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The Delian Cycle [The Saga of Dray Prescot omnibus #1] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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 The Delian Cycle is the first part of the Saga of Dray Prescot and contains the five books: Transit to Scorpio, The Suns of Scorpio, Warrior of Scorpio, Swordships of Scorpio, and Prince of Scorpio. For the first time ever, the first five books in the Saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen are brought together in this omnibus edition. Together, these five books make up the Delian Cycle, in which Dray Prescot comes to terms with finding himself on the alien world of Kregen. Here he tries to ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Heart of Hythea [Song of the Arkafina 1] [MultiFormat]
by Suzanne Francis
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Yrth... a place of ordered beauty--and undreamed of terror. A magical realm where winged Amaranthine hide in the shadow of humankind, while selfishly exploiting them. A universe of countless dimensions; where an unwary sideways step might carry you to Death's silent Kingdom--or beyond, to the very heart of the rising Gyre. Now into this world comes Katrione Estelle du Chesne, a born healer. The Amaranthine need her, for she is destined to become the Vessel of the Goddess Lalluna and a pawn in th... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Into Narsindal [Book 4 of The Chronicles of Hawklan] [MultiFormat]
by Roger Taylor
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The evil Lord Dan-Tor has at last been driven out of Fyorlund and retreated to Narsindal, the realm of his dread master Sumeral. But Hawklan and his allies have won no more than a breathing space, for Dan-Tor is gathering his forces for a massive onslaught on all the free lands. An alliance of the free peoples must be forged, even those of peaceful Orthlund, to stand against Sumeral's dark battalions. The dwellers in the air and the mysterious inhabitants of the lands beneath the mountains must ... more info>> (Published: 1990)
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The Waking of Orthlund [Book 3 of The Chronicles of Hawklan] [MultiFormat]
by Roger Taylor
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Fyorlund has fallen. The City of Vakloss has felt the terrifying Power that lies behind the evil Lord Dan-Tor and King Rgoric lies dead, murdered by Dan-Tor who is now master of Fyorlund and ready to unleash the Dark Lord Sumeral's dread power over all the lands. Yet Dan-Tor has been grievously wounded by Hawklan's arrow, and, against impossible odds, not all hope has been swallowed by the Darkness. Sylvriss, Rgoric's Queen, has escaped the blighted City to rally the Lords in Exile. In peaceful ... more info>> (Published: 1989)
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Weapons of the Wolfhound [MultiFormat]
by Moyra Caldecott
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It is the 12th century AD. Neil lives with his parents on a farm on the remote island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He is bored with his days and longs for excitement. He makes friends with Brother Durston, a Christian hermit living in a rocky cell nearby. The hermit speaks to the boy about the virtues of foregiveness and peaceful coexistence, and teaches the value of contemplation and prayer. But the visit of a Viking sea captain, Baldur, to the island makes the boy restless. He goes with Bal... more info>> (Published: 1976)
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Iceni [MultiFormat]
by Helen Barker
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Boudicca--Queen, Priestess, mother, woman ... Emerging from her recent widowhood, Boudicca (Boadicea) is unwillingly plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue between the Celtoi tribes and the conquering Romani. Victim of her own still raw emotions and Romani greed, Boudicca is approached by an elusive Druid to lead the Celtoi in rebellion. But there have been Celtoi rebellions before, what will make this one so different? As the rebellion unfolds it gathers a momentum of its own, sweeping Boudicca a... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Krozair of Kregen [Dray Prescot #14] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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Never before in his fantastic career on Kregen, planet of the twin suns of Antares, had Dray Prescot been in such a desperate predicament. A despised outcast by his friends who wore the red of Zair, he had now been condemned by his old enemies whose battle color was the green of the sun Grodno. For while among these slavers and conquerors of the green, searching for a way to turn the tide of war to his own redemption and his friends' advantage, he had personally encountered the deadly animosity ... more info>> (Published: 1977)
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Renegade of Kregen [Dray Prescot #13] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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Never before in his adventurous career under the double suns of Antares had Dray Prescot been in as desperate a situation as he found himself on his second entry into the city of Magdag. Magdag had been the scene of one of Prescot's earliest experiences on Kregen and he recalled it with loathing as a city of power-lusting slavers, of decadent worshippers of the Green Sun. As one who had been initiated into the chivalric order of Krozairs, he despised all that that city stood for. But now Prescot... more info>> (Published: 1976)
