The Tyrant Falls in Love V02: Yaoi (Tyrant)
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    The Tyrant Falls in Love V02: Yaoi (Tyrant)
    Hinako Takanaga
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    ASIN: 1933809329

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    Morinaga and Souichi have come to an understanding. Morinaga can "love" Souichi … from a far. But when the tension builds up, how far will Morinaga go to obtain his senpai?!
    The Tyrant's Novel (Keneally, Thomas)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Keneally in award-winning form with serious political novel.
    • Gripping and Effective
    • Keneally in award-winning form with serious political novel.
    • A timely fable revealing creativity and innovation.
    • Witty, Clever and Well-Done
    The Tyrant's Novel (Keneally, Thomas)
    Thomas Keneally
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    ASIN: 0385511469
    Release Date: 2004-06-01

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    Thomas Keneally’s literary achievements have been inspired by some of history’s most intriguing events and characters, but in a rare reversal of time his brilliantly imagined new novel takes us into a near future that uncannily is all too familiar.

    In a detention camp where he is neither granted asylum nor readied to be sent back to his native land, a detainee bides his time. He insists on being called Alan Sheriff, a westernization of his given name; he was born in a country that had once been a friend to the United States but is now its enemy. Little else is known about Sheriff until a writer comes to interview him. Sheriff decides that the time is right to tell his visitor his story and embarks on the unraveling of events that have led to his current state with extraordinary detail—the basis of which forms this novel within a novel.

    Sheriff is a celebrated novelist in a country in which its brutal leader orders Sheriff to ghostwrite a work of fiction: an uneasy combination of invention, autobiography, and polemic—the very publication of which would overturn Western sanctions and shame the United States. The deadline is impossible, but the government enforcers guard his house and stalk his every move. It is not long before Sheriff becomes the tyrant’s caged canary, as he races against the deadline that threatens to cost him everything and everyone he holds dear.

    In a work reminiscent of the classic Fahrenheit 451, Thomas Keneally has written a dazzling story of a man caught between the demands of his government and his impulse to run for his life. Provocative and possibly prophetic, The Tyrant’s Novel is a literary achievement inspired by recent history’s most intriguing events and characters. Here, Keneally once more combines, as he did in Schindler's List, his fictional talent with his engagement in world politics.

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    THOMAS KENEALLY is the acclaimed author of more than two dozen books, including his Booker Prize¿winning novel, Schindler¿s List, and his most recent, Office of Innocence, a tale about a young priest¿s coming of age during World War II. Keneally lives in Sydney, Australia.

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    5 out of 5 stars Keneally in award-winning form with serious political novel........2006-06-19

    In this novel within a novel, Australian author Thomas Keneally returns to the political themes which won him prizes for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Voices from the Forest, and Schindler's Ark. Keneally has always been at his best depicting ordinary people facing extraordinary pressures, especially from governments bent on totalitarian rule, and this contemporary allegory is no exception. Taking place in an unnamed oil-rich country in the Middle East ruled by a tyrant who calls himself Great Uncle, the novel centers on a man calling himself "Alan Sheriff," a short story writer given one month to write an "autobiographical novel" for which Great Uncle will take full credit. Sheriff, we learn in the opening chapter, is telling his story to a western journalist from a detention camp in an unnamed desert country, where he has languished for three years.

    Keneally increases the impact and universality of the story through his clever use of western names. As Alan Sheriff tells the journalist, it is important for his credibility in the west that he be like a man you'd meet on the street, which is much easier with a name like Alan--"not, God help us, Said and Osama and Saleh. If we had Mac instead of Ibn." Alan believes his "saddest and silliest story" will interest Americans, despite the fact that his country and the US are now enemies.

