Nerilka's Story

1987-01-12 Fiction

Author : Anne McCaffrey
Release : 1987-01-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nerilka's Story written by Anne McCaffrey. This book was released on 1987-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Her quest to help wherever she was most needed led her finally to Ruatha Hold, where Lord Alessan was frantically preparing the precious serum needed for mass inoculations against the dread plague. Nerilka had long ago abandoned her hope of marriage and a home of her own. Now she found happiness in being useful and appreciated—first the Healers and then Alessan made very clear that they were grateful for her help. She had no idea that her new path would change the course of her life forever!

Complete Critical Assembly

2002-10-01 Literary Criticism

Author : David Langford
Release : 2002-10-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 300/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Complete Critical Assembly written by David Langford. This book was released on 2002-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.

The Picara

1991 History

Author : Anne K. Kaler
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 167/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Picara written by Anne K. Kaler. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesan and criminal, thief and trollop, warrior and wanderer--the picara embodies the continuing archetypal pattern of a woman's autonomy. She is the sly sharpster in Defoe's heroines such as Roxana and Moll Flanders. With an ancestress like Becky Sharp, the picara evolves into Scarlett O'Hara before finding a comfortable niche as the female hero in fantasy written by women. The Picara traces the development of this character, from an autonomous woman in a harsh patriarchal society to the female hero of the modern fantasy novel.

Nimisha's Ship

2002-02-19 Fiction

Author : Anne McCaffrey
Release : 2002-02-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 501/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nimisha's Ship written by Anne McCaffrey. This book was released on 2002-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Anne McCaffrey has reigned as one of the premier talents in science fiction and fantasy, flying above the crowd on the glittering wings of such masterworks as The Dragonriders of Pern and Crystal Singer. Now, McCaffrey soars to dizzying unscaled heights in an exciting new world bursting with adventure and romance . . . On Vega III, where the jaded inhabitants pursue lives of malicious intrigue and decadent pleasure, Lady Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense has always been an anomaly. Disdainful of the frivolity of her fellows, she prefers the exciting and challenging world of her father, Lord Tionel, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense shipyards. Precociously gifted, Nimisha becomes Lord Tionel's secret assistant—and, in the aftermath of a shocking tragedy, his chosen successor at the helm of the shipyards. But supplanting her father's designated body-heir, the callow Lord Vestrin, is a slight that Vestrin and his mother, Lady Vescuya, will not easily forget. Or forgive. Preoccupied with carrying on her father's ambitious plans for the Mark 5, an experimental long-distance cruiser, Nimisha dangerously disregards Vestrin's animosity—until a solo test flight of the Mark 5 goes horribly awry, marooning Nimisha light-years from home on a planet as deadly as it is beautiful. Now, Vestrin and Vescuya are given the chance they've been waiting for: to reclaim the shipyards . . . by any means necessary. Only Nimisha's child, Cuiva—a girl every bit as ingenious as her mother—stands in their way. But for how long? For just when her daughter needs her most, Nimisha is unable to help—and in a precarious situation herself. But Nimisha has never given up in her life—and she's not about to start now . . .

The Coelura

1992-09-22

Author : Anne McCaffrey
Release : 1992-09-22
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Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Coelura written by Anne McCaffrey. This book was released on 1992-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Lady Caissa has been raised to show proper obedience and loyalty, even if it means marrying a man she despises. Despite that loyalty, Caissa flees before her marriage deep into the forbidden zone, where she encounters an injured man, who will determine the fate of her family and planet. uld determine the fate of her family and planet.

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