Alan Dean Foster
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams • Includes two tie-in short stories: “The Perfect Weapon” by Delilah S. Dawson and “Bait” by Alan Dean Foster
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the...
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the...
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Tipping point trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alan Dean Foster's Body, Inc.
In this first novel of a thrilling new series set in our near future, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and body manipulation—and poses profound questions about what it means to be human.
Given his name because radical surgery has reduced him to preternatural...
In this first novel of a thrilling new series set in our near future, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and body manipulation—and poses profound questions about what it means to be human.
Given his name because radical surgery has reduced him to preternatural...
3) Cyber way
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
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The New York Times–bestselling author creates "a fascinating amalgam of sf/detective fiction and Native American lore" (Library Journal).
A wealthy industrialist and folk art collector is murdered in his home and left beneath where a painting had been hanging. But theft is not the motive. The artwork-a Navajo sandpainting-has been completed pulverized. And no blood was found at the scene.
Assigned to the case is bulldog detective Vernon...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The official novelization of the blockbuster film!
Months after the dramatic events seen in the 2009 blockbuster film Star Trek, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-including Cap¬tain James T. Kirk, First Officer Spock, Doctor Leonard McCoy, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieu¬tenant Hikaru Sulu, and Ensign Pavel Chekov-is called back home. But an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has declared...
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Humanx Commonwealth volume 6
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English
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Enter another realm in the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth—the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and aliens!
The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise—a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth...
The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise—a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth...
6) Spellsinger
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Spellsinger volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different...
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Spellsinger volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1984
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English
Description
Marooned in another universe, a young American musician leads a motley army in battle against an enemy that threatens to destroy their world and ours Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power-even if he can't control it-which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose...
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Spellsinger volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
To save his dying mentor, Jon-Tom the spellsinger and his ever reluctant sidekick Mudge the otter must venture across time and space to confront a danger unlike anything they have faced before Jon-Tom and his friends have seen better days. After his motley crew moved heaven and Earth to save civilization at the battle of Jo-Troom Gate, his merry band went its separate ways. Mudge, the foul-mouthed otter, eagerly returned to thieving, drinking, and...
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Spellsinger volume 4
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
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English
Description
In his continuing quest to find his way back to his own world, Jon-Tom the spellsinger must face off against a magician with sinister intentions Far to the south of the peaceful Bellwoods, where Jon-Tom the spellsinger continues trying to master the art of turning music into magic, a sinister force has awakened: a magician with great ambition and unheard-of power. He summons lightning to do his bidding, commands an army of faceless flying demons,...
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Spellsinger volume 5
Publisher
Phantasia Pr
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Jon-Tom the spellsinger and his friends venture into the high mountains to free a cosmic creature whose captivity threatens to drive the whole world mad It's an ordinary day in the Bellwoods, save for the fact that Jon-Tom the spellsinger has awoken as a six-foot blue crab. He soon reverts to normal-as normal as a college student trapped in a world of magic and talking animals can be, anyway-but the bizarre changes keep happening, affecting not just...
11) Chorus Skating
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Spellsinger volume 8
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Middle-aged, lazy, and out of shape, spellsinger Jon-Tom attempts to break out of domestic drudgery with one last great adventure Jon-Tom and Mudge are bored. Their adventuring days long behind them, the spellsinger and his once-thieving otter sidekick have settled into a life of tepid domesticity, and they are sick of it. They hunger for an old-fashioned adventure, but there are no more great evils to combat. And so they decide to follow the music....
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Spellsinger volume 7
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Hoping to duplicate the adventurous yarns of their parents, the children of spellsinger Jon-Tom and his otter sidekick Mudge set out on a perilous quest of their own Decades have passed since college student Jon-Tom Meriweather was first marooned in a strange land of magic, and over the years he has married, raised a son, and honed his voice so that the effects of his spellsinging-whereby he calls up magic with song-are almost predictable. His son's...
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Journeys of the Catechist volume 1
Publisher
Aspect
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A hero's quest begins in this first book of "perhaps [the] most highly regarded fantasy trilogy" from the New York Times–bestselling author (Black Gate).
They washed up on the beach, dead men clad in strange, intricate garments. The Naumkib tribe will eat well tonight. Simple herdsman Etjole Ehomba is wandering among the corpses, when he hears a faint cry . . .
One of the men is still alive-and he implores Etjole for help. His countess-to-be,...
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Journeys of the Catechist volume 2
Publisher
Aspect/Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Carnivores of Light and Darkness comes the second fantasy adventure in the Journeys of the Catechist saga.
With his two companions-Simna ibn Sind the swordsman and the massive black cat Ahlitah-at his side, Etjole Ehomba continues his honor-driven quest to find the Visioness of Laconda. Imprisoned in the fortress of an evil necromancer, she is both her captor's obsession and his torment.
Seeking...
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Series
Journeys of the Catechist volume 3
Publisher
Aspect/Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The New York Times–bestselling author's epic fantasy finale to the series "featuring a fast-paced mix of wry humor, high fantasy, and amazing new places and creatures" (Publishers Weekly).
Hymneth the Possessed has been warned. He is coming-and he's not alone. A master of necromantic arts, a questioner of all that is unanswered, a seeker of justice. Hymneth feels no threat in the warning, for no one in all the kingdoms in all the realms is as...
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Series
Spellsinger volume 6
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
When his magical multistring duar snaps in half, Jon-Tom the spellsinger sets out on a journey that will take him all the way back to... America. Jon-Tom has been trapped in a strange land of talking owls and wizarding turtles for a year now, his sole consolation that in this universe his musical abilities have inadvertently made him something of a sorcerer. But when an encounter with some burglars leads to him snapping the magical duar that channels...
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1985
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English
Description
One man struggles to survive on a hostile alien world in this thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Madrenga.
Some people are convinced they can do anything; Evan Orgell is one of them. So when his company president sends him off-world to investigate a breakdown in communications from a small research station on a newly discovered planet, he's all in. The planet's resources could mean massive profits for the company-and...
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Series
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers the eagerly awaited new Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying mini-dragon. Sure to delight longtime fans and win new ones, Flinx's Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body. It is a quest that forces him to confront a horror almost beyond...
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"High tech, murder, and intuition set the fast pace in a thriller" of a detective in a futuristic world from the New York Times–bestselling author (USA Today).
Located in the Namerican Southwest, the Montezuma Strip is the Western hemisphere's largest concentration of industry, commerce, assemblage, cutting-edge technology-and trouble. So it's no surprise to Insp. Angel Cardenas that there's been yet another murder. What is surprising is the...
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N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1979
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English
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A group of motley castaways on an ice planet help a race of cat-like aliens, in this science fiction adventure by the #1 New York Times bestseller.
After crash-landing on the icy planet Tran-ky-ky, salesman Ethan Frome Fortune wants to get back to his life and back to his business. So he and his burly sidekick, Skua September, head to the trading post of Brass Monkey to book passage home.
However, when they learn that profiteers and bureaucrats...