    Through Alan's story, the reader meets Mrs. Douglas, whose nephew, not careful enough of the pH level of Great Uncle's swimming pool, has been shot and hanged from the ramparts; Mrs. Carter, whose son has been missing for six years; Alan's beloved wife, Sarah Manners, an actress who has become unemployable; Matt McBride, another writer who becomes head of the Cultural Commission where he works for Great Uncle; and Louise James, an American who would like to get Sheriff to come to Texas as a visiting professor. All these characters contribute to a stunning conclusion as Sheriff tries to write the required novel.

    Easily the best Keneally novel in over a decade, this serious and thoughtful novel has significant political ramifications. The characters are "ordinary people," much like the rest of us, caught in extreme situations, and Keneally builds up enormous suspense as the long tentacles of the tyrant grab everyone in their path. Though most readers will recognize the unnamed country and the tyrant, it is a tribute to Keneally that their specific identities are totally irrelevant to his themes and plot. The author makes it clear that a government's manipulation of the people's perceptions through staged events is not limited to the Third World. Mary Whipple

    5 out of 5 stars Gripping and Effective.......2005-03-24

    Keneally vividly conjures up the dilemmas that the artist in a repressive regime faces. "The Tyrants Novel" alows the reader to fell the vise closing in on Alan Sheriff as he is forced to work with the regime that is destroying his homeland.

    "The Tyrants Novel" avoids the stereotypical scenes of repression - physical abuse, direct threats - in order to spin a web of gnawing anguish. A few scenes in "The Tyrants Novel" will remain with me for years to come - not because they are rendered so graphically, but because they are presented in a plausible manner that makes them even more disturbing.

    One thing that Keneally does is to give all of his characters - in what is clearly Iraq - Englich and Irish names. At first, this seems bizarre, but the sad fact is, westertn readers will more readily identify with characters named "McBrien", "Sarah" and "Andrew" than they will with "Abdul" and "Mohammed".

    A great novel and one that has sent me serching out Keneally's other books.

    5 out of 5 stars Keneally in award-winning form with serious political novel........2004-10-08

    In this novel within a novel, Australian author Thomas Keneally returns to the political themes which won him prizes for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Voices from the Forest, and Schindler's Ark. Keneally has always been at his best depicting ordinary people facing extraordinary pressures, especially from governments bent on totalitarian rule, and this contemporary allegory is no exception. Taking place in an unnamed oil-rich country in the Middle East ruled by a tyrant who calls himself Great Uncle, the novel centers on a man calling himself "Alan Sheriff," a short story writer given one month to write an "autobiographical novel" for which Great Uncle will take full credit. Sheriff, we learn in the opening chapter, is telling his story to a western journalist from a detention camp in an unnamed desert country, where he has languished for three years.

    Keneally increases the impact and universality of the story through his clever use of western names. As Alan Sheriff tells the journalist, it is important for his credibility in the west that he be like a man you'd meet on the street, which is much easier with a name like Alan--"not, God help us, Said and Osama and Saleh. If we had Mac instead of Ibn." Alan believes his "saddest and silliest story" will interest Americans, despite the fact that his country and the US are now enemies.

    Through Alan's story, the reader meets Mrs. Douglas, whose nephew, not careful enough of the pH level of Great Uncle's swimming pool, has been shot and hanged from the ramparts; Mrs. Carter, whose son has been missing for six years; Alan's beloved wife, Sarah Manners, an actress who has become unemployable; Matt McBride, another writer who becomes head of the Cultural Commission where he works for Great Uncle; and Louise James, an American who would like to get Sheriff to come to Texas as a visiting professor. All these characters contribute to a stunning conclusion as Sheriff tries to write the required novel.

