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Falcons of Narabedla
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Mike Kenscott is having a really bad vacation. One minute he's camping in the Sierra Mountains with his brother Andy, and the next minute he's on a different world--or in a different time--or both. He's also in a different body. Now he's Adric, Lord of the Crimson Tower, of the Rainbow City of Narabedla. He has to cope with his fellow Narabedlans: the Dreamer Rhys, the mysterious veiled Gamine, the dwarf Idris, his brother Evarin the Toymaker (whose Toys are deadly), and Karamy, the golden witch... more info>> (Published: 1964)
Words: 39030 - Reading Time: 111-156 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Family Visit [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter
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Her marriage and her work as a midwife had made Renata n'ha Jamilla well aware of the fact that men wanted sons and would wear their wives out with too-frequent childbearing to get them. Now her daughter was desperately trying to bear a living child. (Published: 1991)
Words: 4569 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Festival Night [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
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Nothing stands between chaos-ravaged Darkover and a madman's dreams of conquest, except a sick man, the young Keeper Marguerida, a half-emptied medikit ... and the laws of physics. (Published: 1988)
Words: 5308 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Fire and Fate
by Deborah J. Ross, Deborah Wheeler
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The Duke of Westfields hired a swordswoman named Cinnabar to kill a wizard. Accompanied by a young man who was not what he seemed to be, Cinnabar set off to accomplish a task that was much more complicated than she had been told. But Cinnabar was also more than she appeared to be. (Published: 2010)
Words: 7741 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Firetrap [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
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Things that happen while you're out of your body don't have any effect on your physical body--or do they? (Published: 1990)
Words: 3301 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Friendly Fire [Vows & Honor Series: Oathblood]
by Mercedes Lackey
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It's somewhat comforting to know that ours is not the only world where Murphy's Law holds sway. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4716 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Genuine Old Master
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Dan Casey was an unsuccessful commerical illustrator until he got a commission to paint a very unusual portrait. (Published: 1997)
Words: 4724 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Golden Vanity
by Elisabeth Waters
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Edward wanted to be a knight. But there's a right way and a wrong way to do that, and if he wouldn't do it correctly ... perhaps he needed some help. (Published: 1989)
Words: 2454 - Reading Time: 7-9 min.
Category: Fantasy/Young Adult
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Grey [Elemental Masters Series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Sarah Jane was sent from her home in Africa to school in London because her parents felt it would be better for her health. Given conditions in London, however, she might have been safer in the African jungle. (Published: 1997)
Words: 4890 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Fantasy/Young Adult
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Grey's Ghost [Elemental Masters series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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When Nan and Sarah attended a séance, they discovered that the medium holding it was not the one who could communicate with ghosts. (Published: 1999)
Words: 12466 - Reading Time: 35-49 min.
Category: Fantasy/Spiritual/Religion
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Gunnora's Gift [Witch World Series #3]
by Elisabeth Waters
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Kyria had been an only child and wanted a big family. As a child, she had carefully learned everything her mother had to teach her, thinking 'someday I'll be teaching all of this to my daughters.' Why wouldn't the Goddess grant her even one child? (Published: 1990)
Words: 3332 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Her Own Blood [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter
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Gwennis was surprised to discover that she was the nedestra daughter of a comyn lord. But she had no idea of how that fact was going to change her life. (Published: 1985)
Words: 5217 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Hilary's Homecoming [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Hilary had been sent home from Arilinn Tower because she wasn't strong enough for the strenuous life of a Keeper. What she needed now was time for her body to heal from the demands that had been placed on it. Unfortunately, her mother had other plans. (Published: 1993)
Words: 5766 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Hilary's Wedding [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Yllana Castamir had been trying to find a 'suitable' husband for her daughter Hilary ever since she came home from Arilinn six years ago, but all her attempts had failed. Perhaps Hilary would do better to chose for herself. (Published: 1993)
Words: 8101 - Reading Time: 23-32 min.
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Honor of the Guild [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
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The dead men weren't the sort that anyone would truly mourn, but the fact that a Renunciate had killed them was a real problem for the Guild. If they couldn't deal with their renegade sister, they could find their Charter revoked and all Renunciates outlawed. (Published: 1991)
Words: 4228 - Reading Time: 12-16 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Hope for the Dawn [Temple Cats 3]
by Catherine Soto
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Bronze fish, with the name of the nation and the month they were to be admitted to the capitol, were used as tokens for diplomatic embassies; they were divided in half and the halves were matched up when the embassy arrived and sought admittance. When the fish the Tifun delegation was carrying went missing, their Ambassador threatened to destroy the city where he was staying during his journey. As he was still close to the border of his country and had a thousand warriors outside the city, this ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 7094 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy/Young Adult
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House Rules [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Raising children is difficult whether you're living in a Renunciate Guild House or not--especially when one of them is a rebellious adolescent girl you'd be willing to foster elsewhere, while the one you want to keep is supposed to be fostered as a toddler, just because he's a boy. (Published: 1988)
Words: 3316 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Invitation to Chaos [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
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Gwynn Alton hated his gift and the way it had been imposed on him. But when Thendara, the city he had designed and helped build, was threatened, he would do anything to save it, even combine the Alton Gift with the Hastur Gift of King Stefan. (Published: 1991)
Words: 6825 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Kadarin Tears [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
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Ari took his father Coryn's place as the only Hastur at Hali Tower after Coryn's laran was burned out during an attack. But the workload was heavy, especially when a new war broke out in the Domains. (Published: 1994)
Words: 6254 - Reading Time: 17-25 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Keys [Vows and Honor Series: Oathblood]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Lady Myria was accused of the murder of her husband. She called for trial by combat and named no champion, trusting the gods to send a champion to fight and prove her innocence. The gods sent two: Tarma to fight for her, and Kethry to prove her innocence. (Published: 1988)
Words: 7491 - Reading Time: 21-29 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Killer Byte [Diana Tregarde series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Diana and Andre must work together to stop a "vampire" preying on teenage girls he finds on the Internet--and to convince an imaginative fifteen-year-old that vampires aren't necessarily romantic. (Published: 1994)
Words: 5051 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Fantasy/Mystery/Crime
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Knives [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Marna was being badly abused at home. But she was only thirteen--not old enough to take the oath. Would the Renunciates believe and help her when her own mother would not? (Published: 1985)
Words: 5784 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Last Rights
by Mercedes Lackey
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Believing in animal rights is one thing, but before you act on those beliefs, you had better do some really careful research. (Published: 1993)
Words: 3184 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Legend of Lady Bruna [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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All with the right to rule the Alton Domain were dead, save Kennard's unborn son. Lady Bruna swore to serve as Regent, to protect her brother's widow and child, and command the Guards in Thendara until the boy was old enough to take up the duties himself. (Published: 1979)
Words: 2767 - Reading Time: 7-11 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Lesson of the Inn [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Hilary Castamir had been at Arilinn Tower for half her life. Now she was being sent home, a failure, not strong enough to be a Keeper. But leaving the Tower did not change the way she had been taught to think, and the journey home was a real shock. (Published: 1982)
Words: 5571 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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