Best McCaffrey, Anne

Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels, is one of science fiction’s most popular authors.

Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels, is one of science fiction’s most popular authors.

Technological marvels are changing the face of life on Pern, and the dragonriders, led by F’lessan, son of F’lar and Lessa and rider of bronze Golanth, and Tia, rider of green Zaranth, must forge a new place for themselves in a world that may no longer need them. But now, as the friendship of F’lessan and Tia begins to bloom into something more, unforeseen tragedy strikes: a tragedy destined to forever change the future—not just of the two young lovers, but of every human and dragon on Pern…. Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels, is one of science fiction’s most popular authors.

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Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Accompanied by an inappropriate railroad accountant from Brooklyn, a reluctant Texas deputy and gangling, awkward Pea Eye Parker (who is trying to give up the Ranger life and settle down to farming and family with the lovely ex-whore Lorena), Call sets off, roaming the border country in his competent, unassuming fashion. As in some great 19th-century saga, the story has more than its share of improbable coincidences--people meeting fortuitously in thousands of square miles of empty territory, hearing vital news at appropriate and inappropriate moments--but these seem only mild contrivances to shape a story packed with action, terror, humor and pathos.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times. “A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review. “Toni Morrison’s finest work. [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” — Chicago Sun-Times. An extraordinary work.” — The New York Times. Resonates from past to present.” — San Francisco Chronicle. “A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” — New York Review of Books. “A work of genuine force. Beautifully written.” — The Washington Post. “There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. a glorious book.” — The Baltimore Sun. A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” — Milwaukee Journal. Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” — The Plain Dealer. A lasting achievement.” — The Christian Science Monitor. “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. One feels deep admiration.” — USA Today. Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” — The Village Voice. “A book worth many rereadings.” — Glamour. “In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Shattering emotional power and impact.” — New York Daily News.

This epic story, here presented in unabridged form, receives an equally epic reading from the outstanding American actor William Hootkins. The enthusiastic study of the parts of the whale contrasts with the darker innuendos on God; the colorful excitability of Stubb butts up against the diabolic indifference of Ahab's Fedallah.