    Easily the best Keneally novel in over a decade, this serious and thoughtful novel has significant political ramifications. The characters are "ordinary people," much like the rest of us, caught in extreme situations, and Keneally builds up enormous suspense as the long tentacles of the tyrant grab everyone in their path. Though most readers will recognize the unnamed country and the tyrant, it is a tribute to Keneally that their specific identities are totally irrelevant to his themes and plot. The author makes it clear that a government's manipulation of the people's perceptions through staged events is not limited to the Third World. Mary Whipple

    4 out of 5 stars A timely fable revealing creativity and innovation........2004-09-08

    THE TYRANT'S NOVEL is at once ingenious and innovative in its ability to mirror recent world history events without disclosing vital identities. While reading it is difficult to not think of current geopolitical events. When we first meet protagonist Alan Sheriff he is being held as a political prisoner in an undisclosed Western nation. While being interviewed by journalists Sheriff explains his tale of how he ended up in his current predicament and his former life in an anonymous nation suffering from U.S.-led oil embargo and is ruled by a ruthless dictator. As the narrative unfolds the similarities between Sheriff's home country and Saddam Hussein's Iraq is quite uncanny and difficult to overlook.

    Sheriff was once a member of the elite middle class largely unaffected by the devasting economic repercussions of the oil embargo. But despite his social standings he has created a reputation for his literary skill he is ordered by the tyrant to write a novel about the chaos that has burdened his country to be published under the tyrants name and released in time for a forthcoming G7 summit. Sheriff's been provided a very short deadline and in order to complete this unthinkable task he must battle personal demons that plague him.

    Thomas Keneally performs a superb job in creating this fast-paced thriller that failed to lose steam at any given time. I was immediately hooked by the opening paragraph and couldn't wait to reach the end. Recommended.

    5 out of 5 stars Witty, Clever and Well-Done.......2004-09-06

    Thomas Keneally's The Tyrant's Novel opens in a refugee holding camp of sorts in a Western nation. The initial narrator tells a brief story of meeting one of the refugees held there, Alan Sheriff, who is seeking political asylum and whose story makes up much of this enjoyable novel. Alan was a very successful novelist, with an American publishing contract, in a fictional country that is a thinly-disguised contemporary Iraq. His life is ideal, or as much as that can be when living under a despot's rule, when it pretty much crumbles in front of his eyes. His beloved wife dies suddenly and he is subsequently 'asked' by the Great Uncle, the tyrant of his country (and a dead ringer for Saddam Hussein) to ghostwrite a novel for him. The request is not just for any novel, but one which is so wonderful and moving, one which so exposes the effects that economic sanctions are having on his country that the world's superpowers will be convinced to removed those sanctions. Part of what makes Keneally's novel so wonderful is that it is both a politcal novel and a novel about writing and the creative process. Keneally masterfully, seamlessly blends these two genres into an enjoyable whole. The novel is at once a politcal allegory and a story of symbolic writer's block. It is an excellent, heart-breaking story, well-done and compelling. Enjoy.
    Tiny Tyrant
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Zut alors!
    Tiny Tyrant
    Lewis Trondheim
    Manufacturer: First Second
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    ASIN: 159643094X
    Release Date: 2007-03-29

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    Welcome to Portocristo, its clear skies, sandy beaches, bustling streets--and its spoiled rotten, six-year-old king.
    The little despot is grouchy, whiny, outrageous...everything you'd hate to find in a boy on a throne. But here in Portocristo, anything he says goes, no matter how bizarre or harebrained. Sit back and watch young King Ethelbert swap his country's kids for Ethelbert robots, test his bodyguard's mettle by putting a price on his own head, shrink the world down to his size, bring a dinosaur back from the past...
    And that's only a tiny taste of the zaniness ahead.
    Trondheim's deliciously inventive writing, coupled with artwork evoking the classic, wacky styles of Mr. Magoo and Pink Panther, ensure an experience as memorable as kangaroos bouncing on pogo-sticks.