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Savage Scorpio [Dray Prescot #16] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen, beneath the two suns of Antares, alpha star of the Constellation Scorpio, lies the hidden city of the Savanti. The Savanti were the ones responsible for tearing Dray Prescot away from his native Earth for their struggle against the Star Lords. And Dray had long sought the locale of his original landing because it would help solve the mystery of his transition. Now the time had come when the search must be completed without delay, for the father of his... more info>> (Published: 1978)
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Secret Scorpio [Dray Prescot #15] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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The brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio is the brilliant double sun Antares, around which orbits the inhabited planet called Kregen. Kregen is an Earthlike world, but strange, far stranger, than ours. For it is the scene of a conflict between galactic powers who utilize its many human nations and its astonishing variety of humanoid peoples as their battleground. Dray Prescot of Earth had been a tool of those powers, but courage and ingenuity had won him a high role in the Vallian Empire ... more info>> (Published: 1977)
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The Cotton Run [MultiFormat]
by Daniel Wyatt
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Captain Joshua Denning is a veteran of the nighttime cotton runs through the Union blockaders off Cape Fear, near Wilmington, in 1863. During a confrontation on the high seas outside Nassau, Denning clashes with an old adversary, Captain Robert Carlisle, from his days at Annapolis Navy Academy ten years before. The next time they meet, when Denning takes on one final blockade run, the greatest shipment of them all, only one will be victorious... But Denning becomes distracted by Marie Keating, a... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Fall of Fyorlund [Book 2 of The Chronicles of Hawklan] [MultiFormat]
by Roger Taylor
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The darkness of ancient times is spreading over the land of Fyorlund and tainting even the Great Harmony of Orthlund. The ailing King Rgoric has imprisoned the much-loved and respected Lords Eldric, Arinndier, Darek and Hreldar; he has suspended the ancient ruling council of the Geadrol; he has formed his own High Guard, filling its ranks with violent unruly men; and Mandrocs have been seen even in Orthlund. At the centre of this corruption is the King's advisor, the evil Lord Dan-Tor, who is de... more info>> (Published: 1989)
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The Mary Jane Mission [MultiFormat]
by Daniel Wyatt
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When the B29 Superfortress Mary Jane is discovered in 1945 sitting in thick jungle with no visible damage, and her crew and mysterious payload are missing, the incident is hushed up and forgotten. But in 1990, mysterious radar images start to appear. F18 crews sent up to investigate discover a B29 flying towards Japan. What is this mysterious plane? If it is the Mary Jane continuing her mission, how can they stop it? (Published: 1992)
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A Fortune for Kregen [Dray Prescot #21] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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Fame and fortune may await the winners of the life and death game called Jikaida, but for Dray Prescot his triumphs seemed only to bring infamy and misfortune. An Earthman transposed to the distant world that circles the twin suns of Antares, Prescot had to find a way out of his Jikaida City exile--for his homeland needed him in its hour of danger. But it seemed that fate now would place him in an even more terrifying game--a treasure hunt played out in the illusion webbed catacombs of a haunted... more info>> (Published: 1979)
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A Life for Kregen [Dray Prescot #19] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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The world Kregen circles the twin suns of Antares, far distant from the skies of Earth. Yet Kregen is the ground on which the Earthman Dray Prescot must stand and fight for all he holds dear. For Prescot is the unwilling battle arm of the mysterious Star Lords who contend for that planet with the powerful Savanti. Yet Prescot's ambitions are his own, for he has inherited the remnant of a shattered empire and must fight to bring hope and freedom to all its peoples. By his side stands his princess... more info>> (Published: 1979)
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A Sword for Kregen [Dray Prescot #20] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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The most popular game among the many peoples of Kregen, world of Antares, is one that resembles chess, called Jikaida. Jikaida is a battle of wits and war game pieces that suited well the tension charged atmosphere that enveloped Dray Prescot. For reconquering Vallia was assuming the aspect of such a game--move versus countermove, horde against horde! Then Dray Prescot found himself no longer in control of just a game--he had become a living chessman on a real-life board at the dreaded arena of ... more info>> (Published: 1979)
