangerous being who will one day ravage her family. In the beginning the small furry creature, Willbe, seems a benign force that only answers Araminta's desperate need for love. Willbe even saves her life when she becomes a target of ruthless kidnappers. Bu... more info>> 2005 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 48456 - Reading Time: 138-193 min.
Category: Horror
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Vendetta: A Novel of the Frontier [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Words: 61709 - Reading Time: 176-246 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Golden Girl [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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She is a trained assassin in a custom-made body--beautiful, efficient, deadly. And hopelessly flawed. 1989
Words: 2000 - Reading Time: 5-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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The people of Kyrannon have suffered under the tyrant's yoke for far too long. It started innocently enough, the undoing of Him Who Sits at Lirith. A healer and her apprentice come to the aid of a traveler. A family is forced to flee their home. A child is born in a hermit's cave. But this seemingly random series of events begins a course that leads inevitably to a final confrontation. And the end, when it comes, will be what none of them ever expected. Ardath Mayhar tells a compelling tale with... more info>> 1979
Words: 45000 - Reading Time: 128-180 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Speaking Wolf [MultiFormat]
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Speaking Wolf's totem was much more than a spirit guide. 1997
Words: 2100 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Hunting Truce [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Miss Pirtle-Smith is there to ensure that no harm comes to any animal, and woe to any Survey team member--or alien native--who stands in her way! 1974
Words: 6000 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Sculpted Smile [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Theristis, artist and wizard, knows everything there is to know about his chosen professions. Or so he thinks. 1983
Words: 3000 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Tendresse [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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News reporting is a rough business, and there are no storybook endings. Well, hardly any. 1989
Words: 2700 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Damn Bad Day for Daddy [MultiFormat]
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The story of the worst day of all--and its only logical conclusion. 1989
Words: 2000 - Reading Time: 5-8 min.
Category: Horror
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The Crystal Skull & Other Tales of the Terrifying and the Twisted [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Balrog Award Winner's First Collection of Terror Tales. Ardath Mayhar legions of fans will the thrilled by this first ever collection of horror stories by the Mark Twain Award writer--which is certain to win her legions of new fans as well. Author of science fantasy novels like Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey, How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon, Lords of the Triple Moons, Runes of the Lyre, Soul-Singer of Tyrnos, BattleTech: The Sword and the Dagger, Warlock's Gift, and The World Ends in Hickory Hollow... more info>> 2004 AnLab Award Winner
Words: 70000 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Horror
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Slew-Foot Sally and the Flying Mule & Other True Tall Tales of Texas [MultiFormat]
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True, Fantastic Stories from the Award-Winning Fantasy Author's Childhood! These stories are based on things Balrog Award winner Ardath Mayhar saw and heard of growing up in the Piney Woods of East Texas. They are all based on true events, but in the tradition of her native Texas, the author has stretched each a bit. As she writes, "'The Backfire' is based on a tale told me by a friend about a doctor in the old days in Nacogdoches, Texas. 'The Last Camp Meeting' was told me by someone from the t... more info>> 2004
Words: 46313 - Reading Time: 132-185 min.
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The Black Tower [MultiFormat]
by Ardath Mayhar
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Balrog Award Winner's Unique New Fantasy Novel! Black Magic, Native American lore, time travel and Medieval England make a heady blend of thrills and fantasy in The Black Castle. Two-Moons is an Onondaga warrior woman with the ability to Dream truly. When she was born, the extraordinary events that gave her name were considered predictive of an extraordinary life. That prediction comes true when a power-hungry Medieval wizard from another dimension kidnaps Two Moons, drawing her from her own tim... more info>> 2004
Words: 60634 - Reading Time: 173-242 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Door in the Hill, or The Turnipins [MultiFormat]
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The Hobbit meets Wind in the Willows! Here is an enchanting fantasy for the young of all ages that only the Balrog and Mark Twain Award author, Ardath Mayhar, could have written. When Lindy and Bud, a sister and brother from the U.S.A., are forced to spend the summer on their uncle's English farm, they look forward to a boring three months. But, when they open a mysterious door in the side of a hill, they stumble into the world of Cyril and Jessica Cairnbracken and the other "Turnipins." What's ... more info>> 2004 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 30948 - Reading Time: 88-123 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Closely Knit on Scarlatt: Romantic Suspense [MultiFormat]
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Romantic Suspense From An Award Winning Author. Here is a unique new novel of romantic suspense from the Balrog and Mark Twain award writer. When the Mafia decides to kidnap Benjamin Scarlatt, a retired British spy, they hire the services of the world's most reclusive assassin to slip him the needle and drug him into unconsciousness. Known only by the code name "the "Knitting Lady," this accomplished killer, whose identity has never been discovered, has pulled off some of the most audacious assa... more info>> 2004
Words: 50083 - Reading Time: 143-200 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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The People of the Mesa [MultiFormat]
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Responsible for protecting his people, Uhtatse urges them to build houses in the sheltering cliffsides, but the Elders refuse. Uhtatse and his wife build such a house and when a new enemy becomes a threat, the Elders admit their people would be safer there. From their vantage point, they repel a Tsununni attack, inflicting such heavy losses on their enemy that they never again return. At the end of his long life, Uhtatse steps off the point from which his grieving wife cast herself, years before... more info>> 2004
Words: 60035 - Reading Time: 171-240 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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The Twilight Dancer & Other Tales of Magic, Fantasy and the Supernatural [MultiFormat]
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The Balrog Award Winner's First-Ever Fantasy Collection! Eleven unforgettable stories of magic and the supernatural. Plus, all her tales of "Hermione," the Cat Fantastic, including a brand new one, never published before. It's a fantasy lover's feast by the a author of Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey, How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon, Lords of the Triple Moons, Runes of the Lyre, Soul-Singer of Tyrnos, BattleTech: The Sword and the Dagger, Warlock's Gift, and The World Ends in Hickory Hollow. Among t... more info>> 2004
Words: 46490 - Reading Time: 132-185 min.
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Carrots and Miggle [MultiFormat]
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The Heartwarming Story of Two Girls who Hated Each Other! "Full of vitality and spirit--a strong sense of place--tangible atmosphere (summer head, wildlife, details or arm life)--vivid in setting--has the ring of truth,"--Kirkus Reviews. Charlotte Ramsden (called "Carrots") knew that when Emiglia came, life was going to be different. Emiglia, a distant relative, had been born in Hungary, reared in London by scholarly parents, and now she was an orphan with no relatives who could take her except ... more info>> 2004
Words: 31039 - Reading Time: 88-124 min.
Category: Children's Fiction
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The Clarrington Heritage [MultiFormat]
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Were the Deaths in the Old House Caused by a Curse or a Killer? The Marsie Clarrington, aging matriarch, knew all the horror that had been inflicted on her family over the generations. She should, she was one of its last surviving members. For years she had been living in the family mansion amid the ghosts of her melancholy memories of tragedy and death. But now a series of strange events has forced Marsie to summon, Evan Clarrington, now a successful young attorney living in a distant state, ba... more info>> 2004
Words: 62736 - Reading Time: 179-250 min.
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