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    5 out of 5 stars Zut alors!.......2007-04-24

    The French are different from you and me. They like their graphic novels smart, colorful, and consistently amusing. What other nation could claim the wonders of "Asterix and Obelix"? Who else has the chops to give us Joann Sfar on the one hand and then turn around to toss us the partnership of Lewis Trondheim & Fabrice Parme on the other? First Second Books, never afraid to co-opt the foreign so as to market it to one and all, has now brought us a title from the aforementioned Trondheim & Parme pairing. Now I'd like you to bear in mind that I am not a pushover on the subject of French GNs. To be frank with you, I love French graphic novels for teens but have never found one for younger kids that gave me anything but a vague sense of nausea/the willies. The "A.L.I.E.E.E.N." and the Sardine in Outer Space books do nothing for me. "Tiny Tyrant", however, is another matter entirely. Telling various tales surrounding a pint-sized ruler with very little common sense, I think First Second has a winner on its hands. It's hip. It's hilarious. And it's something I'd hand any kid if they looked at me mournfully and asked if I didn't have any comics on my library shelves.

    Meet King Ethelbert. You can call him, Your Majesty. As the six-year-old ruler of Portocristo, Ethelbert's not just a pain. He's a menace to the very society he rules. If he's not conjuring up dinosaurs out of a laboratory or shrinking the world around him, then he's fighting with his insufferable cousin Sigismund or kicking Santa Claus in the rear. Ethelbert isn't all bad, of course. I mean he's perfectly nice to Princess Hildegardina (though that might be because she's three times as rich as he is and he wants to prevent his cousin from marrying her). And he sends a guy over to India for an all expense paid vacation (though, to Ethelbert's mind, it was the worst punishment he could conjure up). All in all, he's not the kind of monarch you'd necessarily like, but he does happen to be a king you'll have a hard time putting down. This book is a collection of the best "Tiny Tyrant" stories from eight different French volumes.

    Basically the book won me over to its charms right from the start. In "Safety First" Ethelbert finds himself in the care of a bodyguard. Not content to get just any old protector, however, the king decides to test his new servant in the hopes of finding a chink in the man's admirable abilities. So what do you do when you want to test your new bodyguard? You put a price on your own head, naturally. When groups from all over the globe start showing up, the sheer variety of them is delightful. Everyone from The Family Farmers Liberation Front to a Michigander ambush performed by the Dastardly Detroiters, takes a hand. Not for the first time would I wonder to what extent translator Alexis Siegel and (uncredited) Edward Gauvin added their own personal touches to these exceedingly funny bits of wordplay. Princess Hildegardina, for example, speaks with a lofty convoluted speech that frequently leaves Ethelbert tongue-tied himself. How many of these words are direct translations of the French and how many the delightful vocal curlicues of Siegel and Gauvin?

    I would like to point out that not just anyone can do humor and I credit author Lewis Trondheim on some of Ethelbert's finer ridiculous aspects. When a group of Ethelbert lookalike robots takes over the palace his doubles offer a list of demands that are exceedingly magnificent in their silliness. For example, "I wanna see a death match between a giraffe and a penguin." If I can take nothing else away from the book, let me at least take that.

    Were it not for the book's bookflap, I might not have noticed that artist Fabrice Parme draws quite a lot of inspiration from "the classic animation of Mr. Magoo and The Pink Panther." Thinking about it, you can definitely see the mod influences here. And I was particularly taken with the look of Ethelbert himself. It's difficult to tear your eyes away from those eyebrows that float about a foot above his head and are roughly the same size as his body from the neck down. Lest you believe this penned by an American artist, however, I did find a couple instances here and there that were particularly daring by U.S. standards. For example, in the story "A Mountaintop Inheritance", Ethelbert and Sigismund fight over their now deceased great-great-Aunt's inheritance. As their squabble disintegrates over a single gold ingot, they start pulling various firearms at one another from a host of weapons lying on the floor. Trust me when I say that it works, but you can definitely see the horror that will grace some parents' faces when they come to that part of the book. Then again, we all grew up watching Warner Brothers cartoons where pulling a gun on someone was an act of humor (much as it is here) so I don't think any lasting damage will crease your own tiny tot's head as a result. Still, keep an eye out for squeamish adults. They may have something to say about this section.

