Amalthean Quests One


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Space could be a lonely and hostile place especially if you were 21 yearons old and a lone female. Tayce Traun was that female. A young privileged daughter of a commodore cast out in the dead of night when her home world is destroyed by a powerful evil countess and her warrior army. For the first three yearons Tayce fights to keep her exploration cruiser, Amalthea One, from falling into the wrong hands with help from the on board guidance and operation's computer, who is her only friend and companion. Tayce vowed that she would avenge the death of her parents and the destruction of her home planet. She has an idea to create a crime fighting team and call it the Amalthean Quests Team. The new journey starts and slowly one by one new members join the team.




Amalthean Quests Three


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Tayce Traun and her team are faced with ever more deadly quests in this third book of the Amalthean Quests series. They range the Universe, fighting evil and injustice, but can there ever be lasting peace while Count Varon Vargon lives? His shadow looms threateningly over Enlopedia and its sister Colony, Pellasum Traun 2, as he schemes to crush the Trauns. Tayce, commanding Auran Amalthea Three, sets out to intercept the combined forces of Count Vargon and the Witch Queen, Aemiliyana as they advance on Enlopedia. On board their immense battle-ready spacecraft, the Fortress, they are carrying a new game-changer - the Catronic weapon.




Amalthean Quests Two


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It is the twenty-fifth century and the Amalthean Quests team is back. Tayce Traun is in command of a new updated cruiser, Amalthea Two, with her former onboard computer transformed into Tayce's personal robotic escort - a Romid known as Twedor. The team travels through time and space to rid the universes of evil and lawlessness. Ranged against the Amalthean Quests team, powerful forces have pledged to destroy Questa and Enlopedia, as they did Tayce's home planet, Traun. The entire Empire of Honitonia is in danger of obliteration. The Witch Queen Aemiliyana has escaped from her prison in the Empire of Lost Traun and her one thought is that Tayce must die.




The Unicorn Quest


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An enchanting, exciting fantasy about a real-world girl searching for her sister in a land full of magic and strange creatures, blending the timeless feel of A Wrinkle in Time with Frozen's powerful themes of identity, enchantment, and sisterhood. Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year. But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor . . . until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden. There, they find a world in turmoil. The four guilds of magic no longer trust each other, the beloved unicorns have disappeared, and terrible wraiths roam freely. Scared, the girls return home. But when Sophie vanishes in the night, it will take all of Claire's courage to climb back up the ladder, find her sister, and uncover the unicorns' greatest secret. A Kids' Indie Next Selection A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year An ALA Top Ten First Novel for Youth




By One Spirit


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Vergil's Aeneid, bks. 1-6


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Beeton's Classical Dictionary


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A Fine and Private Place


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A Fine and Private Place centers on the insular world of Jonathan Rebeck, who, following the failure of his business, rejected his place in society in order to live for twenty years within the quiet of a Bronx cemetery. With only a sardonic raven and a pair of increasingly regretful ghosts as companions. Rebeck has forgotten what life is really about. That is until a lonely widow visits the mausoleum where her late husband - and Rebeck - reside, giving the reclusive Rebeck the courage to perform the most magnanimous gesture of his misspent life.




Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom


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When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.




Nature Quest


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