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A Victory for Kregen [Dray Prescot #22] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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The ending of Prescot's stark adventures as a living chess piece in the city of blood games was to be as terrifying as the perils that had gone before. Because now that transposed Earthman had to fight his way back to his embattled Vallian homeland across a sky full of danger and a sea full of death. And when he returned--if he could--he would find the combat joined, his son at doom's door, his troops up against superior odds, and a battle he must personally fight that would be two battles in tw... more info>> (Published: 1980)
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A World to Win [MultiFormat]
by Mary Lancaster
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Amidst the turbulence of revolutionary Hungary, a Scottish governess falls in love with a young, peasant-born radical determined to change the world. In 1847, with Europe on the verge of revolution, Katie Kettles travels to Hungary as governess to the family of Count Istvan Szelenyi. On the journey, she first encounters Lajos Lazar making incendiary speeches from a table-top in Vienna. Though instantly drawn to him, he is not her only distraction from her duties, for Katie has her own vengeful a... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Adventures by Leaf Light and other stories [MultiFormat]
by Moyra Caldecott
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Eighteen beautiful, insightful, moral, magical stories for children with Imagination--and their parents. Many have never been published before, and will be a treat for all fans of Moyra Caldecott. (Published: 2007)
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Akhenaten: Son of the Sun [Book 2 of The Egyptian Series] [MultiFormat]
by Moyra Caldecott
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In ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen, the strong and beautiful Nefertiti, are engaged in a dramatic battle against the wealthy, corrupt and dangerously powerful priests of Amun. Haunting and full of surprises, Akhenaten: Son of the Sun gives a fascinating glimpse into an ancient civilisation. It is a story about hate and love, despair and hope, but more than that it is the story of extraordinary spiritual and psychic powers being tested t... more info>> (Published: 1986)
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An Endless Exile [MultiFormat]
by Mary Lancaster
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An Endless Exile is the story of the eleventh century hero, Hereward "the Wake", the only Englishman to have defied and defeated William the Conqueror. Torfrida is thirty-two years old, cynical, secretive, confident of her own wisdom and learning. Yet even she is taken by surprise when Hereward is brutally killed by his Norman guests. Lonely and embittered, it is with reluctance that she remembers the past, from her first childhood meeting with the tumultuous Hereward, through their stormy court... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Arash-Felloren [A sequel to The Chronicles of Hawklan] [MultiFormat]
by Roger Taylor
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Sinister changes are afoot in Arash-Felloren. Pinnatte, the street thief, has been marked, literally, for a fearful destiny. Imorren, the first woman to lead the Kyrosdyn--the crystal workers--has secretly ordered the transfer of the Jyolan Fighting Pits to Barran, the mercenary who controls most of the crystal trade. It will give him great power in the huge and ancient city. But why would Imorren do this? And why would she bring to the surface a creature from the caves deep below the city--a cr... more info>> (Published: 1996)
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Arena of Antares [Dray Prescot #7] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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Never a man to leave something half done, Dray Prescot knew his task on the mysterious continent of Havilfar was far from completed. There were cruel conquerors to be overthrown, there was pursuit of the manhounds and their masters, and there was the dreaded arena. Could he survive the life of a gladiator against the killers and monsters of a spoiled queen--while the Star Lords waited for his mission to continue? (Published: 1974)
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Armada of Antares [Dray Prescot #11] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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Kregen! That marvelous world circling the double-star Antares in the Constellation Scorpio has been the scene of many an exciting event as its myriad human and non-human races struggle with each other for ascendency. But for Dray Prescot, Earthman and Prince of Vallia, all of the electrifying aspects of his adventurous life on Kregen were to climax when the armies of Havilfar made their move toward his adopted homeland before he had fully solved the secret of their mysterious air fleets. Armada ... more info>> (Published: 1976)
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Avenger of Antares [Dray Prescot #10] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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For a brief but wonderful moment it seemed as if Dray Prescot was on the road to victory, for he was aboard a Vallian ship bound for home with the secret of Vallia's enemies in his possession. But Dray, the Earthman sent to the planet Kregen of the double-star Antares in Scorpio, had not fulfilled the mission of the unseen Star Lords, and until he did there could be no escape from peril! And peril came, in the form of hideous sea raiders, in the sharp edges of the dueling blades of a swordsman e... more info>> (Published: 1975)
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