    I find it more than a little coincidental that "Tiny Tyrant" is getting a release on the exact same day as David Horvath's picture book, Bossy Bear. Look me in the eye and tell me these two books don't have a lot in common. Right here. Right in the eye. Now tell me. Can't do it, can ya? Yeah, no, I didn't think so, and why? Because the color scheme is frighteningly similar. The drawing style has some pretty familiar elements. Plus there's the mild fact that both books are about crown-wearing tiny tots with egos the size of Goodyear blimps. A good pairing? Not necessarily since there's the difference in age level to take into account here. Still, should you wish to get your nine-year-old and five-year-old nieces and nephews some related gifts, this wouldn't be an unlikely pairing.

    On its own "Tiny Tyrant" is sure to amuse plenty of kids and adults alike. If petulant dictators with little education and even less interest in the the plight of the common man are your cup of tea (and in this day and age, how could they not be?), you may find in this book a fun house mirror for our times.
    Anne Hampson - 3 Great Novels: Heaven Is High, Gold Is The Sunrise & There Came A Tyrant (Harlequin Omnibus No 45)
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      The Artist and the Tyrant: Vassily Aksenov's Works in the Brezhnev Era
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        Konstantin Kustanovich
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        Down the river, or, Buck Bradford and his tyrants (Starry flag series)
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          Oliver Optic
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          El rey catastrofe/ Tiny Tyrant/ Spanish Edition
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            El rey catastrofe/ Tiny Tyrant/ Spanish Edition
            Lewis Trondheim
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            In this funny and clever and children's story, a pint-sized spoiled brat rules his own kingdom. But boredom causes him to abuse his power by indulging increasingly silly whims--and soon things begin to backfire.
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              The Sicilians: A Novel in the Fate And Other Tyrants Trilogy (Fate and Other Tyrants Trilogy)
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              The Sicilians: A Novel in the Fate And Other Tyrants Trilogy (Fate and Other Tyrants Trilogy)
              Salvatore Salamone
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              THE SICILIANS: A Novel in the Fate and Other Tyrants Trilogy

              The Sicilians is the saga of a people, a novel of murder and revenge, passion and power. Populated by princes and peasants, tyrants and rebels, priests and sinners, heroes and cowards, this epic narrative encompasses the Fascist era, its rise and fall.

              On All Souls' Day, 1919, a man is murdered. Near his corpse, the word “Judas” is written in blood. Haunted by the mystery of their father's death, Turi and Luciano seek the truth. Turi rebels against all authority, while Luciano believes in civilization and its traditions. Turi scorns the world ruled by the ruthless and powerful. Luciano admires the Society of Saint Francis, a religious organization advocating Christian democratic ideals. Even under a dictatorship, the villagers celebrate nature and its season, expressing their joys and sorrows.

              Italy enters the war. In the African desert, Luciano discovers that the Fascist quest for an empire is made of sand and illusion. In Russia, Turi confronts his father's murderer and his conscience. The war ends with its staggering heartbreak. In post-war Sicily, the forces of democracy, communism, and separatism clash. Democracy triumphs and a mystery are resolved, with ironic consequences.

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              THE SICILIANS: A Novel in the Fate and Other Tyrants Trilogy

              The Sicilians is the saga of a people, a novel of murder and revenge, passion and power. Populated by princes and peasants, tyrants and rebels, priests and sinners, heroes and cowards, this epic narrative encompasses the Fascist era, its rise and fall.

              On All Souls' Day, 1919, a man is murdered. Near his corpse, the word 'Judas" is written in blood. Haunted by the mystery of their father's death, Turi and Luciano seek the truth. Turi rebels against all authority, while Luciano believes in civilization and its traditions. Turi scorns the world ruled by the ruthless and powerful. Luciano admires the Society of Saint Francis, a religious organization advocating Christian democratic ideals. Even under a dictatorship, the villagers celebrate nature and its season, expressing their joys and sorrows.

