JANUARY 2010 READING LIST:
This month, we are featuring the Pern series of
ANNE McCAFFREY
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. She graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in Slavonic Languages
and Literature. After an early interest in the theatre, she married in 1950 and has three
children.
She used to make many appearances at science fiction conventions, but now she lives in a
house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill (because she had to dig out a hill on her
farm to build it) in Wicklow County, Ireland.
Anne runs a private livery stable and her horses have been successful in showjumping.
Visit her website at:
http://www.annemccaffrey.org
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ANNE McCAFFREY
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Chronicles of Pern:
First Fall
$10.00
For 200 years there had been peace on Pern -
but now the signs were ominous. Violent weather storms and erupting volcanoes heralded the
coming of the second Pass of Thread, when the red planet would rain down its horrifying
harvest and destroy every living organism ...
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Moreta:
Dragonlady of Pern
$7.95
The future of the planet rests in the hands of Moreta ...
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Nerilka's Story
$16.61
A deadly epidemic was sweeping across Pern! Everyone, holder and dragonrider alike, pitched in to help--except Nerilka's father, who refused to share Fort Hold's bounty with the other Holds. So, ashamed of her family and determined to do her part, Nerilka packed up
medicines and supplies and sneaked off to aid her people ...
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Dragonsdawn
$34.42
Although a later publication, this tale tells the story of the creation of Pern's dragons by the original colonists ...
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The Skies of Pern
$8.48
The planet's ecosystem is threatened by debris -- and its decidedly curious after effects -- from the nearby travelling Red Star planetoid ...
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DragonFlight
(Dragonriders of Pern
Vol 1)
$8.48
To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is
nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon.
For the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance
that falls like rain ...
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Dragonquest
(Dragonriders of Pern
Vol 2)
$8.48
The silver Threads began falling again. The
dragonriders took to the skies and their flying dragons swirled in space, belching flames
that destroyed the strands before they reached the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find it
before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed any more dissent ...
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The White Dragon
(Dragonriders of Pern
Vol 3)
$8.48
Never had there been as close a bonding as the
one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary
white dragon, Ruth, a dragon of many talents. Almost everyone on Pern thought he was
a runt that would never amount to anything ...
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All The Weyrs of Pern
$10.00
The residents of Pern are on the edge of discovering about their past following the discovery of the remnants of the planet's original colony ...
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Dragonseye
$17.61
The Dragonriders must insure that their descendants will be able to defend themselves from Thread, the corrosive form that periodically falls and threatens to destroy the planet. But with the last attack a distant memory, some of the inhabitants of Pern have grown far too complacent ...
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Dragon's Fire
$8.48
Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker, and when Zist sets off for Natalon's coal-mining camp, Pellar - along with his fire-lizard, Chitter - joins him on a secret mission of his own ...
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Dolphins of Pern
Vol 3)
$19.48
When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern,
they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize
the oceans of the new planet while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck ... |
AUDIOBOOKS FROM ANNE McCAFFREY
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Dragonsdawn
$21.95
MP3: The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists--until deadly spores began falling
like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything--and everyone--in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed ... |
A Gift of Dragons
$20.97
AUDIOBOOK: For more than 30 years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons ... |
The White Dragon
$26.48
AUDIOBOOK: Lord Jaxom knows that Ruth, the white dragon, has the potential to be a fighter. Together the two train in secret to destroy the thread that threatens life on Pern .... |
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Master Harper of Pern
$26.48
AUDIOBOOK: Despite the tragedies that beset his own
life, Robinton continues to believe in music and in the dragons, and is determined to save
his beloved Pern from itself . . .so that the dragonriders can be ready to fly against the dreaded Thread when it at last returns ... |
Dragon's Eye
$14.95
CASSETTE: The Dragonriders must insure that their descendants will be able to defend themselves from Thread, the corrosive form that periodically falls and threatens to destroy the planet .... |
Dragon's Kin
$22.37
AUDIOBOOK: Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement ... |
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The Girl Who Heard Dragons
$12.57
AUDIOBOOK: Teenage Aramina has the unusual ability to hear dragons. Her keen perception causes dismay to ... |
Dragondrums
$9.95
AUDIOBOOK: Of all the young singers at the Harperhall of Pern, Piemur was the one chosen for the leading role at Lord Groghe's Gather...and then his voice broke. Suddenly his whole future at Harperhall became uncertain ... |
Renegades of Pern
$29.79
AUDIOBOOK: As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread .... |
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