              Italy enters the war. In the African desert, Luciano discovers that the Fascist quest for an empire is made of sand and illusion. In Russia, Turi confronts his father's murderer and his conscience. The war ends with its staggering heartbreak. In post-war Sicily, the forces of democracy, communism, and separatism clash. Democracy triumphs and a mystery are resolved, with ironic consequences.

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              5 out of 5 stars a literate saga.......2006-03-23

              Salamone's second novel, the first of a projected trilogy, paints a broad canvas of Sicily in the first half of the 20th Century. Mixing themes of religion and politics, submission and rebellion, desire and death, the Sicilians is that rarest of achievements: a page turner with literary depth . . . and a history lesson to boot. The Daluci brothers, Turi and Luciano, seem to have descended from the Karamazovs, by way of the Thornbirds; the bloodlines are electric. This is a rivetting read that stays with you long after you've closed the cover.
              The strolling saint: Being the confessions of the high & mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo & Lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza (The novels of Rafael Sabatini)
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                Nerilka's Story (Dragonriders of Pern Series)
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                A deadly epidemic was sweeping across Pern. Everyone, holder anddragonrider alike, pitched in to help -- except Nerilka's father, whorefused to share Fort Hold's bounty with the other Holds. So, ashamed ofher family and determined to do her part, Nerilka packed up medicinesand supplies and sneaked off to aid her people.

                Her quest to help wherever she was most needed led her finally to RuathaHold, where Lord Alessan was frantically preparing the precious serumneeded for mass inoculations against the dread plague.

                Nerilka had long ago abandoned the hope of marriage and a home of herown. Now she found happiness in being useful and appreciated -- firstthe Healers and then Alessan made very clear that they were grateful forher help.

                She had no idea that her new path would change the course of her lifeforever!

                Customer Reviews:

                4 out of 5 stars Nerilka's Story.......2007-10-02

                Not a typical story about dragons. Gives a different focus of life on Pern. Good read!

                5 out of 5 stars Another great book from Anne McCaffery.......2007-08-23

                Nerilka's Story is a back story to Moreta. It takes place at the same time. A wonderful story about a lesser know character.

                5 out of 5 stars Great if you like Sci Fiction.......2007-05-13

                The Pern series of books from Anne McCaffery are great. Better if you read them in order, (look online at her website for recommendations). This is futuristic science fiction, but if you liked Aregon, you would probably like this series too

                5 out of 5 stars Nerilka's Story .......2007-01-22

                Another great story of Pern!The book arrived in perfect condition and faster then I expected.

                2 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2004-10-22

                I've loved the books I've read so far in the Dragonriders series, with the exception of Nerilka.

                1) I read this book right after reading Moreta and found it too repetitive. This story may have been better intertwined as part of Moreta.
                2) I didn't like the ending to Moreta and this book was too much of a reminder of that ending.

                Perhaps leaving some time between reading the Moreta and Nerilka books it would make Nerilka more enjoyable.
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                  NERILKA'S STORY A PERN ADVENTURE
                  Anne McCaffrey
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                      Includes : Moreta Dragonlady Of Pern & Nerilka's Story - IN RUSSIAN Size (in inches): 1.25 x 8.125 x 5.125 Published in Moscow 2005 - Publishing run of 5100 copies.
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                        Anne McCaffrey
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                            Anne McCaffery
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                              Anne Mccaffrey
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                                DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN:  Dragonflight; Dragonquest; The White Dragon; Dragonsong; Dragonsinger; Dragondrums; Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern; Nerilka's Story; Dragonsdawn; The Renegades of Pern; Dragonseye
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                                  DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN: Dragonflight; Dragonquest; The White Dragon; Dragonsong; Dragonsinger; Dragondrums; Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern; Nerilka's Story; Dragonsdawn; The Renegades of Pern; Dragonseye
                                  Anne (covers by Michael Whelan; Edwin Herder) McCaffrey
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